WTH is going on one year after the Jan. 6 Capitol breach? ABC’s Jonathan Karl on last year’s deadly riots at the US Capitol, just how close America was to a constitutional crisis, and his new book “Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show”
What the Hell Is Going On
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4.4 • 633 Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
This week, the United States will mark one year since the disgraceful and violent Capitol insurrection of January 6, 2020. The culmination of Trump’s ‘Big Lie’ surrounding the 2020 presidential election, last year’s Capitol riots marked a focal point in America’s political polarization and may have brought the country closer to a constitutional crisis than we previously believed.
Jonathan Karl joined Marc and Dany to reflect on the first anniversary of the Capitol riot and discuss the final year of the Trump presidency, the 2020 presidential election, and his recent book “Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show.”
Jonathan Karl is the chief Washington correspondent for ABC News and co-anchor of This Week with George Stephanopoulos. Karl has covered every major beat in Washington, D.C., including the White House, Capitol Hill, the Pentagon, and the State Department. He has reported from the White House under four presidents and fourteen press secretaries. He is a former president of the White House Correspondents’ Association and the author of “Front Row at the Trump Show” and “Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show.”
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| 0:00.0 | What the hell's going on? |
| 0:01.7 | What the hell is going on? |
| 0:03.0 | What the hell is going on? |
| 0:04.1 | I don't know what the hell he's talking about. |
| 0:05.8 | You don't have to know what the hell is on it. |
| 0:07.7 | What hell's the matter with these guys? |
| 0:09.2 | We don't know what's going on. |
| 0:11.0 | What hell's going on? |
| 0:12.0 | Who in God's name knows what it's all about. Hi, I'm Danielle Fletka. |
| 0:27.7 | I'm Martisan. |
| 0:28.4 | Welcome to our podcast. |
| 0:29.6 | What the hell is going on? |
| 0:31.1 | Mark, what the hell is going on this week? |
| 0:32.9 | So this is the one-year anniversary of January 6th. |
| 0:35.6 | We're releasing this on, and we have got a great guest who's written a fantastic book, Jonathan Carl of ABC News, an old friend of mine, a friend from Bassett College. And he's written a fantastic, fantastic book that is not just about January 6. It's about the last year of the Trump presidency. |
| 0:51.0 | The book is called Betrayal, the Final Act of the Trump Show. |
| 0:54.4 | Yes, because his first book was called Front Row of the Trump Show. |
| 0:56.9 | So this is now the sequel to that. It's a great book. I listened to it on Audible on a car ride where I had 10 hours in the car to its focus, and it was just terrific. And what I liked about it was one, it was meticulously reported. He spent a lot of time tracking down sources and getting a lot of |
| 1:10.9 | details to stories that we've all heard peripherally some of them, some we hadn't heard at all, |
| 1:15.1 | but also very even-handed. He gives credit to the people who did the right thing. And it's not a |
| 1:20.8 | polemic. It is a truly objectively reported book about the last year of the Trump presidency |
| 1:26.8 | and what happened on January 6th and why it was so dangerous. |
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