ari melber, a thank you, my friend. his courtside podcast out right now, about how to prosecute a former president -- oh, that is coming out tomorrow, my apologies. ari melber has a very important show that he has every night. >> hey -- >> 6:00 pm eastern -- thank you for your time tonight -- still to come, tonight, republican presidential hopefuls react to the news that the guy who is beating them in the polls may be about to be indicted for a third time this year. that is third as in three. plus, these republican party activists who tried to bluff their way into the state capitol to act in 2020 to serve as electors for donald trump, they are now under indictment themselves. we are going to get the latest on the fake electors, up next. ... mm. ...a "chow down" day... a "take a big bite" day... a "perfectly delicious" day... - mm. [ chuckles ] - ...a "love my new teeth" day. because your clearchoice day is the day everything is back on the menu. a clearchoice day changes every day. schedule a free consultation. i've nev

joining us now is our very own ari melber, the host of msnbc's the beat with ari melber and neil keptl host of the podcast courtside with neal katyal -- ari melber and neal katyal, new to better giants than to speak -- because of your -- adverbs -- >> -- >> not generally, but in this case. >> if you are someone asked to take up the trash properly -- >> -- tonight could be end of the week. >> it could be when you get to it. it's a great question, alex, because words in the law have technical meaning sometimes, and other times they have capacious or open meetings. >> yeah. >> this is definitely the latter. it could be a minute, could be a little while, she can take her time. but i think we would expect to get this written ruling in the near term. >> what does that mean? like, this week? >> yeah, under two weeks. again, she might be on the path of really about to do it in a couple days and again, as a judge, and she can go back to chamber, she can double check something, someone can raise something. but we are not documents. we are going to get this answered. we are gonna get a real prev

ari melber, thank you. neal has a timely episode of his court side podcast outright now about how to prosecute a former president. oh, that is coming out tomorrow, my apologies. ari has an important show he hosts every night 6:00 p.m. eastern. thank you for your time tonight. really appreciate it. >>> still to come tonight republican presidential hopefuls react to the news the guy beating them in the polls may be about to be indicted for a third time this year. that's third as in three. plus these republican party activists who tried to bluff their way into the state capitol to serve as electors for donald trump they are now under indictment themselves. we're going to get the latest on the fake electors up next. laten the fake electors up next. hey all, so i just downloaded the experian app because i wanted to check my fico® score, but it does so much more. this thing shows you your fico® score, you can get your credit card recommendations, and it shows you ways to save money. do so much more than get your f

"the beat" with ari melber starts now. >> thank you so much. welcome to "the beat," everyone. we are on the case. special counsel jack smith closing in on donald trump. we have witnesses being brought in who was close to the president at the time he was president on january 6th. white house aide william russell who's with the trump campaign today is testifying today. he already testified before the grand jury. they're bringing him back for follow-up. that is consistent with the reports from donald trump and others that he got the target letter and the indictment is looming. we're getting potential details or clarity on what the charges could entail. several outlets reporting russ smith is eyeing -- and then possibly a third charge. details on that according to "the new york times" are that the third statute might be a civil rights law that's previously been used in voter fraud cases, conspiracy against rights. the two or more persons conspire to intimidate, injure, or -- a person in a constitutional right. that was enacted during the civil war. when feds were trying to go afte

"the beat" with ari melber starts right now. hi, ari. >> hi, nicolle. thanks so much.guess who's bizack? the one and only james carville is here. that's so important. there he is. proof of life we call that, james. >> there you go. >> raring. when you have something important, same in the courtroom, same in politics, you bring it right up. i got james here, and here we go, we begin with the breaking news. this is a big one -- we have followed the impact of lies and conspiracy theories in our politics, in our media, ecosystems and in court where there have been major consequences. you know that if you follow the news, and the news tonight, fox news hit with a new punishing defamation suit. if you're counting, this is the third. it has to do with january 6th. the issues there are about civil court, not criminal. we've covered the criminal side of this many times. the civil side is whether there werepl

i'm ari melber. let's get right to it.smith pushes for this december trial for donald trump, arraigned just over a month ago with his aide and codefendant walt nauta who you see right there also facing this indictment on conspiracy, lying and withholding classified documents. that once obscure valet and body man is back in the news. everyone saw him that day at trump's arraignment. these are shots where he's around trump or in the background. he didn't plead that day or the next week or the week after that. he did not enter his plea because there's a florida law in that district that you have local council. a florida lawyer had been beset by wariness of

"the beat" with ari melber starts now, and ari's back. . >> how you been? >> i'm good. nothing happening. >> good to see you, nicolle. very happy to be back. we are tracking this breaking news tonight about a potential third indictment of former president trump. he's the breaking news tonight. doj special counsel jack smith is formally targeting donald trump for criminal indictment over trying to steal the 2020 election. any such indictment would be trump's third overall and is especially significant for three reasons. one, this would be the first ever indictment of trump for actions taken as president. the pending doj indictment of trump now is all about taking classified material after he left office, and that new york case is about what he did allegedly in 2016 before assuming office. second reason this is big tonight? well, no indictment is a small matter. there are signs doj is targeting trump for the most serious potential crimes yet -- allegations that he, to put it straight up, operated as a criminal president, abused powers, and tried to end democracy itself. n

i'm ari melber. let's get right to it. as special counsel jack smith pushes for this december trial for donald trump, arraigned just over a month ago with his aide and codefendant walt nauta who you see right there also facing this indictment on conspiracy, lying and withholding classified documents. that once obscure valet and body man is back in the news. everyone saw him that day at trump's arraignment. these are shots where he's around trump or in the background. he didn't plead that day or the next week or the week after that. he did not enter his plea because there's a florida law in that district that you have local council. a florida lawyer had been beset by wariness of reputational damage by representing trump. in other words, while he's legally presumed innocent and the burden is on the government, it is a public fact that even getting a lawyer is hard when you are this yolked to this person you work for who's your coconspirator under the indictment. the florida he did find is a former public defend we are limite

i'm alicia menendez in for ari melber. two years after he lost the 2020 election, we're still uncovering more attempts by donald trump to overturn results. according to a new report in "the washington post," president trump tried to pressure doug ducey to overturn the election results, saying if now fraudulent votes could be found, it could overcome trump's narrow loss in arizona. we're learning about the content of this conversation for the first time. we already knew trump and ducey spoke after the 2020 election. trump tried to call ducey while he was certifying the election for biden on an official government live stream. on 2020, ducey was literally signing the papers to end the election, seated in front of the press. but you have to listen carefully. you can make out "hail to the chief" as ducey reaches into his pocket to silence the call. ♪♪ the ring tone is just spectacular. ducey did eventually speak to trump. did not record the call. but we have some idea what it might sound like because trump made a lot of calls

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i'm katie feng in for ari melber. tonight as an await a special third indictment for president trump, we're seeing real accountability for election lies. once again it's coming in the form of a defamation suit, the kind of lawsuit that brought fox news to its knee in the form of a $787.5 million settlementing but this time it's hitting even closer to trump. rudy giuliani admitting in a court filing that some of the most brazen lies and claims he made about election fraud were false, they were lies. giuliani was acting as a lawyer for donald trump at the time. the lies at issue centered around two election workers, ruby freeman and shea moss. giuliani alleged they had committed crimes. he lied repeatedly on camera. >> earlier in the day, these two were engaged in another apparent voter fraud in which they were passing out usb cords, which were being used apparently, you know, to infiltrate the croed dominion voting machines. ruby freedomen and shea freeman moss and one other gentleman quite obviously surveillance help

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i'm jason johnson in for ari melber. we start with jack smith's widening investigation into trump's plot to overturn the 2020 election. we're still not done. an nbc news analysis finds jack smith's grand jury has interviewed dozens of witnesses from little known campaign aides to the former vice president of the united states. and smith's questions are, quote, focused particularly on the fake elector scheme. smith is also said to be focused on that unhinged december 18th oval office meeting about seizing voting machines. the meeting was full of insults and conspiracy theory, concerning powell, michael flynn. here's how the people in the room described that december 18th meeting. >> someone screamed at me that i was a quitter, kept on standing up and turning and around screaming at me. >> they were fighting. >> the first thing i walked in and i looked at them and said who are you? >> people fighting with each other and hurling insults at each other. >> what they were proposing i thought was nuts. >> how nuts was it? this

"the beat" with ari melber starts right now. >> good evening. i'm ari melber. over when i was off. here's what we know right now as i'm with you as the week begins. smith's washington, d.c. grand jury is expected to meet tomorrow. that's in the open criminal case where smith formally targeted trump for indictment. and that means we do know the d.o.j.'s intent to charge, but not the d.o.j.'s plans, it's details or anything like a time frame. no one can define when the next steps will be taken. that includes the subject and target donald trump who was vaguely speculating today that his indictment on these coup charges could come any day now but he doesn't know that. he only knows what we've already reported, that smith told him that he is a target of the probe. then there are new developments in the case where smith has already indicted trump, piling on more charges last week over the alleged efforts to cover up the espionage violations that d.o.j. initially charged. that news hit as many people

i'm katie phang in for ari melber. we start with legal heat on donald trump. special counsel jack smith firing on all cylinders, iryou'ring a superseding indocument in the mar-a-lago classified documents case, adding a new codefendant as well as new charges against the former president of the united states. this coming as he reportedly gears up to indict trump in the january 6th probe as well. nbc news has new details today on this meeting we told you about yesterday. u.s. marshals meeting with law enforcement outside of the d.c. courthouse. we can report today that they were discussing the potential for violence and protesters around the expected indictment of former president trump. "rolling stone" reporting today that jack smith is questioning witnesses about claims trump called his team's election lies "crazy." nbc news has not confirmed that reporting. but it does come on the heels of recent "new york times" reporting that smith was asking witnesses if trump knew that he lost the election. trying to decipher whether trump was acting with, quote, corrupt i

i am katie feng in for ari melber. we find ourselves in on indictment watch again with donald trump the confirmed active target of special counsel jack smith's january 6th investigation. new tonighting a key witness has met with jack smith's team, and it sheds new light on what prosecutors are focusing on. nbc news confirming a former high ranking trump doj official has spoke within investigators. although he has yet to testify before the grand jury. richard donahue did speak with the grand jury probing january 6th and gave testimony about trump's plans to steal the election. according to donahue, trump wanted his doj to falsely tell legislators in battleground states that the election was corrupt. >> you also noted that mr. rosen said to mr. trump, quote, doj can't and won't snap its fingers and change the outcome of the election. how did the president respond to that, sir? >> very quickly and said, that's not what i'm asking you to do. i'm asking to you say it was corrupt and leave the rest to me and congress. >> tha

"the beat" with ari melber starts right now. happy friday. >> welcome to "the beat." thank you, nicole. >>> the white house press secretary will join us live. >>> we begin with a striking development that will be heard by the rattled plotters of not only january 6th but those wider coup efforts. there is heat on that effort to get the u.s. military to try to join a trump coup. the heat is coming from the one federal prosecutor who ever indicted donald trump. if people didn't know his name, they do now, special counsel jack smith. he is probing the night the trump aides and some outside allies tried to hatch a military coup plot. again, if those words sound disturbing to think about your own american government and not something happening in some other region, buckle up. your government is investigating this with an eye on indicting potentially the people who wanted to abuse your military to take away your vote. it's a big story. i know it's summer, i know it's friday, this is a big story. the night of december 18th in the oval office where some of the most extreme tru

you can follow us on ari melber at tiktok, or just tune in whenever you feel like it. "the reidout" is up next. >>> tonight on "the reidout" -- >> and we fight. we fight like hell, and if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore. >> william russell, a white house aide who was at trump's side, just before he delivered those remarks on january 6th, meets again with the grand jury as special counsel jack smith's criminal investigation enters its final stages. also tonight, the summer that american labor took a stand, hollywood actors and writers are on strike, and flight attendants and u.p.s. workers could be next. >> plus, culture war battles. the right is choosing to fight, backing a music video that proposed gun violence and attacking, i am not making this up, barbie. i'm jason johnson in for joy reid, and we begin tonight with just a few hours left in the day, donald trump says if the deadline set by special counsel jack smith for the twice impeached, twice indicted former president to appear before the grand jury to investigation his alle

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i'm melissa murray in for ari melber. and we start tonight with breaking news. the special counsel has reportedly interviewed donald trump's son-in-law, jared kushner, in recent weeks as part of the january 6th probe. apparently they are looking into trump's intent. "the new york times" reports that prosecutors have questioned multiple witnesses over the past few weeks, including jared kushner, and questioned them about whether trump had privately acknowledged in the days after the 2020 election that he had actually lost. the line of questioning suggests that prosecutors are trying to establish whether trump was acting with corrupt intent. remember, kushner also spoke to the january 6th committee last year. >> jared, are you aware of instances where pat cipollone threatened to resign? >> i kind of -- like i said, my interest at that time was on trying to get as many pardons done, and i know that, you know, he was always -- him and the team were always saying, oh, we're going to resign. we're not going to be here if this happens, as that happens. so i took it up

i'm in for ari melber. we start today continuing with that breaking news in the special counsel's mar-a-lago probe. a third defendant added to the classified documents case. carlos deoliveira, who helped trump's codefendant walt nauta move the boxes them shows that jack smith is not slowing down as he still also pushes forward in the january 6th probe. joining me now is maya wylie, ceo of the leadership conference on civil and human rights. and emily bazelon. i want to thank the both of you for joining us. you're getting this news in realtime like we are. maya, i want to start with you. this is pretty good news. i think it's a very big showing from special counsel jack smith that his investigation has not slowed down, that he's definitely moving forward, making sure if you're not going to cooperate or be a part of this, then you're going to be facing charges. hoar's the caveat. maybe he is a cooperator. we don't know yet. what are your thoughts the about the news that there's a third defendant who's going t

"the beat" with ari melber starts right now. >> hey, ari. >> hey, alicia. thank you so much.new crimes allegedly committed by trump while president. these are the three federal statutes that the doj cites in its target letter warning trump of another possible indictment. you're looking at the actual outline of this case. this is brand-new. we're talking about conspiracy, witness tampering, and deprivation of rights in then outgoing president trump's failed coup. two sourcesli news about doj listing those crimes in the target letter which trump himself leaked, which has created all this interest this week in whether he'll face a second federal indictment. these suggest details about the case jack smith is building. i'll go through a few key points and bring our leddoff legal expert, a veteran of the doj's criminal division and who knows jack smh'

"the beat" with ari melber starts now, and ari's back. . >> how you been? >> i'm good.ng news tonight about a potential third indictment of former president trump. he's the breaking news tonight. doj special counsel jac

"the beat" with ari melber starts now. >> thank you so much. welcome to "the beat," everyone.e to the president at the time he was president on january 6th. white house aide william russell who's with the trump campaign today is testifying today. he already testified before the grand jury. they're bringing himac

"the beat" with ari melber starts right now. happy friday. >> welcome to "the beat."etary will join us live. >>> we begin with a striking development that will be heard by the rattled plotters of not only january 6th but those wider coup efforts. there is heat on that effort to get the u.s. military to try to join a trump coup. the heat is coming from the one federal prosecutor who ever indicted donald trump. if people didn't know his name, they do now, special counsel jack

i'm katie feng in for ari melber.ccountability for election lies. once again it's coming in the form of a defamation suit, the kind of lawsuit that brought fox news to its knee in the form of

i am katie feng in for ari melber.ch again with donald trump the confirmed active target of special counsel jack smith's january 6th investigation. new tonighting a key witness has met with jack smith's team, and it sheds new light on what prosecutors are focusing on. nbc news confirming a former high ranking

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i'm melissa murray in for ari melber. and we start tonight with breaking news.ushner, in recent weeks as part of the january 6th probe. apparently they are looking into tr

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. ♪ >> welcome back to the beat i am alicia menedez in for ari melber.eroing in on the role of donald trump's attorneys play. we have new reporting from the wall street journal, citing people familiar with the matter. federal prosecutors are looking at how trump's lawyers pressured state legislators in states donald trump lost, to send fake trump electors to congress. during the january six committee hearings, congressman adam schiff summed up that fake electors scheme and its role in that coup plot. >> no legitimate state authority in the states donald trump lost would agree to a point fake trump electors and send them to congress. but this didn't stop stop the trump campaign either. it sent groups of individuals to key battleground states and got them to call themselves electorates, created certificates associated with these fake electors. and then, transmitted these certificates to washington and to congress, to be counted during the joint session of congress on january 6th. >> okay, we all know the fake and actress block that was launched in seven sw

something to tell you about, and a special bonus of the beat with ari melber, reads justice ketanji brown'se court affirmative action ruling. you can listen to the powerful words. >>> coming up next, a far reaching ruling by a trump appointed judge that bars the biden administration from contacting social media companies, believe it or not, even if officials are trying to fight dangerous disinformation. we're going to talk about that. >>> plus, donald trump's alleged coconspirator, his valet, walt nauta is due in court tomorrow for his arraignment. we're going to look at the state of the classified documents case. >>> and later in the program, stunning new details on the january 6th rioter arrested near the home of former president barack obama last week. how right wing conspiracy theories drew him to the nation's capital. "deadline white house" continues after a quick break. so don't go anywhere. e house" cs after a quick break. so don't go anywhere elly clarks, we have a kid... and harold. wayfair's got just what you need... performance fabrics, stains don't stand a chance. no chance! -wo

. - ari melber is msnbc's chief legal correspondent.different beat entirely. - no greater authority than jay-z saw "99 problems" when he says, "my glove compartment's locked. "so is the trunk in the back. i know my rights. you're going to need a warrant for that." there's no such thing as halfway crooks. we know that truth from the great poet havoc of mobb deep. and if you get really good campaign finance reform, maybe money ain't a thing because it won't be a thing. - 100%. - yeah. although i don't like it if it don't bling bling. - okay. - so if you have a law that says virtually anyone in the country can file for bankruptcy and get rid of their debts, anyone, except for one group of people, people who have student loans, that seems to me... messed up would be my term of art for that. - to me as a lawyer, i look at it and say, if bankruptcy is available for all these other groups so that they can go on and be, "productive," if it's available for corporations or private bankers and business people, why wouldn't it be available to a nur