our calendars. yes ought to use a pencil, not a pen. it s monday, august 14th, it s a little less than two months from right now, and that is the day that judge aileen cannon has set for the trial of donald j. trump in the case having to do with classified documents, the legally and dangerously illegally and dangerously kept by him at a mar-a-lago. relatively speaking, that s soon, perhaps surprising given judge cannon s history of rulings considering to be favor to believe the disgraced ex-president who apointed her. but things get murky. the date august 14th is subject to delay, maybe delay after delay. in addition to what one would normally expect, illegal tactics, on one side to drag things out, there is another complicating factor, and that is complexities having to do with the classified material itself and something called the classified information procedures act. as we said, we re using pencils at this point, not pens. our experts will explain all of it in greater
the beat with ari melber starts right now hi, ari. hi, noik coalle there s a lot happening, but that interview was certainly news making. also an exclusive many people would want so since i have you for a second, what came through to you on more than one topic talking to this fox producer turned whistle-blower it s so amazing you want to jump off the thor and process everything you heard. then we had another hour to do, soy haven t processed it i think what i m most impacted by, other than any human being going through this process of being part of and i said to her, look work cover the damage that i feel fox has done to our democracy by broadcasting lies to its millions of viewers you helped produce them. how does that work and she talked about wanting to advance her career but realizing now what she was a part of but the thing that strikes me is once again we are talk about an alleged toxic culture, a culture of misogyny. she alleged anti-semitism at fox news and th
the twice impeached disgraced ex-president to overturn his election defeat. it s a glaring and unavoidable fact that mike pence one of the key stories of january 6th and the person that the entire plotry lied on doing what trump wanted him to do. he never testified about what happened to him or what made his whole family and the secret service detail run or what happened to the country for that matter under oath. today we have news of a potential break through on that front specifically. a federal judge ordered mike pence to testify before the federal grand jury under oath. that grand jury is investigating the january 6th insurrection and donald trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. judge boseberg rejected donald trump s and mike pence s efforts to block a subpoena. trump s lawyers asked the judge s predecessor to limit pence s testimony claiming certain issues were off limits because of executive privilege that protects communications between the president and some
epstein. a second day talking to investigators. abc reporting after several hours of questions, he s back for more prosecutors looking at his conversations and interactions with trump attorneys like giuliani and john eastman, and trump himself the washington post has reported that epstein s speak to trump in the current era as many as five times a day. which means there is a lot linking him and the former president in ways that these investigators are interested in. as for the names, they re familiar, because they are part of the controversial set of advisers who were helping try to normalize, see the ground for, or execute on a coup plot. all of them, the three i just mentioned have been recommended for criminal prosecution by the january 6th committee, which was serving in the last congress abc also reports that smith personally sat in on part of epstein s interview thursday he, as the leader of this investigation, did not lob any questions, which would be typical, but he
murder charges against ex-officers there in that case will continue later in the program with maya wiley. we also have a twist in the trial of trump aide peter navarro, that had been slated to start monday. i have a breakdown on that coming up. a lot of new information. and we ll get into why it matters. the top story right now is new evidence in the continuing domestic terror that this nation faces. right-wing political violence. authorities releasing new footage from that attack on the spouse of former speaker pelosi. paul pelosi. the violent and disturbing footage shows the attackers approach on the pelosi s home and the horrific attack, i think we can look at this in full. this was 11 days before the midterm election. this is the political violence that many republican officials failed to condemn or even minimize. here s what police found when they confronted the intruder. [ bleep ] yeah, hi, guys. how you doing? how are you? what s going on, man. everything s g