Hey, everyone listening to the podcast. This is Ari Melbert, and I want to share with you a podcast extra and tell you that I am releasing a piece on the coup conspiracy, how Donald Trump and his AIDS attempted a coup in addition to an insurrection.

And that is going to be part of our release of the January 6th report with HarperCollins edition.

You can go to melbournebook.com. That's melbournebook.com or go on Amazon and just search Melbourne January 6th report with a Harper-Collins edition. You can go to melbournebook.com,

that's melbourne book.com or go on Amazon and just search Melbourne January 6th. And you can order

right now that book, which I appreciate if you do, supports our journalism and is a way for you

to know that when the January 6 report drops, we don't have the exact date, you can read the entire

January 6th report and my piece on the coup

conspiracy. And I'll tell you as podcast listeners, as MSNBC viewers, I haven't put a lot of

information out about this, but I've been writing the piece. It's over 8,000 words. It's got a lot

of details. So again, go to melbournebook.com if you want to check that out. Now to our podcast extra,

which is related. We have our breakdown of what is happening in these January 6 probes, followed by a special interview with an intelligence expert and former Republican congressman who advised the committee. You may have heard about him. He made a lot of waves on 60 minutes. He has his own book out, actually. And so I have a new interview with him, which you're going to hear. We start with the substance of what he found as they track these different plots, the breakthrough of finding

secret texts that nobody knew about, including the committee initially from Mark Meadows and others.

And then we also talked about some of his difference of opinions with the committee itself.

After that, my special report that a lot of you have talked about

to me, I've heard some feedback online, but I want to share this with you, looking at the

roots of fascism in Europe and this far-right candidate with links to Mussolini and fascist

parties who is poised to become the next leader of Italy. She is an ally of Steve Bannon. They've

met, and I get into all of that, why it matters, why we need to pay attention to what's going on in Europe and how it relates to, of course, these attacks on democracy here in the United States. So all of that is coming up here. You can just keep it locked. This is our podcast extra. As you know, this is separate from some of what we do when we release the show. Sometimes we release these extras for you guys, and I've heard from some of you that you appreciate it. So, as always, feel free to give us a rating here on podcast. Give us five stars, whatever you think we deserve. You can always find me online at R.A.melber.com, and you can order that book if you're interested at melbournebook.com or continue to just keep up with us here on the pod

youtube elsewhere we will keep covering these issues for you whether you order the book or not of

course and here we go thanks for listening to the beat with rie melbourne podcast congressional

hearings can be quite dry most don't even make the news but the January 6th committee's eight hearings and their new testimony presented to the nation has proved riveting.

Now the committee is holding its ninth hearing next week with new witnesses, new evidence, and more material from the Secret Service that's emerged. We expect to be a part of this.

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