Welcome to the beat. I'm Ari Melba reporting tonight on accountability and bankruptcy for these indicted and convicted Trump coup plotters.

We have that story coming up.

Plus here he is taking notes and getting ready. Our lead off guest is James Carville.

We'll hear from him in a moment

for a Democratic strategist's view of our top story tonight,

Barack Obama's return to the campaign trail.

There he was, all smiles, the Democrats biggest star linking with President Biden and several actual movie stars in Hollywood as George Clooney and Julia Roberts, Jimmy Kimmel, and more.

We're all part of this big campaign event and fundraiser raising over $30 million.

That's actually a record-breaking amount for a single event by Biden.

Obama juggling Father's Day celebrations.

We couldn't resist the chance to share a little bit of that.

I think, James, we can all agree on the importance of family on a weekend like this,

but he juggled that with the campaign business.

Now this LA event did raise money as I mentioned, but it also is trying to raise awareness about the general election.

And the Democrats think the more people they can wake up to

the choice of Trump and the threat of Trump earlier the better.

Obama is one of the party's most popular messengers and he used this

appearance his first campaign event since since Trump's conviction, to argue that a jury

convicted Donald Trump of a crime and that matters and that it crosses a core value and that

conservatives should reject this Republican Party insisting on

continuing to offer only as its choice for November a felon candidate.

We had the spectacle of a spell end candidate.

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