the. i am ari melber. i will be joining you now for the next two hours of a special holiday edition of the bee tonight on this friday december 29th. donald trump s criminal trial several looming in 24. that s where we begin tonight, and we ll do it a little different tonight here for the holidays. i have former federal prosecutor joyce vance, already with me to start the show. we are looking at this legal heat coming up. i want to get into this with the, joyce, but first show you and every something we put together to consider the historic indictments on the road that donald trump has already been on. donald trump has been indicted under seal of the new york grand jury. 34 felony counts of falsified business records. we have one set of laws in the country that we apply to everyone. this will now be months if not the next year of our lives. the former president was placed under arrest on charges brought by the government he once led. the guy running for president
justice is blind now. that s a lofty standard. sta but because americans have long believed in fairnessndarericans, and because most of the people in charge of administering that system have behave d in good faith, this country has, for liv the most part, lived up to its core ideal for two hundred and fifty years, making it the greatest country in the world. but the populist surgthe of 2016 changed everything permanent. washington s suddenly felt more threatened by its own voters, by american voters than by any foreign adversary, donald trump. dom, seem more dangerous than isis. they panicked and in their panic, our leaders decided to turn the american legal system as well as thete american intel agencies and if necessary, the u.s. armyopponen. against their political opponents. they felt they had n theyo choin doing this. they abandoned the ancient principld e of equality under the law, and they replaced it with what is effectively a loyalty oath. opponents of the regime
cont law enforcement community to try to control him and tod control his presidency. thisrussia is the central exampe of this. they tried desperately to keepop him from pursuing detente with russia. they tried desperately pursuin wi him from holding that summittino with vladimir putin to try look what relationship between our two countries. now, look what has happened now. s happened nowt hehe is out of . we are on the brink of a world war. a w tucker. er as soon a as soon as they pushed him outsy of office, look what happened. o weut o are now almost in a nucle conflict over the borders of ukraine. of ukraine so you ask what is so you ask me, what is donaldcr. trump s crime? we k a financialnow it sw it crime. not a we know it s not a campaignpaig finance crime. his crimn e is refusing to bow or bend to the corrupt and rotten foreign policy establishment that is used to always, alwaysii get in their way in this country. t ha is much greater syste control over our system.f us i think
the new command. they sold 007 ntts basically collectible digital images. more and more film makers turning to nfts to fund movies before they are made. what the hell is an nft what s the nft. with crypto basically there is nothing to hold, no notes, no canvas, cryptocurrencies exist only in the online ether. transactions ownership information, stored in something called blockchains. secure, decentralized digital databases. no government monetary policy gets in the way. that worries some of the security conscience crypto can be used to landrieu money, finance crime, and there are other cautionary tales.