Welcome to the beat, everyone. We're tracking the imminent move by Trump-Aid Steve Bannon to surrender himself to New York authorities.

That's over new criminal charges, totally separate from Jan 6, and we are tracking that story for you.

We have more on it later tonight. Also today, a time of ceremony, history, as well as calls for integrity in government and democracy.

The Obama is making this rare return to the White House today, you see here, and meditating

on the state of American democracy.

I've always described the presidency as a relay race.

Each of us tasked with trying to bring the country we love closer to its highest aspirations.

What we share is so much bigger than what we don't. Our democracy is so much stronger than our

differences. Standard language that some are saying hits different right now with so many election deniers

running for office. Also tonight, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Dick Durbin,

is here. So we have a lot going on in this hour. We begin, though, with the nukes. Yes,

specifically the risk, danger, and the scandal of a former president

hoarding these stolen and top secret documents that are, we're learning now, more and more

involving nuclear weapons. There's reporting that the Fed seized documents about the nuclear

capabilities of foreign nations, which they say Trump was holding

illegally as well as intelligence about a foreign country's nuclear readiness. There's also

material about U.S. operations that's so secret, top security officials don't even have it,

according to Washington Post reporting. It's not good. Now, it took a legal process to recover the allegedly stolen

materials, a search warrant, an affidavit, which we've now reviewed partly, a judge overseeing

all of that. But I have to tell you, this is the kind of problem where people can obsess

over the law, and in a way lose sight of why there are such strict intelligence laws about this.

And why veteran intelligence figures from former CIA chief in general, David Petraeus,

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