Welcome to the beat everyone. I am Mari Melburg and as we were discussing there

Liz Cheney is speaking out about Donald Trump's past coup and future plans and

we are tracking tonight among other stories our lead story is the largest law enforcement scandal to

hit the Republican Party's new House Speaker, Mike Johnson.

And I'm going to say it very directly, you know when we do the news around here, we try to

start with the direct simple clear facts.

The new Republican speaker is taking a hard public stance against police.

Full stop, period.

The new speaker admitting that he wants to hide evidence from the Justice Department in its

pursuit of trespassers, rioters, and insurrectionists who attacked police and stormed the capital, of course,

Speaker Johnson's workplace on January 6th. This is new. You may say, oh, Jan 6

back in the news again. Well, this is the current Republican speaker who is saying and doing

things and using his power on this issue. That's why it's the news tonight and you're

about to see exactly what the new Republican speaker said. But I'll tell you up front

for context it is rare to hear a high government official

takes such an anti-police stance to admit in public his intent what he says is

his intent his his motivation, his goal to hide evidence of possibly alleged crimes,

depending on which people you're about to see, but to hide the evidence of these anti-police crimes from the DOJ itself.

That's what Johnson is doing and the reason he's making these remarks is his effort to

continue the past speaker's project what Kevin McCarthy and Tucker Carlson

and others had cooked up which is the idea that if they released enough random

extra videos from January 6th it might somehow some way feed conspiracy theories or attempts to minimize what is now a

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