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The 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in is today, the “third rate burglary” that ultimately brought down a presidency, and all this week Washington, D.C. has been in a bit of nostalgic mode. At the DC/DOX Festival, directors Debra McClutchy and Anne Alvergue screened their new Netflix documentary The Martha Mitc…

The Washington Post‘s Bob Woodward and CBS News’ Robert Costa landed one of the week’s bigger D.C. scoops with a report that Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, texted then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows urging him to contest the 2020 presidential election results. "Help This…

In the week before the publication of Bob Woodward and Robert Costa’s Peril, many of its juiciest revelations already had made headlines. Sans any kind of spoiler alert, there were the calls that General Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, gave to assure his Chinese counter part despite an erratic…

Stephen Colbert got a scoop tonight for his CBS late-night show. Veteran journalist and Rage author Bob Woodward brought along what he calls a “quite revealing” exclusive recording of President Donald Trump from five months ago saying of the coronavirus, “Bob, it’s so easily transmissible, you wouldn’t even believe…

The biggest bombshells in Bob Woodward’s Rage already have been reported, but in his first sit-down interview on 60 Minutes on Sunday, the famed investigative journalist explained why he decided to make a final judgment in his book about Donald Trump — that the president was the “wrong man for the job.” “You’re known…

(UPDATED, with comment from Trump campaign source & NYT statement) A New York Times reporter said she was kicked out of Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Michigan, after posting on social media about the crowds and the lack of masks among the thousands of attendees. Kathy Gray wrote on social media that the Trump…

Donald Trump lashed out at ABC News’ chief White House correspondent Jon Karl at a press conference on Thursday, after Karl asked him about the revelations in Bob Woodward’s upcoming book. “Why did you lie to the American people, and why should we trust what you have to say now?” Karl asked. According to the book and…

As CBS News teased a 60 Minutes interview with Bob Woodward over his bombshell new book Rage, the star investigative journalist defended a lingering question over the timing of some of its biggest revelations. According to the book, Trump told Woodward on Feb. 7 that the coronavirus posed a much greater and deadly…

Donald Trump told Bob Woodward in early February that the coronavirus was dangerous and deadly, but a month and a half later admitted he downplayed its threat because he didn’t want to create a panic, according to excerpts of Woodward’s new book obtained by CNN. “I wanted to always play it down,” Trump said in a March…

Like two guys sitting around a campfire trying to frighten their scout troop, Bob Woodward and Bill Maher sat together on stage and scared the bejeezus out of Real Time viewers. Woodward ostensibly came to Maher's HBO late-night show to promote his book, Fear: Trump In the White House – the title of which, he said…

UPDATED with video: Bob Woodward stopped by Stephen Colbert's The Late Show to pitch the book President Donald Trump has been trashing on Twitter, Fear: Trump in the White House. Colbert asked the Washington Post associate editor what makes him afraid. “Not knowing” what’s going on in the White House, Woodward…

While John Oliver was not picking up Last Week Tonight’s Emmys at Sunday’s Creative Arts Awards ceremony, HBO was airing his thoughts on Washington Post Associate Editor Bob Woodward’s new book Fear: Trump In the White House.. Cliff Notes version: “The president’s a disaster and we’re all going to die.” Oliver began…