Welcome to the beat. We are covering this developing news tonight. The mass shooting in Minneapolis

has left two children dead, 17 injured. Another terrible day in America as we face a shooting.

We will have the latest reporting on that for you coming up this hour. I want you to know that

up front. We also have a significant news guests.

Maryland Governor Wes Moore is here. One of the key figures that's emerged in this turbulent

era, the MAGA era, as well as a time where Democrats are looking for new leadership.

Wes Moore clearly on the top of some of those lists. So I've got to tell you, he's coming back

to the beat after a bit of time and we're looking forward to that conversation. As you also see on your

screen at a time where Donald Trump is trying to kneecap the Fed and make it a partisan institution

changing its very core, Nobel winner, Paul Krugman, one of the most respected economists in the country,

joins me on that. So those are two big news guests coming up. Our top story is what the president

is doing in Washington, scenes that are abnormal, that echo what we see in other countries,

including non-democracies. And yet, what the Donald Trump era in the second term means for people who say everything's the

same or nothing changes or it's the first term again, this is not the first term. We didn't have

permanent efforts at National Guard troops in multiple places, including our capital, in the first

term of Trump. And Americans who are

hearing about this, even amidst what I've mentioned, the reality that in the late summer, people

vacation, people definitely tune out of news, Congress is in recess, Americans are any way they can,

letting Republican members of Congress know that Congress is supposed to be a co-equal branch, that we have

not ever been a country that has the military out in our capital for no reason other than the

partisan or power-hungry demands of a given politician, I don't care what party. So people are

addressing the deployment. You know, ban on degrees,

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