[speaking in a global language] [applause] welcome to the beat with ari melber. we have a big show for you tonight, prosecutor ronaldo murat he will join me as we look at jack smith s big coup case against donald trump, which faces a key appeal in january. how was matt drawn his past experience? january. that s where we begin . he s a tough prosecutor with a long record. he s led difficult and victorious cases, including, the prosecution of new york police officer, justin pulpy, who tortured abner lima, and a tory s case, which resulted in a 30-year prison sentence, unheard of for a prosecutor at the time. he was unknown prosecutor at the time. he went on to develop and expertise that other lawyers sometimes doc. the kind of cases that go at the powerful and government, police senators, heads of states. he developed experience for the pressures of those specific entities, a somewhat repetition of a prosecutor that you can pick up and call with a tough case like that. sm
the beat with ari melber starts right now. welcome to the beat with ari melber. we have a great show for you tonight wednesday, december 27th. we look at jack smith s big coup case against donald trump which faces a key appeal in january. how will smith draw his past experience? that s where we begin tonight. he s a tough, but low-profile prosecutor with a very long record. he led difficult and victorious cases including the prosecution of new york police officer justin volpe who tortured lima, smith was a younger federal prosecutor then and went on to develop something of an expertise in the hard cases that other lawyers sometimes duck. the kind of cases that go at the powerful in government or police, senators, heads of state. he developed experience for the pressures of those specific kind of cases a something of a reputation as the kind of prosecutor you actually pick up and call with a tough case like that. smith did stints in federal and local prosecutor s
these extraordinary times. the beat starts right now. hi, ari. hi, nicolle. this is one of those nights. we are tracking several developments, including a brand-new hearing over evidence in a case alleging unlawful lies by fox news. if you re thinking, wait, is this a rerun? did i dvr this? no, this is a different multibillion dollar case that the network is dealing with while reeling from the other original record defamation settlement in the defamation case. that is big. we re going to get to that. also, more tom hanks. we have new material from our interview that s airing tonight for the first time. it will be new, and i m excited to share it with you. we begin with cascading set backs and a political request that s backfiring in public with house republicans pushing on on their deep state in that nothing burger report from trump and bill barr s hand picked attorney general. you can make up your own mind about the evidence, because these kind of things involve eviden
top fox executive rupert murdoch under oath admitted election lies peddled on his network were simply a business decision, saying, quote, it is not red or blue, it is green. what else did murdoch admit? plus, when winning the battle does not end the danger. cnn treks across a booby tracked land littered with mines in ukraine. but first, the supreme court on the record. hear what the justices said about president biden s plan to cancel billions of dollars in student loan debt, and whether biden even remotely has the authority to do so. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we re starting today in the money lead in fate of president biden s plan to wipe out $400 billion, that s b with a billion now rests with the supreme court. justices today heard oral arguments in two cases challenging biden s plan. the biden administration argued yeah, they have the power to forgive financial loans in order to protect americans brought in by the covid pandemic. six republican states and
shocking video showing a migrant squeezing himself through a border fence into the u.s. and you can ask yourself whether or not this is just a preview of things to come real soon 13 days and counting. new hour starts now. dana has the day off. i m bill hemmer. shannon, you are back with us. shannon: always my pleasure to be with hemmer time. thank you so much. for dana today. officials expect upwards of 10,000 migrants to cross into our country daily, every day when title 42 ends. it is coming up on may 11. chaos is already beginning to unfold in el paso where migrants packed the city streets in high speed car chases take place on a nearly daily basis. this situation is no better on the mexican side of the border where thousands of migrants have set up camps waiting to cross as biden administration officials finally lay out a new asylum plan. bill: making migration more safe, orderly, humane. the whole model is to reach the people where they are to cut the smugglers out