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>> see you. welcome to "the beat." i'm ari melber. i hope you stay with us. tonight we begin with developments that i think really offer a kind of a contrast in this period of legal reckoning and accountability we have been talking about together because we were thinking about this for tonight's show. if you look at all of the prosecutors and all the investigators and all of the probes that donald trump has faced, including squaring off against big-time experienced investigators like prosecutor and former fbi director mueller, there were crimes found. there were issues that ensnare...

Dry night. fog patches possiblejust about anywhere. temperatures could drop low enough for a touch of frost. another chilly day tomorrow. and indeed through tomorrow and into friday, more low cloud. potentially more brightness breaking through in southern areas. more of an easterly breeze. it will start to feel that bit colder still. we have been warned. thank you. china's ambassador to the uk was summoned to the foreign office yesterday, to respond to the arrest and beating of a bbc camera journalist in shanghai. ed lawrence, who was covering the widespread protests against strict covid measu...

Iran. he said we would like to live like normal people and a relationship with the united states. do you believe in the crackdown taking place by saudi arabia. >> i do, when he was in washington i had dinner with him. >> i saw the picture. >> i took a photo with the crown prince when he was the am bass ambassador. it was great to spend time with both of them. one thing that struck me was we were talking about the reform. he was trying to make fundamental changes in which i endorsed. >> a lot of people say if we put-out of syria that will just

Finish eed because the sunni rol family's history based on exploiting the shiite population. >> nick, how would you describe the american population there other than the naval presence and what are they being told by our embassy? >> there's a very large american population here. this is a banking center. it is so different from the kind of place you expect to see this kind of really brutal crackdown taking place. this is a banking center. there are a lot of ex-pats here and a base for people who work in saudi arabia or elsewhere in the gulf to keep their families. bahrain is always an incredib...