friends in the united states, this is the december issue of newsmax magazine. lad the great, tweeted tonight by who writes that for anyone that thinks newsmax is anything but russian disinformation, here is the cover of newsmax december issue. hundreds of thousands of mangoes get their news from putin every day. with that let s bring in our starting line on pulitzer prize-winning bureau chief with the, jonathan karl chief white house correspondent for abc news, his most recent book we trail the final act of the trump show is in its second week as a new york times bestseller having made a lot of news. and claire mccaskill is back with us former democratic u.s. senator from the state of missouri. good evening, and welcome to you all. ashley, i want to start with you, and the reaction of
department wasn t interveing in the election to keep trump in office. barr told carl she called me up. i yelled back at her. she s lost it. joining me is jonathan karl author of betrayal, the final act of the trump show. here is the book. just when you think you can t learn anything weirder about donald trump, it gets weirder but you opened the book talking about the scene and i heard this before about the way he puts himself on display at m mar-a-lago. not because he had to because he could have gone somewhere more private to have a real interview but wants to do it in public. first of all, this is march. this is just about two months after he s left office barely two months after january 6th so i mean, everything is raw and fresh. he invites me down to mar-a-lago to do the interview and the interview takes place in the middle of the lobby, big towering ceilings, the walls and the interview happened before
fortunately there are people along the way who said no, and all other senior officials in the justice department threatened to resign if clark was made acting attorney general. but he was willing to do anything, and everything to overturn the election. and there s a connection i should note between s ability to get what he wanted out of the mechanisms of the u.s. government whether it s pressuring raffensperger, and the doj. ultimately resorting to essentially hurling the crowd at the capitol. basically what happens is you can t get a doj, he can t get it out of the people who tries to bully. but he ends up doing is going down to the podium, and the associated figures that we re gonna talk about next. sort of giving him a last shot of when he was unable to secure before that. jonathan karl, whose new book betrayal, the final act of the trump show is out now, thanks very much don. so we film in is a senior political reporter
jonathan karl is chief washington correspondent for nbc news, author of betrayal, the final act of the trump show, a look at the conspiracy idled closing days of the trump administration. jonathan, great to have, you want to start on that last point because it sort of perfectly fits here. the idea that the president of the night saying, hey, i found this piece of the internet conspiracy theory made its way to me, i want you to go check out if they were using the smart thermostats to hack the georgia voting machines. embodies the kind of, universe of information that the most powerful man in the world was both consuming, and believing. and it comes across in your book. consuming, believing, and asking the top people in the national security apparatus at the federal government to act on this. i, to, right richard hofstadter as a high school student, the paranoia has been out there, the conspiracies have been out there. you can go to the far reaches of the internet and look at all
jones. that as today marks the deadline for others to turn over documents to the committee, including former trump adviser stephen miller and former press secretary kayleigh mcenany. plus, jonathan karl returns with his bombshell book filled with new reporting on the final act of the trump show. morning joe is back in a moment. ( ) what a pain in the. alice? if it s let s wrap this up season, it s walgreens season.