The Situation Room
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Podcast: Pod Save AmericaLater, George Stephanopoulos talks to Dan about covering 2024 in his new book, which is full of untold stories about the White House Situation Room.
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Podcast: Pod Save AmericaJoining now to discuss his forthcoming book, The Situation Room, the inside story of presidents and crises, something both of us have some experience with, he's co-host of Good Morning America and anchors This Week on ABC, George Stephanopoulos.
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Podcast: Pod Save AmericaI'm gonna get to your fascinating book in a second, but I want to start with this campaign we're in the middle of.
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Podcast: Pod Save AmericaI want to pivot to your book because I think it's fascinating, and I think it actually is a very helpful way of understanding this election.
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Podcast: Pod Save AmericaYou've got a whole host of other projects; like, why in God's name did you write a book? What made you do this?
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Podcast: Pod Save AmericaEach time I had an internal standard for myself, and I don't want to cast aspersions on any of my colleagues in the journalism world, but my one bar for me was that it couldn't be like a potted book.
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Podcast: Pod Save AmericaAnd number two, I really wanted to do a book that felt new and different at least to me, and it would be a book where I would consider it a good book if I read it.
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Podcast: Pod Save AmericaI started a book many years ago, and I could tell four chapters in that it was not meeting that standard, so I put it aside.
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Podcast: Pod Save AmericaIn this case, somebody came to me and said, 'How about a book about the Situation Room?'
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Podcast: Pod Save AmericaThere was one book by a former staffer, a guy named Michael Bone, which came out 20 years ago, and when I heard that it really hadn't been done and saw that it could be a window into looking at crisis management in the White House, I immediately said, 'Wow, this is a great idea.'
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Podcast: Pod Save AmericaI should also add that I'm in the aides' village of writing a book; I certainly wrote it, but I had a co-writer, Lisa Dickey, and I had a terrific research team—Cameron Peters and Emily Michelle—and they were just fantastic.
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Podcast: Pod Save AmericaBeing able to tell their stories was just a great treat, and frankly, to go back to the top of our discussion, it was a wonderful tonic or antidote to dealing with our current politics every morning.
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Podcast: Pod Save AmericaAnd it turns out, we've heard a lot about the deep state in the last several years; my insight after spending the last couple of years on this book is that the deep state is packed with patriots who are doing an amazing job.
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Podcast: Pod Save AmericaYou picked the Situation Room and talked to the professionals, but this is obviously a way to highlight the crises that these presidents dealt with.
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Podcast: Pod Save AmericaIt gives you a way to understand how these presidents make decisions in crises, which is where you can truly see who the president is, what they stand for, and their values.
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Podcast: Pod Save AmericaWell, in some ways, the Trump chapter was the most difficult to write because we've all become so numb.