thank you so much for letting us into your homes during these extraordinary times. the beat with ari melber starts now. happy monday. thank you very much. i m ari melber and of all of the important items that begin this week, we have one our office is buzzing about that we are lighting up about, if you will, if you ll take the visual entendre. the man you see there rainn wilson from nbc s hit the office will join us live by the end of this hour and that is some office news. believe me, we think it s worth sticking around for that. the top story of the news, though, is a loss for a trump-era prosecutor who has been trying and failing to find any deep state conspiracy against donald trump after getting his special political assignment from trump attorney general bill barr. i m talking about a special counsel, you may remember, was tapped originally in that trump-barr doj before the biden administration and the project was to investigate the investigators to hash and re-li
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