Tonight we bring you a special edition of the B with reporting to inform a key question

facing voters next year.

If the leading candidates for both parties face off again as they did before, who will

protect the nation and the public interest?

Both men have, of course, now served as president so their actual records can be assessed.

And for all the understandable focus on Trump's legal problems and controversies and rhetoric,

it was his substantive handling of the COVID pandemic that impacted so many lives and dragged

him down in the eyes of many Americans who concluded he failed that task when faced with

that all-important leadership test.

As for Trump, he said at the time he did not see the emergency as his test of a lifetime.

Was there a moment in all of this last two months where you said to yourself, ah, this

is the leadership test of a lifetime?

No.

No, and no hesitation.

Now that is a small part of one of Trump's newsworthy interviews with the legendary journalist

Bob Woodward conducted across the outbreak of the pandemic and through the 2020 campaign.

Woodward secured more time with President Trump than any other writer.

Many interviews across that search, Trump sometimes making the calls, something he apparently

now regrets the former president is suing Woodward, we should note, over publishing these

interviews that he agreed to.

Many legal experts say Trump would be likely to lose based on the current law.

Now Woodward published the interviews in his latest book, The Trump Tapes, which provides

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