Welcome to the beat. I'm Katie Feng in for Ari Melber. We've got a lot to get to you tonight

including the massive legal setbacks for Donald Trump's coup insiders Mark Meadows and

Rudy Giuliani.

Neil Katial will be here for that.

Also tonight, new revelations on Justice Clarence Thomas's financial scandals as he cozied up

to sympathetic billionaires.

But we start with Donald Trump's alarming embrace of authoritarianism, fascism, and racist rhetoric,

adopting toxic rhetoric to dehumanize and scapegoat immigrants in terms that

experts say echoed the worst dictators of the 20th century.

Trump's newest comments sparking headlines and backlash and raising new questions about

MAGA enablers in Congress. After Trump targeted immigrants and language historians

say was identical to Adolf Hitler's language about Jews.

They're poisoning the blood of our country. That's what they've done. They poison mental institutions and prisons all over the world, not just in South America,

not just the three or four countries that we think about, but all over the world they're coming

into our country from Africa, from Asia, all over the world.

Experts pointing out, quote, the term blood poisoning was used by Hitler in his manifesto, Mein Kampf, in which he criticized immigration

and the mixing of races.

This is at least the second time Trump has used the phrase on camera.

He also has used it on social media.

The White House quickly condemning it saying Donald Trump is quote

echoing the grotesque rhetoric of fascist. In 2015, Trump launched his campaign with an attack on Mexican immigrants.

In 2017, one of his first actions in office was the notorious Muslim ban, which the courts forced him to amend.

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