Hello, I'm Ari Melber, and this is a beat special report inside Trump's election plot on the effort to steal a race and stage a coup with new evidence tonight,

showing this is far broader than even prosecutors' first thought.

We're breaking down the path to a criminal conspiracy and why experts now think the most serious charges may be yet to come.

Why are we doing this now?

The House Insurrection hearings showed the nation that January 6 was more organized than many realized.

The committee devoted to investigating that day has revealed truths about that day.

And yet, the House probe has also underscored something new to many.

Trump's plot to overthrow the election

was far broader than one day or prepping a one-day crime spree. It wasn't illegal coup conspiracy

starting before the election and lasting months, with criminal plots that had nothing to do with

even January 6th and illegal orders by Trump that

were resisted. So we're going to show this to you tonight how it began with things that are perfectly

legal, like filing lawsuits to challenge the results, but quickly morphed into something much

broader, a conspiracy that involves crimes, the January 6th insurrection that we know about,

but a whole set of other criminal plots. This is vital to any potential set of indictments,

and we're going to get to all that tonight through the evidence to show you exactly what's new

and what matters. Now, if any of that sounds familiar, remember,

that's not the theory the Justice Department used

when it first opened this probe.

It wasn't even the original view of Congress,

hence the name, January 6th committee.

So, was this just a riot that got out of control?

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