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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. tuckers arrogance destroyed him. on...

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. tuckers arrogance destroyed him. one producer on the show said to me, we were burning too bright. we knew it wouldnt last. >> brian stelter joins me on his book about fox, netwo...

mika, the feds took his phone. >> thats never good, honestly. hes the architect of the attempted coup and the feds have his phone. >> you know, we were asking, how could this guy not be in legal trouble? apparently he -- seems he may be. the battle over abortion hits the states, many are wondering if theres anything the federal government can do to protect services for women and what is the state of womens rights? well be talking about all of that. willie is with us. good morning. wi...

already done it. if they want to follow through on this, yeah, i could certainly happen in reverse. it could certainly happen in reverse. what they have done is they have released the genie out of the box. >> first off, man, genies come out of bottles, not boxes. that aside, trump has been openly admitting his authoritarian vision for america, but top republicans in congress where still aiding and enabling him, including a new ethics complaint against the judge in trumps new york fraud...

School choice, universal, yes. I dont want a nationalized curriculum. I think that is a bottom up thing. I want to get rid of the federal Department Of Education but we will do nationwide scholarships through the corporate tax credits. Governor haley . You know, i have fought for School Choice in my entire career. Because i think parents know their children best. And i think we should always do that. That is why we passed Charter School Legislation in our state. That is why we empowered home sch...

Okay. but we have had it. we have had it with them. >> so thats first greg gutfeld and then jesse waters. what did you learn in doing the research for this book? is it a bottom up thing? is this the audience craves this and 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, as you said, it is bottom up. its dri...

Couple of exceptions of issues that he cared about. this is a bottom up thing. this is what i really had to grapple with in the book. i went back to 2008 when i was a young staffer for john mccain in iowa and thinking about the crowds that showed up to those rallies. i really should have seen this then, and i interviewed people that i worked with back then and we all kind of saw it but compartmentalized it in a box. its coming from voters. its a demand side problem, and, you know, theyre the tai...

Necessarily a bottom up thing. i think we all know thats a topdown narrative that has now been per petuated politically fr a while. >> raising the threat level to red, what does that mean? >> it is signaling to the community where we are, and we have certain thresholds. and so, you know, we have been hit with this omicron wave, just as every other community in our nation. but until very recently we only saw that reflected, you know, mostly in the case counts, which, of course, impact our economy...

And finally, mcconnell and hopefully others, chris christie and others, are going to say listen, guys, were willing to make room for all kind of weird people on the other side, but you have to make room for everybody or youre not going to have a party. once you start having purges, the next step from a censure is to try to purge people. and liz cheney has already been purged from her leadership position. youre starting to have the kind of stuff that republicans used to balk at. where is the repu...

I dont think theres a clearer explanation of whats going on. and finally, mcconnell and hopefully others, chris christie and others, are going to say listen, were willing to make room for all kind of weird people on the other side, but you have to make room for everybody or youre not going to have a party. once you start having purges, the next step from a censure is to try to purge people. and liz cheney has already been purged from her leadership position. youre starting to have the kind of st...