Why Bob Woodward worries about Trump's America

What does Bob Woodward think of all this? Colby Itkowitz poses that question to the renowned Washington Post journalist in his first sit-down interview about President Donald Trump since Trump’s second inauguration.

Over 50 years ago, Woodward’s reporting of the break-in at the Watergate with his colleague Carl Bernstein exposed the Nixon administration’s plan to spy on and sabotage his political adversaries and the cover-up that followed. After President Richard Nixon’s resignation, Congress would go on to enact new limits on presidential power, which Trump is now challenging.
In the years since Watergate, Bob Woodward has continued to report on presidents – interviewing Trump and writing three books about him that reveal the president’s approach to power.

“So much of it is Trump just asserted himself, taking on the role of the courts, taking on the role of Congress,” Woodward told Itkowitz. “So we are entering a moment where there is going to be a clash of those traditions and laws and Trump's will.”

Special thanks to the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.

Chapter highlights:
00:00 Intro
02:49 - On whether the U.S. is still "a great republic" and "a government of laws and not of men"
06:07 - Would Republicans today take a stand against Trump like they did in the Nixon era?
07:14 - Trump, power and fear as a method
08:47 - On Trump's plans for his second term
11:29 - America now vs. America during the Nixon era
13:58 - Trump's assertion of power
15:05 - What Woodward sees as Trump's end goal
15:46 - Trump and tariffs in 2018
19:04 - How worried should journalists be about retribution compared to the Watergate era?
21:51 - "Everything is mine"