from WNYC Studios. I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Friday, November 1st.

We have a chance today to talk with Washington Post Associate editor Bob Woodward, legendary since the 1970s, as many of you know,

for breaking so much of the Watergate story that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon

and so much ever since. And he is still going strong with his new book, War, primarily about

the Biden administration's diplomacy and policies toward the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East.

There are newsworthy scoops in this book. Maybe you've heard a few. This is where Donald Trump's Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Chairman Mark Milley calls Trump fascist to the core. That's a quote. There's reporting on Kamala Harris and the Middle East.

Maybe you can learn something about whether and if she would really change course from Biden.

And there's more.

And there are deeper thoughts about war and peace and America's place in the world 50 years after young Bob Woodward was living and reporting in the Vietnam War era.

Bob, thanks for coming on with us again.

Welcome back to WNYC.

Thank you. Let me just jump right into the middle of something to start, if that's okay.

Tell me if you agree with this take on Kamala Harris from the positive review of your book in the Atlantic.

It says Harris comes off well in her cameos.

She asks diligent questions in the situation room. In phone calls with Israeli Prime Minister

Benjamin Netanyahu, she plays the heavy asking him about civilian casualties in Gaza.

There are no instances, however, of her disagreeing substantively

with Biden. So that's the quote, and my question for you is, how much would you agree with

that description of how readers should perceive Harris if they read the book? There is a detailed

account of the meeting. I have the notes. This was July 25th, just a number of months ago. She's meeting with Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel. And what she really does, I mean, this, if you want to know how she operates, what she cares about, read this section

of the book.

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