what a day. our thanks for letting us into your homes during these truly extraordinary times. we are grateful. "the beat with ari melber" starts now. >> hi, nicolle. welcome to "the beat" i'm ari melber. we're reporting on a day both sides have rested in trump's criminal trial. scenes we have been following like this. the jury likely to begin deliberating next week in now what's the only trump case slanted to go before a jury.

that's a scenario questioning if there's real accountability, if donald trump the nominee of the republican party, if he can effectively delay or punt so many of his trials, then is there accountability? well, it depends how you answer and the simple or simplified narrative don't actually capture what's happening in these strange and extraordinary times. that brings us to our top story. here is convicted trespassers -- we're about to explain -- for the january 6th attack. you can see him pushing forward. this is passing police lins to break into the capitol that day. witnesses said he fashioned weapons, hiding them in his pants pockets. his name is charles hand, he's a

january 6th convict from georgia. he's someone the republican party claims should not be able to vote. the party has stripped voting rights from millions of people based on these criminal records. trump opposes voting rights for felon. now as trump is embracing january 6th felons and other criminals and those convicted of sedition, donald trump's republican party now welcomes january 6th convicts voting, which is a reversal and hypocritical, but welcomes them as leaders of their movement able to make policy, to be on ballots, to be in government. some republicans are backing these lawmakers' quests to become lawmakers. two, i say this literally, to

re-enter the capitol they once illegally stormed and re-enter it as republican legislators. that convict just made it to the final step for a primary run-off for a u.s. house seat in the state of georgia. he'll face off with another candidate next month. this is the political process that other failed democracies have seen. we're no better than worse that what other countries and societies go through. we've seen this happen in other places. it does not end well where the criminals and autocrats who oppose democracy infiltrate the government. sometimes it happens before the entire democracy fails. here's another january 6th defendant facing allegations of bringing a gun to the insurrection and shooting it. [ gunshots ]

that is no joke. that right there is a crime in the district of columbia. that person is one of over 1,400 defendants facing crimes related to january 6th. many have been convicted. many have taken plea deals. many have said they were wrong to believe trump's lies. it's part of why the picture is complicated and why that makes for a better or more exciting story is not our concern in journalism. one told the court, turns out the election was not stolen. that was an oath keeper facing responsibility and accountability in january 6th sentencing. even if you don't believe that person, if you believe they were saying what's true to get a lighter sentence, it's part of how the criminal justice works. we don't bust out lie detectors

and do searches on everyone's mind. the system rewards people who say the right thing and the truth thing to take responsibility. that's one reaction. as the republican party rallies to trump's more brazen embrace of january 6th we're seeing things go the other way. take this defendant openly announcing he's above the law because he expects a pardon from trump in about six months. this is real, if you haven't heard about this yet. quote, trump's going to be in office in six months, so i have nothing to worry about, said by a defendant to a judge during arraignment. that's an anti-law and order view fomented by trump. trump is now running more blatantly against the rule of law than even in his past campaigns. we know on january 6th trump welcomed the crowd. he didn't try to stop the violence that day. you remember that. by the end of the day he was

pushed into telling people after they ransacked the place and called for assassinations of pence and pelosi, he did say go home. at that point after the deed was done he talked of peace. at the time that seemed like a low point. i want to be clear with you. in measurable ways he's gone far lower. the nonpartisan associated press reporting trump makes defending the january 6th attack a corner stone of his white house bid. it's closing the circle on his own involvement. you're old enough to remember when one of the conspiracy theory defenses was, it was somebody else. it was antifa. it was a bad thing, but it was liberals. that was a lie. they gave that up. now they're saying not only did they do it, the january 6th people are okay and they're persecuted. they did it and now they're arguing it was okay or a good

thing. trump honors these defendants at rallies. he refers to them as hostages. that's not what they are. and often plays their singing rendition of the national anniversary them. >> please rise for the horribly and unfairly treated january 6th hostages. ♪ oh say can you see ♪ >> that is eerie. it's the disembodied voice of people in prison singing. that's all people who stormed the capitol. this group the associated press reported election deniers are closer to getting into congress. some justices who take an oath to be impartial flew a flag cheering on the insurrectionists. the conservative right has grown

more extreme. justice alito was flying the upside down american flag, a symbol of the stop to steal effort. alito realizes how guilty he looks. he's not defending that. he now claims his wife flew the flag without his involvement or knowledge. since he lives there that explanation sounds misleading at best and raises questions about whether he should recuse from related cases as some call for him to be off the court entirely. then the new speaker who warning about trump being in office to now speaker johnson saying he wanted to -- this is a claim he later walked back. >> i made a commitment that we would start releasing that.

we were trying to blur the faces to protect the innocent of people who were just there. >> false. people arrested were not people just walking through the building that day which johnson knows. he was there. this went on for hours. this was while the police were still holding some of the line. this other footage is at some of the doorways. this went on for hours. the footage is disturbing. the police were brutally attacked by those trump fans. these are the people trump is talking about pardoning. the broader timeline we showed you before, the gop went from what you see back in 2021 calling this an unamerican insurrection to having the rnc claim it was legitimate speech to speaker johnson going further to the rnc only wanting to hire election deniers. above it you have what i told you the mixed picture.

others convicted, other accountability in the judicial branch. the takeaway is that the republican political arm is different than our justice system. the political arm is on record opposing the rule of law, democracy and law and order. that's the politic part. as for the other lens, there's justice, accountability, especially in the federal prosecution courts and some of the state probes took longer to get started. i'm showing you some of the many trump aides punished and some convicted. trump white house peter navarro is in jail. arizona prosecutors held arraignments for giuliani and others for trying to steal the

2020 race. that includes trump attorney christina bobb. she holds a spot on the national election integrity team. the hypocritical double speak of the party, you have bobbb just leaving the courthouse. these are big stories overshadowed by trump's trial. this i can guarantee you would be a multi-day national news story. here's the mugshot of the person that the rnc claims should be in charge of redeeming election integrity. she is facing justice and accountability. she doesn't have trump's ability to use presidential references to slow things down if the supreme court buys you an extra six months. her legal predicament is a contrast to her past claims. >> we need everyone to vote. i certainly hope both sides want

election integrity. donald trump won the election and democrats have made a play to steal the presidency. if you're concerned about is our election safe, get involved. become an election worker, a poll observer. >> that's the contrast. in that sense it's gotten worse. can it get even worse? trump's under fire for a new campaign ad that touts a unified reich which has many people trying to figure out whether they should feel outrage or fatigue and ignore it or mock it. >> what happens after donald trump wins? what's next for america? >> if you zoom in you can see they slipped in the words unified reich. a fourth reich if you will. the good news is trump wants to bring the country together. the bad news is that country is germany in 1933. >> when they saw the ad, even

confederate statues said, you should take that down. it's got to come down. >> those are the national punch lines. laugh or cry, as the song goes, sometimes we laugh and sometimes we cry. it's a bit of both when you think about what we're up against. the gop's nominee faces a criminal trial and opening vows pardons while trading on nazi rhetoric. let's put him to the side. i'll give you the two stories i mentioned at the top of this report. it is a fact that he has through his lawyering and his privilege and his friends on the supreme court managed to duck the majority of the cases, the trial he currently faces is the only one on deck by the election. to be clear, it's not the strongest case. it refers to conduct before he became president. that's over here. over here is a political party,

the gop, that is now openly embracing and doubling down to say that they're with the january 6th defendants. over here is something else. all the places in this country that nonpartisan prosecutors and independent justice system and judges are going through the evidence and punishing these people, some of whom say they're sorry and don't believe the lies anymore and some who say they're waiting on their party. it's a mixed picture. it's not the extremes of those who say cynically we've already lost and nothing works. it's also not obviously, hey, look at our perfect legal system and our perfect supreme court, everything's going to be okay. with that mixed reality in mind, what are citizens going to do as we're in this before a jury does judge donald trump? i have an expert who thought through these challenges when we're back in 90 seconds. ck in s

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this campaign is donald trump said i'm going to pardon those people because they're hostages. they're not. they're thugs. >> we joined by obama adviser. your thoughts on those two strands? >> donald trump is the talking villain in the james bond movies. he's telling him what he's going to do before he does it. it's important to talk about why donald trump believes this. he believes this because he has to project strength. he has to be the strong man. he has to be in charge. his entire campaign is i am strong. joe biden is weak. the bigger question is why did republicans fall in line with this? you have to look at in three ways. the donor class fell in line with it. as steven moore said, capitalism is more important than

democracy. the reality is capitalism doesn't require democracy and the donors know that. they're set up for that. in addition, if you look at the religious right, patriarchy is the goal of the religious right and it's a goal of donald trump. if you look at the maga base, you look at the distrust for democracy that's developed because of american life. they look at the country. they no longer recognize it. they distrust the democracy. they no longer trust their fellow citizens not to screw with them at the ballot box. >> i think particularly that racial component which trump played on in 2016 animates what otherwise would be a completely unacceptable position. a similar attack by foreign terrorists or any group, as you say, that would their outgroup,

it was -- you have rfk running for whatever vote he thinks is being left on both sides of the parties and he shockingly given his history -- his family's history with political violence, left the door open also to january 6th pardons. take a look. >> i would never say in advance i'm running for political office who i'm going to pardon. >> that's what he's doing. i'm asking you as a journalist -- >> i'm not going to do that. >> that will sound to people like you're leaving the door open. you don't need to. do you want to leave that door open? i'm surprised -- >> i'm not answering it until i look at people's cases. >> where do you see the political gasoline for other figures beyond trump and the far right maga to coddle or flirt

with the idea that some of these january 6th defendants not only shouldn't be prosecuted or are hostages, but should be pardoned if convicted by a jury of their peers for what they did at the capitol? >> if you're thinking about rfk, he's going after the crack pot vote. he's going after people who don't like our constitution. january 6th was an attack on our constitution. there's a con constituency in this country that does not like our constitution. a lot of those people rfk is trying to attract, donald trump is trying to attract. those are the places you see those cracks emerging. that's where you see that segment of society come out and they're turned on by the language of january 6th. >> we appreciate you. thank you. i want to tell people coming up, when you think about jon stewart's legacy, we have the

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here we are and the testimony in donald trump's criminal trial has ended yesterday. >> the defense in donald trump's trial rested its case. >> donald trump did not testify. >> the judge conferring with both sides about how he'll instruct the jury. >> all that's left is closing arguments. >> the lawyers make their final arguments to a jury on tuesday.

>> the jury is done for this week. court is in session as they've had these duels regarding jury instructions, which is standard. the judge dealt trump's team some losses on that. they were making it harder to convict trump and trying to complicate a standard. they lost that bid. the judge finding the law has one intent requirement and he's not going to change the statute for donald trump. the defense wanted the judge to consider the extraordinary nature of the case. the prosecution said the importance of the case is not a basis for deviating from standard instructions. the judge sided with the d.a. saying with regard to trump's defense lawyers, they're asking him to change the law and, quote, i'm not going to do that. we're joined by a former prosecutor in that same manhattan d.a.'s office. welcome back. >> thank you. >> what jumped out most to you about the jury instructions, which seem dry but can matter to

what the jury understands its job to be. >> there are two lawyers on the jury and they'll be paying attention to it. it's not as sexy as hush money payments to porn stars. >> it's not as sexy as sex. >> true enough. this is the way the jury will interact with the evidence ft while judge merchan has not ruled one way or the other, he tipped his hand as to what he was going to do. the prosecution won some and the defense won some. what the defense won, i think, could have an outcome on the way the jurors think about the case. there's the misdemeanor part of it and there's the bump up part of it. the prosecutors won some minor wins on the jury instructions for the bump up part. the judge said you don't need

two different intents. where the defense won a meaningful victory is with regard to the word cause. the statute doesn't define the cause, but the defense's argument for an expansive definition, that his actions were reasonable foreseeable and led to a reasonable foreseeable event that the documents would be filed. >> the prosecution wants to continue how they argued. this is how trump rolls. everybody knows it. they don't, like any organization, don't start from scratch every day. they start from the understanding of how he rolls. >> the judge doesn't give that instruction and he says, no, you're looking at the word cause. everybody knows what it means, it puts more emphasis on michael cohen's testimony because he's the only evidence in the case where he says donald trump approved this.

>> approved the payment. >> approved the payment. >> did the d.a. put evidence up to say trump caused the actual bookkeeping? >> that's why the jury instruction is so critical. >> what's your answer to that question? >> i don't think so. i think maybe through the testimony of michael cohen in that regard. >> to just remind everyone, there's a big difference between him saying, okay, pay it off. that's buying the silence. that's the hush money. that was fairly proven. and pay it off and let's run it through the trump organization, let's double the amount and do these shenanigans. you're saying all that after the fact bookkeeping, they didn't put a lot of evidence about trump causing that. >> exactly. all you need is one element to fall apart on one of these pieces for one juror. that's all they need to argue, that, yes, there are false business records. yes, donald trump was involved in this conspiracy with david pecker and the national enquirer to promote his election by

unlawful means, but he never caused the filing of the false business records. that's all they need to argue and win over one juror. under new york law, the jury doesn't keep the instructions. they're read the instructions. they can ask questions later. >> why make it easy and straightforward, right? >> yeah. >> i've always found that odd. >> there's no reason. >> it's a stupid rule. >> also, they haven't released any of the proposed jury charge to the public yet. >> we will see that eventually. >> we'll see the judge's final one. both sides have proposed jury instructions and nobody's seen those. >> duncan levine, appreciate you joining us. coming up, we look at this issue of the lies and conspiracy theories that feed the maga moment with a special guest who has tangled with them. has tangl.

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ronald reagan said mr. gorbachev tear down that wall. the embrace of this at home has taken hold of the republican party. then you have the maga cheerleaders like tucker carlson who went to interview putin.

if you watched it, and i did, a lot of it was saying putin whatever he wanted. the leader said he was surprised there weren't tougher questions from tucker. burn. i don't know how to say that in russian. trump has praised putin and continues to back him on foreign policy consideration as more of the republican party follows his lead and minimizing what putin's doing with his war in ukraine. the flirtation with dictators is part of the campaign. we talked earlier about the despicable reference to a, quote, unified reich in a trump campaign ad. this embrace of putin echos in congress. >> yesterday reporters asked me if i thought president putin was smart? i said, of course he's smart. >> you can tell putin's on top of his game.

one thing he said that rung a bell is the propaganda media machine over here, they sell anything they possibly can to go after russia. >> people in washington, d.c. are ignoring that, making people believe ukraine can win. ukraine can't -- putin won't lose. putin will not lose. he's not going to lose. >> putin was actually well behaved during the trump administration. >> it's a mindset that matters. one question is why do people feel this way and how did america first become this enamored with an autocrat. our next guest brings a particular view to this. jordan klepper is a member of "the daily sho." >> talking about how he changed the fame from crooked hillary to crooked joe biden. >> he's focussed on the issues.

>> china will be paying for the wall. >> shouldn't mexico? >> oh, mexico. sorry. >> he's evolved into a dictatorship we can understand. >> exactly. >> cult is a negative word. we're not a cult. >> what was your first rally? >> january 6, 2020. >> if you're going to go to one -- >> go to one. >> have fun. >> that was a big one. his new special "moscow tools" and we're joined by "vanity fair" correspondent. welcome to both of you. >> thanks for having me. >> you do it different. >> do i? >> little. >> yeah. >> what is it? >> what you're doing. >> what i'm talking about, talking to people differently, sure. i follow up and look for the ironies. >> we'll get serious. let's start with what you're doing. are you looking for jokes first and the insight comes after or

are you trying to make a point? >> "the daily show" we look for bs. you know who we are. we're looking for humor. we want to make that clear. we can find humor in hypocrisy, hyperbole. what's interesting is the things that people would tell their friends and not tell a regular news media person. what i prep in the studio is jokes, but what we figured out a blueprint for is the hypocrisies and the questions people haven't followed up on. from that let's find humor. >> that makes sense. we've seen this style with "the daily show." we've seen other political documentarians do it. sasha baron cohen does his version of it. here's you with some of the maga folks.

let's take a look. >> i would like to see america be more like russia. >> you see the streets in russia, people walk around. >> who's a better leader vladimir putin or joe biden? >> putin. >> he's well mannered. he speaks well. >> putin is well mannered? he knows where the fork goes, where the knife goes, which window the journalist goes out of. >> ha ha unless you're the murdered journalist. >> exactly. >> when you look at putin -- i'll say this about americans in general. we have a much less awareness of a lot of other countries. i don't think most americans can name 20 world leaders. yet putin you can. >> sure. >> his infamy that's turned to a type of fame that you document there, what are you finding when you talk to maga voters about that? is that coming from trump? is it the rejection of american democracy? >> i'm seeing a couple different things. i ran into a woman who talked

about how much she used to watch putin videos of him shirtless, as if they were cat videos. she found that fun. that comes from trump saying he's a strong man. also that tucker carlson interview resonated with almost everybody. >> they saw that interview. >> they talked about moscow being beautiful. there's part of that crew that uses that as an excuse to be negative towards joe biden. i like moscow is great which means america is crap because of joe biden. it's a way to attack joe biden. there's an element of this too that actually -- it's a darker side of the maga movement. it likes the authoritarian side of things. we saw that bubble up on the road. >> do you ever have moments where people hear what they're saying and go, oh? >> no. that's just a liberal fantasy that happens here. confronted with the truth, oh, you're so smart.

>> they never have a moment where they go, like, wait a second? >> i think that -- i think a lot of times -- we are so insulated, they're surprised by being pushed to think through how they arrived at that decision. that's what's ref tori. really are they challenged to rethink. if they feel embarrassed or small on a media program, that's the media's fault. it's not their own problem. >> i'm curious how much is performative, if we want to go a little deeper, the presentation of self in every day life, the idea that there are a range of masks. when you're with other kids' parents, you're in a mode that's different than when you're with your best friend and at work and so on. politically -- do you ever feel

like somebody -- not with regard to you being the person interviewing them -- i've been to maga rallies. i found them more energetic, but also more performative than other political rallies, including traditional republican rallies. do you find people are turning up and outdoing each other? it's like this but for politics. you like putin. no, i like a more extreme dictator. >> you have no choice but be part of the political conversation. 20 years ago people just wanted to party and drink margaritas. you bring facebook to this. you have to publish your thoughts. suddenly it's not as if they choose and want to be a part of politics, it's across both sides of the aisle, they have to be a part of the conversation. i talked to somebody out on the road after trump's first impeachment. we were getting into it.

talking about the politics. she said trump is the most honest person there is. if he were dishonest, he would be lying and try to stop people from speaking and testifying. i pointed out that john bolton was limited by donald trump and she said -- she took a long pause. she understood what she said was contradictory and she said, i don't care. you realize it was smoke and mirrors. we were arguing over details, but she didn't care. it was an identity thing for her. >> that's why i think the way you do this work, it does remind us of the civic decay. it would be like being on the football field and saying to the other team, you should play on this side. your team sucks. that doesn't work, right? >> uh-huh. >> civic debate's not supposed to be that way. it's more important than a game that you just stay with one team

forever. >> that's not happening, you're right. we're buying this. we're buying into this. this is our team. it feels like college football. feels like we're out there tailgating. that's what it is. i'm a michigan football fan. i have the hat. i support it. i defend michigan football until the day i die. at trump rallies, that's how they imagine it. they don't see government as something that's useful or they've seen a lot of good or they can't articulate ways it's helped them. to be part of the political process is not one in which they want to move it. the most they expect is to win and vindicate. >> to you, i say go blue. molly? >> do you see particular voters -- do you see people where they like their governor in michigan, but still love trump or no? >> i see less of that at trump rallies. i went to a nikki haley event and i'm seeing more of that.

people are closer to the political process. the closer you get to the political process, the more boring it gets. if you go to the boring places in america, they're having those conversations. >> "the daily show" has this outsized effect. people were so happy to see jon stewart return. we have you and jon from back in the day, your first appearance. remember this? >> i do. >> we're joined by our senior caucasian correspondent, jordan klepper. there's almost nothing you can do to mess up one of these reports. >> thank you. >> trust me. >> i mean -- [ cheers and applause ] >> this is a big deal for me, jon. >> why is jon stewart back? do we need him as a nation?

what do you think having been through all this about the spread, if you will, the warmth for this style? what was once a niche thing on comedy central, you have colbert, politics being jokes in all the late night shows. they used to steer clear of that. we have this style this gonzo style. your thoughts. >> i grew up a fan of "the daily show". what i loved about jon stewart is i trusted him. he's not pretending to have a bias or opinion. it's a comedy show. from there there's no smoke and mirrors of being a journalist. he said i'm going to give you the bs and call that out. that's with a people connect to in a time where it's hard to trust information. having him back has been sort of an opportunity for us to just, you know, batton down the

hatches and get ready for a chaotic year. that's the best to ever do it with his tiny suits and little shoes. he's a really short man. >> are you saying how can he big step in a size 7 men's? >> what are you saying? are you short too? i only see you behind the desk. >> i'm 6. i was quoting one of the disses against kendrick. >> are you pulling out a rap quote here? >> you thought that. >> is there even a connection? >> you said he's short. >> too short was a rapper. let me bring this out. we were having good political discourse. >> i'm not mad at the too short reference. bay area. >> this is why they tune in to "the daily show." i wanted straight news and i'm getting hip-hop. >> it's part of ari's charm. i can't believe you've never

seen the show. >> i've seen it. >> a short might have been a better effort. in closing, would you say having sat here that jordan klepper is more smart funny or funny smart? >> i feel like he's aged a lot since that clip. was that 20 years ago? >> are you going to answer the question? >> smart funny and incredibly old. >> wow. >> everybody's taking their lumps. i want to thank molly for returning. jordan klepper's special is "moscow tools." we're going to fit in a break. there could be more lyrics. we turn to an important story about the women's right backlash and what that could mean in november. that's important. stay with us.

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and reverend al sharpton joined us. and we mentioned his past work with james brown, which makes the perfect fit for a talented artist today, harry mack, demonstrating his quick whit by making up lyrics on the spot based on these very cards that al and i held up. to be clear, this artist, harry mack, had not seen it before. sometimes we hear from some of you. after this happened last night, i heard from so many of you when this aired. so i want to play back a little part harry mack rapping for us on the news. ♪ i'm doing all these lyrics off my brain, when i rhyme, i be running my campaign ♪ ♪ i rip the mic and i kill this, people have to rap mack to be the illest ♪ ♪ yo, this really off the mental i don't pen it, when it comes to rap i write the laws like the senate ♪ ♪ lyrically mack came to bomb this, i rip up on the mic and bust this, shouts to al sharpton

and others fighting for justice ♪ >> shout out indeed. shout out harry mack. these were the cards. he really didn't see this. fact check true and did that all off the top of his head, like he said, no rhyme intended. we leave that to the artist. but, i will tell you that if you want to see the full rap and that interview, go to msnbc.com/ari and you'll scroll down and see our youtube play list and the latest great segments, including harry mack at that link. it's also an easy way to watch it and share it online if you want people to see what harry mack can do with his "beat" debut. that does it for us. "the reidout" with joy reid with the big interview former georgia prosecutor, nathan wade. ♪♪ tonight on "the reidout" -- >> the shameful raid and break in of my home, mar-a-lago, was a travesty of justice. i had