during these extraordinary times. we are grateful. the beat with ari melber starts right now hi, ari. thanks, nicolle welcome to the beat. i m ari melber we are tracking several stories, including maya wylie we begin with the escalating heat on defendant donald trump the nation watched as he came to new york for the first criminal arraignment of his life, a legal requirement, not a choice. trump had to sit in court for this unusually long i rainment which included a rare rebuke by the judge for threats he had been making. those threats part of a second civil case also filed this week by the d.a. dealing with the clash of some house republicans. here s the news right now. today donald trump is back in new york again and again under court order. these are not trips that he chose. they have been forced on him by the law and how often he is on allegedly, under the allegations, the wrong side of the law. if you re trying to keep track or it seems like this stuff is happening
lackey, a loyalist and a true believer, but no one can deny his ongoing seven tralt to donald trump s conduct after today we can likely also describe him as a key witness into the multiple criminal investigations threatening donald j. trump. today when jack met boris, boris epstein, that is, one of the central figures in today s trump world is sitting down with prosecutors from special counsel jack smith s office. it is a development that is sure to inspire questions about where either one of those two criminal probes investigating the disgraced ex-president s conduct is heading the new york times reports this, quote, given his expansive ties to trump, mr. epstein is in a position to provide information in both of the investigations that mr. smith is overseeing one focused on trump s efforts to retain power after losing the 2020 election, the other centered on his handling of classified documents after he left the white house until recently, mr. epstein played a critical ro
us here on the beat. the reidout with joy reid starts now tonight on the reidout beginning with the radical left george soros backed prosecutor alvin bag of new york he s maybe one of a dozen or more across the country that get elected on an idealogical agenda, usually from funding from people like george soros. the hypocrisy and extra loud dog whistling by republicans what the means when they call alvin bragg and others soros-backed also, the state of confusion republicans have created for american women and what the fight over abortion pills is really about complete federal control over women s reproductive health. plus, we re learning a lot of very interesting things about cameron sexton, the tennessee house speaker who subjected his state to national ridicule over the expulsion of two young black legislat legislators, including reporting he might not even live in the district he represents we begin tonight with the current state of chaos and confusio
united states and around the world. i m fareed zakaria. today on the program, vladamir putin says the world faces the most dangerous decade since world war ii. will he make it more dangerous by using nuclear weapons? can he compromise and make a deal? i will ask boris bondarev, one of the highest level defectors from putin s own government. then britain has its third prime minister in less than two months. we will tell you what you need to know about rishi sunak and his plans. trust is earned, and i will earn yours. can he gave the economy? and the reputation of that storied nation? and as a divided america heads to the polls, what can we learn from the most divided period in american history? the civil war years. i sit down with john meacham who just published a new biography of abraham lincoln. but first, here s my take. history and current polling both tell us that the house of representatives will likely flip over to republican control in the november midterms.
we ll speak with a self described iranian troublemaker targeted for her activism. good day. lawyers for donald trump have one week to back up their client s unsubstantiated accusations that the fbi planted evidence at mar-a-lago. trump s allegations have not been made in court, only on social media and on fox news. but now special master judge raymond dearie is telling trump s lawyers this is their, quote, final opportunity to raise any fact all dispute as to the completeness and accuracy of the detailed property inventory. let s get right to justice and intelligence corespondent ken dilanian, michael steele and phil rucker. and as well as glenn kirschner is joining us today. so ken, this is the judge that the trump team wanted but it seems like judge dearie is telling trump to put up or shut up any guess more civil words. absolutely right. you have to wonder whether the trump team is second guessing their decision. he didn t have to do this way, he was under instructions f