From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro. This is the day.

Today, Bob Woodward's reporting on the Nixon Administration pioneered a form of reporting

using anonymous sources that has reached unprecedented levels in news coverage of the Trump

administration.

Now, Woodward has deployed that form of reporting to tell the story of this administration

in his new book, Fear.

My colleague Mike Schmidt spoke to Woodward about his process.

It's Tuesday, September 11th.

Okay, let's go.

I've got to go home and change and then have to do Colbert tonight.

Look at the bounce from the most serious man in American journalism, Michael, to the

least serious person in American entertainment.

You're undermining your own judgment already.

What we wanted to do was start with you reading the note to readers.

Okay.

Because we think it gives very important insight into how you do what you do.

Good.

Let's go.

Ready?

Okay, this is the note to reader for fear and it's very short.

Often these notes are long and it says interviews for this book were conducted under the

journalistic ground rule of deep background.

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