Bob Woodward on ‘War’ and the upcoming presidential election

Capehart

The Washington Post

News, News Commentary, Politics

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🗓️ 17 October 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward joins The Post’s Jonathan Capehart to discuss his latest book, “War,” about the three concurrent conflicts seizing the world’s attention: the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East and the ongoing political battles in America. Conversation recorded on Tuesday, October 15, 2024.

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0:00.0	I'm Jonathan Kapart and welcome to Kapart.
0:03.0	He's done it again.
0:04.4	Bob Woodward, the Washington Post Associate Editor and
0:07.4	chronicler of Presidents and their administrations going back to Richard Nixon
0:11.7	is out today with an insider account of President Biden's
0:15.0	handling of Ukraine and Israel. The name of the book is War. In this conversation first
0:21.6	recorded for Washington Post live on October 15th,
0:24.6	Woodward also takes us inside the mind of Donald Trump.
0:28.8	We talk about the interview Woodward and Carl Bernstein did with Donald Trump at Trump Tower in 1989 and how
0:37.5	it informs the man who became president and wants to be president again and And we talked about Trump's admiration of Russian president
0:46.6	Vladimir Putin.
0:47.8	There are many times Trump says,
0:49.9	you know, I get along fine with Putin, yes he's right it's good to get along with it but
0:56.9	who is Vladimir Putin Vladimir Putin is the Adolf Hitler of our century.
1:07.0	So Bob, as you well know, war chronicles three simultaneous events. The Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the
1:16.7	war on Ukraine escalating violence in the Middle East and serious political
1:22.0	unrest here in the United States.
1:25.0	Why these three, and which of these three do you see as the most serious long-term threat?
1:32.0	Well, I think they're all threats, but why these three are interconnected, it's the world we live in and it represents the represents the hazards the hazards that we face as a country
1:47.0	Really it's solid.
1:50.0	Jonathan if you will bear me, bear with me.
1:53.9	I briefly want to read something from the book
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