Woodward on Comey Firing: ‘This Is Not Yet Watergate’

WALLACE: And it’s time now for our Sunday group. GOP strategist Karl Rove, Bob Woodward from The Washington Post, Julie Pace who covers the White House for the Associated Press, and Josh Holmes, Mitch McConnell’s former chief of staff and a GOP strategist.

Well, Bob, there’s obviously been a lot of talk this week about parallels between this and Watergate. The president firing a man who was leading the investigation that could potentially take him down. Shifting stories. Now the suggestion about a possible taping system inside the White House. Obviously there’s – there are big differences and – and the biggest is that we knew early on of a crime having been committed in Watergate. We don’t know that so far. But as someone who was on the front lines of Watergate, what are the similarities you see this week and what are the big differences?

BOB WOODWARD, THE WASHINGTON POST: Well, there are a lot of questions. I was fascinated with what Senator Warner had to say. I think he adopted this position of, we’re going to give the president the benefit of the doubt. But he then raised about ten questions, which I think need to be answered. But this is not yet Watergate. Not a clear crime on the Russian issue. Senator Warner and others have said there are – there are – you know, a thousand questions and they should be answered. But there’s no evidence that President Trump, at this point, was somehow involved in collusion here. That’s an important –