Why did President Trump speak to Bob Woodward?
Why did President Trump speak to Bob Woodward?
More from the "Rage" author, including why the president's intelligence team said he is a "threat to the national security."
As information from Bob Woodward's new book "Rage" trickled out this week—including audio of President Trump telling the famed Watergate reporter that he purposefully downplayed the severity of the coronavirus—Senate Republicans have found themselves on the defensive.
Donald Trump's conversations with Bob Woodward about coronavirus, Black Lives Matter and nuclear war
Why, some wondered, would the president agree to any interview with Woodward—let alone speak with him 18 times?
"Most of us say, 'What the hell is he doing talking to Bob Woodward at 11 at night?'" one Republican senator told The Hill.
In a 60 Minutes interview, Woodward said the president was a willing subject because he had not been before. Two years ago, President Trump refused to speak to Woodward for the journalist's book "Fear: Trump in the White House." But this time, the president hoped that by speaking to Woodward directly, he could help control the narrative.
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More from the "Rage" author, including why the president's intelligence team said he is a "threat to the national security."
As information from Bob Woodward's new book "Rage" trickled out this week—including audio of President Trump telling the famed Watergate reporter that he purposefully downplayed the severity of the coronavirus—Senate Republicans have found themselves on the defensive.
Donald Trump's conversations with Bob Woodward about coronavirus, Black Lives Matter and nuclear war
Why, some wondered, would the president agree to any interview with Woodward—let alone speak with him 18 times?
"Most of us say, 'What the hell is he doing talking to Bob Woodward at 11 at night?'" one Republican senator told The Hill.
In a 60 Minutes interview, Woodward said the president was a willing subject because he had not been before. Two years ago, President Trump refused to speak to Woodward for the journalist's book "Fear: Trump in the White House." But this time, the president hoped that by speaking to Woodward directly, he could help control the narrative.
READ MORE: Why did President Trump speak to Bob Woodward? https://www.cbsnews.com/news/president-tru...
"He kept telling me, in the interviews for this book, that he made a mistake, not talking to me," Woodward told 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley. "And he actually said, at one point, it was his fault that he didn't talk. And so he heard, from people in the White House, people in his circle, that, actually, "Fear" was true, and that I would not put words in his mouth, if he talked to me."
Trump knew that he was being Tape Recorded so, he knew what he was doing.