craig is an investigative reporter with the washington post. this is a timely account of how the war in 2001 was straightforward, clear goals and unanimous public support and evolved into through ignorance, deceit and corruption. it's a lot untrained evolved into colossal failure. based on interviews of 1000 people who played a direct role in the war from the white house the pentagon leaders to soldiers and aid workers on the front line whitlock reveals how the u.s. government strategies were advanced, nation building was a failure in drugs and corruption had a triangle hold on our allies in the afghan government. tom bowman the pentagon correspondent called the book a searing indictment of the deceit, blundering a senior military civilian officials with the same tragic echoes of the vietnam complex. with that, i give you craig whitlock. [applause] >> hello everyone, thank you for coming out today. i am a reporter with the washington post. thank you for the introduction. i just want to talk a little bit of how the book came together. i definite

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craig is an investigative reporter with the washington post. this is a timely account of how the war in 2001 was straightforward, clear goals and unanimous public support and evolved into through ignorance, deceit and corruption. it's a lot untrained evolved into colossal failure. based on interviews of 1000 people who played a direct role in the war from the white house the pentagon leaders to soldiers and aid workers on the front line whitlock reveals how the u.s. government strategies were advanced, nation building was a failure in drugs and corruption had a triangle hold on our allies in the afghan government. tom bowman the pentagon correspondent called the book a searing indictment of the deceit, blundering a senior military civilian officials with the same tragic echoes of the vietnam complex. with that, i give you craig whitlock. [applause] >> hello everyone, thank you for coming out today. i am a reporter with the washington post. thank you for the introduction. i just want to talk a little bit of how the book came together. i definite

david: welcome to washington post live, i am david ignatius, a columnist for the post. today we are going to focus on public service with two people who served our country in significant ways. bob gates, former cia director and defense secretary who spent a half-century in public service, and later, we will talk with stephanie thompkins, director of darpa. let's start with secretary dates, welcome back to washington post live. good to see you. mr. gates: thank you, great to see you. david: you started working for the cia back in 1966 while you you are studying at indiana university. you took a stand to serve in the air force, then came back to the cia. tell us what drew you to public service in the first place. mr. gates: i was at the russian and eastern european institute at indiana university, earning a masters degree, and the cia recruiter showed up on campus back in the day when that was still possible, happily back in better days, but to tell you the truth, i met with the recruiter mainly as a lark in the hope of getting a free trip to washington, d.c. but when the

"washington post," other outlets failed in that mission. they ingested wholesale opposition research, generated by hillary clinton's campaign an her operatives in order to use the federal government and to trample on the civil liberties of her political opposition. it is all of full and it deserves real scrutiny. elizabeth: vince, how long do you think it will be before the media blames the faulty on bad fbi leaks and adam schiff for the debunked steele dossier? >> depends what other items come out from john durham. how much truth actually is exposed. basically whatever scapegoats the media can point to, in order to indicate it is their fault. the reality, you have a number of outlets, including "the washington post" who were lied to. at that point you need to prove your credibility. you need to prove sharing the news. expose the sources. tell us who lied to you as you lied to us. elizabeth: they can't, because promissoriry estoppel, they promise, it's a contract all thing and promised confidentiality at this, they can't break it, they can

this is hosted by "the washington post." >> good afternoon, welcome to "washington post" live. i'm jackie, author of the congressional correspondent for "the washington post." my guest today is senator john boozman, sooner senator from arkansas. dean of arkansas delegation. he's here to discuss the status of the biden economic agenda, what republican senators want. but first begin with food production. senator, welcome. thanks so much for joining us today. post live. senator boozman: thank you so much for having me. it's a pleasure. >> all eyes are on the cargo ships anchored off of california. talk about the supply chain issues we are seeing. specifically with regards to trucking. you are supportive of legislation to help train additional truck drivers to move goods more rapidly across the country. how do you think this is going to alleviate the supply chain bottleneck we are seeing? senator boozman: we have a huge problem on the ports. in the past we have had problems periodically on the west coast. now it's a real concern because we have it on both coasts right now. nobody r

this comes from the washington post. federal appeals cold -- appeals court halt delivering policy a major blow. let's talk to michael who is calling from boston. republican line. good morning. caller: thank you and good morning. a lot of really important political issues going on that we could go into. but the issue i want to bring up, which actually is plessy versus ferguson 18 93 which granted a pardon. it is troubling because they put up markers around the country and what they are actually doing is retelling history telling it in a lens that actually hurts black americans. why? because homer plessy that he was -- was convinced that he was white. he was called out by a white passenger, went to the supreme court. he lost. homer plessy passed into the white populace, but the black people suffered. today, the system wants to pardon homer plessy and not repair the people that homer plessy hurt. that appalled me. the black media is happy that homer, who technically would have been called a quadrant got pardoned. host: let'

the washington post hosted this event. welcome to "washington post live." this is the first part of a two-part series on children's health equity. administrator of -- princess. -- joins us. >> thank you for having me and thank you for tackling this issue. >> of course. before we get to children's health equity, let's talk about the lawsuit seeking to block the administration's vaccine mandate. the suit claims that there was a ruling by your agency that " threatens with job loss health care workers risk their lives in the early days of the pandemic to care for strangers and friends in their communities. your response to that assertion? >> i would start by saying how we came to the conclusion for us to decide that it was critical to acquire a vaccine requirement for the facilities over which we have responsibility which includes medicare and medicaid certified facilities. the virus is leading to people not being able to go to work whether because they are sick or they are quarantining. when we were looking at where in the country we are seeing covid-19 outbre

jonathan: welcome back to "the washington post live." i am joined by a professor of pediatrics at harvard medical school and a vaccine expert at the bloomberg school of public health at johns hopkins university. thank you both very much for coming. >> thank you very much. jonathan: let's start with well-child visits. how do they impact future health? especially for children who don't -- would not have access to sufficient health services as an infant? >> well-child visits are part of working to make sure that children grow up healthy, giving them and their parents his skills and abilities for health care up. -- especially kids in poverty. there is a lot of work we can do in prevention in that area, too. jonathan: i have a question about that point but i will have to hold off. many visits include vaccinations which have been front and center throughout the pandemic. explain how vaccines layer the -- vaccines level the playing field? >> vaccines are a low -- you will need a vaccine once or twice in your life to prevent a disease from happe

i'm jonathan capehart, opinion writer for "the washington post." welcome to "washington post" live. today, we're talking about the u.s. economy, manufacturing, and jobs. and who better to talk about all that than the secretary of labor, marty walsh. secretary walsh, welcome back to "washington post" live. >> jonathan, thank you for having me today. >> so we did see interesting numbers in the most recent jobs report issued last week. 26,000 manufacturing jobs were added in september, but the industry is still down by 353,000 jobs since february 2020. what's the overall state of the manufacturing sector today? >> certainly, we want to see more involvement and employment in the manufacturing sector. we have some work there to do to get back to a level set. and then as one of the opening remarks here, the president has two plans, buy american, and creating more opportunities in the supply chain in the united states of america in manufacturing, so not only do we want to get back to where we were pre-pandemic, but also the president's goal and agenda, quite honestly, is to go far beyond t

six >> blockbusters washington post -- tonight my exclusive interview with the d.c. homeland security official those warning of violence interactions were nerd. plus the texas law establishing a bounty to stop abortion, gets a hearing in the supreme court. >> that was something that until this law came along, no state dreamed of doing. >> and as joe biden heads to classical, why there is a case for real optimism at the un climate talks. when all in starts right now. >> good evening from new york i'm chris saints, on the eve of the biggest election of the year, donald trump wants everyone to know, that he and virginia republican glenn youngkin are thick of thieves. two peas in a pod. virtually indistinguishable from one another. you're going to have to take my word from it. trump released a statement today to the media, quote is trying to create an impression that glenn youngkin and i are at odds and don't like each other. importantly, this is not true, we get along very well together and strongly believe in many of the same policies. >> trump is also expected to call

there were 75 "washington post" journalists who participated in this project. it's three very long chapters, so there's a lot that's new across the three segments. >> and this question of how this looms over everything that comes after sort of haunts the entire piece because as you say here, in terms of the threats to local officials, it's not a one and done situation, as far as the president who called it the real insurrection day, i don't think it's left the minds of the people who work in the capitol either? >> no. one of the things we write about is the deep trauma that is still affecting members of congress but also members of the capitol hill police force. we profile a captain on that force who has been having dreams, was badly injured by chemicals used that day, and so there's a lot of people still struggling with what happened, and part of what makes them struggle is the understanding that kind of forces that drove what happened have not in any way faded. >> a lot of those folks would be in better shape with a go home message three hours earlier than it

it was more than 75 "washington post" journalists. we spoke with over 230 sources and looked at over thousands of documents, so these are findings, again, to put it in context, from that effort, and what we found is that for a -- masterfully wrote in the section, we divided this interview before the january 6th attack, during and after, that for 187 minutes. that is from when then president trump orders his supporters to march on the capitol, his speech on january 6th down on the national mall to when he finally over three hours later, 187 minutes later, sends out a video finally telling them to go home. we document how he did nothing. that's not quite right because in not doing anything and not saying anything and not calling off his supporters, he was doing more damage than you could possibly imagine. during that period, that is when the police officer ends up dying, when another protester has a cardiac episode and dies, when ashli babbitt, the protester rake into the speaker's lobby and is shot and dies. when police officers are be

welcome to "washington post live." this is the first part of a two-part series on children's health equity. administrator of -- princess. -- joins us. >> thank you for having me and thank you for tackling this issue. >> of course. before we get to children's health equity, let's talk about the lawsuit seeking to block the administration's vaccine mandate. the suit claims that there was a ruling by your agency that " threatens with job loss health care workers risk their lives in the early days of the pandemic to care for strangers and friends in their communities. your response to that assertion? >> i would start by saying how we came to the conclusion for us to decide that it was critical to acquire a vaccine requirement for the facilities over which we have responsibility which includes medicare and medicaid certified facilities. the virus is leading to people not being able to go to work whether because they are sick or they are quarantining. when we were looking at where in the country we are seeing covid-19 outbre

welcome back to the washington post live, good to see you . >>it's great to see you . >> secretary, you started working for the cia in 1966 while you were still in indiana university . then you came back to the cia. tetell us what you to public service in the first place. >> i was with the russian and east european institute at indiana university earning a masters degree at the cia recruiter showed up on campus that back in the day when that was still possible. happily we are back in better days but had to tell you the truth i'm with the recruiter mainly as a lark in the hope of getting a free trip to washington dc. but when they actuallyoffered me a job , i think because i was had been studying in the soviet union and this was at the height of the cold war. i decided i would try that for a while and perhaps do my bit in the cold war and the struggle against the soviet union so it really was an outgrowth of my academic focus. i thought i would teach in college but when the opportunity came to work for the agency i agreed to do that. and they w

you had me at the "washington post," and -- >> what a mistake. [laughing] >> well, you can try to atone for that if you want but still you know, it will suffice to say that you are the great reporter of our time and it is, , so it s a real privilege to be here with the two of you to talk about "peril." so my first question is about the making of the book. so how did this collaboration come about? bob woodward, you've done of the books with collaborators. you have done co-authors, you have done books on your own. how did what seems to have been a match made in heaven actually come about? >> it was actually a match made in trump's hotel in washington in 2016. costa said to me, jenna, trump might be president. he was on the verge of getting the nomination and costa said we should go interview him. so we did, and i got two titles from the interview went trump was talking about i always bring out fear, or i use fear to get my way, and i bring outrage in people, so fear and rage came from that interview. and then after we had, afterwards, after the int

welcome back to the washington post live, good to see you . >>it's great to see you . >> secretary, you started working for the

new york historical and sandinista a contributor to the new york times, the washington post, the boston globe and the author of numerous books in his most recent new york times bestseller, is american moonshine, john f. kennedy in the great space race. just before we begin i ask you please turn off your cell phones and other electronic devices and remember to keep your mask on. please note with the exception of her house photographer, we are not permitting photography this morning afraid and please join me in welcoming our guests. thank you. [applause] >> good morning, welcome bob fast, robert caro and as the added attraction, bob woodward and what an honor it is to spend some one-on-one time with you. new york historical society and will then going to open it up for questions and some were putting up cards out for about a 40 minute conversation and with trent his book, just number one in the charts, he done incredibly well and so much news going on. i would be remiss to buy did not ask him the burning question of the moment braided right out of the gate and that is when did you first k

the congressional correspondent for the "washington post." my guest today is senator john bozeman the senior senator from arkansas. thanks for joining us today. >> thank you so much it is a pleasure to be with you. how do you think this is going to alleviate the supply chain supply-chainbottleneck that we ? >> we have a huge problem on the courts. we had problems periodically on the west coast and nowus it's a concern. nobody seems to know how to healleviate the problem. one of the solutions is just moving commerce in general. when you look at the numbers the numbers are staggering. one thing i would like to see is there's no reason those that are younger than 21 shouldn't start driving -- we've done this in the past and there's no reason this wouldn't alleviate the shortage. a. >> talking in general aboutt the supply-chain into moving food across the country, how would add additional truckers help farmers in the agricultural community? people that work in restaurants and this goes on and on this is something that we have to address. to be ho

we learned today in "the washington post" they have convened a second grand jury. and that second special grand jury is already seated, it's already in place, they're already hearing evidence in new york including, according to "the washington post" hearing evidence today.ed s ial "the post" reports that while the first grand jury in the r trump organization case handed i down those multi-part, multiple-defendant felony charges alleging millions of dollars in tax fraud, the secont grand jury that has just been put in place now, according to t "the post" they're looking at different allegations. they're looking at other different types of fraud allegations related to the valuation of various trump properties. now, that type of allegation about trump's business practices just last month led to yet tyst another reported criminal investigation being opened into trump's business by yet another new york prosecutor's office, by the d.a. in westchester county. that was apparently reportedly based on allegations that trump appeared his business lied about the value of a gol

pulitzer prize-winning reporter for the "washington post." mr. fahrenthold actually had two different scoops today in the "post." one about the contours of the new case, the further investigation that new york state prosecutors are pursuing against the former president and his business. mr. fahrenthold and his colleagues posted that piece first thing this morning for this morning's paper.fa it's a fascinating piece. but then this afternoon, hey, second scoop of the day, mr. atd fahrenthold and his colleagues reporting that the national republican party is paying trump's legal fees, his personal legal fees for his personal legal matters. nothing related to when he was president. they're paying his legal fees for criminal cases brought against him related to his business before he was president. "the republican national committee is paying some personal legal bills for formerb president donald trump, spending party funds to pay a lawyer representing trump in do investigations into his financial practices in new york. last month the rnc made two pay

we are going to have a reporter david vergne hold here, we reporter for the washington post. mr. vergne hold actually had two different scoops today in the post. one, about the contours of the new casey further investigation that new york city prosecutors are pursuing against the former president and his business. mr. david fahrenthold, and his colleagues posted that peace first thing this morning for the morning paper. it is a fascinating piece. but, then this afternoon, second scoop of the. day mr. david fahrenthold and his colleagues reporting that the national republican party is pegging trump's legal fees. 's personal legal fees for his personal legal matters. nothing related to when he was president. there are playing his legal fees for criminal cases brought against him related to his business before he was president. quote, the republican national committee is paying some personal legal bills for former president donald trump. spending party funds to be a lawyer representing trump, in investigations into his financial practices in new york, a party's books woman said mond

that's the perspective of the "washington post." the "washington post" says that 450,000, their words, would be jaw-dropping, but you're rolling the dice, and the post envisions how it could be a million per party. go look at the comments though, and there's a mindset out there of among many others who say wait a minute, in their perception, i know that if you're pursuing asylum, you're not necessarily doing something illegal, but the sentiment among some of us is they were coming here illegally, why are we rewarding that illegal conduct? give me one more if we've got time for it. yeah, i love this issue, too. we should settle the illegals in their own country, not pay them to break our laws. well, there you go. i mean and thank you you tc, for setting up the flip side of the argument. there's the other mindset. the mindset of send them back and why are we writing them a check? final word, i'll offer for now, i hope at least in the short term, the kids who are here and still under our charge are being provided the emotional and ment

i'm jonathan capehart, opinion writer for "the washington post." welcome to "washington post" live. today, we're talking about the u.s. economy, manufacturing, and jobs. and who better to talk about all that than the secretary of labor, marty walsh. secretary walsh, welcome back to "washington post" live. >> jonathan, thank you for having me today. >> so we did see interesting numbers in the most recent jobs report issued last week. 26,000 manufacturing jobs were added in september,

so the washington post said that the walk you said tara tech was caused by an s u v. i guess when my mother died on 911. it was the plains fault, has the s u. v. been charged, what are we doing? have common sense? s u v. laws. the other media outlets were also bastard for calling. what happened? a crash warranties contributor and political comment at lauren chen gave us her perspective on this story. i think there's absolutely evidence that the western media is downplaying to walk a show attack, especially when we consider their reporting of the cal written how shooting. i think the difference in coverage frankly comes from the fact that the walk a shaw attack cannot be used for political points by the mainstream media or by the left and those 2 things are increasingly synonymous. unfortunately, if we look at the cow rittenhouse attack, there was the narrative being painted that there were violent. trump supporters were going out and attacking gentle a peaceful protest. her to simply wanted racial racial equality and we saw something similar with the january 6th event

"the washington post" found that it just happens way too often. he tends to inflate them and as the post characterizes it wildly inflated figures for child hospitalizations, bret. >> bret: okay. rich. we will follow it final hours here. thank you. let's bring in our political panel to get a sense of where things are. mow executive director georgetown institute of politics and former white house chief of staff and former republican party chief reince priebus joins us as well. all right, gentlemen, where do you see this race? reince, first to you. >> it's going to be very, very close, obviously. both sides are debating where we are at in early voting. i think most people agree, obviously there has been about 1.1 million people that have voted. the average of what people think is going to turn out tomorrow is going to be two more million people, maybe a little bit more than that. most people think that terry mcauliffe has an early vote absentee ballot advantage anywhere from 100 to 250,000 votes. let's say 150,000, take the middle part, middle ground

. >>> good morning and welcome to "washington post" live. i'm frances stead sellers, senior writer here at the post. my first guest is a team member of the house small business committee. california democratic congresswoman judy chu. representative chu, a very warm welcome to "washington post" live. >> i thank you for having me. >> many businesses suffered during the pandemic but i'd like you to talk a little about impact on small businesses and particularly minority owned small businesses which i think were particularly hard hit. >> yes. many minority small businesses were inteed very hard hit. they did not have the same access to resources that others did. and as a result it was harder for them to be able to know where to go and what to do. now, i have many asian-owned businesses in my district, along with other minority businesses. nonetheless because of the misinformation on xenophobia coming from the coronavirus, the asian-owned businesses were especially hard hit by rumors and the kinds of shunning that was occurring due to the pandemi

a columnist on national politics for the washington post. thanks to both of you for joining me, let me read something that, that president biden set on october 28th just before the november 2nd election. he says, i don't think it's high per billy to say that the house and senate majorities and my presidency will be determined by what happens in the next week. well, david, what did happen in the election that, that has happened recently? what is that decision that's been deliver to joe biden, that he said was so consequential. well, that was an amazing statement that he made without her having counted the votes. i was stunned that somebody had been in politics as long as joe biden, as would go out and take his flag there without knowing that he had the boats. and he didn't. the progressive wing of his party again knocked down the idea of giving him the vote that he wanted before he set off for his trip to europe. as a result, i think he only added to the impression that his growing that he is not in control of his party or its administration

phil rutger, part of this reporting team at the washington post. thank you very much. >> thank you so much. ♪ judy: it is a busy week in politics with elections, a global climate meeting, and more. here to talk about it all our politics monday duo. amy walter of the cook political report with amy walter and tamera keith of npr. tam, just thinking back for a minute to what phil rutger of the washington post was saying. an enormous amount of detail reporting on what happened at the capitol on january 6 but there is still an enormous amount of disbelief out there about it. in fact, the poll that we do with npr and with marist, one of the questions we asked was whether people think refusing to concede an election harms democracy. 86% of democrats agree. only 56% of republicans, pointing directly back to what former president trump has been saying. >> so, conceding an election, when you lose is a fundamental part of how american elections work. it's a fundamental part of our democracy. sometimes our elections are close, sometimes they are messing but

when we learn today from the washington post is that a second grand jury was convened in the existing manhattan case against trump and his business. in this manhattan case, multiple felony charges have already been handed down against his business and his cfo. knowing a second grand jury is convened in that, case in his already outwork are looking at the evidence. it just has to be very uncomfortable for everybody involved. right? >> just for context, in terms of timing here, after they seated the first grand jury in manhattan, it's took them about five weeks before they handed down those felony charges that we saw this summer. if the second grand jury does the same thing, an operates at the same timeframe, that would be five weeks from now. that would be merry christmas. today we learned the dates on which those vaccine requirements are going to go into effect for federal contractors. for facilities like hospitals and nursing homes, they get federal funding for medicare and medicaid, and for private employers that have more than 100 employees. president biden announced these vaccine

these are just some of the findings in a new three-part investigation by the "washington post" into the forces that led to the insurrection at the u.s. capitol. here to walk us through it is one of the more than two dozen reporters who worked on the project, the post's senior washington correspondent, philip rucker phil rucker, welcome back to the newshour, thank you so much for being here, so there has already been as you know so much reporting on january 6th. there have been investigations, why did the post decide to do an additional deep accounting? >> a couple of reasons, ju aye shall-- judy and thanks for having me here, first there was more information to learn. we talked to more than 230 sources in the government, other key officials and figures who were involved in the run-up to january 6th, the event, the aftermath, we reviewed thousands of pages of court documents and other internal records at the fbi and justice department and found out scores of new details about whatted lead to the attack, the aftermath of it and post most importantly some of the red fags that were ignored

ashley parker, pulitzer prize-winning bureau chief, also with the washington post. and larry sabato, who is the veteran director of the university of virginia senator politics, that mean he is considered the foremost expert on virginia electoral politics. good evening, and welcome to all. professor, i am to two got to begin with you, as happy as we are to have you at this late hours. i don't know how you have any words left, i've watched you on cable all day. the washington post puts this virginia election this way, biden sinking popularity has emerged as a key factor. making the state look, once again, more like a battleground in a democratic stronghold. interviews with nearly two dozen voters found a profound sense of frustration that people have been seen benefits of democratic control trickle into their lives or their wallets. larry, do you buy into that? and can you blame any moderate virginia voters who may be on the fence, who also turned into cable news today and saw how the democrats are behaving. >> well, i can't blame anybody, i try not to blame anybody,

. >> good afternoon i am an opinion writer for the washington post. welcome to washington post live. today we are talking about the u.s. economy, manufacturing, and jobs, and who better to talk about all of that than the secretary of labor, marty walsh. welcome back to washington post live. >> thank you for having me today. >> we did see interesting numbers in the most recent jobs report issued last week, 26,000 factory jobs added in september, but the industry is still down by 353,000 jobs. what is the state of the manufacturing sector today? >> certainly we would want to see more involvement in the manufacturing sector. we have work to do to get back to the level. the president as two plans, buy american and greeting or opportunities for supply chain in the united states and american manufacturing. not only do we want to get back to where we were pre-pandemic, but the president's goal and agenda is to go far beyond that. we are seeing issues and supply chains as we move forward. we went to bring those jobs back to america. >> you mentioned buy ameri

washington post is receiving fly con lines. the way it tweeted about a suspected car, rum and get a christmas parade tragedy. last sunday, i have been deleted tweet. it saves a tragedy, was caused by an se, so mention make any mention of a drive that had been arrested and charged with 5 kinds of 1st degree intentional homicide. now the incident killed 6 people including a 2 year old child and injured over 60, according to charging documents. the suspect is darrell brooks. he was previously convicted of sexual abuse, charged with domestic violence and serve time for cannabis possession. he's also been reported, he said pro hitler means and posts on line calling for violence against white people. the washington post was ridiculed for failing to mention the suspect, or his charges and his tweet. so why didn't they say that the canoes should tragedy was caused by an a r 15 caused by an s u. v. events unfolded notice had left 6 to cover for black criminals, but depriving them of human agency. so the washington post said that the wal

host: lead story in the washington post. trump dossier source charged, an analyst who was a primary source for the 2016 dossier of allegations against, trump has been arrested on charges that he has repeatedly lied to the fda about where and when he got his information. his role in providing information to christopher steele who compiled the accusations about trump in the series has long been that has long been the subject of scrutiny according to people familiar with the investigation. very significantly, this is the lead story this morning in the washington post. glad we could share that with you. bill is calling in from tell a decca, alabama -- from the independent line. caller: thanks for taking my call. host: bill, please go ahead. caller: i got a lot of comments if you give me the opportunity. first, on the illegal aliens getting paid to come across the border being separated from their families. is that not going to open the door for all of the illegal immigrants separated under this administration? it would be a pres