Welcome to the beat, I am Ari Melber and there is some major news tonight in holding

Trump's coup plotters accountable, even as some convicted Trump aides also

threaten Putin-style attacks on opponents if they actually get Trump re-elected.

Now, this big news comes as a California judge has ruled against Trump lawyer John Eastman today,

who also separately awaits a criminal trial in Georgia.

And these mounting legal setbacks for Eastman are significant because he was the legal

mastermind and architect of key planks of the coup plot as those January 6th hearings showed.

Adopt a slate of electors yourselves.

He started to ask me about something dealing with Georgia

and preserving something potentially for appeal.

I don't think it's just your authority to do that,

but quite frankly, I think you have a duty to do that.

Did Dr Eastman admit in front of the president that his proposal would violate the

Electoral Account Act? Mr Eastman acknowledged that that was the case that even what he viewed as the more politically palatable option would violate several provisions.

I said to him, are you out of your f in mind?

I only want to hear two words coming out of your mouth for now on. Orderly

transition. Orderly transition. Now that's about Eastman as described by his own

Trump administration colleagues.

Those damning accounts came from people who generally backed

Donald Trump's policies and ideology, but they did stop short of the authoritarian coup

that Eastman was plotting on Trump's behalf.

Now a judge has just ruled that Eastman should be disbarred,

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