{"podcast":{"title":"The Beat with Ari Melber","slug":"the-beat-with-ari-melber-743451","podcast_index_feed_id":743451,"rss_url":"https://podcastfeeds.nbcnews.com/the-beat-with-ari-melber","website_url":"https://www.ms.now/","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/bac1b529-5924-47d7-a26e-2bb1c59c1103/74d0c257-fe33-4fb8-958a-b992b3d3dfc5/3000x3000/ms-20now-20rebrand-tb-3000x3000.jpg?aid=rss_feed","author":"Ari Melber, MS NOW","episode_count":1146,"summary":"Ari Melber delivers the biggest political and news stories of the day, with interviews and original reporting from around the nation. An Emmy-winning journalist, attorney and former Senate staffer, Melber cuts through the spin and the noise to tell you what's really happening. Real news, every night.","last_synced_at":"2026-08-01T10:20:46.746896+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-beat-with-ari-melber-743451"},"episode":{"title":"New Report: Trump Compares Himself to Past Emperors","slug":"new-report-trump-compares-himself-to-past-emperors","published_at":"2026-04-30T23:36:27+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-beat-with-ari-melber-743451/new-report-trump-compares-himself-to-past-emperors","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-beat-with-ari-melber-743451","url":"https://www.ms.now/","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/injector.simplecastaudio.com/d41147e2-9082-47cd-909a-165d88b1e209/episodes/7e009e89-3546-466d-a8cb-5570bbc2a6b2/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=d41147e2-9082-47cd-909a-165d88b1e209&awEpisodeId=7e009e89-3546-466d-a8cb-5570bbc2a6b2&feed=TA5rXVG0","summary":"The Atlantic reports that Trump allies say he's \"begun thinking about himself less as a peer of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln,\" and more as an addition to the trifecta of \"great men,\" Alexander the Great, Julius Cesar and Napoleon Bonaparte. MS NOW's Ayman Mohyeldin reports and is joined by The Atlantic's Ashley Parker.","meta_description":"The Atlantic reports that Trump allies say he's \"begun thinking about himself less as a peer of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln,\" and more as an add…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2478,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-beat-with-ari-melber-743451/episodes/new-report-trump-compares-himself-to-past-emperors/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-beat-with-ari-melber-743451/new-report-trump-compares-himself-to-past-emperors.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}