significant shift. jacqui: it would be, a year ago i asked the white house about russia using the weapons. jen psaki said we have seen the reports, if that were true it would potentially be a war crime. jack a war crime. see how the white house explains the shift in thinking. tom cotton applauding the move, saying it s long pastime we give ukraine equal access to the same weapons that putin is using. mike: first to america s crime crisis. jacqui: a heartbreaking story out of our nation s capital as a former afghan interpreter for the u.s. army who served for nearly two decades assisting americans in afghanistan was senselessly shot and killed while working as a lyft driver. he escaped the taliban less than two years ago, moving his family to what he thought was safety. mike: the father of four was killed monday shortly after dropping off customers. security video capturing four suspects running from the scene. jacqui: do we have any idea of leads here? this is
ephemeral legislation. yeah. that went from being the word of the day a couple days ago, to now i think it s the word of the week. ephemeral or malodorous, it s one of the two. it s still early. we have a couple hours ahead. maybe we can find another one. meanwhile, the florida governor is seizing on a potential weakness in trump s third presidential bid. we ll show you what he had to say about that, and how he responded to questions about his last name. is it desantis, is it december desantis? did he answer it? he did, and it was unrevealing. huh. republicans are still upset with kevin mccarthy over the debt ceiling deal. wah. one calling for a day of reckoning. are you kidding me? it is a day of reckoning for the extremists, who thought that they were going to be able to hold, not only congress and kevin mccarthy and the president hostage, but also hold the united states economy hostage. they weren t able to do it. these guys struck a deal, and struck a
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
weeks. ok. we are going to have to leave it there weeks. ok. we are going to have to leave it there for weeks. ok. we are going to have to leave it there for the weeks. ok. we are going to have to leave it there for the moment. - weeks. ok. we are going to have to l leave it there for the moment. thank you so much for your insight. to stay with us here on bbc news. plenty more to come about the settling of dominion versus fox news. and let s turn to moscow, where a court has as expected rejected the appeal against the pre trial detention of the us journalist evan gershkovich. have a look at these images of evan gershkovich appearing in court. the russian authorities accuse him of spying charges which he and his employer, the wall streetjournal, strongly deny. he appeared at the same court where, yesterday, an opponent of president putin was convicted of treason and sentenced to 25 years in prison. i m joined now by the head of the global magnitskyjustice campaign,
that came to mind as we stood for the pledge what america stands for is under threat and it s really serious we see it in this preposterous prosecution of donald trump in new york, what does it say in the pledge liberty and justice for all, even ex-president you may hate or as it says on the front of the supreme court equal justice under law. is even for presidential candidates you may be desperate to stop, of course no one is above the law but no one is below it either. all week you ve been hearing the details about why this case is trumped up and ludicrous we don t need to spend time on that tonight only the most demented and cultish trump partisan would take any of the seriously unfortunately most of the media seem to be demented and trump hating partisans these days. there you go the important point is this, the privacy over the rule of law in america is one of the things that america has most been admired for its one of the things i most admire america for from afar, now