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
it for now they sent does not appear that man was targeting any members of congress. police are just released this man s name about an hour ago and are still investigating his a background in social media. lucas tomlinson is alive in washington with the very latest on this. lucas what can you tell us? we just learn the identity of that man who crash the car into a barricade, fired shots in the air to the u.s. capitol. please have identified 29 year old richard eight york the third from delaware but u.s. capitol police say his motives are still not clear. eight vehicle collided with a barricade on east capitol street at second street. the vehicle burst into flames. the driver exited the vehicle. the driver began walking down east capitol street towards the capitol. he took out a handgun, began firing back on indiscriminately. one of our officers observed him put the gun to his head and shoot himself. east capitol street second street is use the s capitol but a block was
shield and forced evan corcoran, one of trump attorneys was very involved in the search for classified documents and telling the government you know, we ve turned everything over to testify. now the trump team quickly appealed. this and the appeals court said. what is really a crazy briefing schedule, essentially forcing the justice department and the trump team to file overnight. they have both filed. so now we are waiting to hear from the appeals court to say, okay, are you going to force evan corcoran to go testify or are you going to put this on pause for now? i will wait to find out summary. thank you so much. thanks the fbi says it is seeing an uptick of violent rhetoric online and calls for a quote civil war after the former president told his supporters to protest and take our nation back engine grass is here with more brent good morning to you. this is incredibly disturbing. federal officials are proceeding with caution is that this possible indictment looms over the former pr
a rhino. define rhino. somebody who knows how to win in swing states. these days. so, listen. it seems to me that our party, the republican party, is actually coming together. you re still hearing about this quote civil war. but when i have pat toomey and tom coburn and charles kraut hammer and scott walker and paul ryan all on the same page, i think that s a unified party. and, the lamar alexanders on the more moderate side looks like most republicans are realizing hey we can be conservative and win. we don t have to engaging stupid tactics. i think we re actually getting there. we re not completely unified as you know and that s a little problematic. one of the things we re struggling with is establishing what s a realistic expectation for what we can accomplish when