Welcome to the beat, everyone. I am Ari Melbert. And we have a lot going on. There is a shift in Trump world as one of the people who was loyal to Trump to the end on the big lie and the insurrection, the former chief of staff, Mark Meadows. You may remember, he threaded the needle with the January 6th committee. He did not get indicted. He did not testify. But now he's talking, reportedly complying with the DOJ because he was hit with a criminal subpoena.

So we have more on that, but we begin with something on the line between policy, human rights, and yes, the trolling politics of the MAGA era.

Ron DeSantis is trying to cruelly exploit and use human beings as a type of prop for a trolling political point, as well as endear himself to apparently people who in public call the shots with what this supposedly mighty powerful governor does because he is the most

powerful person in the state of Florida in the government system. But apparently he has bosses

that outrank him there. And they don't live in Florida. A lot of them are based up and around

the East Coast at Fox News. We'll explain the MAGA governor has now flown 50 undocumented immigrants, including

minors or children, on a plane up to Martha's Vineyard. So this is a real thing, but it's also a

type of trolling performance art designed to trigger or upset liberals. Now, one immigrant is saying

that they were actually misled about this or lied to,

that they were told initially that some sort of refugee association would be involved in this

project, that they would get some sort of work and housing on arrival. Well, here's what's really going on. They are being misled and used to try to make some

sort of wider political point about where people who may be undocumented should end up in

America and sanctuary cities and trolling. And then, of course, it was seen as a funny thing

on Fox News.

Martha's Vineyard. This is amazing. This is Checkmate. Relocating illegal immigrants to sanctuary,

cities and states. By the way, a genius idea. I wonder if you can choose, though, because I'm

kind of a Nantucket guy. Do you think they're going to be embracing their new

neighbors? You know, these are all sanctuary cities until they're in their sanctuary.

So that's the idea. It's supposed to use human beings and their location, their residents,

as a way to try to point out what they believe is some sort of policy

difference with people who have more lenient immigration policies. As we'll show you, this

all originated, though, with an idea from Tucker Carlson on Fox. Now, the residents there in Martha's

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