Welcome to the beat, I'm Ari Melber. There is new heat on Trump vet

Roger Stone who infamously pushed that plot to try to get states to

steal Biden's win.

We must be prepared to lobby our Republican legislatures.

Send electors to the Electoral college who accurately reflect the president's legitimate

victory in their state, which was illegally denied him through fraud.

Stone may regret letting the cameras roll in that room.

There is actually new video from that session,

and we have it for you exclusively later tonight.

Well, we begin with news and a story that I can tell you,

some on the right are hoping the nation forgets.

The kind of story they're hoping that you, news, viewers, and citizens will forget because

we live in a time of growing inequality and corruption.

Take Supreme Court Justice Thomas blatantly taking and grifting gifts from political insiders

or billionaires buying up global media platforms shaping our politics and then

clashing with anyone who dares disagree with the power they think they bought over our

democracy or this ongoing rolling Trumpian takeover of a political party which has

resulted in rallying the GOP around rank transactional calculus, corruption, self-interest is a kind of new norm to be minimized or even defended.

And I'll tell you this tonight as an introduction to some really important stuff we're about to show you.

The modern Republican Party has long embraced. some really important stuff we're about to show you.

The modern Republican Party has long embraced capitalism, sure,

but only recently has it publicly defended, minimized,

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