By Special Counsel jack smith. And then thursdays arraignment on the most grave case of all, this new indictment and arraignment for donald trump, the defendant, over his failed effort to overthrow democracy. We begin there tonight because we have a special for you tonight. Its called indicted the coup conspiracy. A detailed look into trumps failed coup plot with new reporting and context from that detailed Speaking Indictment this week. If youve been following this all really closely, so have we. Weve been working to bring you an even more indepth set of reports tonight. If you happen to be catching up after a long week, ive got a onestop shop for you on what really matters and what weve learned. And by the way, if you are a longtime viewer, i know some of you are, you might recall about a year ago, we broke down trumps efforts to overturn the 2020 Election Results along that grid, how his desperation and his plotting grew as all the legal challenges lost in court and he turned to plo
spending part of your monday with us. we are grateful for that. the beat with ari melber starts right now. hi, friend. i, ali. thank you so much. welcome to the beat , everyone. and i m ari melber. i m just gonna start like this. if you go back to 2015, which is a different time in american politics, there was major interest in finding some sort of alternative to the burgeoning trump maga onslaught. one conservative wrote a whole book about what he cast at the time as potentially informed conservative alternative to what he called the reprehensible donald trump. a book which advances his own profile so much that you saw an opening to run for office. and then, as you see in the images on your screen, this individual lived out the very trumpism, that reprehensible dogma, that he spent all his time documenting and fighting against which is what he wrote about. but he figured out that after doing all of that and doing the book, that trump could help him win what he, want a s
bret baier had a chance to interview donald trump last night, and you ll see that exclusive shortly on mediabuzz. just two days from the new hampshire primary which which the media say could be nikki haley s last chance to stop donald trump, but after trump s land are slide win in monday s iowa caucuses with just over half the vote, a journalistic counterspin is emerging. ah, what s the big deal? it wasn t that great a win. an incumbent pulling a 51 in iowa caucuses, not exactly great. 30 of the party, it doesn t feel like voters feel like if he s convicted, they don t want to support him. yes, he won in iowa, but he really won with much smaller turnout. and enthusiasm is the way that trump wins. the big winner, of course, donald trump. he got over 50% of the vote. the big loser, of course, the republican party who is strapped to the republican loser, seven-time loser e. donald trump won the caucuses by historic margins, sorry, joe scarborough. despite being far out
andrew weissmann joins us to. he would have been great on that stage. it is not his normal form, but, it needed a courtroom approach. a more persei s, targeted question, then many of the questions we got. so, we will try to see, and we might have some suggestions. i would like to see andrew weissmann versus trump, but i would like to see it in a courtroom. that is another matter, for another day. i will be watching, lawrence. i think cnn did the best they could, it using conventional tools, and we kind of knew ahead of time that conventional tools don t work. i only hope that they are, honestly, privately, i m not asking them to admit any mistakes, publicly, but just privately, watch the game film, try to figure out what you did right, because you did two things right, and try to do time. trump is coming back to cnn. he has found a new home, he will be back. let s just hope that cnn is watching the game, film trying to figure out how to do it better. here s to fingers c
then many of the questions we got. so, we will try to see, and we might have some suggestions. i would like to see andrew weissmann versus trump, but i would like to see it in a courtroom. that is another matter, for another day. i will be watching, lawrence. i think cnn did the best they could, it using conventional tools, and we kind of knew ahead of time that conventional tools don t work. i only hope that they are, honestly, privately, i m not asking them to admit any mistakes, publicly, but just privately, watch the game film, try to figure out what you did right, because you did two things right, and try to do better than next time. you know there will be a next time. trump is coming back to cnn. he has found a new home, he will be back. let s just hope that cnn is watching the game, film trying to figure out how to do it better. here s to fingers crossed. have a good show, lawrence. thank you alex. thank you. well, donald trump, only submitting to interviews wi