Welcome to the beat. I'm Ari Melbert. We're covering many stories. We begin with some major news as the president is taking a very concrete step that relates to his public vows for revenge and in some cases potential abuse of government authority.

And so this is Donald Trump looking backwards towards January 6th, tapping a key prosecutor at DOJ,

what they call the DC U.S. attorney, who was Trump appointed, who is going to look backwards

and open a new review as a prosecutor. This could involve looking at documents or it could

involve criminal activities, trials, prosecutions, right? That's what prosecutors often do.

Of the DOJ's January 6 cases. and this is courtesy of a big report in the Wall Street Journal, NBC News, confirming it

since the journal's scoop. It comes a week into the second term. And Donald Trump began by doing

something that showed exactly where he stands, siding with violent criminals, convicts,

convicted seditionists over the United States government in its nonpartisan form, over police,

when he freed all those January 6 defendants and convicts. It's something that is still playing out

across the country. And Trump has vowed retribution. So what we're seeing, both in that almost unprecedented

embrace of people convicted of sedition of attacking officers, officers later died after January 6th,

after those interactions. And then this today, the news of opening a new case to look backwards

for what purpose, for what plans, threatening to jail people who did

investigate the January 6th committee, who did take, for example, testimony from those officers?

Now remember, President Biden left office also doing something unusual that he said was important

trying to insulate some people from what they viewed as credible potential abuse of government power to prosecute,

for example, the people as mentioned

who investigated January 6th,

all of this playing out now.

Honestly, they should go to jail.

So you think Liz Cheney should go to jail?

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