Carl Bernstein on Woodward Book: ‘Indisputable,’ Trump Is a ‘Danger to the Republic’

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BERNSTEIN: "It's not only not out of the realm of possibility, yes, there has been reporting on this, a good deal of it. But now, we have a coherent, indisputable narrative that is absolutely chilling in the following way. The people closest to the president of the United States in his White House and in his administration are saying they see their job as protecting the United States from the president of the United States. That he is a danger to the republic. That is the text of this book. Every meeting that bob writes about, that is the subtext. And it's not just a sentence here or somebody calling somebody an idiot there. It is detail piled upon detail about the substance of all of those meetings, about the subjects of those meetings, about trade, about the special prosecutor, about all of the issues, about Charlottesville. This is deadly serious. Nobody should take any kind of comfort from this book or joy at what bob reports because, yes, all of us who have been covering Trump have been doing pieces of this. Now we have Trump naked in a whole coherent narrative about his presidency, about his recklessness, about his dishonesty, about his lack of ability. And it is a frightening, damning portrait. And one question it seems to me particularly about General Kelly, at some point, the Congress of the United States -- General Kelly I would think ought to resign for the sake of the country. It's derelict to continue in that job knowing what he does. But somebody on Capitol Hill, Republicans particularly, have got to have the guts to call Kelly up there to an executive session hearing and say, General Kelly, tell us what you think, what you really know about this president and the threats that are described in this book to the republic."