for too long marijuana possession has been used as a weapon against underserved community. whenever you look at the challenge that we face with crime in our society, it is the wrong signal, 30 days before the election. the pardons are about marijuana. expunging criminal records for people out of jail. no one is left serving time in federal prison solely for marijuana possession right now. but this is also about much more than marijuana. as some critics did seed on old tropes that stigmatize, sean hannitiy attacking as a hail mary jane. and you just heard that from a republican governor, mr. hutchinson, linking personal marijuana use to what he sees as general crime in society. that is actually the whole point, though. marijuana is no longer a crime at all in much of our society across 19 states here. some liberal. some less so. and the scare tactics about pot as a dangerous drug on par with heroin or crack have truly lost their punch in today s society. you know we re div
leadership. but boy, was this a test. and there s video from inside. it is real. it is authentic. it is striking. we should note as journalists, that it was not captured independently. it was captured by her daughter. you can factor that into the context because i always want you to know where we re getting what we show you. but no one is denying the authenticity, the vigor, the seriousness of these moments. house speaker pelosi and chuck schumer dealing with a physical security emergency. you have to remember, i m about to show you one of the new pieces of footage. no one in that room knew what was going to happen. no one knew whether these calls were going to bring in the help that was urgently needed. or whether more people would be attacked, hurt, like some of those police officers who were tragically wounded. or whether politicians would start to be assassinated by donald trump s mob. here s new video. well it s still not safe enough for us to go back. they re even sti
Ari melber is here now. What a season of gratitude. Get some rest because well be seeing a lot of you and everyone soon. Have a good show. Thanks, niccole. Welcome to the beat. Im ari melber, and with all the trial news, and more that have late they are house, the top story is political news that will help decide the election because it usually does. Today President Biden and donald trump both agreed to do two new president ial debates, the first coming next month capping weeks of posturing and negotiation that. Breakthrough came today as the Biden Campaign took control of things with a plan that was months in the making, biden using this video here to publicly challenge trump to two debates on the biden schedule with two ready partners on board, abc and cnn. If a debate starting next month sounds different than usual, earlier than usual, it is. This will now be the earliest general Election Campaign debate ever, and that actually matters not only for people tuning in and paying attent
Addition of my show. Up next, the beat weekend. Welcome to our special. The new york versus donald trump. We are bringing you this brand new breakdown of the third week of the historic and first ever criminal trial of the former president and current candidate as well. This was a tough week for the defendant. There was gripping, dramatic testimony from the woman at the center of the hush money plot, and of all the witnesses we have seen, she is the most famous through her encounter with trump, and there were testimony and key days of testimony from witnesses who were in trumps orbit, who could speak about what she said and cooperate corroborate it. We are looking at this game and how they try to influence the 2016 election. We can tell you as we recount why it was such a tough week for trump, we also know, according to the public remarks, working off the public evidence, we nowhere near the end of the thing. Two witnesses left according to the das team. We have the star witness, Michae
Welcome to our new special. New york versus donald trump. Im ari melber here. We will bring you this brand new break down of the third week of the historic and first ever criminal trial of a former president and a current candidate as well. This was a tough week for the defendant that was gripping dramatic testimony from the woman at the center of the hush money plot of all the witnesses we have seen, she has become the most famous through her encounter with trump. And there was testimony and key days of testimony for witnesses who were in trumps orbit who could speak about what she said and corroborate some of the financials. For the jury, we have more on that as well. Prosecutors have been laying out the pieces of this scheme to influence the 2016 election and we can tell you as we recount why it was such a tough week for trump, we also know according to the public remarks here, we know we are near the end of this thing. We have two witnesses left. The star witness Michael Cohen will