welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. we are tracking several stories tonight, including another supreme court ethics scandal, tying gop appointee samuel alito to another billionaire on a fishing trip. we ll get into that later. it s a big story. but our news program begins tonight with not only the criminal trial of donald trump, now slated to begin on august 14th buck the broader ongoing threat of right wing individual lantyism and authoritarianism. tonight we begin with a special report on that very challenge, and trump s efforts to hijack the criminal justice system that now is trying to potentially hold him accountable. we re talking about a range of actions that has prompted already fear of violence over the violent rhetoric and whether that could turn to action. we re about one week out from the federal arraignment that trump did try to prevent. we remember he was forced to sit silently in that miami courtroom. outside cameras showed a very small crowd. the scene was
here with me ready to dive into this. we have the host of the fast politics podcast molly jong fast. john hart, former communications director for senator tom coburn and the goldberg business reporter for the new york times, and nicholas carlson, global editor in chief of insider but first, let s bring in cnn s tom foreman to break down this explosive propublica report. tom. hey alison. the revelations in this propublica reporter really quite astonishing about justice clarence thomas, his wife, jenny and harlan crow. he is a texas real estate tycoon worth a lot of money, big donator to conservative causes. so what went on here? a lot of travel, paid for by crow and enjoyed by the justice and his wife, according to this report from propublica, where indonesia. new zealand, california, georgia, texas. a reporter behind this said some sort of travel some sort of perk seem to be happening almost every year for 20 years. among the other perks. yeah travel onboard a super yacht whe
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judge jeanine pirro, kevin walling, dana perino, and pensive greg gutfeld. it s 5:00 in new york city, and this is the five. donald trump making a triumphant return to washington to unite the republican party. and it was, as the former president would say, a total love fest. trump getting a rock star reception from congressional republicans. at one point house g.o.p. members started singing happy birthday to him. why don t we all? happy [laughs] and senate republicans gave him a cake. trump turned 78 tomorrow, the former president come on a mission to get everybody on board to win big this november and save america from the biden catastrophe. sources telling fox news went went down in the closed door dop meeting, trump ripping the biden doj as dirty, no good bastards over his lawfare campaign against them and also called joe biden. later on, trump touting the republican unity. we have great unity. we have great common sense. a lot of very smart people in this room
well, this isn t a capital offense, but no, but others are. i ll let you finish. you and i read these opinions. these are the same judges who say, you missed the filing deadline, so we re not going to review this execution. they re sticklers when they want to be. exactly, and certainly as i when i was talking to one ethics law prof soft today who said, they expect others to toe the line, so they should to. may not understand that some of these big business people, as you put it, are throwing this money around so they can claim they have a win a justice, that may not be true, but it looks that way, and that s why the appearance of impropriety is enshrined as something that you want to avoid under the ethics