Carl Bernstein: Coverage Of Russia Collusion Among Media’s Finest Moments In History

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Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein in a Sunday interview called press coverage of the Trump administration "one of the great reporting jobs in history" as the media comes under attack for its coverage of special counsel Robert Mueller's probe.

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"I think we've done - the media, the press - has done one of the great reporting jobs in history, especially of covering a presidency by ... most news organizations," he said.

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"There has been such fabulous reporting by, especially The New York Times, Washington Post. In cable [news] there has been great reporter reporting," he also added.

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"Let's look at where the disinformation and mistakes and lying have come from. It hasn't come from the press. It's come from the president of the United States and those around him.”

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"First of all I think there has been plenty of fire regardless of whether or not there's a finding, of whether or not Donald Trump is guilty of a crime and remember, under the Justice Department guidelines he cannot be found guilty while in office. So that's why we need these underlying facts," he said.

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