Welcome to the beat. I'm Ari Melba and we begin with, of course, this bombshell that is shaking Washington.

If I don't usually yell bombshell at you at the top of the hour, that's because while there's a lot

going on and we're covering it all, we don't have a story like this every night. And this is politics, pure

politics and real incompetence coming out of the Trump White House. This is a bonkers off the record

interview. If you have been near a TV or phone, you've probably heard some of it. But I'm going to

walk you through how the number one person in Trump's White House, the chief of staff, Susie Wiles,

has basically torched the place rhetorically. With brutal assessments, again, Trump's number

one aide, so she sees a lot. She's in the special meetings, the off the records, classified,

and what she describes inside this Trump White House is a complete rebuke on so many issues.

She says Donald Trump has a quote, alcoholics personality. She also

hits the president's policies on tariffs, immigration, and something that Trump has tried to have

both ways and denied. She admits they are unlawfully prosecuting rivals. I'll get into how that

works, but that's the headline. That alone would be a big

deal. She might have just doomed more than one case that Trump is trying to bring. So there's the

ethics of this. Do people uphold the Constitution? And then there's the competence of this. If your

job is to advance the president's agenda, well, through these comments to Vanity Fair, she has

compromised his agenda, ignited a firestorm. She's the ultimate insider. She's close to Trump.

I can tell you during the campaign, when we would reach out to the campaign managers,

she shared the duty basically with one other person as kind of the top, and you couldn't

hardly ever get comments from her. No interviews.

Trump has shouted her out.

So, Susie Trump, do you know Susie Trump?

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