this is quite a week, john. thanks for being here. good to see you, see you next week, bro. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber, and we begin with this breaking news. the mar-a-lago search warrant has been unsealed. we have it. you may have heard, and most importantly, as you see here, this is something we don t usually get. we ve never gotten it for a former president, and we had no idea when the week started that we d be going through it. a documented list of the things that donald trump allegedly took or stole, property of the u.s. government and intelligence material. we re going get into this right now. we start with what s in here. we don t start with the law, although it is the law that brought us this information. we start with the search warrants property and inventory list. lets take a look. you re going see at the top how this works. search and seizure warrant. you see that? page 1 of it. then on page 5, and if we can, we ll bring this to you in full. can we br
and you know, we get into law school every so often on this program and we get into barack obama s unearthed law school manuscript and what he says about safeguarding american democracy, which is pretty relevant. but we begin with huge breaking news. a billion dollar verdict. that is the total damages for the liar proven in court to be a liar and right wing conspiracy theorist, alex jones. the lies matter. because the sanctions for them matter. because what is happening right now tonight in america is according to so many victims family, justice long overdue for these families who lived through the unthinkable. the murder of their children at sandy hook and the man you see on your screen tried to lie about and harass and defame and profit off all that. well that ends. that ends today. that was put to an end in court with and i want you to hear this number because it is way larger than any number i have ever read in any newscast to you as news. $965 million in damages against
news that our economy had zero percent inflation in the month of julyy, zero percent. okay, we ll have more on that a little bit later in the show, i promise. but first, there never been a more important day for the permanent washington time than inauguration day for joe biden. january 20th last year it was moment democrats and their voters in the federal bureaucracy have been waiting for for four years. none of it had to do with joe biden or possibilities his presidency could bring to them.t the best part about joe biden taking office was donald trump was leaving office, although it was made possible because somehow voters during a pandemicus had accomplished what, four years off witch hunts, pausing to investigate the full force of surveillance state could not removing donald trump from the white house despite getting seventy four million votes. but it quickly becameus clear removing donald trump was not the end goal. believe it or not, almost immediately joe biden and his
bye. victor blackwell, vicky lawrence. thank you, everyone for joining us. this is don lemon tonight. president joe biden in a major prime time speech, did you see it? saying he is battling for the soul of america. that is the former president is battling america s institutions in court, and we just heard from president biden speaking in philadelphia in a fiery 24 minute speech calling out donald trump by name and warning that what he calls maga republicans are a threat to america, while making it clear that when he says maga republicans, he doesn t mean all republicans. too much of what s happening in our country today is not normal. donald trump and the maga republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic. now, i want to be very clear [ applause ] very clear upfront. not every republican, not even a majority of republicans are maga republicans. not every republican embraces their extreme ideology. i know because i ve been able
host of the beat, ari melber joins us this morning. joe. you know, ari melber, over the past several years, we have been a constitutional republic run by people who have little respect for the rule of law. a former president with his henchman who didn t think twice about breaking the law, didn t think twice about breaking constitutional norms or calling for the arrest of their political opponents, whether it was hillary clinton in 2016 or joe biden in 2020. in 2016 with chants at national conventions for doing far less than donald trump did when he was president of the united states. and then in 2020, donald trump is president of the united states, ordering his attorney general to arrest his political opponents. and i ve heard it. i know you have. so many people, good democrats and independents and republicans asking the same question. is this guy above the law? well we wake up this morning, and we have an inkling. perhaps a belief that in the early morning hours of augus