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
earlier this week, those texts were read into the record by members of the committee before they voted. i today, one of those anonymous lawmakers came forward himself. what jim jordan from ohio. of course one of donald trump s top allies in the house. sent a text to mark meadows the day before the insurrection about how the white house could attempted coup on january 6th. quote, on january six 2021, vice president mike pence, as president of the senate, should call on all of the electoral votes that he believes are unconstitutional as no electoral votes at all. in accordance with guidance from founding father alexander hamilton in judicial precedents. i think he means precedent. it goes on to include a lengthy citation from the federals paper like they do and text messages. now, nbc is reporting that that text was reportedly sent to jordan from a conservative lawyer and former adviser on donald trump s 2016 campaign and then jordan looked at the text and thought good idea. so
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