Ep. 118 - Carl Bernstein

The Axe Files with David Axelrod

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4.6 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2017

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Legendary journalist Carl Bernstein talks with David Axelrod about his memories as a young copy boy at The Washington Star, the details of the landmark reporting he did that exposed the Watergate cover-up and led to President Nixon’s resignation, how he grappled with the forces of celebrity after he became a cultural figure, and what he thinks investigative reporters should be looking at with regard to President Trump. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	And now, from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN, the Axviles, with your
0:12.5	host, David Axelrod.
0:19.4	Every journalist of a certain age was inspired by Carl Bernstein of the Washington Post and
0:24.1	his partner Bob Woodward.
0:25.8	Together they broke the Watergate stories in the early 1970s that brought down President
0:31.1	Nixon, but in many ways saved our democracy.
0:34.4	They're both still active, still doing great work.
0:36.7	Carl Bernstein at CNN and elsewhere, and I sat down with him the other day to talk about
0:42.3	the Watergate years and where we are today.
0:51.0	Carl Bernstein, welcome.
0:54.0	We have led somewhat parallel lives except for the fact that you did reporting that
1:00.5	may have saved the Republic.
1:04.6	But I want to start off by asking you this, why was the FBI staking out your bar, Mitzvah?
1:10.9	I come from a left wing background.
1:14.6	Both my parents were real left wing people and it was the McCarthy era.
1:19.6	They had been under FBI surveillance for a good number of years.
1:24.2	And when I did a memoir about growing up in a left wing family during the McCarthy
1:29.7	era called Loyalty's, the Sun's memoir, I got my parents' FBI files which came up to
1:37.5	about chest high and I went through them all.
1:40.7	And there, indeed, was a report from T2 as he was called, observing and taking down licensed
1:47.8	tags at my bar mitzvah.
1:49.8	Any reviews of your Torah portion?
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