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the special reports that we do sometimes around here. this one is about what we call the "just comply lie" from some republicans, as well as sean hannity. were going to show you how it has been shredded by recent events. how sean hannitys standard was failed by none other than donald trump himself. how it fits in with civil rights in our country. by the end of the hour, to end the week, we have a saturday night live alum with us as well. our top story is the kind of news that sometim...

times. we are grateful. "the beat" with ari melber starts rights now. >> hi, ari. thanks so much. im ari melber, and yes, this is another busy news night. we have one of the special reports we have been working on this is brand new, and im going to share with you tonight. it is about how donald trump as a client has been likened to a mob boss by his own lawyers. how the lawyers who have gotten in trouble have been the biggest assistants, factual, evidentiary and otherwise to the prosec...

infamous insurrection. she drew on the front row seat to provide new damning details of the attempted coup. today, this was the sixth insurrection hearing. we tried to cover them precisely. the first hearing detailed violent crimes by many, though sometimes without clear causal links to trump. another hearing shows the liability of trump appointees and lawyers raising questions about donald trumps own role. other hearings featured republicans from pences office at the state level and o...

right pause because of the power of this factual evidence. take the republican prosecutor we have cited before, andrew mccarthy. a fox-news favorite, who wrote a whole book defending trump in the mueller probe, and accusing others of pushing the real collusion, which is one reason he is on fox quite a bit and has a huge conservative legal following. he was also appointee in the southern district of york under rudy giuliani himself, so he is a reagan appointee and that doj. but he is al...

knew he lost the 2020 election and that their scheme to overturn the results was illegal. and yet, they attempted it anyway. >> president trump rejected the advice of his campaign experts on election night. and instead, followed the chorus recommended by apparently inebriated rudy giuliani. to just claim he won. and insist that the vote counting stop. to falsely claim everything was fraudulent. >> and there are an lies the true nature of these hearings. to truly hold trump and his fell...

Gen. Abdourahmane Tchiani has declared himself the new leader of Niger after a dramatic coup.

Only 7 to 2. then after some further discussion acknowledged, well, you are right. we would lose nine to nothing. >> that is interesting. coup mastermind john eastman initially thought that the supreme court would rule seven to against him, if it weighed in on his clearly illegal plan. even more interesting is the new york times reporting that eastman had inside knowledge of the dynamics on the supreme court. then again, he did clerk for supreme court justice, clarence thomas, and his friends wi...