alleged role in the january 6th insurrection. we ll all be able to listen live tomorrow morning. let me make it easy to follow the conversation tomorrow. you ve been hearing a lot about the 14th amendment. it s at the center of the case. it has five sections. of the five, you may only really know section one, the one about due process, laws, that one. it s the other white meat, section three. that s the one that s important, the so-called insurrectionist band. at its core it says, you can t hold office if you ve engaged in an insurrection. if it were that easy, i wouldn t have to explain it to you, would i? and the supreme court wouldn t take it up. there s a couple words you to pay attention to. it s the words that bring us here today, the court there tomorrow, and that court will dissect these words when trying to understand whether the insurrectionist ban of section three fully does apply to donald trump. the first words to consider is officer. the big question, is the pre
You know, tommy left us a note, and the note said, please forgive me, my illness won today. Look after each other, the animals and the global poor for me. All my love, tommy. So he didnt have anything in there about take some time off. And why usa usa . Usa why is america such an extraordinary country . We are not unified by virtue of being one ethnicity or one ideology or one religion. We are unified by one constitution and one rule of law and in the values under our constitution. [applause] it is an aspiration, its a challenge to us. The constitution shouldnt be some kind of fetish document. It should be the living commitment that we all have to make democracy work in the service of the common good. That is the constitution that comes out of the civil war and reconstruction. That is the constitution that we have been fighting for since then. And weve got to keep fighting for it. [crowd chanting] trump trump trump [applause] please raise your right hand and repeat after me, i donald j
tonight on the reidout what about 2024? we will see if this is a legal and valid election. just to be very clear, i don t hear you committed to certifying the election results. will you only commit to certify the results if if they re constitutional. does that mean former president trump wins? it phenes if they re unconstitutional. what we saw in 2020 was unconstitutional circumventing of the constitution. elise stefanik refusing to commit to certifying the will of the voters if trump loses. as trump himself refuses to sign a pledge not to overthrow the government. also tonight, president biden who unlike trump, supports democracy, took his message to mother emanuel ame church in charleston. amid growing concerns about his standing with black voters. but we begin tonight with the january 6th insurrection. more specifically, what went down before the violent mob stormed the u.s. capitol. at a, quote/unquote, news network called fox. as author and journali
thank you so much for spending part of your tuesday with. we re grateful. the beat with ari melber, i want to hear what you have to say about the novel legal arguments we heard today. i appreciate that. we rely as well. we watch you, novel, extreme, dangerous, you re ono something. we re going to get to it. thank you, appcie it. welcome to the beat, i am ari melber, today marked the most controversial court hearing in the coup of donald trump. we can see the motorcade driving up to the washington courthouse today. some important things happened. trump pulled up so that he, the defendant, could attend this crucial appeals hearinwhh determines if this march coup trial will happen or not. trump and psktfuelga context laid out. i want to start withhe key developments that we learned from this hearing. one, trump is likely to lose. the judges were very skeptical, across the hearing of these extreme claims. most accounts of the hearing reported on that and how all three jud
the appeal that they made? well, anderson, one of the first things that the president s lawyers take on is the idea that he is an insurrectionist, which is something that the colorado supreme court had ruled. they say he is not, that the january 6th attack was not an insurrection, and that the former president did not engage in insurrection. they also say that the congress, not state courts, should be the ones that determine the eligibility for the presidency. they also say that the 14th amendment, the letter, if you read the 14th amendment, section three, it doesn t mention the office of the presidency and it doesn t apply, they say, to the former president. i will read you a little more of what they argue. they say that this colorado ruling, if allowed to stand, will mark the first time in the history of the united states the judiciary has prevented voters from casting ballots for the leading major party presidential candidate. and obviously, that is what is at stake her