Thank you so much for letting us into your homes on this monday. We are grateful. The beat with katie phang and ari starts now. If i havent said it before, its really good to have you back. Thanks for being here. Thank you, my friend. Have a great show. Thanks. And to all of you welcome to the beat. Im katie phang in for ari melber. We begin with donald trump doing what he does best, trying to delay justice by claiming, wait for it, president ial immunity yet again. Today trumps legal team filing a motion to delay his new york criminal hush money trial, which is currently set to begin march 25th, just two weeks away. Trump argues the trial should wait for the United States Supreme Court to weigh in on his president ial immunity claim. Those arguments are scheduled for april 25th. Trumps legal team writing, the court must preclude the people from Offering Evidence at trial of President Trumps official acts as the commander in chief. Trump claiming that even though Stormy Daniels was pai
the court. also tonight we are expecting district attorney alvin bragg to set up the indictment in full. donald trump, we know, is due to go back to mar a lago, so we will have our eyes glued on the plane, trump forced one, as it is known, which is on standby at laguardia airport. tonight we have a top panel for you as well. with us tonight is brian lanza, former communications director for the brian lanza, former communications directorfor the trump brian lanza, former communications director for the trump transition team, marianne marsh, the democratic strategist. also tonight, we are also going to hearfrom the federal also tonight, we are also going to hear from the federal state attorney, dave ehrenberg, who is with our standing by as well. but we are going to stay with these pictures. netta, let sjust set are going to stay with these pictures. netta, let s just set the scene for our viewers tonight. the former president still in the custody of the da, so he is not fre
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Stronger the country. that would make it a stronger case because of it isjust about stronger case because of it isjust about daniels, that the state is piggybacking on a federal campaign finance piggybacking on a federal campaign finance law and that would make it uncharted finance law and that would make it uncharted territory. can a state prosecutor uncharted territory. can a state prosecutor prosecute under a campaign finance law or is there something greater at work here? thats something greater at work here? that s probably looking for. when that s probably looking for. when ou talk that s probably looking for. when you talk about that s probably looking for. when you talk about conspiracy, - that s probably looking for. human you talk about conspiracy, dave, people will be looking toward what conant said, the former fixer and the fact that he was originally charged. when he was charged he said that he was working at the direction of co conspirator one, who we understan
Manhattan criminal courthouse. his arraignment is under way. we saw back manhattan district attorney alvin bragg going into the courtroom. so it is not uncommon, even though his prosecutors will be trying this case, it is not uncommon for such high profile cases for the district attorney to make a personal appearance. so we saw him there in the front row on the prosecution side to oversee the proceedings. donald trump, we were able to get just a few photographs. the judge allowed that exception. a few still photographs as the beginning of the hearing. he looks toward the cameras but remained motionless. he chose not to address cameras going into the courtroom. so very much now waiting to see that he has pleaded not guilty to those 3a counts, felony charges of falsifying business records. so christian, we are waiting to see now if you will choose to address the cameras. when he leaves the courtroom on the 15th