I am Ari Melber later tonight.

White House press secretary will join us live right here in Washington.

We begin right now though with a striking development that will be heard by the rattled

plotters of not only January 6th, but those wider coup efforts.

There is heat on that effort to get the U.S. military to try to join a Trump coup.

He is coming from the one federal prosecutor who ever indicted Donald Trump.

And if people didn't know his name a year ago, they sure do now.

Special counsel Jack Smith.

He is probing the night that Trump aids and some outside allies tried to hatch a military

coup plot.

Again, if those words sound a little disturbing to think about your own American government

and not something happening over in some other region, we'll buckle up because your government

is now investigating this with an eye on inditing potentially the people who wanted to abuse

your military to take away your vote.

It's a big story.

I know it's summer.

I know it's Friday, but this is a big story.

Now we're talking about the night of December 18th in the Oval Office, where some of the

most extreme Trump plotters were working on tactics that allegedly even Rudy Giuliani

warned would land them all in prison.

They wanted to have soldiers seize election machines.

They wanted to install one of Trump's political legal operatives to try to dictate unlawful

...