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welcome to "the beat." ari melber. we begin tonight with breaking news. murder charges have been issued for all five memphis police officers -- former officers for the beating death of tyre nichols. those officers are in custody. the people you see on your screen, now in civilian clothing, booked and incarcerated what would be a murder trial. they are charged with killing this individual through a knowing state of mind, and all five -- we'll explain the legalities of this -- accused of contributing directly to the death. this is justin smith, em met martin, desmond mills jr., demetri...

can't have your cake and eat it, too. so there may be a rude awakening now that the special master is on the job. you might have heard me say this if you follow our coverage. there was a procedural step that the trump folks got that did slow things down, and they wanted that. the procedure is not how you win. it's not how you get out of the clear. it just is a step, a process, and now that they have to deal with this actually judge and deal with a special master and deal with what is a fact based court system, now they're having trouble. in florida, you have a chaotic start. bloomber...

I said all these things because research my staff had done even before he was elected to office. he has a reputation for being this kind of individual. and he has gotten away with more than anybody would ever dream he has gotten away with. he has a lot of protection going on for himself. he has mitch mcconnell over on the senate side. >> right. >> who is protecting him. he's got kavanaugh now up in the supreme court. he's got barr who is acting like his personal attorney. he's tried to stack the court all the way up to the supreme court. he's done everything that he can, including firing peopl...

That's a possibility that it could be done i have to agree that this president has gotten away with the most outrageous kinds of profiteering that he's done on the backs of the american taxpayers, and we have not done enough about it. etried to get this president impeached. i started early on saying he is a con artist, that he is a sleaze baghd sleazebag, that he is profiteering. i said all these things because research my staff had done even before he was elected to office. he has a reputation for being this kind of individual. and he has gotten away with more than anybody would ever dream he...

Based on this reporting, maybe later, you have the clock ticking on that 210 days that whitaker can be in there. you are barr now potentially being sent up to be in there. the difference between a whitaker and a barr when it comes to this report? >> it could be significant. first of all, whitaker has made very strong statements about what he thinks about the special counsel's investigation. but then again, you've got barr. they all fit into the same pattern, thal trut trump picks e that have said things that basically jurn basically undermine the whole idea of the special counsel, the idea tha...