letting substance abuse your homes during these extraordinary times. we are grateful. the beat with ari melber starts right now. hi, ari. hi, nicolle. thanks so much. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. today, may 4th, marks one legal conclusion in a quest for justice began on january 26th, 2021. today federal prosecutors won their big case against a key militia that first breaches the capitol, the proud boys, who donald trump specifically shouted out. now convict of sedition, the most series possible charge for an insurrection, and a rare charge in american life and law. it is proven against these four sedition conspiracy including top gun. you may remember the nation was watching in realtime, and from casual observers to security experts, many were aghast and astounded that a group would so quickly overrun the security apparatus, the police during one of the most significant national security gatherings of the year, during a time when we know all of congress and the
the judge also stating they would restrict trump from disseminaing a narrow portion of evidence in the case, which is a win for d.a. bragg. in washington you have special counsel jack smith s probes which we were just discussing with our guests. cnn reporting new subpoenas to trump employees, including matthew calamari and his son. that s pressure on the mar-a-lago side, the surveillance footage. mike pence sat down just last week in a special counsel probe where jack smith, we re learning, sat in on that testimony. meanwhile, negotiation attorney general letitia james is pursuing what i mentioned tonight. she has a civil investigation and business fraud alleging trump and his children failed to turn over require documents. there s a new deadline on that. this is someone who s of course running for president right now, but surrounded by investigations and his own trials.
insists were not just untrue but knowingly untrue. so, what you are most concerned about in investigation like this is that the fbi often starts with low lying fruit. so all of those obstruction claims involved other people, lawyers, staff, et cetera. that s probably where the special counsel is going to start. jesse: they are going to try to flip the lawyers. that s right. on the january 6th references, i don t get it crime by president trump. we haven t seen any evidence to be compelling that respect. it would be a little bit odd if they were going to replicate the current investigation in georgia. so, you know, we are not many of us are a little bit confused as to where the emphasis on that investigation will be. but i expect a greater danger is probably on the mar-a-lago side.