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what a week. with us, we have pulitzer prize winning columnist and associate editor of "the washington post," eugene robinson with us. and columnist and associate editor for "the washington post," david ignatius, will join us in a moment. joe, just a reminder of why the justice department might be a little concerned about nuclear secrets knocking around mar-a-lago. there was the time that trump spilled highly classified information to russias foreign minister. or when he tweeted a high...

hook for some of the statements that were made. so im sure its anxiety inducing for a lot of them and on top of everything else that theyre watching politically, which if you look at any of the national polls that have come out lately, even though his base has remained solid, you see incremental degradation with the general electorate. losing to joe biden. im sure some republican is going to come along and make that point in the primary. >> weve seen very bad weeks for him before and h...

solid, you can see incremental degradation with the general electric. losing to joe biden, and im sure republicans will come along and make that point in the primary. >> and was,, you seen a bad week before and managed to publicly at least in the court of public opinion he has been able to skirt around it but this feels different. >> it might be different. when it comes to public opinion, something like 60% or 61% of the country doesnt want him to run in 2024. his base is solidly behin...

speaking last night to former republican congressman trey gowdy. >> all say this, if there is a prosecution of donald trump from his handling classified information. after the clinton debacle what you presided over, did a of a good job, theyll be riots in the street. >> now the former judiciary committee follow that remark by saying that of course, such violence would be wrong. he instead repeated and amplified what he said. on his social media network, the former president re-posted s...

that in just a moment. but first, lets talk about the sedition trial thats happening today after a break for the holiday weekend, the day, federal prosecutors in washington, d. c., resumed prosecuting a case against five members of the oath keepers on charges of seditious conspiracy, or trying to overthrow the government. last week -- zeroed in on the groups founder, stewart rhodes. but todays -- former afghanistan veteran. her name is jessica watkins. -- introduced evidence that watki...

both the search warrant and the inventory receipt. "the wall street journal" appears to have already seen both. the paper is reporting the fbi took 11 sets of classified documents from mar-a-lago, including one set of documents marked as tssci documents. that means top secret, sensitive, compartmented information. in other words, some of the most sensitive material the u.s. government says it has. stuff that is only meant to be seen in special government facilities. this would jibe wit...

and saying that he was able to declassify whatever he wants. joyce, put that -- make sense of that for us? explain that to us. >> well, id love to make sense of it, katy, but it doesnt make much in the way of sense. it is a shocker that the former president would try to distract from his own problems but invoking barack obama who by all accounts including this official one complied fully with the presidential records act. when it comes to these new suggestions that trump could have dec...

on charge of seditious conspiracy trying to overthrow the government. last week, the group focused on the founder stewart rhodes. but today focused on afghanistan veteran, jessica watkins. and she cut off pool cues to serve as antifa smashers january 6th. if theyre convicted of seditious conspiracy, watkins and her fellow defendants each face up to 20 years behind bars. now, theres been a lot of legal wrangling on the radar lately, but this trial is incredibly important because it is y...

this is quite a week, john. thanks for being here. good to see you, see you next week, bro. >> welcome to "the beat." im ari melber, and we begin with this breaking news. the mar-a-lago search warrant has been unsealed. we have it. you may have heard, and most importantly, as you see here, this is something we dont usually get. weve never gotten it for a former president, and we had no idea when the week started that wed be going through it. a documented list of the things that donald ...

government had established probable cause of potential violation of three federal statutes. number one relates to the unlawful removal of government material. number two relates to the law prohibiting the destruction or concealment of documents to obstruct an investigation. number three, potentially the most explosive, the espionage act. the inventory of what the fbi seized includes around 20 boxes of items including four sets of top-secret documents, three sets of secret documents, an...