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Carol Leonnig

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  1. People who served Trump at his side in the Oval Office is that it's so much worse than we realized in real time and there are people who refuse to tell their truth and what they experienced in real time.

    2020-02-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Carol Leonnig and Phil Rucker · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  2. And bringing together the color. We thought we are living history and we needed to go back and really understand what happened and also what the consequences are for the country and what we found in these interviews. We did more than 200 of them.

    2020-02-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Carol Leonnig and Phil Rucker · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  3. Feel this is an age old Washington, especially Washington Post reporter thing, is to write these pieces about what went on in the room. We'll get to John Bolton in a second in the room where it happened. This is sort of an age-old thing. So how did you think about this? Is it in that way, or is that this is a very unique situation, not a very

    2020-02-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Carol Leonnig and Phil Rucker · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  4. And we felt like it was like bullets ricocheting past our faces every day. The first shocking thing that you would write in the morning would be replaced by the shocking thing in the afternoon and you'd forget the next day what you wrote two days ago that also stunned and floored you. So we wanted to hit the pause button and say, let's take a step back and figure out what's going on behind the scenes and what should we make of this presidency. Is there any method to the madness that we're watching right now?

    2020-02-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Carol Leonnig and Phil Rucker · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  5. I've been there since 2000. Phil, maybe five years after me arrived, we love the paper. We feel like we stand in the shadow of giants in some way, right? Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, amazing, amazing authors and writers. But in terms of your question about this book, we started covering the Trump presidency the minute it began. Phil even before me because he was covering the campaign. Oh, so you were on the campaign at some point.

    2020-02-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Carol Leonnig and Phil Rucker · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT