So Anderson, to hear Bob Woodward go through the agonizing of whether or not he should

have written what he did at the end of the book, is a little bit of a metaphor for just

what a trying time this is.

For journalists and everybody processing our politics and frankly our culture, all that

he told you tonight, I listen to every moment.

What shocks you most about this dynamic of this book and what was said and what was heard?

I'm not sure that, to me, it confirms a lot of stuff that we have been covering for

a great deal of time.

In a very, to hear the president's own voice sort of confirming all the stuff that we have

been covering, the downplaying of the virus and then tonight to have him on a town hall

at ABC, I think it was saying, oh no, I never downplayed the virus.

I've anything I upplayed it.

I mean, these are things we've all reported on and seen in real time, but to have the

kind of level of detail that Bob has in the book from all these different people, but from

the president himself, I think that to me is what was most compelling.

Compelling is a good word.

I wonder how compelling Woodward's book is.

That's, question's going to have two premises.

One is, well, can anybody be compelled?

And if you have people who have opened minds, is what they heard come out of the president's

own mouth going to be suggestive of something different than they thought going into it?

I don't know the answer to that.

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