tonight on a special holiday edition of "the reidout" -- >> the next trump administration if there is one will be more extreme and have fewer

guardrails than anything we saw in the first trump administration. >> donald trump is not hiding his iron fisted authoritarian plans. believe him. my conversation with abc news correspondent jonathan karl on his very revealing new book. also tonight -- >> as one source said to me, his arrogance destroyed him. tucker's arrogance destroyed him. one producer on the show said to me, we were burning too bright. we knew it wouldn't last. >> brian stelter joins me on his book about fox, network of lies. if you think the worst was over when tucker was fired, think again. plus -- >> hitler thought that lynching, what he called popular justice in the united states, was another important thing for the nazis to study in terms of how these things can be -- look good on paper but still work out in practice the way they wanted them to. >> my conversation with my friend and colleague rachel maddow on her fascinating new

book, prequel, an american fight against fascism. also -- >> picked up my phone and my daughter was video calling me at that moment. as soon as i picked up my phone. so let me get myself together. wipe my eyes and the grime, the pepper spray remnants were on my coat. i wiped the pepper spray in my eyes, and it smeared it. it was so painful. >> officer harry dunn recounts the horror of january 6th. he joins me to talk about why accountability is so critically important for those responsible for the insurrection. welcome to a special holiday edition of "the reidout." we know that readers love to read. so we're bringing you some of my recent interviews with the authors of compelling new books beginning with abc news chief washington correspondent jonathan karl. in his book, tired of winning, karl lays out in disturbing detail elements about trump's presidency with interesting new insights into the last few

months in office. and how that period tells us so much about what we should expect from trump if he returns to the white house. in the book, we learn how disconnected from reality trump is and how he is constantly looking for affirmation, allegiance, and vengeance. one particular character plays a key role in enabling trump's worst instincts. john mcintee, who karl describes as trump's essential man. in that role, he forged a presidential directive about the withdrawal from afghanistan, with zero oversight. mcintee, who has no legal expertise, also found justification for vice president pence to reject the 2022 election results via a half hour google search and delivered it to trump even though he knew it was apples to oranges. he was also tasked with removing all so-called infidels from the trump white house, and would lead the charge in a second trump administration because

he's been tasked with a lead role in the trump project 2025. the book also tells us just how far trump is willing to go to win. at one point during the 2022 election, he urged georgia senate candidate herschel walker to falsely accuse his opponent, senator warnock, of pedophilia. most telling is thi quote from a hig level individual who served in thehite house who has not publicly commented on the president. he tol kl trump lacks any shred of human decency, humility, or caring. he's morely bankrupt, breathtakingly dishonest, lethally incompetent. and stunningly ignorant of virtually anything relating to governor or world affairs. he's a traitor and malignancy in our nation and represents a clear and present danger to our democracy and the rule of law. i began our conversation by

asking karl to tell us more about trump's right-hand man, john mcintee. >> he's somebody who was there at the very beginning of the trump campaign in 2016. in fact, way back, the very first book i wrote, front row at the trump show, i talked about walking into an empty trump campaign headquarters in trump tower because they only had about a handful of people working there, and the first person i met was john mcintee, who very earnest, young, he had just left a job on the desk at fox news. so he was there at the inception. and he was a former cornerback at the university of connecticut and somebody trump liked for a lot of reasons. i think partly because he looked the part. good looking young guy, a little taller than most of the other staffers. by the end of the trump presidency, he was actually appointed to the head of presidential personnel, barely 30 years old. he was in charge with the hiring and firing and vetting of all political appointees throughout the executive branch. and he used that position to

root out trump appointees, republicans, people working for trump, who were deemed insufficiently loyal. now, john mcintee is working for project 2025 out of the heritage foundation, which is there to set up the next trump administration. and first and foremost, it's about finding people that will be completely and totally loyal to donald trump. and i think this is a very important thing to understand, that the next trump administration, if there is one, will be more extreme and have fewer guardrails than anything we saw in the first trump administration. >> and what did you learn about what it is they want to do? because there's some of the things you report that are truly disturbing. i mean, donald trump not taking it negatively when it seemed that angela merkel, the former chancellor of germany, who really apparently despises him, i think we can see that, that he

tried to convince himself or convince others that she really liked him and took as a compliment her comparison of him to hitler. so what is it that they want to do? >> that's a remarkable scene where trump to a very senior republican ally of trump is describing how, you know, merkel, she's told me, she says your crowds, your crowds are so incredible. there's only one person in all of history that has gotten crowds like yours, only one. it's the chancellor of germany. we know exactly who she's talking about. it's about retribution, plain and simple. this is donald trump himself has said the same thing. joy, i think, and i know you have focused on this, on your show. but i think there's been far too little focus into what donald trump is saying as a presidential candidate right now in his own words about what he wants to do. it is about retribution. he says point blank, i am your retribution.

if you come after me, he says, i'm coming after you. he's talked about using the powers of the presidency, if he has an opportunity do it again, to go after his enemies. and by the way, he's not just talking uthis political enemies in the democratic party. he's talking about republicans who have been insufficiently faithful and loyal to him. he's talking about republicans who have dared to stand up to him on things as basic as whether or not the 2020 election was a legitimate election. >> you write about, and the reason i ask about this is because i would like you -- you have covered donald trump for a long time. talk about his mental state. you write about the fact mike pompeo, steve mnuchin, betsy duvaus discussed the 25th amendment regarding trump, that mitch mcconnell spearheaded a move to ban trump from the inauguration. he threatened to run as an independent third party candidate and had to be threatened by the rnc not to do

it. but the 25th amendment piece stands out to me. as your reporting would suggest, is donald trump fully there mentally? >> well, i can't really make that judgment, but what i can tell you is people have raised questions about whether he's fully there mentally have been the people closest to him. the people that have raised the alarms about what it would be if he came back are the people who are closest to him. and yes, in those hours after the january 6th attack, as they watched what he did and what he didn't do, while the united states capitol was under assault by his own supporters, it was the people that were closest to him that were talking about whether or not they needed to remove him from office because he was mentally unstable, mentally unable to carry out the duties of the president. that's pompeo and mnuchin. they had both denied it. there is sworn testimony acknowledging those conversations did happen.

they didn't go very far. frankly, as he started to have people resign from the cabinet, there are fewer people in the cabinet to vote for it. they were talking about it. it's not just those 25th amendment conversations. you read that statement from an anonymous staffer. i think it's a very important statement. this was something that was given to me by the person who wrote it, and he wrote it right after all the details came out about the classified documents. this is a very senior official who spent day in and day out with donald trump for over a year in the west wing. i can't get any further details to who it was, but there was a lot of attention about anonymous, and we later learned it was myles taylor who worked at the department of homeland security. this is somebody who is more senior and spent a lot more time around donald trump who said those words about him, because he saw first-hand how he had operated and was conveying this to me, didn't want to go public. worried about the retribution we talked about. this is not somebody who has

been out there publicly taking on the president, worried about retribution against the family, but deeply concerned about what a second trump white house would look like. >> jonathan, you know, the subtitle of your book is donald trump and the end of the grand old party. which suggests that there's more to this than donald trump, whether he's noncorpas mentis or not or wants to use a presidency for personal retribution. but also the people around him and who would enable him. is there a republican party left that would stop him if he attempted to turn our government into something that looks more like putin or viktor orban? is there anyone left in the party willing to try to stop him? >> i spent a fair amount of time in the book talking about republicans who did try to rein him in. and did try to stand up for basic norms of american democracy and the constitution. some of the names are obvious, people like mitt romney and liz cheney. there are people if you go early into his presidency, like

senator flake, senator corker. there are others in the house that are less well known, people within his own administration. even some of the most hard core trump supporters, people like bill barr, who stood up to him at the end when it came to standing up for the integrity of our election system. so there are republicans who have stood up to him. the issue is every name i just mentioned to you is essentially gone from the scene. the members of congress who voted to impeach him, by the next congress, i believe we're going to see one of them left, just one. and the senators that voted to convict him in the trial are largely gone. lisa murkowski is still around, but largely gone. mitt romney announced he's not running. i think it's a real question. >> this is the book, called tired of winning. donald trump and the end of the grand old party. the book is out today. it's scary stuff, but jonathan, thank you for doing this

excellent and very necessary reporting. much appreciated. >> thank you, joy. up next on "the reidout," an explosive new book takes us inside fox's network of lies. exposing the dark heart of deception that drives their propaganda. author brian stelter joins me next.

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if the thought of donald trump returning to the white hoe isn't terrifying enough, trump recently poured out more nightmare fuel when asked about his potential picks for vice

president. >> would you consider tucker though? based on -- >> i like tucker a lot. i guess i would. i think i would say i would because he's got great common sense. >> that would be former fox host tucker carlson, whose common sense from his days bloviaing at fox sounded like this. >> our leaders demand you shut up and accept this. we have a moral opigation to admit the world's poor, they tell us, even if it makes our own country poorer and dirtier and more divided. >> white supremacy that's the problem. this is a hoax, just like the russia hoax. a conspiracy theory uses to divide the country and keep a hold on power. >> the left becomes unhinged if you point out american voters are being replaced by democratic party loyalists from other countries. it might be worth asking yourself, what is this really about? why do i hate putin so much? has putin ever called me a racist? has he threatened to get my fired for disagreeing with him?

>> a trump/carlson ticket might also be a little awkward since we learned this year in the final weeks of trump's presidency in 2021, tucker was texting about how he hated him passionately. that little insight into tucker's feelings from private texts revealed in pretrial discovery in dominion voting systems's massive lawsuit against fox. the network settled that suit in april to the tune of $787.5 million. carlson was unceremoniously canned by fox less than a week later without much explanation. a new book from brian stelter digs into the circumstances of carlson's firing and much more about fox, including the network's role in radicalizing its viewers, protg the big lie, january 6th, and new insights about donald trump's indictments for efforts to overthrow the 2020 election, just to start. in network of lies, stelter writes, with or without carlson,

fox is the black widow at the center of the web of lies that perverts american politics. i spoke to brian stelter and asked him why tucker carlson was fired from fox, was is the racism, his gross behavior to others, or something else? >> i think there's a list of tent or 20 reasons why he was canned. i devote many chapters of the book to this because i think it is a mystery and carlson is promoting conspiracy theories why he's fired, blaming dominion when there's lots of evidence against it. this was a bad breakup, like a relationship that goes sour when one side has 20 reasons to dump the other side. the other side doesn't see it coming. this was building for a long time. lachlan and rupert murdoch decided it wasn't worth it anymore. tucker's arrogance destroyed him wrb one producer said to me, we were burning too light. we knew it wasn't going to last, and it didn't. >> talk about fox, the insight you get into about how they

think, about why they wanted to put people like sydney powell on, why they wanted to put on the january 6th stuff and the outrageous stuff. >> i think it was a self preservation instinct, wanting to believe the lies. wanting to give false hope to millions of viewers. it was driven largely by profits and ratings. a desire to keep the audience hooked at all cost. there's examples in these dominion filings which i had to write this book because there were so many details that it demanded someone write the book. the examples of these producers and hosts obsessed over the minute by minute ratings. when we talk about voting irregularities, the ratings tick up. i was at cnn nearly a decade. i didn't study the minute by minute ratings to figure out which guests were the best or the worse. that's next level engineering to keep the audience addicted. and ultimately, that is what drove so many of these falsehoods. >> you talk about the black widow at the heart of our democracy. lachlan murdoch versus rupert

murdoch, is there any difference, any directional change, or does it get worse? >> rupert is much more of a newspaper man. he believes he's a journalist at heart and he detests donald trump. as a murdoch family friend said, he can't believe we're going to end up with trump as a nominee again. then again, he doesn't seem to be doing much to stop it. lachlan murdoch cares a lot less about politics. he basically holds his nose, but again, he's not doing anything to stop the so-called trump train. lachlan cares a lot more about campaign ad spending at his stations than he cares about polling and things like that. ultimately, you're not going to see them do anything really to stop this coronation of trump, even though, by the way, trump complains about fox all the time, he says fox is out to get him, but that couldn't be further from the truth. >> let me play a montage about the way fox sounds now post tucker. >> what does that leave you with? it leaves you with you need to make war to bring peace.

because you have a side that cannot change because then that means an admission that their beliefs have been corrupt all the time. in a way, you have to force them to surrender. >> or we could make love, not war. >> i tried that once. had to go to a doctor. >> or have an election. >> elections don't work. we know they don't work. >> i want to say something about arab americans and about the muslim world. we, and i mean the west and western technology, have created the middle east. we made them rich. we got that oil out of the ground. our military protects all of these oil shipments, flying around the world, making them rich. we fund their military. we respect their kings. we kill their terrorists. okay. but we have had it. we have had it with them. >> so that's first greg gutfeld and then jesse waters.

what did you learn in doing research for this book? is it a bottom up thing? is this the audience craves this so fox serves it or are they engineering this kind of sort of necrophilic attitude toward american culture and divisiveness? are they engineering it or taking in what their audience wants? >> in the roger ailes era, it was top down. now it's driven by the audience. the audience is in charge, which is a scary prospect sometimes. i love our viewers. i agree with your banner. jesse waters has taking over as the primetime extremism. that the quote that comes up time and time again. they think they're respecting the audience by giving the audience what they want, but that's disrespectful. and it's hurt the gop. look at what happened in the off year elections. fox is sometimes hurting the republican party that it thinks it's helping. that's interesting going into 2024. >> the book, network of lies,

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we're going to make america great again. >> we're going to take back our culture. we're going to make america great again. >> next november, we're going to make america great again. >> we have heard it a million times. donald trump's signature slogan, make america great again. i always wondered when the again is, because whether he knows it or not, the trump era sure looks a lot like the 1930s or '40s. it's a period in our country's history marked by world war, the great depression, and a fair amount of political demagoguery. we're often told that america came together in that era, was united against fascism and swooped in right away to join forces with the good guys to help stop the nazis and save the day. except that's not exactly how it went down. in her new book, prequel, an american fight against fascism, rachel maddow details the story of what really happened and how the u.s. actually based its own

home-grown threat to overthrow democracy and install a hitler-like dictatorship. she writes, the great american fight against fascism that we have inherited as a cornerstone in our country's moral foundation is a fighthat didn't happen only overseas in the 1940s. americans fought on both sides of that divide here at home, too, and their stories will curl your hair. i asked rachel about that decades-long fight. >> democracy is the end, the thing we're trying to preserve. it's also the means by which we obtain political outcomes in this country. if you're standing up for democracy, you have to want to do everything by diplomatic means. one of the good news stories about what happened in the '40s is these guys in congress, in the senate, who were hooked up with this nazi operation in the united states that were using their congressional offices with a nazi agent to propagandize the americans people, they got

caught for it. and we have to reckon with the fact that they never got put on trial for it, they probably should have, but they did get exposed for what they had done, the legal, the legal prosecution of people who were involved in that effort to allegedly overthrow the government, the activism, the journalism of that time, the regular americans who got involved in trying to stop them. they exposed it. when voters had a choice about what to do with those members of congress, they kicked them out. after they lost their jobs in congress and their jobs in the senate, they became losers. and we forgot about them. even though they had been among the most powerful people in congress. they had been household names, some of them. so gerald nye was going to be presidential timber at some point. we don't remember him at all, and it's because he lost his seat in disgrace because of his ties to this bloc. >> there's another thing that i think people -- people understand naziism as a foreign thing. and they often forget the

american components of it. there's a fascinating piece of your book i'm going to read to you. when krieger was sent to the american south, he was quick to see how the united states could provide a conceptual prototype for new german law. jim crow laws segregating black americans and stripping them of legal and political rights was one of the many bulwarks in american law constructed for the protection of white people from the lower races. he was able to conduct a comprehensive study of more than 30 states whose laws and courts forced black americans into second class citizenship. the nazis learned from us. >> they sent a lawyer over here to the university of arkansas law school, and he did a survey of american race law because the nazis were enamored of this idea you can have a set of minorities in this country and a constitution that says everybody is equal, but those minorities, those disfavored minorities, don't get equal citizenship rights. how can you -- they wanted to

know, how can the united states be looked on as a beacon around the world as an egalitarian country thought is not some rogue state or human rights offender, but yet there's people within their bounds who do not have the benefits of citizenship. they loved that idea, and they used the research to inform the nuremberg laws. they learned from us. hitler thought that lynching, what he called popular justice in the united states, was another important thing for the nazis to study in terms of how these things can be -- look good on paper but still work out in practice the way they wanted them to. >> it's fascinating. it's terrifying to think how much of the ideas we know are loathsome that were happening in germany originated here. you talk about everything from book bans, things we're seeing now, book bans saying there were dirty things in the books, we had to root out the wickedness

in the books corrupting the minds of children. that happened then as now. politicians using their power in order to foment a revolution against the government. the idea of overthrowing roosevelt. it's all -- it all happened before. >> political pressure on the justice department to stop investigations and prosecutions of people involved in that kind of violence. yes, i mean, there's -- one of these dixiecrat anti-semite pro-fascist members of congress, a senator from north carolina, wanted to build a wall to keep out jewish refugees. he said we are going to build a wall that nobody can scale. >> thank you, rachel maddow. author of prequel, an american fight against fascism. coming up, harry dunn joins me to discuss the chaos on capitol hill and his new book, which recounts his work as a capitol police officer and details the traumatic day of january 6th, 2021.

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with all that is going on in the world, the january 6th insurrection feels like a lifetime ago, but to those who were there, to those who witnessed it, the trauma is always present. it was one of the darkest days in modern american history. with thousands of trump supporters laying siege to the capitol, and assaulting law enforcement officers. for officer harry dunn, the experience was a painful gut punch. >> until then, i had never seen anyone physically assault capitol police or mpd, let alone

witness mass assaults being perpetrated on law enforcement officers. one woman in a pink maga shirt yelled, you hear that, guys? this [ bleep ] voted for joe biden. the crowd, perhaps around 20 people, joined in screaming, boo, [ bleep ]. no one had ever, ever called me a [ bleep ] while wearing the uniform of a capitol police officer. >> that was a direct result of donald trump and the republican party rejecting the results of the 2020 election. today, the new speaker of the house, mike johnson, embodies that ethos. johnson was the most important architect of the electoral college objections and helped corral republican votes against certifying the elections in multiple swing states. not his own. in today's republican party, election denialism is a badge of honor and not a mark of shame.

in fact, it is now a requirement and a central tenant of republicanism. their denialism is a daily insult to people like officer dunn. in his new book, standing my ground, a capitol officer's fight for accountability and good trouble after january 6th, he writes, i speak out not because i want something for me but because i want accountability. i want the people responsible for that day, including trump and anybody else who conspired to breach the capitol and try to halt our democracy, to pay a price, just like we paid a price. i recently spoke to harry dunn. i began by asking him about house republicans choosing one of the top election deniers, mike johnson, as speaker. >> one thing i have to point out, there the we we talk about in the book, i don't want people to think that's just the capitol police officers, we, the american citizens, i write this book as an american citizen. i care about this country, i

care about, you know, the way it functions. i want it to work well for all of us. that's the we that i talk about. as far as the new speaker, i don't really have an opinion about it. one of the things, one of the reasons i did write the book is to give a factual representation, account of what happened that day. i want the voters to be educated, the voters are the people who hold the representatives accountable, not me. my job is to protect those members that the american people send. so while i can have an opinion, i want their opinion to be an educated one and to be reflected at the ballot box because those american people are the people that hold the elected officials accountable. >> he did not deny his own election. he validated that election. you describe in your book getting on a video call with your daughter after the insurrection, and talk about that a little bit. >> you know, we had a moment that was a little -- i'll call

it a lull in activity. and i was talking with a group of other officers and said hey, y'all, call, text your loved ones. i'm sure everybody is worried about us. send them a message, i'm okay. i went to grab my phone. i realized i didn't have it with me. i ran out to grab it, i was emotional, i was crying throughout the day, and i wanted to get myself together. picked up my phone, and my daughter was video calling me at that moment. as soon as i picked up my phone. so i said let me get myself together. i wiped my eyes and the grime, the pepper spray remnants were on my coat. and i wiped the pepper spray in my eyes. and it smeared it, and it was so painful. and i didn't want to scare her, so i'm holding it together, dad voice, hi, baby. my eyes open. she's going on telling me about her day. on the inside, i'm like, i have to go, this is killing me. i said tell your mother i'm okay

and i got off the phone, let out a scream or a yell, just tried to get my eyes together. it was even in the middle of an insurrection, you're not too busy to be a dad. >> absolutely. some of the experiences you described in the book, i mean, these insurrectionists ripping up a picture of john lewis. your testimony about having the n-word hurled at you. first, you're not a little dude. they took a lot of chances messing with you. they were bold enough to feel like they could call you the n-word, rip up pictures of john lewis. how did you control yourself? we know that i have covered a lot of issues with police and the question is how do you control your emotions in that moment? >> so one, i work with an incredible group of men and women, and they showed the absolute most professionalism. >> indeed. >> it speaks to the caliber of the men and women that i work with. individually, just do what i

think is right. i don't really know how i was able to keep my composure, i guess. when all else fails and everything hits the wall, you rely on your training and instincts. i guess i attribute the way i respond to the way i was raised, my temperament and all that stuff. i was very furious and screaming and yelling. i wasn't officer friendly that day. but it was about making it home to my loved ones while maintaining keeping the members of congress and everybody inside that building safe. >> is it hard for you to do this job knowing that some of the people that you're protecting were a part of it or at least agreed with what happened that day? >> you know, i had to reshape my whole narrative. what are we doing? what do i do? the public service element of it, i have to look at what does that seat represent, the seat of a member of congress, what does

that seatrupt? it represents the american people, it represents democracy. no matter who occupies that seat, that seat existed hundreds of years before that person existed. and by us continuing to do our job, it will exist hundreds of years after they no longer exist. we may not enjoy or agree with the individual who occupies that seat at the moment, but future generations count on us to maintain it. that's why defending democracy is so important. so it's difficult. but kind of like bigger picture kind of thinking. >> yeah, absolutely. officer harry dunn, you are a hero and all of the people who were with you on that day and taking those beatings are heroic. i hope you know that and you take that in because it is true. thank you, my friend. >> thank you. always good to talk. >> author of standing my ground, harry dunn. tonight, you have heard from the authors of several great books and now i'm really excited

to tell you about my own book which comes out after the holidays. just after new year's day in 1963, james baldwin arrived in mississippi, as he embarked on a lecture tour for the congress on racial equality. it was launched in response to the violent riots that accompanied the integration of the university of mississippi months before. meredith's push to enterrole miss had been backed by medgar evers who had himself been rejected by the college simply because he was black. baldwin didn't just dine with them at their home in jackson's lone one-block black middle class subdivision, he also rode with medgar into the delta where medgar sent long days investigating the everyday indignities and vicious crimes perpetrated against black mississippians as the planter class fought to keep them ties to the cotton plantations where black families had been trapped

during slavery. bauduin saw with his own eyes the fear and tearer of the men, women, and children, some of whom he had to smuggle out of mississippi. decades later, he recalled medgar as a great man, a beautiful man, and a troublemaker in the way baldwin respected. recalling that as he sped through the delta at top speed in his blue olds mobile rocket '88 designed to help him outrun the klan, he possessed the calm of someone who knows they're going to die before their time, like martin luther king. medgar evers did die before his time. he was shot dead by a white supremacist in his own driveway at just 37 years old that june, as myrlie and their children paid agonizing witness. before that awful moment in the we, hours after john f. kennedy publicly committed to signing a civil rights act medgar had fought for, medgar and myrlie

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