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what a change it made so fast. i feel like anything is possible after accomplishing what i've done with golo. thank you so much for letting us into your homes. we are so grateful. "the beat" with katie phang in for ari melber starts now. >> always good to see and thanks to you for everything. for the rest of you, welcome to "the beat." i'm in for ari melber. we start tonight with breaking news -- trump reportedly caught on tape. damaging new evidence in the trump classified documents criminal investigation. cnn is reporting prosecutors have obtained an audio recording of a summer 2...

Transcripts, the recordings? i mean, what makes this indictment so damning as many have said? >> i think in my mind i don't really understand the conclusion that bill barr comes to that it's incredibly damning. i think there are aspects that are more damning than others but a lot of this hinges on what the judge determines is the state of the law with regard to the status of these documents. i think i have not yet heard how this case is legally distinct from the clinton case or the biden case. when we are talking about retention or wrongful retention of national defense information or classifi...

Mueller report? >> it is in the mueller report. but remember, there were still parts that were redacted on the obstruction component that related to michael flynn. this is giving us more information, and it is showing us. the truth is always in the details. and it's fascinating to see, for example, multiple members of the trump administration and congressional officials reaching out to michael flynn after he was cooperating, for example. that's a significant piece of information that we only had a little bit of insight into before. >> why would people in the administration be reaching out to m...

There is totally unfair and one possibility that he's talking about some of the financial issues that ken just rattled off and that's certainly a possibility. another possibility is and i think given the fact that it is a reach out from somebody close to the president or the president himself in the period of his presidency sort of last summer, you have to wonder if there is an obstruction component or you know a reach out to him and the period in which he's, you know, having these extraordinary legal troubles that was his own indictment and cooperation agreement reaching out to somebody in th...

Back on him and backfire in 2 0 2020. >> bob, let me ask you. you have great sourcing at the white house and on capitol hill. what's the reaction from lawmakers on this? you have some already from conservatives who are dismissing a lot of this out of hand. >> there is trepidation among republicans about what the obstruction component of robert mueller's report could include. and they know that the russian interference argument talking about the pr fight, republicans have been fighting that whole narrative and that investigation for two years ever since it really started to bubble up during the...