In the mid 80s, I made copies for a court reporter, and there was no document feed or collation function. It was copy 1, move to stack 1, copy 2, move to stack 2, rinse and repeat. So yeah, lots of OT there.
This, to me, is one of the great interviews because both Woodward and Bernstein are there together, in a less formal setting, just telling some of their stories. Incredible. I’m grateful that Colbert had both of them and just let them go. Too bad it wasn’t and hour long without commercials. Then we would have really had something. Imagine a nice, long dinner conversation with those two! OMG. Thanks Mr. Colbert.
My heroes - as well as Katharine Graham and Ben Bradley - stood their ground! Watched from Australia as those events unfolded from the first report of the Watergate breakin - who knew on that day what would become an historical event. Thank you Stephen for the extended interview time - love it!
Back then there was integrity and honour in what people did and how they reported the Truth not their stations or papers bias, but the Truth! It was called Honest Reporting! Something that has been lost with the legacy media we have today. Where they can literally report lies and misinformation and people believe the BS. Insanity.
They didn't really like each other in the beginning....but HAD to work together...and this is the result....NOW 50 yrs later... a repeat but w WAY WORSE 😡😠 results 🤢🤮🌎🌍👀🇺🇸
That was a great story by two great and motivated journalists, two of the best in my opinion. That was one of the best interviews Stephen. My admiration and respect for these two men has grown even more.
Don't speak in present tense. If something similar to Watergate happened today, half of your country would be ready to execute those journalists and Fox News would be cheering them on
Yeah, I hope they continue the sequential format. I still hunted and pecked between the four segments until I realized they got it in order for a change.
That was a great interview and great story …I really enjoyed watching that… it also made me think these two are the kind that only come around once in a lifetime, but my , what a ride and what a remarkable legacy to leave behind….
This is one of Stephen's best interviews. How ironic that Stephen's great and effective efforts to help protect not only America's democracy but world wide will be his legacy! Not as a comedian which he is so good at but as by enlightening the public about what is happening! Love you Stephen for what you are doing! Maybe he should named Man of the Year!
That look at the end, like “what do you think?!” 😂 These two guys are amazing. And go Martha with her giant martini! She got back at “that son of a b*tch.”
@@notme2day They brought down a crooked government but Trump's crimes are even worse then what Nixon did. Funny Nixon taped conversations in the White House, but everyone who met with Trump taped the conversations.
@@notme2day *_"That's because journalists like them had integrity._* *_Unlike today's "journalists" and yes, I'm using the term journalists very losely here."_* That's not actually very fair. I don't think you can tar them all with the same one-size-fits-all brush. In our recent federal election (Australia), we had all kinds of different reporters working on it, from all different corners of the media. There were people from radio, TV, newspapers and those working for online. They varied in quality a lot. The ones who were following politicians on the road were a mixed bag. But by and large, those people were expected to produce virtually hourly updates. One of the traps of this campaign was asking "gotcha" questions - usually something involving detail that the person may or may not know. In the first week, they caught the Opposition leader (who would go on to win) on the first day of the campaign with a question he should have known the answer to. They did it to all parties and got a few good strikes. That then became the theme of this year's campaign: tripping people up. It was undignified to say the best of it. At the same time, there were senior reporters working from head office in Canberra who were doing all the serious work. They might have been putting out one article a day or one a week, depending on who they were and what they were assigned to do. These are the quality reporters, like Woodward and Bernstein. They were given free reign over what they wrote and it was usually well worth reading. Finally, there were the pundits who varied considerably in both quality and quantity. I could go into detail but it's not worth it. In the last week of the campaign, a reporter called Laura Tingle - who in my opinion was the best on the campaign - wrote from her Canberra office about the low-balling effect of the "gotcha" questions and how it undermined the quality of the coverage. She was 100% right. It helped nobody's understanding and just served to feed the moronic "we v they" mentality of a lot of voters. But what was missing was simply the amount of pressure the on the road guys were under to produce content. And that's the case across the board. No traditional media outlet is anywhere near as profitable as it was in 1974. I wish that wasn't true but I'm afraid it is. Woodward and Bernstein are probably no longer working full time any more and are given free reign to cover whatever they like and get paid on a commission basis. That doesn't mean they get told what to write. They wouldn't likely work that way and nobody else in their position would either.
@@thethirdman225 honestly I'd be happy if that were true that media outlets weren't as profitable as they were in '74. Media here in the US and is nothing but corporate. Billions of dollars a year. They weren't making that kind of money in '74. Journalist on major outlets don't actually report facts anymore. All the company's do is spin a narrative they want you to hear and their journalist do what they're told. That's why I watch independent journalist and content creators who actually back up, with evidence, what they're saying. They don't have bosses telling them what or how to say anything, and because of that the goverment here is trying to shut them up and shut them down under a BS commission. All so the public doesn't know what the truth is, only what they want to tell you the truth is. Hope there is Australia you are not facing that.
@@notme2day *_"Media here in the US and is nothing but corporate. Billions of dollars a year."_* It's a huge market. But back in 1974, they sold a lot more newspapers and a lot more advertising than they do now. It's the same everywhere. People get their news (or um... information) from the internet, not from traditional media outlets. Reporters produced one story a day, not three and the pace was much slower. *_"Journalist on major outlets don't actually report facts anymore."_* That's just way too simplistic. Just because everyone else says it doesn't make it right. Sorry but I can't think of another - perhaps more polite - way of putting it. Let me put it this way: reporting "facts" by themselves is impossible. Nobody would read or watch. Then there's the notional difference between then and now. With the amount of news output these days, yeah, not everything is pure news anymore. Instead of one bulletin per day, most newsrooms are producing three or thereabouts. That's because in most media organisations, news is one of the only departments that makes any money. High demand, low resources... different priorities. Besides, news organisations use focus groups to fine tune their content. So in fact, most newsrooms are just giving their viewers what they want. *_"All the company's do is spin a narrative they want you to hear and their journalist do what they're told."_* Not in any organisation I've ever worked in. Fox might. But if they hire their preferred people, they don't have to tell them anything. The bottom line is that news outlets know what their viewers want. They know them really well. If they didn't, organisations like Fox, OANN and Newsmax couldn't survive. Look what happened to Fox's ratings when they called the election for Biden. Everyone ditched them. They reported the facts and nobody wanted to hear them. *_"That's why I watch independent journalist and content creators who actually back up, with evidence, what they're saying."_* They also have no duty of accountability and far lower requirements for accuracy. When was the last time a civilian reporter issued an apology? Don't worry: I use them too but they have no requirement to get both sides of the story. *_"They don't have bosses telling them what or how to say anything, and because of that the goverment here is trying to shut them up and shut them down under a BS commission."_* What? *_"All so the public doesn't know what the truth is, only what they want to tell you the truth is."_* The "truth" is not absolute.
Love you two Gentleman for 50 years now. Thank you for your integrity to honestly report the truth as painful as the outcome might have been! Bless your Soul's! ✌🕯💞🌐
brilliant men, absolutely love that they’re here reporting and tying things together for us. Grateful for all the good people in the US. it helps to believe there’s more good than bad… Keep fighting, peeps. The light will conquer the dark!
I think these men are the epitome of taking risks, doing your research, but always telling the truth no matter what. And I love how well-spoken they are.
@@greeneyedlady5580 they would never accept that, as their job is to write books about the president’s, i would not be surprised if they already refused
At 3:40, Mr Woodward's expression says it all... Bravo, gentlemen, for your reporting through the years. You truly have been responsible for drained D.C. swamps.
Doing a Xerox was a big deal, they didn't just have machines that they could feed the documents into, they had to have copy paper and blanks and it was a painful process. Good on them!
Blanks? What are you on about? Xerox introduced plain paper copies when I graduated from HS in '59. By '75 they were doing what you see if you search 'Xerox 'It's A Miracle' Commercial (1975)' on YT.
… 50th anniversary and all… I’m thinking Martha Mitchell belongs on the next quarter coin or something for real… RIP Martha, you were one hell of a girl!!👍🙂❤️
The Starz series Gaslit about Martha Mitchell is very good. Episode 3 is hilarious: John Dean (played by Dan Stevens of Downton Abbey) is bumbling around trying to destroy break-in documentation, that eventually he gives to Christopher Gray, director of FBI, who destroys them in his backyard. The cast is excellent throughout. I did not know G. Gordon Liddy was a Nazi aficionado. Libby's beleaguered assistant broke a lot of the story to the two FBI investigators. I need to watch the Ken Burns documentary now.
I am so thankful you dedicated your entire talking segment to Carl and Bob. So much history is know between these 2 men. I highly respect them both. Truly good men. Their names will be forever remembered.❤🇺🇸
While there's still time, Woodward and Bernstein should each write the biography of the other. Both are great interviewers and journalists, but have their own distinctive writing styles. Should make interesting reading!
These two have amazing memories, they've lived history, and they are beyond the age where they worry about what others think of them. So glad we still have these national treasures! Long may they live!
I could listen to Bob and Carl for hours. How incredible that they are here and giving their insights about Trump. When everything happened with Nixon they became two of my heroes.
These gentlemen are very interesting to listen to. I remember back in the early 80’s having “homework” over the summer break in high school. Each summer break “homework” was reading certain books. “All The Presidents Men” was one of the first ones. Upon returning to school in the fall, my class had to take a test about what we read. I was fascinated by the book. I need to read it again and some of their other works. Thank you gentlemen for your hard work! You gentlemen are brilliant.
Great heroes to me as a a teenager watching the Watergate hearings on TV. I have always held them in the highest regard for the service they payed to our country & indeed, still do.
Thank you and all the hardworking journalists around the world. We would have nothing without you. If we care about democracy, we must support and protect journalists.
From an era when a good, real Journalist could make a huge difference in the history of a Nation. Carl was Spot On when he said that Goldwater told Nixon: “and you don’t have mine”, and that is the difference between the GOP then and now. Not to mention that during the Nixon Administration, Education was valued and Politicians were bright, educated, and knew the Constitution. They wouldn’t have let Boebert into the Steno pool, much less Congress, but…again…this is the level of depravity the Republicans have sunk to. Who would have ever thought that a multi-bankrupted, failed NY elite, schmuck of a real estate “developer” would be the death of American Democracy. It beggars belief.
It’s kind of the American dream: Slumlord’s son drags the rest of the the country into the gutter by unleashing his sewer trash base onto a major political party Then those party leaders line up to suckle on his teats for a sliver of his power and the approval of that same sewer trash base.
Canuckmom1958: You know, Richard Nixon actually committed an act of treason during the Vietnam War. While Nixon was running for President in 1968, President Lyndon Johnson wanted to begin new peace talks between the North and South to try to end the war within the next year or 2 (and some believe that this could have worked had Vice President Hubert Humphrey won in 1968). However, Nixon secretly contacted the leaders of both sides in Vietnam and basically told them to not make any deal with Johnson and wait until after the election, because if Nixon won he promised to provide both with a better deal which (unknown to the public at the time) was his "secret plan" as he called it. According to the U.S. Constitution, Treason (which is the ONLY crime fully defined within the document) is providing aid or comfort to an enemy that we are fighting during a time of war. And even when President Johnson called Nixon to confront him on this, Johnson knew Nixon was obviously lying when Nixon said that he wasn't preventing Johnson's new peace talks from happening, but Johnson couldn't do anything about it. So yeah, Richard Nixon committed an actual act of treason but the public didn't know about this potentially damaging piece of evidence that could hurt him as President and the United States when they had voted for him in 1968, and it's thanks to this action by Nixon that the Vietnam War lasted an additional 5 years and costs thousands more American lives.
Wow. That sounds a lot like what I heard Reagan did in his campaign against Carter. Didn't he secretly talk with the Iranian hostage takers to keep them from negotiating with Carter before the election?...thereby keeping the hostages in captivity and in danger longer than they would have been
Truly three of the great American heroes. Woodward, Bernstein, and Katherine Graham. Preserving democracy for another generation, rather like the January Sixth Committee.
" ... complaining about the smoke stacks -- why the hell is my cellphone going off?!" Hilarious. These three men together is gold. Two amazingly courageous reporters.
Love listening to these two brilliant men. And the story about Mitchell's wife - Hell hath no fury will always be the norm, no matter the year, the decade or the century.
I am so happy that America still have Treasures like these men who have seen it all, and they believe in Truth, and have no fears to say the Truth at all time....They've aged well with the posts\ attitudes\ norms and proceedings of so many American presidents ..... Few of these icons are still existing; hope Americans will learn the TRUTH from them
"Emergency xerox" !! I love it when those two take us back in time, and talk about Watergate ! At least Nixon tried to keep things a secret...the former guy doesn't !!
The next time I get asked that infamous question: “if you could invite anyone (dead or alive) to have dinner w/ you who would it be??”. I finally have my answer and it’s these two legends!!
How adorable are they? I love how they have stayed so close throughout the years. Watergate: Blueprint for a Scandal on CNN is really good, they go way back.
THAT'S what proper men look like. GO Woodward & Bernstein! I'm in the hope that they have 2 young men that their mentoring to come up behind them to keep their legacy of proper factual journalism going.
I can't say how fortunate we are to have both of these epic giants of news reporting and history with us, still as bright as ever, and funny as hell.
I agree, thoroughly enjoyed them as guests!
I agree, and how delightful a story tellers they are.
👏👏👏
In the mid 80s, I made copies for a court reporter, and there was no document feed or collation function. It was copy 1, move to stack 1, copy 2, move to stack 2, rinse and repeat.
So yeah, lots of OT there.
I'm a little sad that these men are still alive to see another presidential abuse of office.
This, to me, is one of the great interviews because both Woodward and Bernstein are there together, in a less formal setting, just telling some of their stories. Incredible. I’m grateful that Colbert had both of them and just let them go. Too bad it wasn’t and hour long without commercials. Then we would have really had something. Imagine a nice, long dinner conversation with those two! OMG. Thanks Mr. Colbert.
My heroes - as well as Katharine Graham and Ben Bradley - stood their ground! Watched from Australia as those events unfolded from the first report of the Watergate breakin - who knew on that day what would become an historical event. Thank you Stephen for the extended interview time - love it!
yeah, but it didn't work out so well for Katharine Graham....I was a kid in the DC area way back then...
Back then there was integrity and honour in what people did and how they reported the Truth not their stations or papers bias, but the Truth!
It was called Honest Reporting!
Something that has been lost with the legacy media we have today. Where they can literally report lies and misinformation and people believe the BS.
Insanity.
@@JamesAllmond I don't understand what you mean that it didn't work out well for Mrs. Graham. Please explain. Thanks.
Amazing duo, they deserve the highest honor for their public service.
This is my favorite interview by Colbert!
Agreed on both points.
I think they both deserve the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Edit: I should have said Medal of Honor.
@@greeneyedlady5580 That too. We need to campaign for it to happen. Speak to your representatives/White House.
@@MellowWind Definitely!
The friendship and humor of these two is so charming. Add that to their knowledge and their passion and you get two legends!
They didn't really like each other in the beginning....but HAD to work together...and this is the result....NOW 50 yrs later... a repeat but w WAY WORSE 😡😠 results 🤢🤮🌎🌍👀🇺🇸
“Did you tell him you were Xeroxing it?”. Bob’s face…. Priceless!
Let the court reflect, that the witness pulled the, "Of course I did, what do you think I am -- stupid?" knowing smirk.
That look was instant....and REALLY PRICELESS 💖🦋🌹🤣😂😅
That was a great story by two great and motivated journalists, two of the best in my opinion.
That was one of the best interviews Stephen. My admiration and respect for these two men has grown even more.
When he started telling the story then added "my cell phone was going off" I was like wait ... They didn't have cell phones in the 70s.
WTH?!
😆
Couldn’t agree more! Very Interesting interview, I love how they share bit of history in our country through their works and experience!
I love their personalitie, they have a good sense of humor, and interesting life experiences to boot. Very enjoyable interview.
True American Heroes. It’s one of the great things about America that hard working curious guys like this are famous.
Unfortunately, not too many left in this country
Don't speak in present tense. If something similar to Watergate happened today, half of your country would be ready to execute those journalists and Fox News would be cheering them on
Has been.
Just what I was going to say 😃
@@andreseloyguevara sadly but true.
Brilliant interview, These guys are giants in journalism.
I'm grateful to the person who uploaded this interview for doing so in the correct order. Thank you.
I hope they do a follow-up release of the entire interview (including any "break" conversation) as a full video - it needs and deserves it.
Yeah, I hope they continue the sequential format. I still hunted and pecked between the four segments until I realized they got it in order for a change.
@@3souris The episode playlist most often is in the correct order even if it wasn't uploaded that way.
That was a great interview and great story …I really enjoyed watching that… it also made me think these two are the kind that only come around once in a lifetime, but my , what a ride
and what a remarkable legacy to leave behind….
This is one of Stephen's best interviews. How ironic that Stephen's great and effective efforts to help protect not only America's democracy but world wide will be his legacy! Not as a comedian which he is so good at but as by enlightening the public about what is happening! Love you Stephen for what you are doing! Maybe he should named Man of the Year!
That look at the end, like “what do you think?!” 😂 These two guys are amazing. And go Martha with her giant martini! She got back at “that son of a b*tch.”
Wouldn't she be pleased about being played by Julia Roberts! Posthumous pleasure.
Those two are not just the greatest journalists in history, they made journalism great, cool and meaningful
That's because journalists like them had integrity.
Unlike today's "journalists" and yes, I'm using the term journalists very losely here.
@@notme2day They brought down a crooked government but Trump's crimes are even worse then what Nixon did. Funny Nixon taped conversations in the White House, but everyone who met with Trump taped the conversations.
@@notme2day
*_"That's because journalists like them had integrity._*
*_Unlike today's "journalists" and yes, I'm using the term journalists very losely here."_*
That's not actually very fair. I don't think you can tar them all with the same one-size-fits-all brush. In our recent federal election (Australia), we had all kinds of different reporters working on it, from all different corners of the media. There were people from radio, TV, newspapers and those working for online. They varied in quality a lot. The ones who were following politicians on the road were a mixed bag. But by and large, those people were expected to produce virtually hourly updates. One of the traps of this campaign was asking "gotcha" questions - usually something involving detail that the person may or may not know. In the first week, they caught the Opposition leader (who would go on to win) on the first day of the campaign with a question he should have known the answer to. They did it to all parties and got a few good strikes. That then became the theme of this year's campaign: tripping people up. It was undignified to say the best of it.
At the same time, there were senior reporters working from head office in Canberra who were doing all the serious work. They might have been putting out one article a day or one a week, depending on who they were and what they were assigned to do. These are the quality reporters, like Woodward and Bernstein. They were given free reign over what they wrote and it was usually well worth reading.
Finally, there were the pundits who varied considerably in both quality and quantity. I could go into detail but it's not worth it.
In the last week of the campaign, a reporter called Laura Tingle - who in my opinion was the best on the campaign - wrote from her Canberra office about the low-balling effect of the "gotcha" questions and how it undermined the quality of the coverage. She was 100% right. It helped nobody's understanding and just served to feed the moronic "we v they" mentality of a lot of voters. But what was missing was simply the amount of pressure the on the road guys were under to produce content.
And that's the case across the board.
No traditional media outlet is anywhere near as profitable as it was in 1974. I wish that wasn't true but I'm afraid it is. Woodward and Bernstein are probably no longer working full time any more and are given free reign to cover whatever they like and get paid on a commission basis. That doesn't mean they get told what to write. They wouldn't likely work that way and nobody else in their position would either.
@@thethirdman225 honestly I'd be happy if that were true that media outlets weren't as profitable as they were in '74. Media here in the US and is nothing but corporate. Billions of dollars a year. They weren't making that kind of money in '74.
Journalist on major outlets don't actually report facts anymore. All the company's do is spin a narrative they want you to hear and their journalist do what they're told.
That's why I watch independent journalist and content creators who actually back up, with evidence, what they're saying. They don't have bosses telling them what or how to say anything, and because of that the goverment here is trying to shut them up and shut them down under a BS commission. All so the public doesn't know what the truth is, only what they want to tell you the truth is.
Hope there is Australia you are not facing that.
@@notme2day
*_"Media here in the US and is nothing but corporate. Billions of dollars a year."_*
It's a huge market. But back in 1974, they sold a lot more newspapers and a lot more advertising than they do now. It's the same everywhere. People get their news (or um... information) from the internet, not from traditional media outlets. Reporters produced one story a day, not three and the pace was much slower.
*_"Journalist on major outlets don't actually report facts anymore."_*
That's just way too simplistic. Just because everyone else says it doesn't make it right. Sorry but I can't think of another - perhaps more polite - way of putting it. Let me put it this way: reporting "facts" by themselves is impossible. Nobody would read or watch.
Then there's the notional difference between then and now. With the amount of news output these days, yeah, not everything is pure news anymore. Instead of one bulletin per day, most newsrooms are producing three or thereabouts. That's because in most media organisations, news is one of the only departments that makes any money.
High demand, low resources... different priorities. Besides, news organisations use focus groups to fine tune their content. So in fact, most newsrooms are just giving their viewers what they want.
*_"All the company's do is spin a narrative they want you to hear and their journalist do what they're told."_*
Not in any organisation I've ever worked in. Fox might. But if they hire their preferred people, they don't have to tell them anything. The bottom line is that news outlets know what their viewers want. They know them really well. If they didn't, organisations like Fox, OANN and Newsmax couldn't survive. Look what happened to Fox's ratings when they called the election for Biden. Everyone ditched them.
They reported the facts and nobody wanted to hear them.
*_"That's why I watch independent journalist and content creators who actually back up, with evidence, what they're saying."_*
They also have no duty of accountability and far lower requirements for accuracy. When was the last time a civilian reporter issued an apology? Don't worry: I use them too but they have no requirement to get both sides of the story.
*_"They don't have bosses telling them what or how to say anything, and because of that the goverment here is trying to shut them up and shut them down under a BS commission."_*
What?
*_"All so the public doesn't know what the truth is, only what they want to tell you the truth is."_*
The "truth" is not absolute.
I lived through Watergate, so I remember these guys really well. So amazing to see them fifty years later still giving us their thoughts!!!
That look of incredulity on Woodward’s face is priceless!
And it just said what we were all thinking: “Seriously?”
I heard "are you've f***ing crazy? Hell no!"
In my mind. Lolololololol
I am waiting for the meme. 😅
To bad he couldn't hv said it...w/o censor bleeping 😅🤣😂💖🌹🦋🇺🇸
I love that last look. It said without words "do we *look* stupid?" 😆
Wow. How amazing to have them on as guests! Truly an honor to watch them talk!!
This interview was absolutely wonderful! What a time! I’m so grateful to these men!
These two honorable men are wonderful. I could listen to them all day long.
what a delightful duo. over the years i have learned so much from them.
Love you two Gentleman for 50 years now.
Thank you for your integrity to honestly report the truth as painful as the outcome might have been!
Bless your Soul's!
✌🕯💞🌐
brilliant men, absolutely love that they’re here reporting and tying things together for us.
Grateful for all the good people in the US. it helps to believe there’s more good than bad… Keep fighting, peeps. The light will conquer the dark!
Love this comment.
I think these men are the epitome of taking risks, doing your research, but always telling the truth no matter what. And I love how well-spoken they are.
Always remember daniel ellsberg.
They deserve a presidential award for their contributions to our democracy.
they would probably not accept it, just in case they want that president to get impeached as well :)
but by WHICH president?
I wholeheartedly agree, and the time is now, while they are both still alive.
@@greeneyedlady5580 they would never accept that, as their job is to write books about the president’s, i would not be surprised if they already refused
They're older than Biden and need to shut the hell up.
A delightful interview by two titans of journalism. I could listen to their stories on and on. Thank you!
At 3:40, Mr Woodward's expression says it all... Bravo, gentlemen, for your reporting through the years. You truly have been responsible for drained D.C. swamps.
Doing a Xerox was a big deal, they didn't just have machines that they could feed the documents into, they had to have copy paper and blanks and it was a painful process. Good on them!
It was my first job, back in the 70's, for an assurance company. Small room, no ventilation and the smell of ozone all around....
Blanks? What are you on about? Xerox introduced plain paper copies when I graduated from HS in '59. By '75 they were doing what you see if you search 'Xerox 'It's A Miracle' Commercial (1975)' on YT.
Here's the link, hope it stays up:
th-cam.com/video/LAt-lB9JIqw/w-d-xo.html
Xerox was the copy machine company, not the process. You might be thinking of a mimeograph machine. Those smelly purple copies.
“Copy aides” did it!
This two are Living Legends and true Patriots!!
… 50th anniversary and all… I’m thinking Martha Mitchell belongs on the next quarter coin or something for real… RIP Martha, you were one hell of a girl!!👍🙂❤️
Toasting with a double martini.
Justice for Martha
@@3souris 😉
Didn't Julia Roberts just made a movie about her?
The Starz series Gaslit about Martha Mitchell is very good. Episode 3 is hilarious: John Dean (played by Dan Stevens of Downton Abbey) is bumbling around trying to destroy break-in documentation, that eventually he gives to Christopher Gray, director of FBI, who destroys them in his backyard. The cast is excellent throughout. I did not know G. Gordon Liddy was a Nazi aficionado. Libby's beleaguered assistant broke a lot of the story to the two FBI investigators. I need to watch the Ken Burns documentary now.
Loved Bob’s last facial expression. So cool to have these precious icons of journalism for your whole interview segment!😻
One of Stephen's best interviews ever! 🙂👍
I am so thankful you dedicated your entire talking segment to Carl and Bob. So much history is know between these 2 men. I highly respect them both. Truly good men. Their names will be forever remembered.❤🇺🇸
What heroes. I could listen to their stories for hours.
Thank you Carl and Bob! True journalism that is so wanted today.
While there's still time, Woodward and Bernstein should each write the biography of the other. Both are great interviewers and journalists, but have their own distinctive writing styles. Should make interesting reading!
That's a phenomenal idea! I encourage you to pitch it to their publisher(s). Seriously, it's a stroke of brilliance.
Cool idea!
Outstanding idea! What great insight they'd have on each other - both professionally and personally. A must read! 👌
Not bad... not bad at all.
These two have amazing memories, they've lived history, and they are beyond the age where they worry about what others think of them. So glad we still have these national treasures! Long may they live!
This interview was epic! Loved it! Have only been able to watch three clips, but amazing! Great job Stephen C!
They are two of the BEST! Thanks for having them.
I could listen to Bob and Carl for hours. How incredible that they are here and giving their insights about Trump.
When everything happened with Nixon they became two of my heroes.
Oh my god! That look Bob Woodward gave Stephen! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I love these guys!!!
This country owes them a great deal.
@J P Definitely!!
respect these old school guys Bernstein and Woodward...they've seen it all, and their words are wise and sincere
Best Watergate story ever. Loved Bob's expression at 3:48 about copying Mitchell's documents.
His face conveyed, "are you fu*^$ing kidding?!" more clearly than words ever could! 😂
These gentlemen are very interesting to listen to. I remember back in the early 80’s having “homework” over the summer break in high school. Each summer break “homework” was reading certain books. “All The Presidents Men” was one of the first ones. Upon returning to school in the fall, my class had to take a test about what we read. I was fascinated by the book. I need to read it again and some of their other works. Thank you gentlemen for your hard work! You gentlemen are brilliant.
What great guys - the represent the good which comes out of America !
SIMPLY LEGENDS of the art of journalism .
Great heroes to me as a a teenager watching the Watergate hearings on TV. I have always held them in the highest regard for the service they payed to our country & indeed, still do.
FAbulous interview of two legends. Love the ending!
That last look Woodward threw at Colbert: "What, are you f'ing kidding me?" (And the verbal answer, "Hell no!")
Love them, Patriots, heroes both!
Omg his face when Stephen asked about whether they told him they xeroxed it
Thank you and all the hardworking journalists around the world. We would have nothing without you. If we care about democracy, we must support and protect journalists.
"Constructive abandonment" sounds like good advice for a certain political party.
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The Son of a Bitch left me." She knew how to get back at him in the worst possible way.
Yep....take ALL the 🗑️🗑️ to the curb ...and let it b rummaged 😅🤣😂. BTW... Bob u should hv answered ur 📱🤳😅🤣😂 at least it wasn't in a Court room 😅🤣😂
I have such a great respect and admiration to these two journalists. Kudos to them.
"Did you tell him you were copying it?"
*Best response EVER*
From an era when a good, real Journalist could make a huge difference in the history of a Nation. Carl was Spot On when he said that Goldwater told Nixon: “and you don’t have mine”, and that is the difference between the GOP then and now. Not to mention that during the Nixon Administration, Education was valued and Politicians were bright, educated, and knew the Constitution. They wouldn’t have let Boebert into the Steno pool, much less Congress, but…again…this is the level of depravity the Republicans have sunk to. Who would have ever thought that a multi-bankrupted, failed NY elite, schmuck of a real estate “developer” would be the death of American Democracy. It beggars belief.
It’s kind of the American dream:
Slumlord’s son drags the rest of the the country into the gutter by unleashing his sewer trash base onto a major political party
Then those party leaders line up to suckle on his teats for a sliver of his power and the approval of that same sewer trash base.
Canuckmom1958: You know, Richard Nixon actually committed an act of treason during the Vietnam War. While Nixon was running for President in 1968, President Lyndon Johnson wanted to begin new peace talks between the North and South to try to end the war within the next year or 2 (and some believe that this could have worked had Vice President Hubert Humphrey won in 1968). However, Nixon secretly contacted the leaders of both sides in Vietnam and basically told them to not make any deal with Johnson and wait until after the election, because if Nixon won he promised to provide both with a better deal which (unknown to the public at the time) was his "secret plan" as he called it. According to the U.S. Constitution, Treason (which is the ONLY crime fully defined within the document) is providing aid or comfort to an enemy that we are fighting during a time of war. And even when President Johnson called Nixon to confront him on this, Johnson knew Nixon was obviously lying when Nixon said that he wasn't preventing Johnson's new peace talks from happening, but Johnson couldn't do anything about it. So yeah, Richard Nixon committed an actual act of treason but the public didn't know about this potentially damaging piece of evidence that could hurt him as President and the United States when they had voted for him in 1968, and it's thanks to this action by Nixon that the Vietnam War lasted an additional 5 years and costs thousands more American lives.
@@jessetorres8738 Wow, never knew this. Thanks.
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I think Ken Burns covered this in his excellent docu “The Vietnam War”
Thanks for bringing it up.
Wow. That sounds a lot like what I heard Reagan did in his campaign against Carter. Didn't he secretly talk with the Iranian hostage takers to keep them from negotiating with Carter before the election?...thereby keeping the hostages in captivity and in danger longer than they would have been
Now THAT was one hell of an interview! I'm going to have to get the updated copy of that book.
Truly three of the great American heroes. Woodward, Bernstein, and Katherine Graham. Preserving democracy for another generation, rather like the January Sixth Committee.
Ben Bradlee should be counted in that number.
Fantastic interview yet again
" ... complaining about the smoke stacks -- why the hell is my cellphone going off?!" Hilarious. These three men together is gold. Two amazingly courageous reporters.
I loved how they patted each other at the end, Still friends after all these years
Martha knew how to exact revenge. Bless her.
Love these two, what hoots they are!
They should write a book about Trump called "All the president's liars".
Love those two. Just the best stories.
Great guys. Great suits and ties and shoes.
They are funny and smart.
really grateful to the crew of the show that they let this interview go for as long as it did.
These two are brilliant, entertaining and living legends.
Excellent comedic timing from Bob Woodward at the end, with that “Do you THINK we did?!” look he gave. 😆
BRAVO!
These guys would be so much fun to hang out with and hear their stories.
"Did you tell them you were Xerox-ing it?"
Woodward: 🤨
Everyone: 🤣
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👍
Love listening to these two brilliant men. And the story about Mitchell's wife - Hell hath no fury will always be the norm, no matter the year, the decade or the century.
I am so happy that America still have Treasures like these men who have seen it all, and they believe in Truth, and have no fears to say the Truth at all time....They've aged well with the posts\ attitudes\ norms and proceedings of so many American presidents ..... Few of these icons are still existing; hope Americans will learn the TRUTH from them
"Emergency xerox" !! I love it when those two take us back in time, and talk about Watergate ! At least Nixon tried to keep things a secret...the former guy doesn't !!
Would love to hear them on a podcast type of interview where the length is longer. Please make it happen!
Not often that an incredulous look is the pay-off to a story, but here it‘s done to perfection.
Love how they giggle.
I love these men. Nothing is more attractive than moral courage.
Oh to be a fly on the wall & hear all the history theses men can share! 🇨🇦
Hilarious! Great to see them still working together.
That look was priceless
Love these two. Great interview.
Best interview EVER!!!!
Marth Mitchell's story needs to be told
Ah, Julia Roberts just did it.
GASLIT
There's also a new Netflix documentary about her.
I told it in my feature interview with her. I was the features editor for a daily.
True American Patriots!!! Living legends. Thank you, gentlemen!
Even as a German I gotta say - you got to love those two!
Gonna start incorporating “birdbath martini” wherever applicable.
The next time I get asked that infamous question: “if you could invite anyone (dead or alive) to have dinner w/ you who would it be??”.
I finally have my answer and it’s these two legends!!
We Need More MEN like These To Report The Real News
here's a crazy idea: putting numbers on videos when you split an interview in multiple parts so that people can watch it in the right order.
Love these 2 legendary journalists❤️
Woodward's look needs to be a meme, haha
How adorable are they? I love how they have stayed so close throughout the years. Watergate: Blueprint for a Scandal on CNN is really good, they go way back.
That Bob Woodward look!! Priceless!!
These guys are great and still sharp as a tack.
Very good interview !
THAT'S what proper men look like. GO Woodward & Bernstein! I'm in the hope that they have 2 young men that their mentoring to come up behind them to keep their legacy of proper factual journalism going.
Hot damn, these two are a fantastic interview. We're so lucky to have these two national treasures, especially right now.
Get these guys back. Make them regulars. They bring out the very best and true Colbert.