formerly president and would be the largest story in the political universe if it were about anyone else who has fewer legal problems. that is my factual introduction to the ongoing civil defamation and sexual assault/rape trial for donald trump. e. jean carroll alleges donald trump raped her in the 1990s. today is the sixth day of the trial and we are learning a lot as we are right in the heart of it. the jury also heard in a way from trump himself, but not live. instead, this jury, which is assessing these very serious allegations, heard from trump in a deposition that was taped in okay. now, there s no video of this new deposition available. we do know broadly what it looks like. it s a contrast to past depositions that trump faced. we also can tell you reporting today in what is a small portion of a 45-minute deposition was reported as evidence. this is something off the top i want to explain why it matters before i go any further. donald trump as a legal and political ma
the beat with ari melber starts right now. hi, nicolle. thank you so much. our top story is about this push that we need in america, the push for accountability as we face political lies and violence. so let me start here tonight. do you remember where you were when joe biden beat donald trump? do you remember how that entire race came down to that official call on the weekend? there was rejoicing. there was spontaneous crowds gathered in the nation. people making their own signs, walking around. it was kind of a big moment. it was unlike as a reaction, any recent president losing an election. do you remember the road to that call? because the election actually took several days to be formally resolved, but the key to that resolution i m about to show you, when the writing was on the wall, was when trump lost a state that he almost certainly needed for any hope of victory. it was arizona. among insiders, people on the campaign, people who follow this closely, steve kornac
thank you so much for letting us into your homes on this thursday. we are grateful. ari melber picks up our coverage right now on the beat. hi, ari. hi, nicolle. this is one of those times we begin with breaking news we re just getting in a story from the new york times citing four sources about the potential indictment of donald trump in new york. this is the kind of leak, the kind of indication you may have heard before and said, well, are we back to more discussion about an indictment that will never come? the answer i can t give you tonight. what i can tell you is the new york times says with more than two sources here, a foul four sources, that the d.a. in new york is looking at campaign hush money payments, the somewhat infamous payments donald trump made and that part is known and proven to stormy daniels pursuant to the 2016 campaign. what many saw as a cover up but s never been charged. here s the headline from the new york times, prosecutors signal cri
now. welcome to the beat, our top story is new developments right now in what s shaping up to be the case of the decade for trying to hold liars accountable with real swift justice. fox news on defense, facing over a billion dollars for punishment and lies, it served up and fed the insurrection. as you see here, top fox hosts have clearly been on team trump in public for a long time. we know that. we know sean hannity broke all journalistic rules of pretense by endorsing and publicly campaigning for trump. there s no court punishment for breaking that kind of rule. there just isn t. but there can be penalties for malicious lying, for defamation if you can prove the defendant acting knowingly, maliciously, intentionally. that s hard to prove and that difficult standard is deliberate, which is why this case has to turn on hard evidence, not asking whether hannity is biassed for trump, he is. but asking whether hannity knowingly and maliciously pushed lies that caused immeas
thank you so much for letting us into your homes during these extraordinary times. we are grateful. the beat with ari melber starts right now. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber and this is the final friday until the elections. we head into the weekend campaigning, four days out from election day and the campaigns are bringing out some of the big guns. i said it was up to the citizens of pennsylvania, and of course, but i will tell you all this. if i lived in pennsylvania, i would already have cast my vote for john fetterman for many reasons. there it is. that s oprah pushing democrats in the key battleground state of pennsylvania. we can report that tomorrow, there will be rallies there with biden, trump, and obama. so if you think about it, if there s one thing both parties do seem to agree on right now on this final friday heading into the midterms weekend, it is that pennsylvania is clearly important. important because it s close and it could decide control of