book for the family. and he spent almost ten years writing luck of the draw. and my mother and i, we teamed up and we decided that we want everyone to be able to get this book. so we ve teamed up with a publisher and it comes out tuesday. but this has been many years in the making, and my mother and i, we wrote the foreword. that is so cool. congrats to you. and the book has gotten a lot of praise from people including general david petraeus, formerly energy secretary, rick perry. i saw on the cover of the book, we could put it up on screen again, even tom hanks. you got tom hanks, unbelievable. what do you hope readers take away from this story. you know, tom hanks says, how did those boys do such things? and that s what is really the most important reason why i am sharing my grandfather s story. it s not about him. he wrote this for his fellow man. after pearl harbor, these young men enlisted and they were barely 18 years old. my grandfather, you know, he had no experience, you
though. there is the url. you can join us, we re discussing accountability for the coup and my foreword to the january 6th report and much more. if you re in washington, join us. let me tell you what s coming up tonight. we talk to the one and only stephen a. smith making his the beat debut. that s coming up later in the hour. but first, we have been watching this case against the fox news empire for lies with murdoch going under oath. aup date coming up.
joyce. the committee will be voting to release the january 6th report. i have been writing a foreword that s going troun with the harper collins edition. you can go to melberbook.com or wherever you get your books to get that report. you ll get my foreword on the coup conspiracy, which is about 9,000 words. i finished write it. but you also get the whole report. it s available for free from the january 6th committee if you want to go that route. we have a lot more coming up tonight, including a outgoing republican torching the party as speaker pelosi talk about what s next. we re doing a special report in the next segment. i told you sometimes we work on these for you. this is about a controversial trump era indictment that critics say hurts democracy and journalism at a time when we need both. that s next. next. breeze driftin on by. .you know how i feel. you don t have to take. [coughing] .copd sitting down.
white house? we don t have any of those. you don t have any? okay. and if we had, i guarantee you my husband would be in somebody s jail by now. michelle obama making a joke referring to the idea of a former president going to jail, which is legally possible, as we keep an eye on this january 6th committee now meeting monday about criminal referrals and voting to release the january 6th report. i am writing a foreword to the official harper collins edition of the report, which if you re interested you can get right now, search melber jan 6 or go to melberbook.com. you can get my new 9,000-word breakdown on the coup conspiracy as well as the report when it comes out. it will also be available for free online if you want to get the government report without my foreword. which is your choice. that does it for the beat. the reidout with joy reid is next.