Welcome to the beat. I'm Ari Melburgh and we are tracking some major stories on this Friday night, including Kevin McCarthy's new problems.

On Obamacare surge and what that means out in the real world for real people and by the end of the hour, we're going to turn to culture with Ellie Mistall and the artist ransom.

But right now, I want to begin this hour with you with one of our special reports about law and justice and fairness.

It involves a dilemma that many have warned about that the end of the Trump presidency would not be the end of Trump's impact or damage,

especially given the many documented ways that he tried to corrupt the government,

politicized DOJ investigations, and alter the traditions and norms that at times have been

guardrails for the United States.

Now, everything just changed for President Biden, because he's now facing this new special

counsel probe from the DOJ.

Unlike, say, President Obama, who actually went eight years with no special counsel probe,

Biden and his staff are facing that kind of high-stakes review and wherever it may go,

because the Attorney General appointed a dedicated prosecutor to probe how classified documents

ended up in Biden's office and home before he was president.

And not just any prosecutor.

We'll come back to that.

But this week's news is a project of an unusual decision Garland made about two months ago

when he appointed a different special counsel for Trump's classified documents.

In certain extraordinary cases, it is in the public interest to appoint a special

prosecutor based on recent developments, including the former president's announcement that he is a

candidate for president in the next election, and the sitting president stated intention to be a

candidate as well. I have concluded that it is

in the public interest to appoint a special counsel. That was odd. We reported that point at the time,

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