Welcome to The Beat.

Let me tell you, we have a lot going on in the show tonight.

Justice Department expected to respond to Trump's effort to have a different review process for materials that have largely already been reviewed.

So we're keeping an eye on that.

I also have a special report for you tonight on the war on drugs, on lessons from the Obama era, from Attorney General Eric Holder,

and why a new song is making waves all about this. Sometimes we go old school. Well, this is brand new contemporary music.

We're going to get into that as well as the politics. Also tonight, Carol King, the icon,

is here with us live. We're going to get into her activism and why she said she has something

to talk about on the beat, and we said, come on over. So it's a lot cooking here on this late

August kind of summer vibes, a lot of news, a lot of guests, a lot to get to. And it ain't summer

as far as the president is concerned. This is not some slow Newsweek vibe from him.

President Biden going at what he calls the semi-fascism of certain MAGA Republicans in that party.

These are, according to some really, depending on how you measure it, the strongest comments yet,

as he rebukes MAGA today, just days after making waves in what was apparently

a very clear, deliberate effort to address authoritarianism in America.

Let me say this to my MAGA Republican friends in Congress.

Don't tell me you support law enforcement if you won't condemn what happened on the sixth.

For God's sake, whose side are you on?

It can't be pro-law enforcement and pro-insurrection.

Fact check, true.

Those Trump fans battered, attacked, bashed, sprayed the police that day. They were anti-blue

lives. They were anti-law enforcement. And as we've reported, you can't claim to be law

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