so, get ready because the public component is signaling to us they ve got the answers. they re going to be asking the questions on television. jackie, we all know the arc of the modern day book tour, the book rollout. some members of this panel better than others. you give an advanced copy to a publication or a broadcast from which they glean what s going to emerge as the lead story, the top two or three stories. mark meadows is out with this new book, oddly a british based publication is the first to write about it. oddly, he s doing tv interviews preemptively in the uk. but put that aside. the big story that has come out of it in the first couple of days is donald trump testing positive days before the presidential debate, days before he met with gold star families. so, as you watch this next clip,
remember trump came out reacting to it saying it was fake news. so, here is the author of the book from where the story was taken batting cleanup on television. well, the president s right. it s fake news. if you actually read the book, the context of it, that story outlined a false positive. literally he had a test, had two other tests after that that showed that he didn t have covid during the debate and yet the way that the media wants to spin it is certainly to be as negative about donald trump as they possibly can while giving joe biden a pass. so, jackie, in addition to the fact that he picked up a medical degree along the way, what does that little exchange reveal about the relationship to this day between donald trump and his former chief of staff, mark meadows?
clark has already told the committee he intends to take the fifth when he appears for his deposition this weekend. that s where we are. and with that, let s bring in our starting line on this thursday night. jackie al mainny, political reporter for the washington post, author of the paper s early morning newsletter, the early 202, jonathan karl, new york times best seller two weeks runner now, and frank figliuzzi, fbi assistant for counterintelligence. he s the author of the book the fbi way and host of the podcast the bureau. welcome you all. jackie you get to go first with this question. our congress kicks the can down the road amid attempts to hold it up over mask mandates. what does this auger for what else they re supposed to get done between now and the end of the year? yeah, brian, this means that
jackie, i m wondering what you are hearing about the potential impact of this whistle-blower s complaint. you have some republicans even i saw ben sasse from nebraska. i think we put his quote up earlier. not saying nothing to see here. yeah. well, i think it s pretty notable that since post-4:00 p.m. today when the whistle-blower s complaint was finally made available to members of congress, that there hasn t been a republican who has come out with as forceful of a defense as we ve seen of president trump earlier in the day. but i think this just increases the amount of pressure that the acting director of the dni, joseph maguire, is going to be under tomorrow when he has to publicly testify in front of the house intelligence committee behind closed doors and in front of closed doors. he s in a pretty precarious situation. as my colleagues reported today, he threatened to resign if he was not able to be forthcoming with the information that he is aware of with regards to the
that s what nbc news is now reporting and that it is expected to be made available to the public tomorrow morning. so that s the latest we know about that. jackie, the name corey lewandowski just came up there as andrew was discussing this testimony tomorrow. obviously corey lewandowski extremely combative, uncooperative with that committee when he recently appeared. but, again, the background of maguire suggests this might be a different he might handle this differently tomorrow. that s exactly right. i spent the day reaching out to maguire s former peers and co-workers and friends, and they said to anticipate the exact opposite of what we saw last week with corey lewandowski s hearing, which was really directed to the audience of one, to pleasing the president and getting that endorsement for his senate run as we saw lewandowsky tweet out actually a link to a potential website teasing his run. maguire is the antithesis of that. he s a political, you know,