recommended a series of charges that she now needs to think about whether she wants to take to a regular grand jury and actually obtain an indictment, but this is a long and intensive investigation that gathered quite a lot of evidence and the writing the smoke signals at least seem to be that she is quite serious about pursuing election charges and possibly even racketeering charges. maya, i want to bring you in. i mentioned that if this was legal coachella the only reason that we re giving georgia third, fourth billing in the news today is there s other big acts, right? if you have beyonce in new york, you only get to it later. but on any other stage, on any other normal day, random monday, this would be a huge deal. i almost notice it s not really ricochetting the same way. but as mentioned i want your analysis of it. you don t usually see people, especially politicians, but people in general kind of jump in and say hey, i don t know if you re going to indict me, here s a big fi
so this is right now a live and supersized edition of the beat. i m ari melber. we are watching all the fallout from donald trump saying this weekend that he ll be arrested. that means he could become the first president ever arrested and indicted. the d.a. of new york appears to be poised to wrap up this probe. and that means either they reach a declination, they don t charge him, or when the probe ends they do. an indictment of trump would be significant and literally historic. here s how the new york times puts it. he would be fingerprinted. he would be photographed. and based on the truth social posts over the past few days, the threat clearly has trump rattled. i ve told you if you ve been watching earlier, or you re just joining us now at the top of the 5:00 p.m., mr. michael cohen, who was down on the premises today where the grand jury was meeting, joins me live. that s in our next hour. so you may be interested to stick around for that. but we have a lot going on now. maya
congressional cycle. this is about a life cycle. it s lives we re trying to protect. we have a long history of fighting cycle after cycle but we re not going to go away in this one. and one thing we have seen and we have heard is that there is an opportunity for discussion and movement. we ll meet with everybody, both sides of the aisle, because this isn t just about what any elected official says. this is about what communities say. this is about what people demand from their politician, and we have people demanding this from their politicians all over the country whether it s a red state or blue state, a red district or a blue district. believe it or not people who need protection from police brutality live everywhere. maya, i really appreciate you putting this in the longer term context and the last cycle of one congress and congresses come and go, we know that. and as you say people are working nonstop on this. i wonder what you thought
all communities safe, and all of us should be able to agree that bad policing has no place in any american city or community. we are working with the president, his team, the senate, and the house. this is going to require all of us including republicans to get across the finish line. we recognize that, but we are committed to meaningful, substantive reforms, and a focus on public safety for all communities. joining us now president and ceo of the conference on civil and human rights, maya wily. when you hear those words meaningful and substantive reform, what chances do you think this congress has when the last one failed of passing exactly that? the way we have been discussing it both with past and senate leadership and as the civil rights community we remain
capitol hill, and frankly fights are going on in statehouses for these reforms that will keep us safe. and one of the things sharpton reminded all of us in his remarks of tyre nichols heart breaking funeral is this is a fight we fight now, a fight we fight tomorrow, and as you ve heard mrs. wells, tyre nichols mother saying, it s a fight we aren t going to stop having and there is a conversation happening. and i will say this, it is a real one about what reform can happen now, what progress we can make. we will continue to demand the george floyd justice and policing act is the starting point. that will not change, and we ll continue to make sure there s meaningful, substantial change that people on the ground can feel so there s more accountability and policing. maya wily, president and ceo of the leadership conference on human rights thank you for