see you. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. i hope you stay with us. tonight we begin with developments that i think really offer a kind of a contrast in this period of legal reckoning and accountability we have been talking about together because we were thinking about this for tonight s show. if you look at all of the prosecutors and all the investigators and all of the probes that donald trump has faced, including squaring off against big-time experienced investigators like prosecutor and former fbi director mueller, there were crimes found. there were issues that ensnared donald trump s aides. but even as the now-two-year probe of a public insurrection and attempt the coup has grinded on and on and not reached donald trump or most of his top aides, there are more clear signs and steps that show one prosecutor on a different fact pattern, a different case, has proven able to legally get farthest against donald trump and make precedent. i m talking about the new yor
agreement for $130,000. what is your response to them saying try to put forward. it will fail miserably on its face. emilie, when you have a case like this with so much public attention, you tend to get more of it sort of flushed out in public than i think is traditional for at least local d.a. prosecutions. so i wonder as a broader question do you think this times reporting may reflect the people in the office watched the back and forth and thought it would be nice to have something beyond this one witness? it s possible. it s also possible that this information is coming from someone defending trump or weisselberg that they think it will look bad, that the district attorney s office is putting this pressure on, and they are using these to bolster their clients interest. we have seen leaks from the trump camp in other cases and contexts that first seems
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president again and the republican party has largely continued to embrace that while next week, if ron desantis makes a certain announcement, they may have what they consider a conservative alternative to this indicted legally avalanched but presumptive or likely nominee of their party. that s the context for all of this. i want to bring in someone who has been thoughtful about all of these issues, the intersection of these lyle issues. that s legal writer for the new york times magazine emilie basalan. i tried to broaden the context because it s easy to have this be wrongly normalized. oh, yeah, he lost that case. he doing this other thing. it s a lot. the system seems to continually find him civilly liable for those sexual assault claims, quite serious, defamation against the accuser, open trial and now the weisselberg news. your view on all of it? well, i think one thing that s really interesting about the idea of trying to again, to