times. we are grateful. the beat with ari melber starts rights now. hi, ari. thanks so much. i m ari melber, and yes, this is another busy news night. we have one of the special reports we have been working on this is brand new, and i m going to share with you tonight. it is about how donald trump as a client has been likened to a mob boss by his own lawyers. how the lawyers who have gotten in trouble have been the biggest assistants, factual, evidentiary and otherwise to the prosecutors pursuing trump, and how there s a lawyer we ve heardless about but i m going to get into details tonight, who can be a key, a lynch pin in any federal indictment. as we come on the air as well as the news we brought you tonight. we brought you a reporter who broke it last night, and now it s everywhere, not being disputed that the doj formally targeted donald trump for indictment. i ll walk you through what that means. number one, it s the clearest signal that charges at this time are p
they went to law school, it probably wouldn t be the top law schools in the country. then there are the elite establishment lawyers like ty cobb, like don mcgahn, who i think try think that they can change donald trump, that the system, they can fit him into the rule of law. and you know, we saw as you said in the mueller report, don mcgahn trying and trying again, and really, you know, struggling there. and i think it s also i don t know if you noticed, but i reported in my book kushner inc. , the reason trump hired don mcgahn was not because he was an establishment lawyer inside the republican community. it was because trump knew his father, and he represented him and had been on the other side. he said patty mcgahn was a nasty piece of work.
hotels. and the key person they dealt with was patty mcgahn, donald s fixer, the uncle of don mcgahn, the current white house counsel. and among giuliani s other clients, apparently, jared kushner s bank. a bank that s paid over $6 hurricane million in fines for laundering russian money and the only bank that directly loans to donald. so there are lots of things here. by the way, how can this case be settled in a week or two? only if donald trump were to decide to come in and confess. and after all he said this week that he s confident michael cohen won t flip on him. if you haven t done anything wrong, what could he flip on you for? it does beg the question. thank you, david johnston. up next, michael cohen remains