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Ari melber starts right now. Nicole, one week down, thousands to go. Eternity to go, we hope. Have a great show. Eternity, we could be so lucky. Have a great weekend, our thanks to Nicolle Wallace first big week back. Welcome to the beat, im ari melber, we have a special show for you tonight. We have a lot to get to. Lets get right into today. Jack smith making a new pitch on behalf of the doj on why donald trump must be put on trial before the election. If that sounds like a familiar issue, jac...

the sunday show. this sunday, were following a lot of breaking news, including that mass shooting in monterrey, parkville fournié. this left ten people dead. well bring you the latest in just a moment. we begin with breaking news in the classified investigation. the white house is facing mounting questions after a reveal the federal agents search president bidens home in wilmington delaware for 13 hours on friday, and found more items with classified markings. the search was prompted ...

That is something that the president has said going all the way back to the campaign, that he thinks that the justice department should be strong, should be independent, should not be subject to undue political influence. and so when this matter started, we have been fully cooperative, the president has been fully cooperative, and it is consistent with that but we dont want to speak too much about underlying facts. but >> but this raises the question that i have heard a lot of people raise, and ...

Have a number of pieces of evidence thrown out, arguing the warrant when they searched his house and the warrant when they searched the storage locker, were overly broad or they didnt have the authority to conduct the search. my read having sat through that argument is the judge was not entirely having it. she didnt rule, but met the manafort teams arguments with a lot of skepticism. this is a case that appears bound for trial, which is interesting because of the theory of this is, yeah, mueller...

Dangle, the head of indictment from doj asking well, what kind of cooperation might he be able to offer? and we havent seen any signs that they are negotiations that would try to head off this trial. so, you know, the train has left the station and this appears headed for trial. >> a great writer and a great lawyer in a story that requires both on a nightly basis around here. matt apuzzo, daniel godman, gentlemen, thank you both very much. coming up for us, trump may call the russia investigat...

Speaker of the house just cant go to these meetings tomorrow because he has a thing. its another to hear so little from democrats. what do you think is at work? >> i dont know, brian, quite whats at work. i think theyre trying to grapple with what was going on here with this informant. what these documents are going to show, and what the end game is beyond the political calculation that trump is making. what may be the consequences for those at the department of justice and at the fbi and what i...

Sort of turning it over to the department and to intelligence officials. so that means there will be a member of the trump white house who is in the room for both of these meetings who is able to play broker or answer questions or dock been a and potentially talk about this meeting with the president. its unclear at this point whether the president actually knows what is in these documents, has any details on who this informant is. but it will be interesting to see the extent to which john kelly...

>> were going to release a directors cut of what you just performed on dvd at stores now. hey, phillip, more evidence today that the spirit animal of the district of columbia is crickets, crickets from republicans obviously, but also a bunch of democrats. its one thing to learn the speaker of the house just cant go to these meetings tomorrow because he has a thing. its another to hear so little from democrats. what do you think is at work? >> i dont know, brian, quite whats at work. i think they...

Republicans obviously, but also a bunch of democrats. its one thing to learn the speaker of the house just cant go to these meetings tomorrow because he has a thing. its another to hear so little from democrats. what do you think is at work? >> i dont know, brian, quite whats at work. i think theyre trying to grapple with what was going on here with this informant. what these documents are going to show, and what the end game is beyond the political calculation that trump is making. what may be ...

>> a lot of bad things have happened. we now call it spygate. youre calling it spygate. >> originally, two republican house members were slated to join the fbi and the national intelligence directors along with an official from doj on thursday to review top secret material about an fbi source used to gather information about possible contacts between the trump campaign, lets not forget, and russia. no democrats were invited. democrats minded that. well, tonight, were hearing from the justice dep...