Welcome to the beat, I am Ari Melber, and we are going to hear a brand new interview with

President Biden tonight.

He just sat down with Stephanie Rulef, or an MSNBC exclusive.

This is one of those things where they just fed in the tapes, what you're seeing just

happened.

And you will only hear this exclusive on MSNBC tonight, including starting this hour when

Stephanie joins us live with the first excerpt.

There's no bigger interview in American government or politics, and we and Stephanie have

you covered with that coming up.

Tonight, I also have more in our reporting on the expanding scandals swirling around

Clarence Thomas and his controversial activist wife.

New revelations about her secret payments furtively provided from a Republican connected insider.

So we're going to get into that and what has become basically a pile of questions for

not only Clarence Thomas, but his colleagues on the court.

What are they going to do about it?

We're going to get into that later tonight.

It's one of those very newsy Fridays from the Supreme Court all the way over to the White

House, as you can see.

But right now, the top story is what you see here.

This is brand new.

This is the video Donald Trump did not want anyone to see.

It's the former president forced under oath to answer questions about an alleged assault

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