SON CNBC ANCHOR WILFRED FROST IN
JUST A MOMENT, BUT FIRST HOW
THIS NEW FOODAGE WAS FOUND AND
THE NEW PODCAST IT’S A PART OF.
>> WHEN THE PRESIDENT DOES IT,
THAT MEANS IT IS NOT ILLEGAL.
>> THIS MORNING, NEVER BEFORE
SEEN FOOTAGE PULLING BACK THE
CURTAIN BEHIND LEGENDARY
JOURNALIST DAVID FROST WITH
RICHARD NIXON IN 1977.
>> CHECK.
EVERYTHING CHECK.
WE’RE ALL LOOKING THE SAME?
>> THE SAME AS YESTERDAY AND THE
DAY BEFORE.
>> ISN’T THAT A SHAME.
WISH WE COULD IMPROVE OUR
APPEARANCE.
IT’S ONE OF THE REASONS I NEVER
LOOKED -- BELIEVED IN LOOKING AT
VIDEOS OF MYSELF BECAUSE I KNEW
THAT YOU WOULD BE -- YOU BECOME
SELF-CONSCIOUS, YOU BECOME AN
ACTOR.
>> THIS CANDID MOMENT UNEARTHED
AS PART OF A NEW PODCAST, "THE
FROST TAPE" HOSTED BY DAVID
FROST’S SON, WILFRE.
>> WE LEARNED TODAY OF THE
PASSING OF SIR DAVID FROST.
>> SIX YEARS AGO WHEN FROST
PASSED AWAY AT 74, WILFRED SET
OUT TO REDISCOVER HIS FATHER’S
WORK.
WHEN HE LEARNED CBS HAD LOST
YEARS WORTH OF THE DAVID FROST
SHOW, WILFRED AND HIS TEAM FOUND
A STOCKPILE IN AN UNLIKELY
PLACE, RICHARD NIXON’S
PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY.
>> DO YOU FEEL THAT YOU EVER
OBSTRUCTED JUSTICE OR WERE PART
OF A CONSPIRACY TO OBSTRUCT
JUSTICE?
>> IN A TWIST OF FATE, NIXON,
WHOSE LEGACY WAS ALTERED BY
FROST, ACTUALLY PRESERVED THE
JOURNALIST’S WORK, HIS
ADMINISTRATION RECORDING HOURS
OF SHOWS AND INTERVIEWS FROM THE
WHITE HOUSE.
>> SENATOR KENNEDY.
>> THE NEW PODCAST EXPLORES A
TREASURE TROVE OF DAVID FROST
INTERVIEWS THAT WERE LOST FOR
HALF A CENTURY, INCLUDING THIS,
A POWERFUL MORE OF CORETTA SCOTT
KING EXPLAINING THE FINAL GIFT
SHE HUSBAND FROM HUSBAND MARTIN
LUTHER KING JR.
>> THE LAST THING THAT HE GAVE
ME WAS SOME ARTIFICIAL FLOWERS.
HE SAID YES, I WANTED TO GIVE
YOU SOMETHING THAT YOU COULD
KEEP.
AND, OF COURSE, AT THAT MOMENT,
IT DIDN’T OCCUR TO ME JUST WHY,
EXCEPT THAT IT WAS SO UNUSUAL
BECAUSE HE ALWAYS GAVE ME FRESH
FLOWERS.
AND AFTER HIS DEATH, YOU KNOW,
THE STORY, ALL OF THIS CAME BACK
TO ME.
>> AND JOINING US NOW IS WILFRED
FROST, HOST OF "THE FROST
TAPES."
WILFRED, GOOD MORNING.
IT’S GOOD TO SEE YOU.
GOSH, TAKE ME BACK TO THAT
MOMENT WHEN YOU FOUND OUT THOSE
TAPES WEREN’T LOST AFTER ALL AND
THERE WERE IN NO OTHER PLACE
OTHER THAN THE NIXON LIBRARY.
>> I KNOW.
AN UNBELIEVABLE MOMENT.
SO THE GOT BACK THE RIGHTS OF
THE DAVID FROST SHOW IN LATE
2015 FROM CBS.
THERE WERE 750 EPISODE WEBS BUT
ABOUT 350 OF THESE WERE MISSING
AND MY BRILLIANT ARCHIVE
PARTNER, DAVID PECK, DISCOVERED
THEM ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF
LATER.
AS YOU SAID, IN THE NIXON
LIBRARY OF ALL PLACES.
I ACTUALLY WAS CONFUSED
INITIALLY.
I THOUGHT HE MENTD THAT WE
DISCOVERED MORE OF THE
FROST/NIXON INTERVIEWS AS
OPPOSED TO ALL THE INTERVIEWS
DAD DID WITH PEOPLE OFTEN NIXON
OPPONENTS DURING THE NIXON
YEARS, THAT HE WAS OBVIOUSLY
MONITORING.
I GUESS HE HAD A PEN CHANT FOR
RECORDING TAPES, RICHARD NIXON.
>> YOUR DAD INTERVIEWED SO MANY
PEOPLE, BOBBY KENNEDY, GEORGE
WALLACE, RONALD REAGAN.
WHAT WAS IT ABOUT YOUR DAD’S
INTERVIEW STYLE?
HE WAS 29 YEARS OLD IN 1968.
IT JUST STRUCK ME HOW GOOD HE
WAS AT HIS CRAFT, BUT WHAT DO
YOU THINK IT WAS ABOUT HIS STYLE
THAT WAS SO CAPTIVATING?
>> WELL, IT’S -- THE AGE PART OF
IT IS AMAZING.
I KNEW HE WAS ONE OF THE BEST,
OF COURSE, WHEN I WAS ALIVE AND
HE WAS IN HIS 60s AND 70s.
TO SEE THEM THAT GOOD IN HIS
20s, AS WELL, IS QUITE
UNBELIEVABLE.
I THINK IF THERE IS ONE THING
OVERARCHING ALL OF THAT THAT HE
HAD, IT WAS A GENUINE
FASCINATION IN PEOPLE AND AS YOU
USED TO SAY, FINDING OUT WHAT
MAKES THEM TICK, EXPLORING THEIR
PERSONAL PHILOSOPHY.
I DON’T THINK YOU CAN FAKE THAT.
AND I THINK IT COMES ACROSS
SUBCONSCIOUSLY OR CONSCIOUSLY, I
DON’T KNOW, TO HIS GUESTS, THAT
HE WAS JUST GENUINELY INTERESTED
IN THEM.
DAD WAS, OF COURSE, AN
INTERESTING MAN TO TALK TO, BUT
HE WAS INTERESTED IN PEOPLE
ABOVE ALL ELSE.
>> AND HERE YOU ARE FOLLOWING IN
HIS FOOTSTEPS.
YOU’RE OUR COLLEAGUE AT CNBC.
THOSE ARE BIG SHOES TO FILL.
WHEN YOU LOOK BACK AT THESE
INTERVIEWS, THESE NEW ONES OR
ONES THAT YOU’VE SEEN OVER THE
YEARS, DO YOU EVER THINK TO
YOURSELF, NOW, I WANT TO DO IT
LIKE MY DAD WOULD HAVE DONE IT
SOMEBODY OR DO YOU TRY TO KIND
OF CHART YOUR OWN PATH?
>> WELL, I THINK AS YOU GUYS
KNOW BETTER THAN I DO, WE’RE NOT
ACTORS.
WE’RE PRESENTERS.
YOU’VE GOT TO BE YOURSELF AND
ABOVE ALL ELSE, I’M WILFRED
FROST, NOT DAVID FROST’S SON.
BUT LISTEN, I LEARNED A LOT.
DAFD DIED BEFORE I PIVOTED TO
DOING TV AND IT’S A REGRET I HAD
THAT I NEVER SPECIFICALLY GOT TO
SIT DOWN WITH HIM AND SAY WHAT
SHOULD BE THE FOLLOW-UP
QUESTION, WHAT ARE YOU THINKING
AT THIS MOMENT BECAUSE I SORT OF
THOUGHT I HAD ALL THE TIME IN
THE WORLD WITH DAD AS A SON
ALWAYS DOES AND HE DIED
SUDDENLY.
SO THIS EXPERIENCE, THIS PROCESS
HAS BEEN VERY REWARDING IN THAT
PROCESS TO LEARN MORE TRICKS OF
THE TRADE FROM THE MAN WHO I
THINK OF COURSE UNBIAS WAS THE
GREATEST.
>> WILFRED, WE LOVED BEING WITH
YOU AT THE ROYAL WEDDING --
>> THAT WAS A GREAT TIME.
>> IT WAS.
WE HAD SO MUCH FUN AND, OF
COURSE, YOUR DAD HOSTED THIS
SHOW, ON HOSTED "TODAY" WAY BACK
IN THE DAY.
SO WE HAD A LONG HISTORY
TOGETHER.
CONGRATULATIONS ON THE PODCAST.
THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US.
>> MY PLEASURE.