Welcome to the beat. I am Katie Fang in for Ari Melburgh. We start today with an unprecedented and shameful public display by President Trump,

revealing a new low in his corruption of the Justice Department and his attack on the rule of law.

Trump going to the DOJ itself, which presidents almost never do, to the very place where the decision

was made to investigate and prosecute him for his alleged crimes. He gave an hour-long speech

in which he called for his political enemies to be jailed, suggested that it should be, quote,

illegal to criticize judges, and that it should be illegal to say that he lost the election.

People who did this to us should go to jail. A lot of the judges that I had, if you look at them, they take tremendous abuse, they take such abuse,

and honestly, very simply, they're afraid of bad publicity. It should be illegal and it probably

is illegal. Newspapers are really no different than a highly paid political operative,

and it has to stop. It has to be illegal. What a difference a rigged and crooked election had on our country when you think about it.

And the people who did this to us should go to jail.

They should go to jail.

Convicted felon Donald Trump giving this speech with his former defense lawyer sitting there next to him. That's Pam Bondi,

who he tapped to be his attorney general. NBC News reporting that Bondi is now embracing

Trump's efforts to politicize the DOJ when she explicitly promised that there would not be

weaponization during her confirmation hearing.

She is just one of the top DOJ officials that are in Trump's corner, many of them serving as

his personal defense lawyers in the past. New Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who

represented Trump during his New York trial, bragged about that today.

Enough has been said about what happened to him over the past four years. But I was right next to him.

I stood next to him making that very stern, mean face that you saw.

He was a complete inspiration to me personally.

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