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Next Question with Katie Couric

Trump’s Obsession with Retribution with Jonathan Karl

Next Question with Katie Couric

Katie Couric Media

Health, Health & Fitness, Commentary, News, Documentary,, Society & Culture

4.44.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl has spent nearly a decade chronicling Trump–and being attacked by him. Trump has called him “a third-rate reporter,” “a real scumbag,” and worse. But he also keeps picking up Karl's calls. Karl joins Katie to talk about his new book Retribution: Donald Trump and the Campaign That Changed America and shares sharp, insider insight into Trump's fixation on revenge, his loyalty-first Cabinet, and how his second term has reshaped the presidency… and the country.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:04.8

Time is the greatest gift we can give and receive.

0:08.4

As we turn the clocks back this fall, Bristol-Myers Squibb is recognizing oncologists who help give patients something extraordinary.

0:17.8

More time.

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The Time Back campaign celebrates those everyday heroes who are working

0:23.6

tirelessly in the pursuit of potentially helping get patients more time to experience key

0:29.1

moments, like seeing a child learn to ride a bike or a long-awaited vacation. As we turn back our

0:36.0

clocks, let's pause to thank the doctors who make a difference

0:39.9

every day. Discover more about the time back campaign and join Bristol-Myers Squibb in celebrating

0:46.3

the physicians who give the gift of more time at bMS.com slash time back.

0:58.1

Thank you. BMS.com slash time back. Now he's coming in, and I think he's really sensing something he didn't see before,

1:05.7

which is his own mortality, and he wants to change the world, not just be the center of attention.

1:11.2

That's why he's building a, you know, 90,000 square foot ballroom at the White House.

1:16.1

That's why he's desperate to get the Nobel Peace Prize.

1:19.3

That's why he's transforming much of the rest of the White House.

1:21.3

He wants people to confront the fact that he's there and the world is not going to be the same because he was there.

1:27.6

Hi, everyone. I'm Katie Couric, and this is is not going to be the same because he was there. Hi, everyone.

1:28.7

I'm Katie Couric, and this is next question.

1:31.4

My guest today, Jonathan Carl, is ABC News Chief Washington correspondent and co-anchor of this week.

1:39.4

He has covered every president since Bill Clinton, but none more closely than the current administration.

1:46.5

His latest book, his fourth, on Donald Trump, is called Retribution, Donald Trump in the

1:52.0

campaign that changed America.

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