good evening. alex. i have some bad news for you. it s official, it s not just me saying it. george santos cannot be trusted. [laughter] that is the official verdict. i have play so much trust in him, lawrence. [inaudible] and then they go on to prove that. we will be discussing that tonight with one member of that committee. i will be watching. thanks, alice. i would echo. you can accomplish a lot in this world in nine months. we are all here, thanks to the miraculous work that our mothers did in the nine months that it took to bring us into this world. but donald trump says nine months isn t nearly enough time to prepare a criminal defense in any of the criminal cases pending against him. but in the last eight and a half months the republican-controlled house ethics committee authorized 37 subpoenas and attained and studied over 172,000 pages of documents. it conducted an investigation that was so thorough it found even more crimes committed by george santos
the beat with ari melber starts right now. hi, ari. hi, nicolle. i m going to pull a minilawrence. i was trying to give you your seconds back. we have a full breakdown of all these jury questions tonight, which is so interesting. that s what we re going to do. i can t wait. i m going to get upstairs fast enough so i don t miss anything. have a great show. thank you. thank you to nicolle. and welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. today for the first time ever, donald trump s fate in this criminal trial is now in the hands of a jury of his peers. the presides judge giving the standard and detailed instructions to these 12 jurors in a case that s anything but standard. we know that. and tonight we can report several brand-new developments from the jury s first day of deliberations, which lasted over four hours. we have now gleaned new clues about what they re discussing, what they re considering, what exact evidence and testimony they are focused on today, and presu
traveled further prosecution in the defense rested their cases. the first son will not take the witness stand. right now the court is about to reconvene after lunch break. we saw the family members filed back in. the president s brother james and also hunter biden s grown daughter naomi. closing arguments are set to begin in a few minutes. we will let you know as those things kind of unfold rapidly right now. the jury could get that case by the end of today or early tomorrow morning. this is outnumbered i am harris faulkner with emily compagno and kayleigh mcenany, host of american dream home on fox business. cheryl casone is with us. and fox & friends cohost lawrence jones is here. let s go catch up with what has been going inside that court room in wilmington, delaware. good afternoon. just about three or 4 minutes from now, it is the scheduled closing arguments for the prosecution and defense scheduled to begin here at the wilmington courthouse. that means that jer
of jury questionnaires that are incredibly detailed. both parties get to have input into what those questions are. everyone then renews those and you weed out people who obviously cannot be there simply based on the answers to those questions. and then the remaining pool of jurors are brought in and the federal judge goes over individually specific questions that are problematic to assure herself that each of those jurors can put aside whatever they have heard, whatever preconceived views they have and just base their verdict on what happens in the courtroom and that they can follow the law. it is a very detailed process and what is the foundation of our rule of law. it is inconceivable to me that this is going to be a case that
Beginning August 4, approximately 255,000 juror questionnaires will be mailed to 90,000 residents on Oʻahu, 60,000 in Maui County, 75,000 on Hawaiʻi Island, and 30,000 on Kauaʻi.