place to meet, which you did through by hook and by crook, it took you a long time to get there, even still, it has to be about, well, if you scored a point on me, i m going to score a point on you. and since we re coming from different places we each have to win, and if we don t win by destroying the other, it s not a real win. that dynamic is true, even when you fight for that common ground. i thought you did a great job with it, and i m glad it was you and not me. i had that thought while i was doing it. like, rachel kind of warned me off this last night. it wasn t a warning. it was like, oh, really. okay. well, you know. it s like baseball. glass of wine for you tonight, my friend. well done. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. it s really good to have you here. this past month, abc news reporter jonathan karl published a book called betrayal about the great unraveling of the trump presidency. the final act of the trump show. it hasn t even been a
basically about great unraveling about the white house at the end of the trump presidency. the final act of the trump show was the sub head of that book. it hasn t even been a year since trump left office, but there have already been a bunch of significant and we ll republished book. but in the jonathan karl book, there is one anecdote from him that has really stuck with me from that book in particular. and it was the part about rescuing the cia director. because she had been wounded in germany. remember this? i mean, spoiler alert. cia director was fine. she wasn t in germany. nor was she wounded. but this was the way jonathan karl reported that out in his book. page one 70 of his. book pentagon official, quote, received a call from sydney powell who was advising president trump and promoting some of the crazies theories about the election. paul called the pentagon official with a bizarre request. her request was specific, urgent, highly sensitive. it was also completely ins
trump left office, but there have already been a bunch of significant and well-reported books published already about how things went so off the rails at the end there. but in the jonathan karl book, there s one anecdote, one bit of reporting from him that has really stuck with me from that book in particular. and it was the part about rescuing the cia director because she had been wounded in germany. you remember this? i mean, spoiler alert. cia director was fine. she wasn t in germany. nor was she wounded. but this is the way that jonathan karl reported this out, page 51 of his book. pentagon official, quote, received a call from sydney powell who was advising president trump and promoting some of the craziest theories about the election. powell called the pentagon official with a bizarre request. her request was specific, urgent, highly sensitive. it was also completely insane. quote, cia director gina haspel has been hurt and taken into custody in germany, she told the of
arkansas, illinois, missouri and tennessee. but even just in kentucky, it is deeply worrying that beyond the dozens of people known to have been killed already. there are more than 100 other people who have just not been accounted for since the storms hit. more than 100, again, unaccounted for. and this is night three in the cold in the dark searching. president biden will be traveling to kentucky on wednesday. we have eyes on law enforcement, on the governor s office overnight tonight as the rescue and recovery efforts continue. but this is stretching into the part of the rescue window where things start to get very dire. we ve got eyes on that tonight, we will let you know more as we learn more over the course of this hour. what we re gonna start tonight is with some breaking news from washington. tonight, the january six investigation has voted to hold trump white house chief of staff, mark meadows in contempt. the committee holding him in contempt tonight means that tomor
hi, ari. hi, nicolle. thanks so much. i m ari melber. tonight we have a special report on a story that we broke and we have been bringing you updates on a report on the meaning of these roger stone tapes, why they go out more widely than just his own criminal exposure, and in writing a response from him tonight. he s not on the program, but he wrote a response to what we broke last night. i will share that with you as well as the hour continues. we begin with major news involving the georgia case against donald trump s many indicted coconspirators. because we are seeing the wheels of justice turn, and if you have been living through this in america and you ve followed, say, the case in new york, which is mostly about donald trump s business history, and perhaps some of his potential campaign finance shenanigans or the case in federal courts in washington, which involve donald trump and one or two other people, well, now we re seeing the wheels of justice grind in a very d