covid s that ended up being true. watch this. there were things obviously. , maybe factual but may not be harmful. are you going to censor someone for being harm if there s no harm the occasion of what they re doing? but there are other places where they take the stuff around covid earlier in the pandemic, real health implications but that hasn t been time to vet the scientific assumptions. a lot of the establishment, waffled on a bunch of facts and asked for things to be censored, more debatable or true. convenient is the word i have for that. it s kind of convenient to say that now when a majority of americans are over covid moving past it. before i go to one of you, this is mark zuckerberg talking about the 18 million post they did remove. if we see harmful misinformation on the platform and we take down, it s against our policy. when you see this, what you think? it reminds me of the hunter biden laptop story where only 18 months after the fact that all these ne
the. i am ari melber. i will be joining you now for the next two hours of a special holiday edition of the bee tonight on this friday december 29th. donald trump s criminal trial several looming in 24. that s where we begin tonight, and we ll do it a little different tonight here for the holidays. i have former federal prosecutor joyce vance, already with me to start the show. we are looking at this legal heat coming up. i want to get into this with the, joyce, but first show you and every something we put together to consider the historic indictments on the road that donald trump has already been on. donald trump has been indicted under seal of the new york grand jury. 34 felony counts of falsified business records. we have one set of laws in the country that we 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 running for president
it cannot be more perfect. also, call about a secretary of state, jena griswold is going to join us. colorado is headed apparently to the supreme court without trump. the only thing all those people have in common is that they would like to supreme court to actually weigh in on this thing and get it moving. i am excited to hear the conversation. it s going to be the year at the supreme court. thanks, ali. tonight, 77-year-old donald trump is asking a court where he appointed three of the nine judges to save his presidential campaign. donald trump s lawyers have filed an appeal, asking the united states supreme court to overturn the decision by the colorado state supreme court to ban donald trump from the presidential ballot in colorado. colorado supreme court s decision is based on the 14th amendment, which is ratified in 1868. it does not allow officers of the federal government to be elected to office again if they have engaged in insurrection against the united state
as donald trump makes a third bid for the white house and is the the first votes are to be cast in iowa in just under two weeks. trump s lawyers say the 234-year unbroken tradition of not prosecuting the presidents for official acts, despite calls to do so from across the political spectrum, provides powerl evidence. no president prior toth donald trump tried to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power. had his attorneys point to the likelihood of mushrooming prosecutions. and future cycles. the ex-the president snlt prolsing retribution. his al lies aren t the ones plotting to end the independence of the justice department. the most audacious argument, one yesterday. on this program donald trump cannot be tri a criminal court for role in the january 6th insurrectn because heas acquitted by the senate during his second impeachment the new york times reports both legal perts have disdegreed with that position. not least because the federal charges he s facing are not analogous
new details about what fighter pilots did to get the attention of an unresponsive pilot for his private jet crashed in virginia. new information just in about when the trouble began. we begin with exclusive new reporting on a previously unreported episode in the mar-a-lago documents case. it comes as attorneys for the former president met today with justice department officials and signed signs increasingly indicate that special counsel jack smith s probe could be in its final stage. cnn s kaitlan collins is here with more. so, walk us through this exclusive reporting about mar-a-lago. it s a bit of a bizarre story, so bear with me. it was in last october, we are told that this maintenance worker at mar-a-lago drained april. and when they joined the pool, it caused a flood that flooded this room. we are told it has the computer servers, which store the surveillance footage on them. that s important because we know prosecutors have been looking at the surveillance footage