The Justice Department told White House personnel that they must preserve all presidential records, including any notes regarding President Trump's meetings and phone calls with foreign leaders
From CNN's Marshall CohenLegendary journalist Bob Woodward said Wednesday that the Trump-Ukraine scandal was “very serious” — but it’s not as bad as Watergate — based on everything that has come out so far.Woodward, who reported on the Watergate scandal, noted that President Richard Nixon was caught on audiotapes explicitly authorizing blackmail payments and blatantly telling his aides to commit crimes.
Speaking at American University’s law school, Woodward said the situation with Trump was “very serious” and could cost him the presidency, but “the magnitude is not there yet.” While Nixon’s cover-up was “massively funded” by millions of dollars hidden in his campaign accounts, Woodward noted, efforts by the Trump administration to cover-up damaging information about Trump and Ukraine appear to be a bit more haphazard. The White House and Justice Department took steps over the summer to keep the whistleblower complaint secret.
A preeminent expert on presidential scandals, Woodward and CNN contributor Carl Bernstein led the Washington Post’s reporting on Watergate that won a Pulitzer Prize in 1973.
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