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 official. you need to launch a special operations mission to go get her. the official had never before spoken with sydney powell and was shocked she had called him on his direct phone line in his office. it's a phone that only rang with calls from within the pentagon or from the white house. it was an unpublished number that somebody with access to the internal directory had to have given her. sydney powell went on to explain on the call that cia director gina haspel had been hurt while on a secret cia operation to seize a computer server from a company named scytal. s-c-y-t-l, scytl. the server,

ashley parker, jonathan karl. jonathan, don't tell abc who you've been on the show about a dozen. times [laughs] what they don't know can't hurt them. your old friends of this broadcast for a reason. >> i love every minute of it, brian. i've loved every minute of it. seriously. >> thank you, back at you guys. as i keep saying, you are the stars of our show. coming up, after a break, as i regain my personal privilege, juanita tolliver in mark mckinnon are with us tonight to talk about the novel plan to avoid a catastrophic death all of our nations that, with only the votes of democrats. and you didn't think that was possible. and later, it sounded like potential bad news for pfizer today. and indeed, we'll talk with one of our public health specialists about what these numbers, early as they may be, out of south africa, may show us. all of it as the 11th hour is just getting underway. our tuesday night addition, looking at the capital christmas tree. the washington monument and lincoln mumolo memorial, just beyond it. ♪ ♪ 'tis the season to break tradition in a cadillac. don't just

chief washington correspondent jonathan karl looks back at dole's remarkable life. >>> good evening, everyone. thanks so much for joining us on this busy sunday. i'm linsey davis. we're following several developing stories tonight. but we begin with the news out of michigan. the parents of alleged school shooter ethan crumbley, behind bars at the same jail as their son. james and jennifer crumbley were arrested at this warehouse in detroit after failing to turn themselves in. their lawyers deny that they were trying to flee. the couple arraigned from jail saturday. each charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter in connection with tuesday's rampage at oxford high school and the michigan community keeping the victims in focus. today, the detroit lions honoring the four students killed with a moment of silence wearing gold os for oxford on their helmets. trevor ault leads us off tonight from pontiac, michigan. >> reporter: tonight, james and jennifer crumbley, the parents of the accused high school shooter, remain locked up in the same jail as their son. >> they're not speaki

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. >> joining us now jonathan karl, abc chief correspondent and author of "betrayal, the final act of onathan, we are seeing all of these new text messages. some from the 6th itself, some from before. there was one read last night that i want to read right now. unknown to mark meadows on january 3rd. and it has to do when jeffrey clark got hired or moved up. i heard jeff clark is getting put in on monday. that's amazing. it will make a lot of patriots happy and i'm personally so proud that you are at the tip of the spear and i can call you on a friend. tip of the spear. tip of what spear, doing what? what does that tell us, john? >> well, what the messages overall tell us, john, is mark meadows was in the middle of it all, the entire effort to use all means necessary to overturn the results of the presidential election. there was of course the activity on january 6th. meadows was one of the very few people that was with trump during the entire time of the insurrection. he was there at the white house, there in that dining room off the oval office with trump shuttling back and forth. th

attorney kim wayley and abc news jonathan karl who interviewed mr. trump for his book "betrayal: the final act of the trump show" and broke a lot of news in that book. you left your white house job a few weeks before the insurrection but you did text meadows january 6th saying, quote, you guys have to say something. even if the president is not willing to put out a statement you should go to the cameras and say we condemn this. please stand down. if you don't, people are going to die. and sadly, you were correct about that prediction. you have known meadows for years. you worked with him in congress, in the white house. why did he not listen? >> i will never know why he didn't listen, but i'll never stop believing that anyone who had a platform that day had an obligation to use it. so even if meadows had hundreds of twitter followers his voice would have rang very important to people on capitol hill mean was in touch with kevin mccarthy. he could have gotten a message to folks storming the capitol to say please stand down. the election wasn't stolen.

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here's our chief washington correspondent jonathan karl tonight. >> reporter: tonight, in the very chamber that came under attack nearly one year ago, a vote on holding former president trump's chief of staff and former member of congress mark meadows in criminal contempt for refusing to cooperate with the january 6th investigation. >> mr. meadows is in contempt. he must testify and i urge my colleagues to vote yes. >> reporter: before he refused to testify, meadows had turned over some 9,000 documents from his personal cell phones to the committee, including urgent text messages from people close to trump, imploring meadows to get the president to say something to stop the violence. >> for 187 minutes, president trump refused to act. let's let that sink in, madam speaker. he refused to act, when action by our president was required, it was essential, and it was compelled by his oath to our constitution.trump t up at the rally outside the white house. >> an actual fighter. one of the few. a real fighter. thank you, mark. >> reporter: as the violence unfolded, the president's son sent meado

here's our chief washington correspondent jonathan karl tonight. >> reporter: the january 6th committee voting tonight to hold former president trump's chief of staff, mark meadows, in contempt of congress. a vote of the full house could come as soon as tomorrow, and meadows, a former congress member himself, is fighting and insisting he's done nothing wrong. >> nothing i've done would rise to criminal contempt. >> reporter: meadows initially cooperated with the committee before abruptly refusing to show up for his deposition last week. but by that point, he had already turned over thousands of documents. according to the committee, one of the documents was a 38-page powerpoint presentation written by an outside adviser that urged the president to declare a state of emergency after the election and outlined a plan to overturn the results. meadows says he never acted on it. the committee also says emails show that shortly before january 6th, meadows told an unnamed associate, quote, the national guard would be present to protect pro-trump people. the committee also has many of meadows' t

last month anthony fauci pope of science was spotted hobnobbing at book party for abc jonathan karl athington's cafe milano. he was pulling his mask off and on as he moved through the crowd and reportedly explained by telling sally quinn who once penned novel about fauci figure before everyone in the authoritarian left was doing it every day i decided if anyone came up that i didn't know i would put my mask on. this was during a citywide mask mandate by the way. but fauci had nothing to worry about. it's not like anyone would arrest him or that he would know any of the help, the masks are for them, after all. on the precipice of the year of our lord 2022, the covid-19 pandemic entering its third year, this is what the panic and politics of the disease has brought us. a house divided. measures that might have made sense in early 2020 when there was no good understanding of the sickness, no vaccines, no therapies, no experience as a guide make no sense now. in early 2020, nearly the entire nation was willing to do its part to beat an onrushing plague enduring lockdowns, masking up, socia

former president, dingus con. ( laughter ) and we're learning more about it every day thanks to jonathan karl's book, "betrayal." karl just released audio of a conversation for the book in which the former president confirms that he called mike pence the p-word. ( laughter ) >> stephen: well, we all know that the word for someone who does exactly what their bully tells them to do: patriot. ( laughter ) karl also asked the former president if he was worried about his veep during the attack on the capital: >> stephen: of course he was in good shape. running away from a mob is excellent cardio. karl continued. >> stephen: oh, yeah, it's just common sense. we all remember that sign in dad's work shop. "measure twice, hang mike pence." ( laughter ) but karl's isn't the only new book spilling the tea. former new jersey governor chris christie has written one called "republican rescue: saving the party from truth deniers conspiracy theorists, and the dangerous policies of joe biden." one of those threats is not like the others. ( laughter ) "we must stand up against anti- vaxxers, qanon followers, and

. >>> let's continue the conversation with jonathan karl, the chief correspondent, and author of" "betrayalthing i thought of was what perry said and called trump a cancer on conservatism. it's just another example of those who tried to stop trump, who came so completely entranced with him, and he's willing to talk about breaking the law, effectively to keep him as president. by the way, wolf, this wasn't just perry. this was the strategy. this was trump's strategy. the idea is because the constitution says that state legislatures shall determine the manner and way that states would select lecele electors. the manner in which electoral votes are chosen has already been set by state legislators across the country -- elections. the people decide. >> a spokesman denies it was perry who wrote the text, but official at the special committee believe it was perry. if it's his phone -- >> it runs again all the principles of dim democracy? >> this was a multipronged approach. they knew the trump lawyers knew they had these states that were contesting the elections, with republican-controlled legisla

that was reported in jonathan karl's book, but the head of the commission is saying, yes, he understoodce exists. those two events tie trump more to the january 6th events order than the record had established thus far. >> katty? >> clearly the commission is zeroing in on the 1987 minutes. anything we can learn about what was in trump's mind, what his intention was, what he would have wanted to say to the people who were attacking the capitol at the moment, that's important. it's unclear whether the select committee will ever get access to either the records out of the national archives -- it depends perhaps on where that phone call was made from. was it made from the residence? in which case there may not be records. if it was made in the west wing, then maybe. if they do, the select committee manages to get the record, it may be all we get is the time. getting the content will be very difficult. there are still keel parts of information missing that would prove an intend -- intent to get people to attack the capitol. that's why having this phone call record, and the content ideally wo

a couple of legal memos that i discussed with jonathan karl providing a justification for that which was taking place convincing the president and people in the white house that they had a legal basis to do this. they were leaning on mike pence and the justice department. you had efforts taking place in the states. i mean, it was very comprehensive but a missing piece, what were the foot soldiers told they should do? i want to know. the answer probably lies in the war room at the willard hotel the night before. so file that away and we'll see what transpires. thank you for watching. don lemon is in the on deck circle. >> we have one reaction to your show but that was a good one. don't you remember watching? we weren't sure what was happening that day. we weren't sure what was happening was actually happening. the cold reality there was an insurrection happening at our nation's capitol in front of our eyes. >> sort of like what they said about september 11. it defied imagination. not something you expected to see in the united states. good to see you, great show. see you tomorrow. >>

so let's bring in abc's jonathan karl who will be hosting "this week" later this morning. than's latest book of course, is called "betrayal: the final act of the trump show." my friend, it's so good to see you, but let's get right to it, because you will be talking about that rise in covid cases. janai mentioned it. the president plans to update the nation on tuesday. we know other countries are locking down already. is there any talk of a lockdown here in america? >> it is frightening. you're seeing echoes of march, 2020, with sporting events being postponed and colleges and universities sending their students home early. some schools preparing for at-home learning again, at least in the beginning of january, but i got to say, gio, there is no talk of a full-scale lockdown coming out of the white house like what we saw in the beginning of the pandemic in 2020. we have tools that we just didn't have. as you mentioned earlier, obviously with vaccines. the vaccinated are far and away experiencing milder symptoms even when they do experience breakthrough infections and they ar

a couple of legal memos that i discussed with jonathan karl providing a justification for that whicht they had a legal basis to do this. they were leaning on mike pence and the justice department. you had efforts taking place in the states. i mean, it was very comprehensive but a missing piece, what were the foot soldiers told they should do? i want to know. the answer probably lies in the war room at the willard hotel the night before. so file that away and we'll see what tranchtranspireds. thank you for watching. don lemon is in the on deck circle. >> we have one reaction to your show but that was a good one don't you remember watching? we weren't sure what was happening that day. we weren't sure what was happening was actually happening. the reality there was an insurrection happening at our nation's capitol in front of our eyes. >> sort of like what they said about september 11. it defied imagimagination. not something you expect to see in the united states. good to see you, great show. see you tomorrow.

jonathan karl goes one-on-one with dr. fauci on the president biden's plan to combat the omicron variant. plus, dr. ashish jha will discuss how to stay safe this holiday week. matt? >>> now to the spectacular christmas day launch of a space telescope. astronomers are counting on the on s observatory to give them a view of 14 billion years deep into the past for new clues about the origin of the universe. after years of setbacks, and a week of technical glitches and high winds on christmas eve that forced one more delay, on christmas day the telescope took off successfully aboard a european rocket. on board is a massive telescope with a giant gold-plated mirror more than 21 feet across. the new telescope will replace the aging hubble telescope that was put into orbit by a space shuttle crew in 1990. the hubble did make breathtaking images, but needed in-space repairs by another shuttle crew. it will be parked 1 million miles from earth, that's four times the distance from the earth to the moon. while it's named for the man

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jonathan karl of abc news wrote the 900th book about donald trump.t's called "betrayal." [ laughter ] and once again, for the 900th time in a row, trump granted a one-on-one interview for the book. even though he has repeatedly called jon karl a third-rate reporter. but if there's one thing he can't resist, it's talking about himself. [ laughter ] so he does all these interviews. karl asked him about the attack on the capitol and what his thoughts were as an angry mob hunted for and threatened to kill his vice president. >> were you worried about him during that siege? were you worried -- >> no. i thought he was well protected, and i had heard that he was in good shape. >> you heard those chants. that was terrible. >> he could have -- well, the people were very angry. >> they said hang mike pence. >> it's common sense. how can you -- if you know a vote is fraudulent. right? how can you pass on a fraudulent vote to congress? >> jimmy: it's a betrayal of everything i've been lying about for two months. [ laughter ] you can't -- but enough about mike pe

here now, co-anchor jonathan karl. >>> good morning. merry christmas, and welcome to "this week." as we come on the air this christmas weekend, there are signs of the holiday spirit almost everywhere. in new york, the tree is up in rockefeller center and preparations are under way for new year's in times square. supply chain disruptions didn't keep santa's helpers from getting their job done despite those dire predictions store shelves for the most part have been stocked. and we've learned americans have been particularly generous this giving season with charitable donations up nearly 10% compared to last year. covid couldn't stop christmas, but here we are again. yet another holiday season overshadowed by the pandemic that just won't go away. this time with the fear things may actually be getting worse. omicron is sweeping the country becoming the dominant covid strain in just a matter of days. smashing hopes for a return to normal any time soon. president biden came into office vowing to get the pandemic under control. now he's outlining yet another strategy. this time, to comba

here now, co-anchor jonathan karl. >>> good morning, and welcome to "this week." as christmas approaches, covid-19 again threatens to upend american life. driving the spread, omicron. at least 43 states now have confirmed cases of the latest and by far most contagious variant yet. on saturday alone, new york state reported nearly 22,000 new covid cases breaking a single day record set just the day before. nationwide cases are up 90% since late october. hospitals are now back at the brink. this week, new york, ohio, new hampshire and maine, all activated their national guards to help understaffed health care facilities. as we approach another year of the pandemic, the united states is averaging nearly 1,200 deaths every day. the overall death toll this week surpassing 800,000, the highest of any country in the world. all of this is prompting another wave of anxiety, uncertainty, and fresh cancellations. some schools and universities are going remote. professional sports leagues postponing games. broadway shows and the famed rockettes going dark. in some ways, it's

trump himself the language in an interview with abc's jonathan karl. >> can be a patriot or a [ bleep >> as crowds watched the speeches near the white house -- members of the extreme right wing group the proud boys were already assembling at a preplanned location on the capitol's east side. they had not come to listen to any speeches. >> take the fucking capitol. >> they had arrived in small groups, dressed without their usual proud boy attire to blend in and equip themselves with radios for communication. their day would begin with a prayer and a march to the capitol's west side. >> two men on a mission with about 500 behind them ready to kick some butt, stand up for this country. >> josh pruett, who would be among the first wave of proud boys to breach the capitol, claims he knew nothing of their plan. >> i didn't hear about any plans of meeting with the capitol at all. i was just with the guys that were part of the maryland chapter. so there was probably like 20 of us. we all hooked up like around 10:00 in the morning, and that was down where trump was speaking. >> at the rally, tr

i want to bring in my colleague jonathan karl there outside the national cathecathedral.res of his time, and that speech that you just heard, that eulogy that you just heard from joe biden was the heartfelt eulogy of a friend, of political opponent but a friend. i have to say that was one of the best speeches that i have seen joe biden give in a long time. he talked about the courage, grit, goodness and grace of his friend bob dole. somebody he had served with, fought bitterly with at times, but he said they could disagree without being disagreeable. there was something else in that speech from president biden, i thought, cecilia, when he talked about the fact that dole understood that compromise is not weakness but compromise is the cornerstoner of democracy, when he talked about disagreeing without being disagreeable, he seemed to me there was a wistfulness, a wish from president biden that the republicans that he's dealing with now could be more like bob dole, wishing that he was dealing with somebody like bob dole right now trying to craft compromises with, because he

that, and the final days of the trump presidency, chief washington correspondent for abc news, jonathan karle new book titled "betrayal: the final act of the trump presidency". >> it looks like a clown show except these people were in the white house, they had power and they were trying to overthrow the united states government or at least throw the election of a duly elected president when every federal judge, including all those appointed by donald trump said there was absolutely nothing to the charges. what was your takeaway talking to donald trump and digging into this as deeply as you did? >> well, first of all, i think that the role of mark meadows that was just mentioned by mika there is incredibly important because there has been a lot of talk about the memo written by john eastman, this outside lawyer who advised trump. no, this was right in the white house. this was the white house chief of staff, this was his -- one of his campaign lawyers, outlining a very specific plan with dates and times that was all send centering on mike pence obeying the orders of donald trump and it was a

what's so important about jonathan karl's reporting is that he takes us back to my new thing that happens to get the president to say the words "go home," how terrifying that is as the world was watching our united states capitol building get desecrated and our lawmakers, our leaders and politician lives threatened and trump himself. his participation in this and not just in the days leading up but on that day, begging people to go to the capitol waving his arms and sending him on their way and tricking them and saying he'll be there too. it's kind of hard not to look as who was directly responsible for this very dark day. >> well, that's true. as expected from anything jonathan does, there is nuggets of great reporting in this book. one of the elements he just commented upon was the fore thought of taking the electoral ballots out of the senate. it's a reminder of how close we came that day to losing our democracy. jonathan, i know that you have known donald trump well prior to his presidency. you sat down with him for this book mar-a-lago: post presidency. my question to you, an editori

jonathan. get reaction to this from karl rove, fox news contributor, former white house deputy chief of staff.thor. karl, this crime issue has galvanized voters across the country no matter the party. i'm wondering if these type of incidents especially when we see them again and again have already changed the complexion of the 22 race. what do you think? >> well, i think that's right. rightly fairly or unfairly a lot of people place this on democrats, mayors and city councils that want to defund the police, high profile figures like representative talib of michigan that supports a bill that would empty out federal prisons in a year. there's not a lot of data on this regarding the national scene, but there was a very interesting poll june 30th, abc "washington post" poll asking people to rate president biden on his handling of the issue of crime. approve 38%, disapprove 48%. so etch though we had this spat of high profile of smash and grab property crimes that hit particularly on the west coast, the leader of the democratic party was upside-down on this issue and probably got worse. >> neil: i'

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karl racine. thank you very much for coming to "the sunday show." >> good morning, jonathan. >> good morning.t it up here on the screen. it says you can't file a fantasy in court, said jonathan moseley, who represents zachary real, president of the philadelphia proud boys chapter and kelly megs, an oath keeper from florida. there were clearly violent people who assaulted police that day, but that wasn't the proud boys or the oath keepers. your reaction to that? >> well, i look forward to meeting opposing council in court. i think your prior guest neal katyal as you said had the best line of the day. which is liars lie, and they can't even lie in front of a mirror. look, our case is detailed. it is specific. it is document focused, text focused and video focused. what it established is that the proud boys, the oath keepers and 30 plus individuals conspired, planned, organized, and participated on an attempt to take away our freedom. they injured the district of columbia and the metropolitan police department officers and as a result of their actions, the district of columbia suffered injuries