Welcome to the beat, I'm Ari Melder.

And gosh, we have been capping off a big week here on the beat.

We have a busy night for you tonight.

We are live, we have a lot of news,

and we have some fun stuff by the end of the hour.

So I invite you to spend this hour with us.

There's several developing stories out of the DOJ

and a breakdown tonight on the road to Trump's indictments

and where we go from here.

So we have a lot cooking.

Oh, also forgot to mention,

we have something about Obama's theme music as well.

So we're going to get into all of it,

but we begin with this striking day in court.

The first hearing before the federal judge

overseeing Trump's coup trial occurred today.

So yes, there's been a lot of news developments

and there was back and forth about the evidence.

Rachel and I were discussing during the arraignment day

that there was going to be an evidence clash.

Well, today it went to court.

And the judge gave defendant Trump very blunt warnings

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