Welcome to the beat everyone. I'm Ari Melbert. We got legal news today, a landmark verdict for

big tech accountability. Google, as well as Facebook's parent company, actually held liable today for

social media addiction, for harming youth. This is something you talk about all the time, maybe with your

friends and family. We actually have news on it tonight. We have that verdict for you tonight.

It relates to politics, if we're ever

going to deal with big tech, but it's also just a story about how we live. So I invite you to say

that's coming up later. Also, big booking, the journalist who broke the story about how the

first Trump administration was caught shredding documents at the Epstein jail days after Epstein's

death and covering it up.

Julie K. Brown, she is the crucial long-term Epstein journalist.

She broke that early Miami Herald story that we've referenced on our air.

She's here tonight. So I'm really happy to be honest that we have her on the program.

I encourage you to stay for that.

But that's not all.

Those are just previews of upcoming segments. We begin with the top story, which is actually in

politics, more signs of panic for the Republicans in the midterms. Democrats flipping,

another red seat blew overnight, and this one hits Maga hard because it's in a race in Trump's backyard,

the actual Mar-a-Lago district. Democrats taking that Florida state house seat and a wind that

goes beyond the symbolism of a Democrat now representing the architecture, the opulence of the mansion

you see here, whether that's your type of building or not.

Not just that, but like many parts of Florida, this is a traditionally red area.

Trump carried it by 11 points in his last race in 2024, of course.

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