many voices out there, the only voice that matters is the voice of the jury, and the jury has spoken. manhattan district attorney alvin bragg speaking yesterday following the historic conviction of former president donald trump on all 34 counts in the criminal hush money trail. trump becomes the first former u.s. president in american history to be convicted of a crime. the verdict was read just around 5:00 p.m. in a new york city courtroom after the 12 jurors deliberated for roughly 9 1/2 hours over two days. each of the 34 felony counts is associated with a falsified business record pertaining to trump s reimbursement of his former attorney and fixer, michael cohen, for a hush money payment to adult film actress stormy daniels during the 2016 presidential campaign, to keep her quiet about a sexual encounter she says she had with trump back in 2006. trump has denied her claim. sentencing is set for july 11th, just four days before the republican national convention begins
during these extraordinary times. we are grateful. the beat with ari melber starts right now. hi, ari. hi, nicolle. thank you so much. we have news out of the supreme court. today is one of its last three scheduled decision days, and the news is a clue that the court may be slightly backing off its anti-roe and anti-choice rulings as of late. i say a clue, not a formal ruling yet, because while the court has not issued its ruling about whether to possibly allow emergency abortions in idaho, a very conservative state that has limited them, today i can tell you something unusual. the supreme court s website appeared to accidentally post what appears to be that draft decision. and it would, according to what i m telling you, which is apparently a mistake in leak or draft of it, it would allow those procedures under that draft. so, this is an apparent clerical digital error. and it marks a win for the biden administration. the draft of six justices siding with the biden doj
welcome to the beat weekend, i m ari melber, let s get right into the headlines. tonight, political junkies are eyeing these key places of the presidential election will be decided, and states where either biden or trump could win with close margins. that s what is going to come down to pick if there is one thing, that both of these campaigns agree on is this a race will turn out what you see on those screens. those key states, even holding some rallies as you see there on the left in a state they lost by over 20 points last time. the race is going to be decided in texas where biden visited this year pick the state to highlight border security. for all the focus on what the candidates are doing on what is happening, out there as they campaign and make their arguments and talk about policy, what s actually going on in these states could matter more right now. and i will tell you what people are talking about their. basically anything except the campaign. check the front pages
Donald, you are a snivelling coward, Leave Heidi The Hell alone. Prime minister theresa may attends her last summit of eu leaders before brexit talks. Will britain really be landed with a 60 Billion Euro divorce bill . Well hearfrom berlin. Well speak to Donald Trumps preferred choice for uk ambassador to washington, nigel farage about his friendship with the president. And were in arkansas to hear from the voters the president calls the Forgotten Men And Women of america. Im katty kay in washington, christian frasers in london. Are we seeing the return of american hard power in the middle east . The United States has just sent some 400 troops to syria to fight against so called Islamic State. The deployment is made up of marines and army rangers who are there to help capture the is stronghold of raqqa. They reportedly arrived in the past few days to establish an outpost from which they will be able to fire artillery at is positions around 20 miles away. The White House Press Secretary
Paragraphs talking about written by nice reporter, now i dont remember, he goes i done remember. Maybe thats what i said. This was 14 years ago. They didnt do a retraction. Special guest, someone active in politics and concerned about the Direction Politics is heading right fou. What did you think and feel when you watched meryl streep talk about a man going o be our president mocking someones disability . I thought she said what she said beautifully. Its easy enough to see the video online of trump mocking i agree with meryl it was heartbreaking moment and so beneath the dignity of the
presidency let alone any pt respectful person. What we need more is kindness and common decency. And what he did how he reacted how he needs he has the need to talk back and insult anybody who doesnt agree with him, thats pretty disgraceful. What do you make of the critique that meryl streep made last night you can push this and it becomes norm. You define deantsy. This kind of behavior become the norm.