Welcome to the beat, everyone. I'm Ari Melbert. We're covering the president, going after the

Justice Department and trying to turn it inside out to become a place where law and facts don't govern

charges, and instead he gets a Russia-like set of indictments against any opponents that he doesn't

like. We have watched the cozy links between Donald Trump and his own appointees.

He's now run through more FBI directors than most presidents, and it's on display at the White House.

What you're seeing here is a total change, and in concert with the revenge cases, it's a problem.

From a rule of law perspective, the president,

inviting the FBI director Patel and the attorney general Bondi, and they spoke about his

agenda and going at only certain parts of the country. For example, cities and places that the president

views as some sort of hostile territory because they happen to be

governed by an opposition party, which, remember, very recently, he's threatened more charges,

for example, threatening to indict and jail the mayor and governor of Illinois. And these are not

idle threats when you see the many indictments we've already covered. Here's what it looked like

today. And we're just at the start. We're going to go into other cities that we're not talking about

purposely. We're going to have a surge of strong, good people, patriots, and they're going to go in,

they straighten it all out. Somebody said, would we think about taking the World Cup away from

Boston if they don't straighten it out?

The answer is yes, we have the right to do that with FIFA. So if we think that L.A. is going to be bad,

or we think that applies a little bit to the Olympics, too.

President mentioned the Olympics there. There are people who've worked in Trump's orbit who've mentioned that he

has already been eyeing the pending Los Angeles Olympic is a chance to use more federal power

in the run-up to other events where he wants to take more control over our civic life and even

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