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this is quite a week, john. thanks for being here. good to see you, see you next week, bro. >> welcome to "the beat." i'm 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 don't usually get. we've never gotten it for a former president, and we had no idea when the week started that we'd be going through it. a documented list of the things that donald trump allegedly took or stole, property of the u.s. government and intelligence material. we're ...

Because trump is making quite clear that he was very intimate in terms of his demands and pushing this. and he was quite aware of what rudy giuliani was doing, of what those below him are doing. so, yes, the firsthand knowledge defense is crumbling. this idea that i don't know these people, i can't speak to what they were doing, that's falling apart as well. >> just to build on your reporting, you spoke to rudy giuliani especially a lot in the lead-up to that planned trip to vi vienna that was cancelled. is anything more clear to you now as it ties to rudy giuliani, the president, this effort ...

This? >> correct. i'm not saying it was illegal, and i'm not even saying it specifically violated any rule. but i'm sure it's unusual and there probably are arguments that a lawyer should not be recording a client without the client's knowledge. >> okay. big question about this payment, whether it qualifies as a violation of election law. campaign finance law, because it was done about two moss before tbefore -- months before the election. your thoughts on that? >> sure. the recording shows it will make it very hard for trump to argue as he has been falsely that he didn't know that these payme...