Welcome to the beat. I'm Ari Melbert. Tonight we have a lot for you, including the Justice Department, trying to get the Supreme Court itself, the highest court in the land, of course, to slap down Donald Trump as he tries to appeal in that Mar-a-Lago case. We have that for you. And Michael Cohen, live on the beat tonight, talking about how Trump and others have tried to subvert justice and what matters right now.

I also have one of my special reports for you tonight. This one is about justice in America and

Rikers Island. We have been working on this. It's our special report. We think it matters.

And by the end of the hour, we will share that with you. But we begin with this battle for the

control of Congress right now.

You hear that music and you know we are into the season, the midterms, exactly one month away, early voting underway with issues like abortion and inflation, driving people to the polls.

Many say democracy itself is on the ballot.

We have some special stuff planned but want to get right to it with

Michael Steele, the former RNC chair and MSNBC analyst. You know the music, sir. You know the beat.

I know it well. When you hear that early voting is underway and you look at what's going on out

here, I'm coming right to you. Regular B viewers know sometimes we have a whole setup. We show a lot

of history right now, coming right to you. What do you see right now in this home stretch?

What I see right now are voters deciding to hunker down around a vote. The early voting,

as you noted, is started. And so there's some anticipation and some trepidation. The anticipation

is that voters are going to take seriously not just their concerns about the economy, that that's being stressed by some, but also the democracy, that it will matter the kind of men and women they select, choose to be an extension of them, to be the best representative for them in the state

house, in the governor's mansion, in the U.S. Congress. So this is an exciting part of this game,

if you will, where the campaigns, you know, almost kind of not much more you can do per se

because voting is started. But on the back end of that, you still have opportunities to convince those voters who are going

to either vote same day or who are going to have to take an absentee ballot a little bit later

on to convince them that this case you're making is the right case for the right time.

Yeah.

You look at some of these

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