Welcome to the Beat. I'm Ari Melbert. We are ending the week with a whole range of news.

Tonight, there's newly revealed video of one of Epstein's convicted associates, the most well-known,

Jeline Maxwell, in her new deposition. This is a story that continues to have twists and turns,

even as Donald Trump tried to end, pictures and videos like this, subpoenas and depositions like this earlier last year.

We have more on that later in the program.

Our top story right now is Democrats sounding the alarm over exactly the things so many people

are concerned about. President Trump returning to something he was already busted doing before,

something he was memorably indicted for,

but never went to trial. His efforts to steal elections, to subvert American democracy,

and to expand power or end democracy, potentially through election interference, voter suppression,

or outright stealing votes. There are different strands to this,

different pieces to it. We are going to go through some of them, remember, for those who say,

oh, well, how dispiriting, or it shouldn't be like this, or haven't we had enough fights over

democracy to just agree that as a nation, we, citizens, elites, businesses,

journalists will all stay committed to our democracy. Well, under Donald Trump, of course,

the Republican Party, big swaths of business community have not held that line. That's part of why

we got here. And yet it is exposure, transparency, sunlight, pressure that defeated the last

insurrection attempt, and it is pressure some Democrats are now putting on. Senator Warner saying

this. It appears there may be a coordinated effort to try to interfere in the 26 midterms. They may even

start to interfere prior to in the primaries or in a state like mine.

The headline is reports that the Trump administration's multiple law enforcement arms are

already prepping these coordinated discussions or calls about the midterms. And in a different

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