but, you know,. i ll just say, i m luckier than perhaps some of your viewers, because i usually get to touch base with you at least once a day, even without twitter. there you have it. have a great show. have a great weekend. thank you, nicole. welcome to the beat. i am ari melber. this is one of those busy news fridays. we begin with the bombshell that s led trump s team to really be on alert or in damage control mode even though they have gotten some procedural steps, victories of sorts in this mar-a-lago case. now the news is, donald trump s team lied to the national archives long before they ever got his home searched. the washington post reports, the archives were actually told none of that material that remains a big issue in this criminal investigation was sensitive or classified at all, that trump had 12 boxes of news clippings. well, that s blatantly false. we know the fbi found hundreds of classified documents. we know this went way beyond news clippings.
a quick note. we do see and read and carefully consider a lot of the things you tweeted us. we heard from so many of you this week, asking us to put the full interview of former u.s. attorney geoffrey berman up online. ask and you shall receive around here. you can now watch that interview in its entirety on msnbc.com. thank you so much for letting us into your homes during these extraordinary times. we are grateful. the beat with ari melber starts right now. happy friday. i believe you, because i always believe what you say, but i don t feel like any of my tweets to you have ever gotten a reply. i don t read yours. fair. i sometimes look at them when we re on and i want to write back someone tweeted today, the podcast isn t up, and i wanted to be like the fix-it department and say, i m on it,