Welcome to the beat, everyone. I am Ari Melbert, and we are tracking more than one stories and a big interview.

There's new reporting about that story that broke late yesterday, 40 subpoenas going all the way

up the line to what the New York Times calls some of the top people in Trump's orbit.

And it ain't about classified documents. It's all about the coup and the insurrection. We have more on that.

Also something I told you about yesterday,

Bill Gates is on the beat tonight in-depth, climate change, inflation, public health, AI,

the metaverse, what he says we the West owe Africa, not a conversation that frankly we have

every night on American news, as well as a discussion about how Mr. Gates ultimately got somewhat involved in talking to Joe Manchin about what he says are good ideas by Joe Biden.

So we're going to get into all of that. But we begin with Republicans and the push to roll back women's rights at a time when Democrats say it's wrong on policy and human rights

and that they have a political answer that they think could help win the midterms.

Here's Lindsey Graham introducing a bill today.

This is news right now, not a drill, that he says would ban abortion nationwide.

I think we should have a law at the federal level that would say after 15 weeks, no abortion

on demand, and that should be where America is at.

States have the ability to do at the state level, and we have the ability in Washington to speak on this issue if we choose.

I have chosen to speak.

Senator Graham says he's chosen to speak.

Many people say he is trying to speak for them, big government in their doctor's office, in their body, whatever language you want to use. And a couple

quick points here. One, you'll notice that Senator Graham, this leading Republican, is directly

contradicting what was the promise all along. Leave it back to the states, send it back to the

states, leave it up to the states. That's what Republicans promised all along to minimize what

the abortion ruling would do. That's what Republicans promised all along to minimize what the abortion

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