times. we are grateful. the beat with ari melber starts rights now. hi, ari. thanks so much. i m ari melber, and yes, this is another busy news night. we have one of the special reports we have been working on this is brand new, and i m going to share with you tonight. it is about how donald trump as a client has been likened to a mob boss by his own lawyers. how the lawyers who have gotten in trouble have been the biggest assistants, factual, evidentiary and otherwise to the prosecutors pursuing trump, and how there s a lawyer we ve heardless about but i m going to get into details tonight, who can be a key, a lynch pin in any federal indictment. as we come on the air as well as the news we brought you tonight. we brought you a reporter who broke it last night, and now it s everywhere, not being disputed that the doj formally targeted donald trump for indictment. i ll walk you through what that means. number one, it s the clearest signal that charges at this time are p
of morality. televangelist pat robertson, famous for blaming gay people for 9/11, and black people for hurricanes, is dead. but his legacy of shattering the lines between church and state lives on in the quixotic presidential candidacy of mike pence. also tonight, i want to tell you about an under the radar supreme court case that could affect where special counsel jack smith brings criminal charges. as we await the possible indictment of donald trump. and surprise, chief justice john roberts and justice brett kavanaugh come to the defense of voting rights in an important victory for voters in alabama. so what happens now for all the other efforts to redraw maps to marginalize voters of color? but we begin tonight with the supreme court. there was a surprising decision today reaffirming the landmark voting rights act, and we re going to get to that a bit later. but i want to start with a lesser known case that is still awaiting a ruling by the highest court in the lan
we are getting a wealth of new details today in the criminal investigation into donald trump s handling of classified documents thanks to some pretty stunning brand-new reporting. new york times reports this. prosecutors are expected to question a new witness in front of a federal grand jury sitting in florida later this week. that is according to people familiar with the matter. at least one other witness has already appeared before that florida grand jury, which is separate from the one that has been sitting for months now in washington. why prosecutors have continue seened a separate grand jury from the one in d.c. is one of the mysteries, one of the major outstanding questions every one of us from the outside has regarding this case at the moment. wall street journal has described the action in the florida grand jury this way, as, quote, tying up loose ends ahead of a decision on possible charges. bloomberg is reporting teem trump is bracing for that decision to l
guessed it, james comey. plus the debt ceiling hostage situation was not a lesson brought about a partnership as many have suggested. i ll tell you what my takeaway was. also today, the supposedly pro business anti cancel culture right wing is acting pretty anti business and pro cancel culture lately. i ll explain that in just a few minutes. and later a trip to pennsylvania for an afternoon with one of the country s most. high profile political spaces, gisele fetterman. we talk about her childhood as an undocumented immigrant, her husband s battle with depression, in the spaces who created help families in her community. watch donald trump at the campaign trail this week was to watch somebody doing his best to make it all seem like he was just a typical front runner for the nomination. nothing to see here traveling through iowa and shaking hands and giving speeches. on the one hand he is still leading the field by a very wide margin but on the other hand he is already a crimi
do i look at the file. do i look at the special investigation? what do i start with? i will tell you to that point, as i was prepping for the show the rnc the first debate is august and i was like this august? are we there already? were there. we re officially there, my friend. have a good show, welcome back, we missed you. good evening to you, and welcome to ayman tonight. lordy, there are tapes, new reporting on that incriminating trump report about a classified documents that he had in his possession after he left the white house. then the porcelain candidate, that is how ron desantis is being described after refusing to engage with reporters, but how long can he hide in his safe space? and, republican rollback, the latest gop trend is loosening child labor laws and i m going to speak with democratic senator john hickenlooper, one of the most outspoken critics of that effort. and much more. i m ayman, let s get started. caught on tape. in an astounding develo