Welcome to The Beat. I'm Ari Melbert. Tonight we have Chris Hayes in this hour, different hour than usual. He'll be here, and we're excited for that, so I encourage you to stay tuned. We also have a special insider view on the debate over funding cuts, what's really happening, and where do we go from here? But we start with the continued legal losing streak for Donald Trump. He's been in office 22 days,

and his administration is racking up historic court losses.

Yesterday, five different legal setbacks.

That's on five separate issues,

ranging from birthright citizenship to this ongoing clash

over what judges have ruled was an unlawful attempt

to freeze a wide range of federal

funding. Now, the White House is fighting these injunctions, and on the one hand, they are allowed to do

that to go to court and appeal. They're calling them, quote, unlawful injunctions. Courts have the last

word and say otherwise, while Trump is asking judges to do the right thing.

I think judges will have to do the right thing, really. Otherwise, you're going to have a whole big problem with the country. Now, as is often the case, it depends what you interpret that as.

Presidents often appeal judgments. They have a whole Justice Department to do that,

and they can say what they think the right thing is to do.

They are, after all, sitting president.

But that, coupled with what the vice president

and other Trump allies have suggested darkly

that they might just defy rulings they disagree with,

to bring the often threatened constitutional

crisis to a head, that is a problem and could put a type of pressure on the courts that is out

of bounds. That could also backfire. You can imagine judges saying they're not going to be bullied into this

20 days in. Then there's the other piece we've been telling you about how state attorneys general,

representing the separate power of the states, are going at this. Just look at the multi-state

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