welcome to the beat. i m katie fang, in for ari melber. we begin with the disturbing, violent rhetoric that s surging on the far right about a quote civil war. the new york times reporting, talk of civil war ignited by the mar-a-lago search, is flaring online. that search happened on august 8th. just hours after trump made the search public, mentions of civil war on twitter spiked a whopping 3,000%. the times says similar spikes happened on facebook, reddit, parlor, gab, and truth social. of course, some trump allies are fanning the flames. at a campaign event in arizona, michael flynn talked about governors declaring war. states rights, did you know that a governor can declare war? a governor can declare war, okay? and we re going to probably see that. that comes after margorie taylor greene said this at a trump rally in michigan. i m not going to mince words with you all. democrats won t republicans dead, and they ve already started the killing. when joe biden g