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"the beat" are ari melber starts roelgt now on this today. >> our top story a beat special report about trump's criminal enterprises, how we got here and why it matters. to put it simply there's a key link between this new conviction of trump, the person, and the legal accountability for trump's organizations, which have long been found criminal in our legal system. so let's begin with these two realities. first last week's news and then the news that has dogged trump's organizations for years. >> there are guilty verdicts. >> we are looking at count one guilty, count two guilty. count three guilty. >> we're hearing guilty on one through five. >> starting on count six. >> count six guilty. count seven guilty. count eight guilty. >> count 27 guilty, count 34, guilty. >> the unanimous jury verdict unanimous on all counts. >> that is trump's guilt. then there's his top aides across many years. >> roger stone guilty on all counts. >> flynn pled guilty to repeatedly lying to the fbi. >> michael cohen, guilty. >> former trump campaign advisor rick gaetz pleaded guilty. >> allen weisselberg just learned his fate after being convicted for lying under oath. >> the jury has reached the unanimous decision paul manafort is guilty. >> trump's new conviction for a crime at the intersection of his campaign and business activities comes after all these convictions of campaign and business aides. so after years where people did fairly know that trump himself had not been convicted and was legally presumed in the in many open cases, we are now in this new terrain. and there's been so much criming and misconduct it would be easy to lose sight of that important context. the legal system has showed this isn't where a lawyer had bad judgment it could be a ceo in the '60s and had an employee convicted of crimes and yet the i.e. didn't know about them. here's the difference now. the courts has determined this is not like that. this follows the convictions of key leaders and operators in both trump's campaigns and businesses. so taken together we have the picture now emerge through the legal fact finding process of a sprawling web of criminality. trump is the ringleader. and you can count it out different ways. our reporting and legal analysis for you new tonight shows three enterprises in legal trouble and led by trump. the 2016 campaign, trump convicted in new york, his 2020 campaign, trump aides convicted and trump indicted and plots that have been indicted in three or more states now and trump pz business for a cfo has been convicted and another in jail right now. what we're starting here with is empty with trump convicted on top but we're filling it out tonight. it does take some time. trump's personal conviction casts a trail across multiple probes that just up top i'm going to remind you led to the conviction of his longest serving advisory, his deputy campaign chair, his campaign chair, top personal lawyer, several other key lawyers he personally met with, two white house aides and the cfo of a company now found liable for a separate massive fraud plus his own criminally convicted business fraud. so while last week's news is donald trump's first conviction, it fits with the wider crimes plaguing his 2016 campaign operation. remember the top two people running it convicted, manafort and gaetz. a political advisor who brought in manafort convicted plus other figures you see here, flynn, papadopoulos. what you see is you have 2016 aides all convicted around that campaign. because trump won our legal system didn't have anything to adjudicate what he might have done through '16 while in office. and then you have michael cohen convicted of campaign crime and then of course a witness that ended in trump's conviction last week. he was convicted in this trial that let's remember now that we see it all together features witnesses who literally detailed their role in 2016 crimes. the tabloid boss pecker had federal immunity, cohen had already gone to prison, and manafort and stone they weren't involved necessarily in a big way in this trial. their names came up at times here and there. bannon's name came up as well, but they were convicted for other things after 2016. that's a campaign apparatus. that's the criminal enterprise now you see the guy at the top and so many people near the top convicted. all of this makes these past convictions all the more important now that trump's role has been formally found by a jury and through our legal process as the felon at the top. >> trump ally roger stone found guilty today on all seven counts including lying to grass and obstructing its investigation into russia. >> former trump campaign advisor rick gaetz pleaded guilty friday to conspiring against the united states and making false statements to the special counsel. >> paul manafort, guilty. convicted on eight counts including false tax returns, failing to file foreign bank reports, and two counts of bank fraud. >> michael cohen's guilty plea. former president trump's national security advisor admitting he lied today the fbi. >> that's some of the reckoning for trump's first campaign. while his business has been busted as a civil fraud run by this fellow felon, allan weisselberg, who's doing his second rikers jail stint right now. he operated as the stand in decision maker when convicted felon donald trump couldn't be there just as michael cohen was a top trump org executive using that role to convict a campaign crime for trump that was tied into last week's conviction. >> allan weisselberg, the former cfo of the trump organization, just learned his fate after being conviktded for lying under oath in the form president's civil fraud trial. >> to jail cell at rikers island where a new york judge sentenced allan weisselberg. >> today's plea came from the president's disgraced former lawyer, michael cohen. >> donald trump's personal lawyer was in federal court in manhattan again today pleading guilty to crime again today, federal crimes he said involved the president of the united states. >> cohen's testimony in this trial was legally limited to trump's actions there in 2016 and in '17 related to what happened in this case. but there's the wider ranging enterprise here, and you have to look at this. it is criminal when you have the cfo going to prison, civil fraud regarding the whole company. it's criminal when it comes to trump falsifying records run through the trump org to cover up another crime, and that's the man at the top. so now we're through two out of these three. all of that covers trump's crime, convicted aides, but that's all the period before he lost the 2020 election. in other words, you don't even need to reach january 6th and trump's pending cases in d.c. in georgia to see how the now convicted felon was already in charge of what you see on your screen, two organizations busted for crimes at the top and by the people at the top. and you can see why that's bad. but i would argue when you take it all together now, what you see on your screen and that history helps explain exactly how trump's team and ally so quickly sprung into action into those plots in just a couple weeks we've shown you hatching these plots that turned criminal to try to steal the election, try to stop president-elect biden from taking office. trump had years of experience quite literally pulling aides into these plots. what you see here many of them convicted, these are the plots that built on two long running criminal enterprises. trump's 2018 infamously led to a slew of indictments and convicted crimes. and that ranges from white house veterans who were specifically defying the investigations into those plots. remember in the old days it doesn't matter what party you're in if you work in the government and white house and the federal law enforcement apparatus and congress are looking into something whatever it may 9/11 or a criminal case you cooperate. they didn't. now steve bannon appearing for conviction, peter navarro currently in federal prison show how far the stone walling went. you have clark, eastman, giuliani, some of these people facing sanctions, some awaiting trial. some as i'll remind you convicted, and these are all just on the 2020 front. in georgia three trump lawyers, they went the way of michael cohen just like i showed you on those charts, pulled into the crime but then deciding to confess their crimes. >> the jury has found former white house strategist steve bannon guilty on charges of contempt of congress. >> the fourth defendant now in the georgia election interference case that changed their plea to guilty. >> guilty. >> guilty. >> guilty. >> if i knew then what i know now i would have declined to represent donald trump in these post election challenges. i look back on this whole experience with deep remorse. >> former trump advisor peter navarro was sentenced to four months in federal prison for contempt of congress. >> all of that is just the 2020 criminal enterprise as i'm calling it. it's a whopping number of indictments and convictions for that period of just a few months especially involving things that were often spilling out into public. it was rampant, it was a crime spree. if you fill it and see convictions for crimes to stop trump's loss there the 2020 campaign and as those cases grind on i want to show you on the right there, those are just convictions. we would not have room on this screen to list all the individuals indicted, but we would have many, many more faces. so together you see this as a criminal set of enterprises with donald trump convicted at the top. trump's role atop these three organizations that are rife with convictions over the last seven years is revealing. it adds a legal finding to what was honestly once a more circumstantial take. people would say, well, he benefitted from these other crimes sure. he's got these types of people around him and he seemed involved, and yeah he was somehow linked. that's what we used to hear, and some of that might have sounded like overly friendly spin. some of it might sound like what you're supposed to say particularly if your work in fields that involve fact checking, law or journalism. you can't just say something looks like it's going in one direction, it was confirmed. it means something when we say presumed innocent because it hadn't been legally tried. and it means something quite different when you say as you see atop the chart as a penn or organization that had so many convictions already he's convicted, so the line goes up and down these crime sprees. and that's not all of them. this legal chart we prepared for you doesn't actually even mention some other related issues like trump's documented role in shaking down ukraine and the attempted front against the bidens, a plot that failed but technically might not have been illegal. the espionage case that has aides and lawyers on the hook for trump's conduct, which has been documented by the documents they had to take back because they were illegally on his property. i didn't mention trump's personal legal losses as a civil defendant in other very serious cases like the carroll case. now those cases matter and we've covered them in many ways but involves less of the issue of the criminal enterprise, the organizational structure under scrutiny. this evidence, overwhelming evidence is important. it is a new lens with long existing facts and long running crime sprees across two campaigns and his business and how his business a jury has found was pulled into, of course, covering up a campaign crime. all of this matters, and some of it so varied and kind of overwhelming and across different periods of time people would understandably forget or be fatigued or move on. it's part whf out they want. one of the last responses from trump allies or people who feel politically and personally they feel they have to defend anything he does, they just have to say words they may not even personally believe. one of the responses we've heard from conservatives who used to talk of police and law and order and complying with police and honoring juries, one of the things we've heard from them is trump is somehow uniquely targeted, that anyone could become a felon now, this was only about targeting one person, donald trump. now that last gasp from people who are on record contradicting that kind of effort to undermine our system, police do the arresting and the juries do the fact finding, that last gasp is weak one. it won't take us long to deal with empireically, so those are fackical claims. and think about how they are contradicted by everything we just saw in the last 13 minutes or so, they're not true. they don't make sense. trump last week was convicted after years of ducking or dodging other cases and only after at least depending on how you count and calculate, at least 20 other aides were indicted across different places 12 of them now convicted, some by their own confessions in georgia and new york, others by jury of their peers like manafort in georgia and new york and others. there's no debate over the trump aides who pled guilty. they confessed to their crimes for trump. as m&m put it so so simply they told prosecutors i am what you say i am, guilty. if i wasn't, then why would you say i am. it doesn't get any simpler than that. >> guilty. >> guilty. >> guilty. >> guilty. they're guilty legally. this is not an observation, this is not an opinion. this is their words under the pressure of their evidence and their view that confessing to their guilt earlier would be better than having it proven in a system later. guilty like their boss. a series of crimes committed across three organizations and several states for many, many years convicted across different jurisdictions with different individuals who went through their entire careers and different prosecutors and different independent witnesses sworn under oath and different independent judges appointed by both parties and different juries screened and vetted by both sides with the rights of the defendant protected. all of that together, the former president now a convicted felon just like the people he hand picked to run that business and these campaigns surrounded by so many convicted crimes. what's different now is that it has been completely exposed and adjudicated, and it's worse than the last time he was breaking the law to try to win an election. try to win an election if you're looking for a medicare supplement insurance plan that's smart now... i'm 65. and really smart later i'm 70-ish. consider an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan from unitedhealthcare. with this type of plan, you'll know upfront about how much your care costs. which makes planning your financial future easier. so call unitedhealthcare today to learn more about the only plans of their kind with the aarp name. and set yourself and your future self up with an aarp medicare supplement 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development. as we put back up on the screen those different organizations, is that an important way for people to understand that there's more than a pattern here and it undercuts the idea that the defendant was somehow singled out? >> yeah, no. i think it is useful to pull the lens back and look at this in terms of the entire history of the legal process. and, you know, that's not considering all of the people who are currently under indictment, who have not -- and by the way that would be fair to talk to them -- talk about them. >> sure. >> because, yes, this is -- the legal system is about whether they should go to jail. that's why there's proof beyond a reasonable doubt. but here in a court of public opinion you don't have to have that same standard. it's enough if you say it's proved by clear and convincing evidence or by preponderance, just to be super in the weeds. when i was thinking about your "a" block i mean there were a couple of things i was thinking about. one is every single defendant when we prosecuted successfully in the mueller investigation, so manafort, stone, gates, flynn, papadopoulos, all the of people who we prosecuted who did not cooperate, so that leaves out gates and cohen, people that know about michael cohen, those people cooperated. everyone else was pardoned by donald trump. it is useful to think about how he used the pardon power to basically absolve people who did crimes with and for him and then pardon them. just in such striking contrast to the way that the current president, president biden, is not wielding the pardon power to, for example, to free his son. >> while his own family is on trial. >> exactly. you can't imagine a more personal interest, but if you want to know about donald trump's respect for the law or lack thereof, you can see how he responded with the use of the pardon power, which is something that is given to the president, but it is assumed, unfortunately, wrongly in his case that it's going to be wielded judiciously and without it being used to undermine the rule of law. so all those people who were either found guilty or who pleaded from their own mouth or in the case of paul manafort both since he actually both was cane victed at trial and pled guilty, all of those people were pardoned so they didn't suffer the consequence of what they did. the second thought i had was in listening to the testimony at trial by david pecker and the meeting where david pecker says, you know, i met with donald trump and principal to principal we agreed on a catch and kill where we were going to have a secret agreement where i read the national enquirer where it's going to both kill stories that would hurt you, and i would also deliberately foment stories with your aid against adversaries whether you're republican or democrat. it just struck me that was in 2015. in june 2016 there was proof positive that donald trump and his sons and others including paul manafort were at trump tower trying to do the same thing with russian emissaries. it just turned out they didn't have the goods. but the whole reason for that trump tower meeting was essentially tapped the same thing happened, which is we want a secret meeting with foreign actors, which by the way is illegal. foreign actors are not allowed to participate in presidential elections and to do the same thing how do i get private help to win an election, which is exactly what was happening with david pecker and the national enquirer. >> we're reporting at a time there's new charges of elector fraud. many other people pulled into that. how important is it to understand and for authorities in this case to track and prevent this pattern because when you actually pull out as you put it, what we did -- and we'll put this back on the screen with the different entities, they do some different things but there's a tremendous amount of overlap including the centrality, for example, of lawyers and what he views as, quote, really loyal long-standing people who would go farther than others to cheat or break the law across these different goals. >> i think it's so important. if you think about the prosecutions for the january 6th case and the scores of people on january 6th who were attacking the capitol, attacked police officers, it is really important for those people to be held accountable in and of itself, but it's also really important for what we -- you know, lawyers like to say is sort of general deterrence that people know that if you do this there's a consequence. i think it's one of the reasons that, you know, in spite of the predictions by the former president of how all hell will break loose if i'm ever tried and lindsey graham saying no one would stand for it, we didn't see any of that. you and i both were down at 100 center street and you see more protesters, students on campus, many more than you would see outside the courthouse. there was really almost no demonstration. i think part of that is that there's deterrence. you see if you're going to protest illegally, that is what's going to happen. obviously peaceful protest you have a constitutional right to do it. i think with the false electors, i think it's so important that these state prosecutors have been going after people and holding them to account. now, some of these people are awaiting trial. they'll have all the due process rates donald trump just had, but it's really important as we're coming up to another presidential election that people know, you know, this is not the kind of thing you can do. you just can't go ahead and lie and undermine that state's votes. and this is so much of the core of what it means to be a democracy, so can't think of a more important case to bring and in terms of general deterrence important. >> as you say that's a live issue going into november and whatever they want to do after november depending on the results you lawfully get. really thought of you as the perfect person for this. 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serious growing scandal surrounding supreme court justice alito who's running from the flag flown over his own home, which was disloyal to the u.s. "the new york times" reporting after the insurrection as you may have heard alito home flew this upside down american flag echoing what the rioters carried as they stormed the capitol on january 6th. it's relate to people who say stop the steal. it is wrong for a judge to partially advocate against the u.s. government at all let alone by showing this direct sympathy or common cause with insurrectionists in that very time period. doing so in the days after that attack is truly extreme. but alito has repeatedly proven to be an extremist. that's a fact that also is negative for someone who is supposed to be an impartial judge. the supreme court is a government building. it follows the u.s. flag code. alito's personal home violated that in a public display that others would obviously see. in the code section on respecting the flag, it mandates the flag should never be displayed up sod down with the union down, that's strictly forbidden. indeed the code states the flag may only be flown upside down as a signal of dire distress and instances of extreme danger to life. that is one of the government rules alito's home violated. there are many problems with this, but that is just one of the many very obvious, blunt violations. what he did through his home could not be done under the rules at the court where he works every day. but apparently his home, whoever put the flag up and left it up, decided being with january 6th criminals was more important. again this is one of very extreme actions but it should not be normalized. and some are condemning it. >> amual alito and clarence thomas are out of control. in the case of samuel alito he definitively needs to recuse himself from any matter pending before the united states supreme court that has to do with the january 6th -- >> what justice alito is dragging down the credibility of the court, destroying american people's trust in the court by these kinds of flimsy excuses. >> the fact that justice alito thinks that he can be the judge and jury of his own impartiality flies in the face of supreme court precedent. >> flies like an upside down flag. now, lawmakers requested a formal meeting with the chief justice to try to get some clarity or recusal rules going about alito. we can tell you the chief justice has declined that request. and since alito would be ruling on cases regarding trump's roles and convictions of people who stormed the capitol after alito's own home showed this support for at least part of that movement, there are these questions about his impartiality, questions that can be reasonably raised, which is the standard the court's new nonbinding ethics code proclaims that was adopted i should note for the first time in history in response to alito's other recent scandals like secretly taking money through lavish gifts and special secret trips along with justice thomas. alito is completely denying there's an issue and refusing to recuse. but before i get to that let's keep in mind something important here. this is not a one or two-day story. this a rolling ongoing ethics crisis for the court. and alito knows the flag scandal is a bad part of it. he's not claiming he had any right to fly a flag of free speech, not claiming he meant to fly something else or it was an accident. he knows on a court that has no binding ethics rules for him he can't admit to the court this is bad, that it violates the flag code, that it builds on the other scandal. now alito has been claiming the flag atop his own home was something he wasn't involved with, that he could not control or impact, and that he did not know about. so in our special report right now i want to get into that in detail because it matters. you can see the flag flying there. it's a normal large sized flag hoisted in the air over his home. so when he says he didn't know it was flying, it sounds like a false defense because it's hard to see how it would be true. alito recently writing to lawmakers that he had nothing whatsoever to do with the flying of the flag then strangely claiming he was not, quote, even aware of the upside down flag until it was called to my attention. so let's be clear alito is claiming he did not even flag when entering his own home or leaving his home until it was called to his attention. he had to hear about it before he ever saw it. if that sounds like a dumb lie it's because from what we can tell it's not true, and it's not believable. it's hard to imagine a criminal defense lawyer reviewing alito's new public letter and telling the client to keep that in. you can imagine him saying you want to claim you didn't see a flag at your own home for days when you came and went? let's just leave that part out. alito in this letter says he asked his wife to take it down but for several days she refused. alito blaming his wife for flying the flag and blaming her for resisting his request as if he recognized a better course of action and she did not. alito has ruled against women's rights for decades. he now claims he was powerless to take this action against his own wife's wishes, and he falsely implies it would be unlawful for him to take this flag down. quote, my wife and i own our home jointly. there were no additional steps i could have taken to have the flag taken down more promptly, he writes. that is false, and this matters that he is making these kind of public claims in writing that are false. he said he had no other option, no additional step he could take, but the step would be alito taking down the flag. legally one spouse's shared property interest doesn't motautomatically override the others on all property matters. putting a flag up doesn't trump the other person taking it down. at best it's a kind of draw, but this is not a legal property case. alito's references read more like a distraction, spin, possibly less than the whole truth. his own letter still admits he saw the flag and st. stayed up that way. so even on his own weird defense he's still part of the flag continuing to fly that way over his home. he admits that. and he claims the flag was itself hoisted that way violating the u.s. flag code, et cetera, because of a response to a dispute that had already begun with his neighbors. his wife wanted to make a statement to them, but then reports came out that the dispute actually began weeks after the flag was raised. "the new york times" corroborating that timeline with a recording from the neighbors that they had this dispute with who made a call to the police to the alitos. whatever the details of that timeline suggests alito is lying about that. again, we've always heard the cover-up could be worse frn thacrime, and that's true for judges who deal with cover-ups and crimes all the time. because, again, we talk about whether he's biased or not or impartial or not. he's clearly not thinking about this independently or partially about this issue. so alito is running from the flag his own. he allegedly providing a false time line. if he knows it's false as i'm saying very carefully that would be lying. and that's not all. alito, as you may recall, wrote the ruling ending 49 years of abortion rights in roe. his draft opinion was also leaked in violation of court rules. there are still questions over whether a justice on the court leaked that or if he could be that justice. alito has been roundly criticized for using his power to curb women's rights in that very decision. so note in this new letter that he writes that his wife, quote, makes their own decisions, and i honor her right to do so. okay. he honors her right, this woman's right from the man who ended roe. is that deliberate double speak designed to upset his critics, or is it embarrassingly ignor lntly delusional speak? is it just someone who has no awareness of his own high-handed hypocrisy specifically on the issues of women's rights and a woman's right? dahlia lithwick has studied this, and she argues the letter from alito draws on a long line of ooppressive sexism in his work, on his power and he he uses it. noted he quoted a 17th century witch sentencing judge by upholding a law that would have let husbands veto their wive's choices to have an abortion. now he's granted his own wife atonmy he's spent his career stripping of american women. he's emphatically granted her a right to privacy and freedom to make individual choices he has denied to the rest of the country. i'm reading at length because she makes important points. women unfortunate enough not to have powerful husbands. alito is gleeful when eroding the rights of every other woman in the country yet deeply uneasy about encroaching of those on his own cherished bride, end quote. i want to be clear about this especially as so many more cases head to the supreme court. faced with serious ethical questions alito has not responded seriously. his letter is angry, contentious, full of spin more familiar to politicians than impartial judges. there is no legal requirement he recused, and there's no requirement that he write lawmakers back. by refusing to recuse but rushing to release this type of letter he shows his priorities including this apparent political sarcasm and political partisan posturing that appears to be designed specifically to inflame and disrespect, to use a word beneath the level of the supreme court, disciped to troll like so many internet disputes. these are the words and actions of an unserious jurist and example for judges to avoid. do not act like this. do not respond to fair and accountable questions like this. do not diminish yourself and the court and the work you serve with these cheap shots. the supreme court is an old diminished institution. the are a few quick fixes for these. but that has its own dilemmas of partisan pay back and warfare. durbin does have a proposed bill to strengthen the cower's required dependent investigations of violations. i can tell you over 40% of the senate actually cosponsored it, but all democrats while republicans are blocking a floor vote on that very bill, which would try to fix this. as for the facts a more binding approach to ethics is clearly required because exactly of justice like samuel alito, trafficking in spin and apparent lies and potential corruption. his not conducting himself impartially. he is not honoring or following even the new ethics code passed in part to deal with him and what he's even saying when he chooses to weigh in is not believable. and at this point justice alito may not even believe himself. >> i not only comply would the ethical rules that are binding on federal judges and they're very strict but also what i did what i tried to do throughout my career as a judge, and that is to go beyond the letter of the ethics rules and to avoid any situation where there might be an ethical question raised. >> that's what he said on confirmation. that's utnot what he's doing, and led by this type of justice this court will clearly not heal itself. when we come back, merrick garland on the hill today. ack, k garland on the hill today. it cot of a domino effect. new parodontax active gum repair breath freshener. clinically proven to help reverse the four signs of early gum disease. a new toothpaste from parodontax, the gum experts. frustrated by skin tags? 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