Welcome to the beat. I'm Ari Melba, and we begin with the legal heat. Classified documents are a scandal. January 6th, congressional probe, picks back up next week. We have news on that. And then something that really upended Donald Trump's entire business prospects in New York. And as I've mentioned to you, you might say, well, I feel like I've heard about this before. What is the deal? Well, never like this before. We are talking about something that is now an

active New York case that could end the Trump organization as it's known, along with a quarter billion

in fines and penalties or more. And then you have the federal criminal insurrection probe

intensifying. I have a very special guest on that later in the hour.

Coming up, I have Neil Cottchall to start us off.

But look at this report from CNN.

Trump lawyers waging what is basically a secret court fight

to try to halt or stop a grand jury from getting information from his inner circle, basically blocking testimony that

otherwise would be relevant, meaning the prosecutors at least want to introduce it. And we know the

context for this, those 40 new subpoenas. You have a former prosecutor on the Letitia James side

saying that the business probe is basically a death penalty for Trump orc.

So you have the insurrection and the business probe both going at Trump hard.

And then that's not the only thing going on.

These are circling Trump while he has no presidential powers left.

And we've seen that in the special master case where basically they thought it would help them to have more court review. And if he were president, that might be true.

Because courts do in many ways defer to the powers of the presidency, especially in process.

If the president says, hey, national security, hey, classified, hey, I need more time. But he

ain't president anymore. Here's how the Associated Press reported it, a nonpartisan

wire service, quote, the bravado that served Trump well in the political arena is less handy

in a legal realm dominated by verifiable evidence. So in that special master case, you have the very person that Trump's legal team said they wanted,

now pressing him on exactly that issue of what's verifiable.

So Trump was talking about basically, you know, slandering, libeling the FBI,

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