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
they can control everything, and that is a really hard client to have, as danny knows when you are a defense lawyer you really need to control those people and reign them in from their world impulses so here, if that is going to be the issue there s one really really dangerous third rail, which is, is he going to say something that the d.a. can show is false and because of his hubris he thinks he s not going to get caught i haven t heard what anyone flesh out what that criminal exposure is today, and there s so much going on, that s striking danny, before i get to the heart of the question for you, which is what you offer for trumps after defense in this kind of case, i did mention, that arraignment room, you, your lawyers know it well i m curious what you thought seeing not only a former president in general indicted but specifically in that room. i worked very briefly as a public defender. you ran legal aid for years. what did you think
one term having someone indicted and saying in public, the reason that he shouldn t go on trial is he will summon death and destruction and violence against the very government that he once led. so you know what else would be unprecedented? to waiver or back down during this relatively new, week and a half old test of our justice system let me bring in our esteemed experts. the prosecutor from the former mueller probe, head of enron task force, andrew weissman. other titles, but we only have so much time. let s get to it. danny greenberg, a long time decorated lawyer when you look at the criminal arraignment room, you know your way around that you have overseen the lawyers who defend people with less resources than donald trump, indigent, correct yeah, not one of whom paid off a porn star. there we go, we can start