spending part of your monday with us. we are grateful for that. the beat with ari melber starts right now. hi, friend. i, ali. thank you so much. welcome to the beat , everyone. and i m ari melber. i m just gonna start like this. if you go back to 2015, which is a different time in american politics, there was major interest in finding some sort of alternative to the burgeoning trump maga onslaught. one conservative wrote a whole book about what he cast at the time as potentially informed conservative alternative to what he called the reprehensible donald trump. a book which advances his own profile so much that you saw an opening to run for office. and then, as you see in the images on your screen, this individual lived out the very trumpism, that reprehensible dogma, that he spent all his time documenting and fighting against which is what he wrote about. but he figured out that after doing all of that and doing the book, that trump could help him win what he, want a s
actions might have caused harm to our national security. curiously, republicans on the hill aren t asking those same questions. in fact, most don t seem very fazed at all by this. the hypocrisy of folks in my party, that spent years spending wiping a server, are now out there defending a man who very clearly did not take the national security of the united states to heart, and will be up to the doj whether or not that reaches a level of indictment. but, this is disgusting, in my mind, and no president should act this way, obviously. it is disgusting. republicans are silent, because what trump did was wrong, and they know it. he potentially put the united states in danger, there is no doubt about it. and worse, he is still putting americans in danger, as the washington post reports, trump and his cronies have put rank and file civil servants in harm s way after the mar-a-lago search. attorney general garland faced online assassination threats, he decried the rising unfou
donald trump, now convicted felon, stands across these three criminal enterprises . we made this based on our legal analysis and reported it for the first time last night but the underlying facts are known but here they are together. the leaders have been convicted of serious crimes across quite a long range of time. trump s new convection is still sinking in across the nation and the process will play out. he is awaiting sentencing. it completes this picture of criminality that surrounds him because of the people he picked and whom he often stood with and they stood by him as long as they divide police and law enforcement and defended him, they stay together. this band of, quite literal, convicted felons. criminals. while last week was understandably first focused on the conviction of one man, in order to see the broad reality you have to see how his conviction did cap off these years of crimes by many people across different enterprises. only now is he joining those other a
i will explain what that meant. also, another trump aid headed to prison. a day to turn himself in but we have that story later this hour and why it matters. that bannon will join convicted felon peter navarro in prison but that is coming up plus a report on president biden marking the important d-day anniversary. why is it important to the president, to our nation and some of the threats and issues we face now. as i mentioned, by the end of this hour, the return of kermit the frog. why? legendary director ron howard makes his debut and how he is teaming up with kermit and the whole gang. i invite you to get comfortable for that hour. we have a lot of news tonight. and some fun. our top story draws on a long history of tradition of respecting jury verdicts that is key to understanding what we are witnessing right now, dangerous and largely unprecedented attacks on jury verdicts from the highest levels of the government that we are seeing. it has been about one week are abou