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welcome to "the beat." im katie fang, in for ari melber. we begin with the disturbing, violent rhetoric thats surging on the far right about a quote civil war. "the new york times" reporting, talk of civil war ignited by the mar-a-lago search, is flaring online. that search happened on august 8th. just hours after trump made the search public, mentions of civil war on twitter spiked a whopping 3,000%. the times says similar spikes happened on facebook, reddit, parlor, gab, and truth so...

He should have known, im sure he did know the conversations with the russian ambassador are apt to be monitored by our intelligence community. how he might have thought that his conversation with the russian ambassador would not be part of that monitoring is a great mystery. why despite that he chose to lie, why despite all of that he chose to allow his counsel recently to go into court and say, well, he was tricked into lying, that this was some kind of perjury trap. you know, its as if, you kn...

And so that was done without my knowledge. i was on my way to lunch. i got word of it, and i turned the car around and i walked back in the oval and the president was having lunch with the vice president and secretary of state at that time george schulz. and he had ordered this polygraph on anybody who was in a particular -- >> the president? >> the president had. on the recommendation of his national security adviser bill clark. and, of course, it didnt make any sense at all to do that. you can...