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Veteran journalist Bob Woodward gave the first TV interview for his new book, Fear, to CBS (who owns the publisher). What most in the liberal media will probably take away from his CBS Sunday Morning appearance was that he told viewers to “hope to God we don’t have a crisis” under Trump, and a plea for them to “wake up” to that reality. What will most likely get overlooked was his criticism of The New York Times for publishing of that anonymous op-ed from a supposed senior administration official.
Interviewer David Martin, CBS’s national security correspondent, noted that the op-ed was seen by many as a confirmation of the book’s claims since it came out just a day after book excerpts were leaked a week early:
The theme of Woodward's book, that aides fear what the President might do if allowed to follow his impulses, received an unusual confirmation last week when The New York Times published this anonymous article written by a person described as a “senior official” in the Trump administration. “I work for the President, but like-minded colleagues and I have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.”
Woodward insisted that he didn’t know the identity of the op-ed’s author. However, he argued that knowing who wrote it was “very important” to the story and understanding what their role was. “It's very important who it is. It's very important whether this is somebody who witnessed and participated,” he told Martin.
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