Welcome to The Beat. I'm Ari Melbert. It is good to be back with you, and we're tracking several stories this hour.

Donald Trump has just made this unusual appeal to Supreme Court in the classified documents probe.

I also had some important civil rights developments for you later tonight.

Our top story right now is how women's rights and abortion continue to upend these midterms. It's a story that in politics

tonight has two lanes. First, the growing mobilization of women and women's rights supporters,

eyeing the midterms as we have an election here that they say will be the chief way in the

nation to oppose the overturning of Roe,

a dynamic that you see on display here that already registered in the traditionally Republican state of Kansas.

It's also an issue in many races around the nation.

We are 35 days out from these midterms, and right now the scandal engulfing Republican Herschel Walker is in

one race, but it tells a similar story as he faces this bombshell Daily Beast report, which states

that he has backed abortion in his own personal life, specifically funding an abortion for a woman

in 2009. That was before the Supreme

Court recently allowed states to ban abortions outright. And it is that personal act that is

exactly what Walker also claims to be running against. And the beast, as you see here documents,

what he allegedly did to support abortion in his personal life, including an account from the woman involved in another source, while he

publicly claims the opposite and wants to take away that right from others. It is running.

He is running on this plan to ban abortion while he has been allegedly caught supporting it.

And so in its own personal scandalous way, it is an echo of the larger questions about who makes these decisions,

whether this is really about what they say, religion and life,

or whether this is something else entirely, a hypocritical effort to control other people's bodies

and not live by the same rules. Now, we showed you the Beast reporting. I have to tell you,

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