Pat Buchanan did not say Felt was a traitor. However, Stahl pointed out how Felt thought those in the Nixon White House "were like Nazis...and she seems alright with that.
In fact later, Lauer brought up the NBC interview with Pat Buchanan and Chuck Colson, which only made the Woodstein duo feisty:
"On this program yesterday, Pat Buchanan and Chuck Colson, a couple of the President's men, teed off on Mark Felt, saying he's not a patriot, he's a traitor. They said he should have gone to a grand jury or resigned. And in closing, Pat Buchanan said the following, he said, 'Woodward and Bernstein were stenographers in the end,' meaning that you simply wrote what Mark Felt wanted you to write."
(In fact, neither Buchanan or Colson used the term "traitor" during their June 1 Today appearance.
Bernstein suggested it's not leaking if you're a reluctant leaker (lol): "I think there's a lot more guidance than actually giving of information. I always stay away from the term 'leak' because usually it's held to get information out of anybody, including people who are inclined to be willing to give it to you, that usually you still have to do some real pulling and this was the case. He was a very reluctant giver of information...."
Imus followed up: "So he didn't look at what he was doing as being a violation of his oath of office in providing information that they were gathering as an official investigative arm of this investigation, the FBI, in providing the newspaper with this."
Woodward: "Well, it's got all of the ambiguity and the approach, avoidance of human nature. You know, I think he was distancing himself from, so he wouldn't be in a position of, you know, this came in from a specific FBI file, butâ""
Bernstein: "The truth is we don't know, you know, all of his motivations, and during the period, he was really never asked. You know, I think there was enough trouble when Bob had these brief meetings and conversations to deal with whatever information we were trying to get without going into a question of what was motivating him. So it's only later, much later, that we could really speculate and never have got a complete answer to his motivation."
Lauer is a hack. When he interviewed Colson he failed to even mention what Colson had done in the Watergate scandal.
What we have is an ignorant populace being shoveled easy to digest news by media too afraid to bore or anger an audience.