a special holiday edition of the last word. 2024 will be another year of defendant trump and another election here in which democracy itself is once again at stake. the republicansha only a three state majority in the house of representatives. the democrats have only a one seat majority in the united states senate with democratic senators facing difficult campaigns in ohio, montana, pennsylvania, michigan, and nevada. democrats will be running on a 3.7% unemployment rate. unemployment has not been has been below 4% for 22 months, the longest stretch since 1969. president biden was at a temperature of ain t at the cop with this international training center in battleground state of nevada. on the final jobs report floor 2023 was released. folks, all this project stands in stark contrast to my predecessor. he always talked about infrastructure week. [laughter] four years of infrastructure week, but it failed. he failed. on mount watch, the state of infrastructure week ameri
good evening. happy holidays. welcome to the beat. i am ari melber. i ll be joining you the next two hours for a special holiday edition of the beat. donald trump has a criminal trial problem. he has several trials looming in 2024. that s where we begin tonight. we ll do it a little different for the holidays. former federal prosecutor joyce vance with me to start the show. we re looking at this legal heat coming up. i want to get into this with you, joyce, but first show you and viewers something we put together to consider tonight, historic indictments on the road donald trump has already been on. donald trump has been indicted under seal by the new york grand jury. 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. we have one set of laws in this country, and they apply to everyone. this will now be months if not the next year of our lives. the former president was placed under arrest on charges brought by the government he once led. the guy who s running for
rudy giuliani. jury deliberations began today and ruby freeman and shaye moss s civil death defamation suit against giuliani, we started on monday. the two women are seeking $47 million in damages for the torrent of abuse and threats of violence that they say rudy giuliani brought on them with his lies in the aftermath of donald trump s defeat in the 2020 election. after promising monday that he would take the stand and testify in his own defense, in the lawsuit brought against him by the two election workers, he apparently had a change of heart. it s also possible that giuliani s legal team decided to putting him on the stand would be a disaster after he said this outside the courthouse on monday. whatever happened to them, which is unfortunate if other people overreact, but everything i said about them is true. do you regret what you did. of course i don t regret it. i told the truth. those remarks led the judge, beryl howell, to suggest that rudy giuliani might hav
boss of a growing bookshop empire, is a leader of this counter revolution. he s made buying physical books cool on both sides of the atlantic. how? james daunt, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. i used to use paper cash. i pretty much don t anymore. i used to write checks in a checkbook. i certainly don t do that anymore. why are you so convinced that iwill, still, continue to use ink on paper, physical books, for years to come? books remain, i think, by far and away the most pleasurable way, and most memorable way, to read most books. you can read on an e reader, of course, and that will have some advantages, particularly for some sorts of books. and millions and millions of people across the world. and millions of people happily do. and the numbers are growing. and the numbers are not growing, actually, within developed markets. in the uk, the us, for example, i think, pretty much, it reached a peak and then came down to a level and is now steadied out. lots of people enjoy d
of mariupol has been condemned by ukraine. an aide to president zelensky called the russian president, a criminal returning to the crime scene. it was the first time mr putin had been to a newly occupied ukrainian territory. now on bbc news hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. in a world fixated with the unstoppable march of the digital revolution, it s kind of refreshing to look at what s happening in the old school business of selling books. ink on paper has not been eliminated by the rise of the e book, and the good old bricks and mortar bookshop hasn t been wiped out by online shopping. my guest today, james daunt, boss of a growing bookshop empire, is a leader of this counter revolution. he s made buying physical books cool on both sides of the atlantic. how? james daunt, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. i used to use paper cash. i pretty much don t anymore. i used to write cheques in a chequebook. i certainly don t do that anymore. why are you so convince