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 ayman, dangerous words. donald trump s escalating attacks on the judges and prosecutors involve his criminal cases. plus, second term warning. and alarming new report about the no holds barred s legal minds trump once and his administration. and mac up max jansen s ties to the christian nationalist movement in this country. i m ayman mohyeldin, let s get started. anytime that you are alone bait looking over your shoulder. that was just one of the threats fbi investigators say an alabama man left on the voice mail of fulton county district attorney fani willis on august 6th. days before she brought charges against donald trump and 18 of his associates for seeking to overturn the 2020 election. and there were many more direct willis and fulton county sheriff patrick labonte both were not going to repeat them here. this week, federal prosecutors announced after right hansen, the second is now facing two counts of transmitting and estate threats to injure willis and labonte.
criminal cases. plus, second term warning. and alarming new report about the no holds barred s legal minds trump once and his administration. and maga mike johnson s ties to the christian nationalist movement in this country. i m ayman mohyeldin, let s get started. anytime that you are alone bait looking over your shoulder. that was just one of the threats fbi investigators say an alabama man left on the voice mail of fulton county district attorney fani willis on august 6th. days before she brought charges against donald trump and 18 of his associates for seeking to overturn the 2020 election. and there were many more direct willis and fulton county sheriff patrick labonte both were not going to repeat them here. this week, federal prosecutors announced after right hansen, the second is now facing two counts of transmitting and estate threats to injure willis and labonte. not the timing of this is noteworthy, because one day before hansen left his voice mail on august 5th,
judges issued orders in both of special counsel jack smith s criminal cases against donald trump. the d.c. case involving trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, and the florida case centered on the former president s unlawful retention of classified documents. so a flurry of legal action today for mr. trump, and i m going to get some expert legal help breaking down all of that in just a second. but perhaps the biggest legal news of today was this. the federal judge in charge of the mar-a-lago classified documents case, judge aileen cannon of course appointed by president trump, today judge cannon signaled she may push back the date of trump s trial in that case. the trial was originally scheduled to start at the end of may next year. that would put it a few months after super tuesday and a few months before the republican national convention, right in the eye of the 2020 election storm, if you will. now, judge cannon did not set a new date today, but in court she says
stake through the heart of the trump business and brand. you can see him here entering the courtroom a few hours ago. he is the first member of the family to be called as a witness by state prosecutors, but he will not be the last. his brother eric is set to testify, as well as his sister ivanka, and his dad, the ex-president himself, who is scheduled to take the stand monday. donald trump jr. along with his brother eric trump have spent their entire careers at the trump organization. eric runs day-to-day business, and trump jr. is a trustee of the business entity that technically controls the entire trump org. because of their roles, they stand accused of committing fraud for years and years and years, involving those financial statements that have been submitted by the company. in his testimony so far, donald trump jr. has been asked about his grasp of accounting on that nbc news reports, quote, he said he was aware of what g-a-a-p is, quote, generally accepted accounting p