A Nation in "Peril." with Robert Costa
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🗓️ 4 January 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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The transition from Trump to Biden was one of the most dangerous periods in American history. "Peril" tells that story. The book's co-author (with Bob Woodward) is Robert Costa, a national political reporter at The Washington Post, where he has worked since 2014. He previously served as moderator and managing editor of Washington Week on PBS and as a political analyst for NBC News and MSNBC.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends. Happy New Year and welcome to the Bill Press pod and our first podcast of |
| 0:12.6 | 2022. And we start off the year with a bang. The bombshell new book called Peril by legendary |
| 0:20.6 | Washington Post Bob Woodward of Watergate fame |
| 0:23.8 | with the post-chief political correspondent Robert Costa. |
| 0:28.8 | Woodward and Costa not only give the most detailed yet account of the 2020 election |
| 0:33.9 | and the first year of the Biden presidency, they also hold nothing back in detailing |
| 0:41.0 | Donald Trump's relentless campaign to overturn the election, his deliberate role in inciting |
| 0:47.5 | the violent attack on the Capitol last January 6th, and his continuing efforts to undermine |
| 0:54.0 | the Constitution and sabotage our democracy. |
| 0:58.8 | Trump, they conclude, is an ongoing peril to democracy, which reporters have a duty to expose and |
| 1:07.7 | condemn. Believe me, it's a powerful book. Today, co-author Robert Costa joins us to tell us all about it. |
| 1:17.3 | Robert Costa, happy new year and welcome to the first Bill Press podcast of the new year. Good to have |
| 1:23.7 | you with us, Robert. Great to be with you, Bill. Thank you so much. And congratulations on your new book, Parole, which you have authored with the legendary. |
| 1:33.2 | We have to call him that, right? Legendary. Bob Woodward. |
| 1:35.7 | I think that always goes before his name, the iconic, the legendary. |
| 1:39.7 | Right. Legend in his own time, all of that kind of stuff. Right. So, I mean, a very, I must say, a very sobering account of what we lived through and survived in 2020 and 2021. |
| 1:54.3 | But, Robert, I accuse you of burying the lead. |
| 1:58.2 | I think the lead of your book, first of all, it's in the title, really, |
| 2:02.9 | but also in the last two words of the book, where you and Woodward sum everything up by |
| 2:09.5 | saying, quote, peril remains. Boy, that is chilling. What is the peril as you see at that remains? |
| 2:19.2 | Well, there's a scene in the end of our book where House leader Jim Clyburn, who, as we all know, is so close to President Biden, |
| 2:28.9 | he's really frustrated with Senator Mansion. |
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