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Appearing with journalist Carl Bernstein on Wednesday’s CNN Tonight to promote the upcoming episode of CNN’s The Seventies on Watergate, former CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather decried the Republican Party’s “strong turn to the right” and blamed the size of party’s 2016 field on the Watergate scandal and the presidencies of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.
The topic came up when host Don Lemon asked Rather if he thought that the number of declared GOP candidates (which currently stands at 12) are “too many people and did you have that in the past” and specifically the 1970s.