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Trump-Putin relationship in the spotlight as new book describes calls
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Now, a new political book is levying new allegations at Republican presidential candidates and
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former President Donald Trump. Authored by Bob Woodward, who uncovered the Watergate
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scandal in the early 1970s, War takes a behind-the-scenes look at the presidencies of Joe Biden and
00:21
Donald Trump through a combination of confidential documents, notes, transcripts and eyewitness
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testimonies. But it is the revelations about Donald Trump which have grabbed headlines.
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To tell us more, let's bring in our White House correspondent Fraser Jackson. Now, Fraser,
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Bob Woodward has written over a dozen bestsellers, including All the President's Men, which documented
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the 1972 Watergate scandal, which ultimately tanked Richard Nixon's presidency. What's
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this new book revealing about Donald Trump?
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Yeah, well, Bob Woodward, something of a legendary figure here in the United States. He's written
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books about many presidents and has almost chronicled every president, including Bill
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Clinton, Barack Obama, the Bushes. So he is somewhat of a legendary figure here. And this
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latest book is mainly focused on Joe Biden's presidency, but it does deal with the end
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of Donald Trump's presidency as well. And it's revelations from that part of the book
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onwards that are really starting to grab that attention. One of them surrounds COVID-19
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tests. There is a revelation from this, an allegation from Bob Woodward that he has from
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AIDS that Donald Trump sent COVID machines to Vladimir Putin during the height of COVID.
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He also has this verbatim transcript of a conversation between the two, which we can
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bring up on screen for you now. Putin says, please don't tell anybody you sent me, sent
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these to me. Trump says, I don't care. Fine. Putin then responds, no, no, I don't want
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you to tell anybody because people will get mad at you. Not me. They don't care about
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me. So one revelation coming from there and their close relationship is then also further
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detailed by more AIDS that have spoken to Bob Woodward. And those AIDS are telling Woodward
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that Donald Trump has had numerous phone calls with Vladimir Putin since he's left office
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in 2021. One AIDS as recently as the early this year said that he was told to leave the
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office so that Trump could have a conversation with Vladimir Putin. We're told they've spoken
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as many as seven times, although the contents of those conversations are not known. There
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has been a bit of pushback on this by the Trump camp. Jason Miller, top AIDS of Donald
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Trump, said to Bob Woodward that he would push back on these stories. And Stephen Chung,
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the director of communications for the Trump campaign, went even further in a statement
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on Tuesday. He said that all of the stories in this book were the work of a truly demented
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and deranged man who suffers from a debilitating case of Trump derangement syndrome. So some
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choice words there from Stephen Chung. Yeah, very interesting revelations there. The book
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also has new reporting on Joe Biden as well, doesn't it? Tell us more about that. Yeah,
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well, this is a lot of kind of back earlier reporting that Joe Biden is a fan of expletives,
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something that has been known to happen behind the scenes here at the White House. While
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there are new revelations coming out about him and his choice words as well, he, according
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to the book, spoke to one confidant who and in that conversation, he chastised Barack
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Obama for his handling of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2014. He said they, quote, they
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effed up in 2014. He said Barack never took Putin seriously, and he should never have
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let Putin just walk in there and saying that the US did, quote, nothing. He also says that
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he regretted choosing Merrick Garland as the attorney general of the United States. Of
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course, Merrick Garland was the was the top prosecutor who appointed a special counsel
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to look into Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, and his tax and gun charges. But the other
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thing, really, that is, again, grabbing headlines is the relationship between Joe Biden and
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Netanyahu. It's been no secret that has been fraught over in the last couple of months.
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But we are getting fresh words that Bob Woodward has revealed in this book. He writes that
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Netanyahu was called a, quote, son of a bitch by Joe Biden. And Joe Biden allegedly said
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he's a, quote, bad effing guy. So some very strong words that definitely the strongest
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we've ever heard from Biden about Netanyahu, if indeed it is true. And the book continues
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out with Netanyahu continuing to say he was going to kill every last member of Hamas.
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Biden had told him that was impossible, threatening both privately and publicly to withhold offensive
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U.S. weapons shipments to the country. So some big revelations from this book. And you
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can get your hands on it when it comes out in a couple of days time. Yeah, I'm sure many
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will be purchasing that book. Fraser Jackson, our White House correspondent, thank you so
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much for giving us your insight there. That's it for our daily zooming on the U.S. election.
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