Welcome to the beat, everyone. I am Ari Melbert, and let me tell you, we have more reporting night on Just Compli.

That's the right-wing hypocrisy over law enforcement lately. Well, civil rights leader and former detective, Mark Claxton, is here for a special conversation about Just Compli. That's coming up.

And I can tell you, before the hour is out, we will hear from the icon Fran Liebuwitz on politics,

democracy, and why she says Mitch McConnell is one of the worst things to ever happen to American

government. Fran doesn't pull her punches, and we will hear from her later tonight. So I got to tell you,

as far as I can see, there is something to be excited

about here, and we'll get to all of that. But the top story right now are the new details

about Trump's national security scandal. And this is one of those stories that actually,

I got to tell you, it kind of felt slow for a long time. I mean, we knew there was this

clash with the archives. And then we knew the government was viewing Trump as holding some important materials that were not his.

That's also commonly known as Steely.

But that was playing out for a while.

It was not until the unprecedented search that blew this up in the public realm

and made clear that what had seemed slow or even bureaucratic

had actually become a criminal-level scandal for Donald Trump involving his actions

as and after he served as president.

Now, today there's more.

New information that the government has now recovered 300-plus classified documents from Trump.

That's a big New York Times scoop. That's the highest that number has ever reached.

Now, a man who would routinely skip intelligence briefings on the job also suddenly decided that he

would spend his time in the semi-retirement personally going through those boxes himself,

which he did in late 2021, according to multiple sources the time spoke to, and that was, quote,

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