during these extraordinary times. we are grateful. the beat with ari melber starts right now hi, ari. thanks, nicolle welcome to the beat. i m ari melber we are tracking several stories, including maya wylie we begin with the escalating heat on defendant donald trump the nation watched as he came to new york for the first criminal arraignment of his life, a legal requirement, not a choice. trump had to sit in court for this unusually long i rainment which included a rare rebuke by the judge for threats he had been making. those threats part of a second civil case also filed this week by the d.a. dealing with the clash of some house republicans. here s the news right now. today donald trump is back in new york again and again under court order. these are not trips that he chose. they have been forced on him by the law and how often he is on allegedly, under the allegations, the wrong side of the law. if you re trying to keep track or it seems like this stuff is happening
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 back. good to be back thank you. welcome to the beat. we have breaking news right now in the prosecution of donald trump in new york. we are tracking a brand new legal filing from the manhattan d.a., a name that many across america know since donald trump was arraigned, d.a. alvin bragg. and it s related to this new case, new york versus donald trump. it s out late today and we have the filing i m going to get into these two pieces of it this is what the filing looks like, and this is what it looks like when the former president threatens the d.a., creating criminal evidence, which we re seeing put in more than one case this is brand new. didn t know it was coming. what we have is an aggressive move here by this d.a. to protect the legal jurisdiction to stay on offense in new york on the prosecution of donald trump for s
in penalties as well as forced changes they say will protect the citizens of new york and protecting those doing business honestly they ll seek a judgment to permanently bar donald trump and his family colleagues from doing this business in the state the argument being while in this other case he s not facing criminal punishment, the argument being if he s convicted through this process, they have to protect others from this kind of habitual fraud. in that case, civil is a smaller case than we have been uncovering the d.a. is under offense. he s suing trump s maga allies. suing the court to protect the independence of this probe we have been reporting on this, how d.a. bragg is using a more proactive and legally aggressive approach than the past prosecutors who have tangled with donald trump, who is an unusual defendant. i think even he would say so it appears to d.a. has learned
to stay on offense in new york on the prosecution of donald trump for stated felonies. now, this new filing, which i said, brand new, got it late today. if you haven t heard, you re hearing now is suing specifically top republicans in congress for interfering in the prosecution. now, if you re thinking that s unusual, it is indeed the new york times today calls this case and filing a, quote, extraordinary step to counter what the republicans in congress are trying to do. the judiciary chairman you may have heard of, jim jordan, was trying to subpoena veterans of this d.a. s office there s no big amount of funding to link them them d.a. is local. local prosecutors around new york and the nation operate separate with no oversight from the federal congress that s the context for what i m about to report if you bragg s suit, what he calls a brazen and unprecedented attack.
extraordinary push, and what you think about the proactive or aggressive side we re seeing of d.a. bragg. ari, this has never happened before i don t remember a situation where a local d.a. has sued member of congress, the judiciary committee, and he s also sued mark pomeranz who s also a member of the d.a. s office at one point. and what they re asking for here is really significant. they re asking for relief that s known at injunctive relief in other words, a court order that directs jim jordan and other members of the house judiciary committee to basically not subpoena anybody in the district attorneys after office, not subpoena mark pomeranz, and to get a judicial ruling that such a subpoena is improper under our rules of federalism. what this complaint alleges in essence is that the house judiciary committee and jim