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The Beat with Ari Melber

Trump's "Retribution Tour" Expands

The Beat with Ari Melber

MSNBC

Government, Daily News, Politics, News

4.64.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

MSNBC’s Ari Melber hosts "The Beat" on Wednesday, July 9 and reports on the DOJ’s new criminal investigation into John Brennan and James Comey, as well as President Trump’s ongoing trade war. Dylan Ratigan and Andrew Weissmann join the program, and John Murrow and Chai Komanduri return for the latest “Fallback” segment.

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0:00.0

Hi, Nicole. I hope you'll stay with me for a second. I was just watching your broadcast.

0:05.5

These are the times that shouldn't be normalized. This is a sort of five car alarm fire or whatever words people want to use.

0:14.4

And so I just want to play actually, we don't usually do this. But you had a newsworthy interview.

0:19.2

I want to play a little more of what, of course,

0:20.8

Brennan said to you and ask you about it. Let's take a look.

0:24.2

The women and men of the CIA deserve, you know, stronger, better, apolitical,

0:31.8

nonpartisan leadership as such a challenging time of our national security globally with everything

0:37.3

that's going on.

0:38.7

And it's clear that Mr. Ratcliffe decided that he was going to initiate this.

0:43.5

I think, again, to try to satisfy the interest, the urge of Donald Trump, who continues to

0:49.3

claim that the assessment of Russian interference in a 2016 election was a hoax. It was not.

0:57.5

We are back to that debate, apparently, allegedly, because the president demands it,

1:02.4

even if it violates rules, abuses power. As you know, depending on how far these people doing

1:08.9

the investigation go, they might open themselves up to liability

1:12.5

if there's ever justice. I'm curious what you took from that newsworthy interview and being

1:18.9

in a country today where there's multiple open probes allegedly improper into people who

1:24.3

were serving the country. Well, look, I so appreciate your approach to this and even your choice of words.

1:31.8

I mean, I think this is when it becomes about all of us.

1:35.1

An election was had.

1:37.0

Donald Trump prevailed.

1:38.4

But the government isn't his.

1:39.8

It's ours.

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