welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. report on the new york grand jury probe of trump and the losses piling up in several criminal investigations. mike pence losing his bid to duck testifying in a new ruling while a new admission is upsending the stolen documents case. we ll bet to that later while the heat continues in new york. the d.a. brought in a a pro trump tabloid for months before the election. its headlines hyping a win. another trump ally cooperating with investigators, and this one s getting immunity for doing so. that friend, david pecker is the ceo of the national enquirer s parent company, american media. national enquirer hit president trump s secrets in a safe. you agreed to provide information about michael cohen, the president and the criminal investigation into campaign finance violations. this is a big case. this is absolutely whether the twice impeached president likes it or not, the work of manhattan district attorney alvin bragg
take the governor caught trying to sell barack obama s senate seat, rod blah guy vich. i ve got this thing and it s [ bleep ] golden. i m not give it up for [ bleep ] nothing. he didn t intend to give it up for nothing. what you heard was a wiretap he didn t realize was going on. he was not above being wiretapped just as a former president is not above having his home search ord indicted legally. so he was sentenced to 14 years. he served half that time until getting a pardon from flash flood you remember who gave him his pardon? his former apprentice castmate donald trump. we re not in a simulation, not in the wrong time line. that is what happened. only trump knows why he wanted to elevate a case involving the conviction of a candidate from the opposing party.
rod blagojevich, the loquacious former governor of illinois is not going to be speaking in front of that jury at all, even though he said or his attorneys said in opening statements that they would hear from him, the jury would hear him testify. not going to happen. they have rested. rod pwhraeu guy vich, for blagojevich, for the first time in his life, perhaps s. silent. an animal cruelty investigation underway after a disturbing promotional stunt. take a look. well, the participants who sent that docky flying up in the air were laughing. he floated to advertise a russian para sailing company, trying to drum up some business. the poor donkey was up there more than half an hour. beach goers say they were horrified when they saw the
regular costs you 2.77, that according to lund bg survey, analysts say they do not reflect the drop in crude last week, they expect the price to go down in the near future. normally we see that up memorial weekend. here it s almost labor day weekend, jumping for us. martha: you know who else is back to work this morning? the jury for the corruption trial of former illinois governor rod blai guy vich, this is very interesting, folks, the jury coming off a three-day break. no one is sure why they had friday off. a note was september to the judge suggesting they are very far at this point from reaching any verdict. mike tobin has the details to get us up to speed from the federal courthouse in chicago. what do we expect if anything we re going to hear today from this jury? reporter: that s a good question. right now we re just waiting on this jury to show up and see if they can break this deadlock that has caused them to take so long, 13 days of deliberation and they ve only decided two