Welcome to the beat, everyone. I'm Ari Melba. It is Friday, but feels like it could be any busy news day, and there will be news going into the weekend, as you know.

We are tracking first of all those situations in the Mideast, Iran today launching missiles targeting Israel through Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, the biggest cities there.

It follows what was Israel's major attack on targeted Iranian nuclear facilities, military

sites, as well as targeting personnel. So that is a big story later in the hour. We will hear

from a retired military general about what is a situation that has many again on edge in the

Middle East. So that is coming up. I wanted you to know that's coming up because it's a big

international story. While we begin on the home front with the first images of something that is also

military related, but not in a foreign conflict. We are talking about Donald Trump very clearly

ordering and wanting the visuals of United States Marines patrolling American streets.

This is kind of capping what has

been a week of escalating use of federal force, tested in the courts, Donald Trump trying to

clearly seize on the situation in Los Angeles, a situation that has had isolated violence

dating to last weekend around basically a couple blocks, and trying to escalate that into what he's

doing now, which is saying he gets to keep the National Guard there for days on end and now puts

Marines on the ground. Experts say the system is flashing red. That lines have been crossed,

and we can give you several examples of why experts are concerned that this president, apart from his policies,

meaning whether you agree with things he ran on or what he says he wants to do for America,

why this president is actually abusing the powers that he has and trying to aggrandize into more.

There's a crackdown on dissent and on the opposition party and on a level of tactics,

both from the streets and the

Marines all the way up to what was the highly dramatic arrests, not, I should say not technically

an arrest, but what looked like the beginning of an arrest, but the cuffing and pinning of a

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