Welcome to the beat. We have a lot coming up tonight, including more from the bombshell reporting

in that Vanity Fair report, the top Trump White House official, savaging at times him, his personality,

Elon Musk, other people in the administration, J.D. Vance. That continues to echo and ricochet for

the administration. If you happen to watching the news last night or today,

you've probably heard a bit about it. So we have more on that bombshell coming up. But our top

story right now is a name you might remember. Jack Smith. He was the first federal prosecutor

to ever indict a president. He has prosecuted people in both parties, including Democrat John Edwards.

He did that, as we all remember, he made a type of precedent in history. The Supreme Court

ultimately stopped that prosecution, and he's back in the news because he was on Capitol Hill,

as you see today, speaking for one of the first times about this. I'll say more about the rare times

Mr. Smith has spoken to speak

at all, but this was a formal legal setting as he gave hours of secret, closed-door testimony,

to the House Judiciary Committee. He is still going at this hour. We have some readouts of what he

said, although it is not a public hearing. It's not like the big hearings where we have the video.

But we have heard that he said the probe that they did and the prosecution they pursued had

developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that then President Trump, on his way out of office,

having lost in 2020, engaged in criminal schemes to try to overturn that loss, to steal

the election. He said the basis for those charges rests with Trump and his actions, not with the

DOJ that ultimately found what he calls that evidence beyond a reasonable doubt. He said he'd do it all

again, regardless of whether

the president was a Republican or a Democrat. This private testimony came about because Republican lawmakers

wanted to do it this way. And that's actually interesting because, as we all know from following

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