Thank you so much for letting us into your home during these extraordinary times. We are grateful. The beat with Ari Melber starts right now. Hi, ari. Hi, nicole. Welcome to the beat. Im Ari Melber. The top story, the 2024 campaign. We are one week out from the campaign. The Harris Campaign is hammering this stark contrast as what they see as a key Selling Point in her campaign and its current momentum. Today brand new, i can show you another contrast, we can tell you that now both nominees have done this key Interview Appearance here taking questions from several reporters on stage for the national association of black journalists. Trump did his all the way back 48 days ago. Harris did hers this afternoon, today in philadelphia. Its a Split Screen across time which shows the very different approaches on substances, facts and certainly style. I dont think ive ever been asked a question so in such a horrible manner, first question. You dont even say hello, how are you . First of all, le
Violent mob against the u. S. Capitol and his own Vice President on january 6th. The Justice Department won the battle and politico reports Special Counsel jack smith obtained an extraordinary array from twitter about trumps account. While it remained unclear what sorts of information the messages contained and who exactly may have written them, it was a revelation that there were private messages associated with the twitter count of mr. Trump, who has famously been cautious about using written forms of consideration with his aides and allies. Hes reportedly sent over direct messages that were sent, received and stored in draft. Politico reports this, quote, u. S. District judge Barrel Howard held twitter, now known as x, in Contempt Of Court in february be fining that company 350,000 for missing a deadline. And he lit into twitter for taking extraordinary and apparently unprecedented steps to give trump an advantage. At one point the judge asking being quote, is it because the new ceo
it was dismissed in less than six months. practically actually laughed out of court. now the ruling by u.s. district judge donald middlebrooks ordering trump and his attorney to cover the legal costs of the defendants in that suit is one for the ages. it is a stinging rebuke of donald trump the man and of donald trump s lies and his tried and true now legal strategy of jamming and gumming up the courts with lawsuits. it starts off like this, quote, this case never should have been brought. its inadequacy there is that word again as a legal claim was evident from the start. no reasonable lawyer would have filed it. the judge then makes it crystal clear that the ex-president himself bears responsibility for the suit. he goes on, quote, trump is a prolific and sophisticated litigant who is repeatedly using the courts to seek revenge on political adversaries. he is the mastermind of strategic abuse of the judicial process, and he cannot be seen as a litigant blindly following
dangerous rhetoric. we re talking, of course, about the elevation of some of the fringiest of the fringe members of the republican caucus, the seats on important congressional committees. when we say it is happening on today of all days, that s because today would have been the late congressman elijah cummings 72nd birthday. he passed away in 2019, the son of sharecroppers, he would go on to become a force of nature in congress, and ultimately the chairman of the powerful house oversight committee. when we re dancing with the angels, the question will be asked, in 2019, what did we do to make sure we kept our democracy in tact? did we stand on the sidelines and say nothing? there are efforts to stop people from voting. that s not right! this is not russia! this is the united states of america! and i will fight until the death to make sure every citizen, whether they re green party, whether they re freedom party, whether they re democrat, whether they re republican, whoever
saying just within the last hour, a vote won t happen until after the midterms. so what is the holdup. new reaction coming in. and developing news for the white house, with officials tally confirming president biden will meet with the families of britty griner and paul whelan, the two dedaned in russia. a lot to get to on this thursday afternoon. i m hallie jackson. glad to be with you in washington. we start with the new developments in the january 6th investigations, plural. the capitol hill correspondent ali vitali, ryan riley and former u.s. attorney and nbc legal analyst before bra mcquade. let me start with you, and chair benny compton was kind of chatty today. he was chatty toops today and what i was asking about is the reporting in the last few hours that the january 6th committee at least for now will not be cooperating, sends can its transcripts and its findings to the department of justice, at least until they re done with the public phase of their hearings. when