nice to see. thank you very much. i want to welcome everybody to the beat, i m ari melber, we begin this week with the continuing fallout. the consequences and the very real losing defendant donald trump. in this case, it was all about his lies, e. jean carroll, and that record breaking 83 million dollar penalty. over $80 million that the jury is awarding e. jean carroll. that s significant for her. for a total of 83 point $3 million. that s a high eight figure award. e. jean carroll smiling. a victory lap outside of manhattan courthouse after a jury awarding her a staggering $83 million in damages. those staggering damages have real consequences. we re gonna go through them right now for you. first of all, for donald trump, one is that the legal finding in punishment is breaking through, even on fox. the 83 point $3 million, that s staggering. this thing has exploded on him. the more times that you engage in this behavior, when you ve got no warning, you really
good evening. former president trump turns up the gaslight claiming the damning tape of him showing off classified material at his golf club is normal. exclusive reporting. rudey giuliani talking to federl investigators. we begin with the forger pres former president running a play he has used time and time again. trying to do damage control today after we played an au audiotape that cnn obtained in which he is boasting about and seemingly showing off a classified war plan he was not allowed to have to people not allowed to see it. the audio was recorded with his knowledge at his bedminster golf club in july of 2021 and is expected to be evidence at his upcoming trial. i want to replay a portion of it for you now before showing you his remarks today about it so there s no doubt whatsoever about what he is now trying to g gaslight away. this wins my case. it s highly confidential, secret information. look at this. this was done by the military, given to me. i think we ca
obstruction, conspiracy, lying and espionage. what happens now? when it comes to republicans in congress, this time it is not so certain. a lot of them are split. some are willing to stick by donald trump, like senator eric schmidt of missouri who said that the charges are, quote, unequal application of the law. nor senator john barrasso of wyoming who said, quote, it feels political, it s rotten. others are being a little more cautious. after all, these are espionage charges. there s, quote, no way to defend the allegations said rep don bacon of nebraska. i would not feel comfortable with a convicted felon in the white house, said a rep from colorado. there isn t a clear ideological common denominator within this split. we re going to explore why that is. what is clear, and maybe this is part of the reasoning for some is that this indictment might not be the only criminal trouble that former president trump could be in. there are two more investigations related to overturnin
as it is getting closer to birmingham. here s a quick peek at what he looked like smiling after decades and a peruvian person. he is held there in the death of a difference a young woman. after the natalie holloway case. smiling as he mugged for the cam is a little bit in peru. he is charged are being brought back here because he is being charged with trying to extort a quarter of a million dollars from the family as he dangled leads to finding her body to them for money. and it led to nothing. but more heartbreak for the holloway family. their daughter natalie was 18 years old when she vanished during a graduation trip in aruba. in 2005. her body was never found. ted williams is life in birmingham, alabama where the family is from and where vandersloot s plane is about to arrive. tj ward worked for the family has a private investigator during this case in aruba, following up on those leads that lead nowhere at that time. geraldo rivera covered this case extensively for fox n
engaging in insurrection. plus explosions across ukraine after what kyiv calls the biggest wave of russian air attacks since the start of the invasion. and the moment people ran for their lives as a rogue wave slammed into the california coast. good morning. i m kasie hunt. it is friday, december 29. happy friday. 5:00 a.m. in washington and in maine, 2:00 a.m. out in california. those two states have differing decisions on whether to remove trump from the primary ballot over the 14th amendment insurrectionist ban. in california the secretary of state opted to keep trump on the ballot despite pressure from the lieutenant governor to remove the former president. contrast that with maine where yesterday democratic secretary of state 1450sheena bellows disqualified trump writing that it was an insurrection at the behest of then president trump. it became clear that it was an attack on the rule of law, that it was an insurrection and that the u.s. constitution does not tolera