welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. we are tracking several stories tonight, including another supreme court ethics scandal, tying gop appointee samuel alito to another billionaire on a fishing trip. we ll get into that later. it s a big story. but our news program begins tonight with not only the criminal trial of donald trump, now slated to begin on august 14th buck the broader ongoing threat of right wing individual lantyism and authoritarianism. tonight we begin with a special report on that very challenge, and trump s efforts to hijack the criminal justice system that now is trying to potentially hold him accountable. we re talking about a range of actions that has prompted already fear of violence over the violent rhetoric and whether that could turn to action. we re about one week out from the federal arraignment that trump did try to prevent. we remember he was forced to sit silently in that miami courtroom. outside cameras showed a very small crowd. the scene was
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we re about to hear more and the extraordinary and damaging documents leak that ended up on a gaming website. really can t make this stuff up with top secret u.s. intelligence on it. 53 documents have surfaced so far. chillingly, the white house says they re not sure if that s all of them. there could be more coming. one defense official telling politco the embarrassing and worse leaks made them feel sick to their stomach when they learned what was in here. former cia director and secretary of state mike pompeo is here in moments with his reaction. first to chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin with brand new information on this from her reporting at the pentagon. hi, jennifer. hi, martha. many of the documents came from february 23 and march 1. but there s other highly classified documents that don t come from the daily briefing slides suggesting the leak may have occurred outside the pentagon. the first images appeared on discord, a messaging platform pop
nation s schools could have everything they needed to get back to the classroom and why, who knows. kids in philadelphia, baltimore, cleveland, what they have all been told. go early or stay home. we don t have and we are blaming climate change. it is forcing schools like san diego and denver to close. there was a heat wave that caused several problems and they are releasing students early due to extreme temperatures, logistics say they are trying to prepare for this months ago. and due to supply chain issues and there are also growing questions about where all of the money went to help schools improve this during the pandemic saying that it s clear that prioritizing ventilation. even now with all of what is going on, so many schools are still doing this and sending these kids home. house republicans launch an investigation and funding after so much money went out the door and today we had a chance to speak with them. betsy, thank you for joining us. martha: welcome b