I won't tell you that it's gonna to be okay.

Welcome to another episode of the Bakari Sellers podcast. We would sit here and chat and catch up all day

because I have one of the greatest greenroom guests and colleagues and friends that I've ever encountered

at CNN, none other than Carl Bernstein, who is here who comes with a wealth of knowledge

and a new book out in the streets today and a number eight on the New York Times

bestsellers list only going up from here call welcome to the show how you doing man

It's great to be with you on a different medium. I'm so used to be with you in a different medium.

I'm so used to be in the CNN studio,

this should be fun.

You know, my show is decently unique

in the way that we started.

So each one of our shows we start by having our guests

walk us through the arc of their careers and you're what I call a journalist

journalist. You've been investigating and writing about Washington for decades now what initially got you into journalism and after all these years as we were just talking about what keeps you engaged because you've long reached icon status in journalism who cover a national politics journalism?

So what keeps you going and in the game?

Well, that's with this book that I'll hold up, chasing history of kin in the newsroom

is all about, even up to what keeps me in the game.

Though the book is really about my life from age 16 to 21 at a great newspaper, not the Washington Post, the Washington Star, the afternoon paper in my native city of I'm a second generation native Washingtonian, the capital of the United States,

which I should say right out here was a Jim Crow town when I grew up in it.

And so my five years at the Washington Star bracket the Civil War by a hundred years exactly afterwards.

And there's a good deal, as you know, for reading this book in about civil rights because I got to cover the civil rights revolution starting believe it or not went on 16 years old. And so what the book is, it's not when I'm 16 years old and so what the book is it's not the old man looking back it's

written in the voice and point of view of this kid who left that paper in 1965, but nothing in the book takes place after 1965. It really, there's an epilogue that gives you a little something that you know says he went to Washington Post or whatever but everything I know I think both almost

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