thank you so much for letting us into your homes during these truly extraordinary times. we re grateful the beat with ari melber start right now. never more extraordinary than now. right j hi, nicolle. thank you so much. good to see you. welcome to the beat. tonight we are here as a nation. everyone got up, everyone started their day. if you re on the east coast you re ending your day, and everyone s doing just about fine you can have the america and do what you re supposed to and not worry about who gets as long as it s faithfully and fairly executed. we re a day out from what happened yesterday and everything s okay. the reality, though, is one that is different for defendant donald trump this is his first full day deal welcome an open criminal case against him not his lawyer, not his cfo, not one of his many aides. this is something he never experienced himself, and only he can say how much he thought about or emphasized with all the other many people who wer
tonight on the reidout . everyone i talked to is sick and tired and fed up of being bullied. the last thing i ever want to see in america is a civil war. no one wants that, at least everyone i know would never want that, but it s going that direction. everyone you know? you want a national divorce? will indulge her twisted fantasy and played out. spoiler alert, it does not and wear well for red state. guess where yours deep state ends up in the custody battle? ron desantis to cuddling conservative. pathetic and frightening. anything that makes conservatives feel uncomfortable should be illegal. things like black history and drug shows. tonight, barbara lee of california who just do that for candidacy joins me on what is shaping us to be quite a clash of democratic. we begin the reidout with the one thing republicans really hate , 20th century. from sitting back the clock on women s reproductive rights to trying to ban the mere act of learning about black history and
january 6th committee about her role in the insurrection and why some remain skeptical. and putin s new desperate attempt to claim victory in ukraine while his own troops say the war is already lost. we re going to begin tonight with hurricane ian now lashing the south carolina coast. here s what it looked like as it came ashore. waves bashing this marina in charleston. it made landfill as a category 1 storm bringing torrential rain and 85-mile-per-hour winds with officials warning the storm surge is life-threatening. this is the pawleys island pier, the waves crashing into the structure, it falls and sinks into the ocean. the city of charleston bracing for severe flooding. fema projecting 12 inches of rain in some areas with a storm surge between two and four feet. here s a live look at ian s path moving north and inland now and as ian is hitting south carolina, we are seeing the immense destruction and the catastrophic damage it left in its wake in florida. search and rescu
weissmann, neil cattle, and bradley moss, right here, right now, who were scheduled to lead off our discussion, and now, we really have twice as much to discuss this we thought. we are all in good hands with that. i will be watching you on the television, and very interesting breaking news. thank you. the name of the case is, appropriately, donald j trump versus united states of america. that, really, is what this is. but, in that case, the united states of america turned the tables by filing a motion, asking, but really, demanding, that the judge in the case reverse her recent ruling. so, for at least the next week or so, or more, this case has become the united states of america versus judge aileen mercedes cannon, who stands, accused, in effect, in the justice department of committing judicious malpractice, in her last ruling in the case, in which he issued an order, requiring a so-called special master, to be named later, to review all evidence in the case, includin
degree on property that ought to be returned would result in reputational harm of a decidedly different order of magnitude. new york times points this out, quote, her ruling seemed to carve out a special exception to the normal legal process for the former president and reject the justice department s implicit argument that trump be treated like any other investigative subject. there are significant questions on how her new ruling will work, especially since the special master is permitted to review documents based on trump s claims of executive privilege. they re claims that have been rejected by the current head of the executive branch, that would be president joe biden. from the times reporting, quote, after trying for months to get the documents back from trump, the national archives, the agency that safeguards presidential records told his lawyers in a letter in may that both the justice department and the biden white house did not believe the former president s execut