good evening. happy holidays. welcome to the beat. i am ari melber. i ll be joining you the next two hours for a special holiday edition of the beat. donald trump has a criminal trial problem. he has several trials looming in 2024. that s where we begin tonight. we ll do it a little different for the holidays. former federal prosecutor joyce vance with me to start the show. we re looking at this legal heat coming up. i want to get into this with you, joyce, but first show you and viewers something we put together to consider tonight, historic indictments on the road donald trump has already been on. donald trump has been indicted under seal by the new york grand jury. 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. we have one set of laws in this country, and they 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 who s running for
thank you so much for letting us into your homes during these truly extraordinary times. we are grateful the beat with ari melber starts right now. welcome to the beat. we begin with what many are saying is the revelation of something we knew but continue to see in more depth, a kind of staggering weakness of speaker mccarthy. as you see him giving out rewards to the very people who broke with him and tortured him before finally relenting this that historically chaotic beginning to the new congress. there s also some santos news so first the full picture today of what mccarthy has given away to the rebels who according to many republicans and this is again mccarthy s allies, they say those folks were politically extorting him. the lesson that mccarthy may be teaching which is why it matters in the news tonight and in the future is that his weakness can be exploited on any number of issues so this caucus which held the speaker bid hostage is getting assignments this he m
welcome to the beat, let s get right to it. we begin with the unprecedented collision of law and politics that america is facing in 2024 whether we like it or not, whether we are all tired of, which i get that the nation has never never put a former president on trial. prosecutors are working on that task even as donald trump s civil fraud trials go through 2023 and on 2024, he faces several criminal trials in different jurisdictions while running for president. again special counsel jack smith in the prosecution of trump s two in washington and the intelligence documents cases in florida, the atlanta ea pushing for those rico trials after winning convictions of trumpet aids through 2023 and the smaller criminal case in new york. you ve got over 90 felonies charged. that s not normal even if it has been normalized. first the trial initially slated for march, while the schedules can change, america is facing more serious warnings from people who know about this, actual legal e
go on. [ laughter ] the stop bernie cynicism that i heard from a number of people. it made me angry enough, i said, okay, bernie has my vote. tonight from broward county, florida. we just want justice. dogs have a lot of rights. they don t have the right to vote. i am officially declaring a national emergency. we re dealing with a very formidable virus. truth itself helps combat the spread of this virus. we have this information, which we didn t have until today. he knows he can t win. joe biden is president-elect. donald trump is the loser. one song in particular has been playing on a loop. fdt which boils down to forget donald trump. i m from a place where you probably can t go speaking for a people that you probably ain t know. pressure build up. not fraudulent electors, it s alternate electors.
crime mean also. the reason us three are in there are because of stone. number two motion of it was about roger stone. have you provided any formal counsel to donald trump or his aides or accepted any money? what an insulting question. i mean, have i accepted money? i m a liberal democrat. it s a great honor to present a constitutional argument against the impeachment. you wrote a report for them to impeach. i gave them that ari, this is great. this is great. you re talking to a lawyer. go ahead. so am i. i don t ever remember the president ever averaging me to get involved with jeff sessions or the department of justice. and that was not true, was it? i have no obligation to be honest to the media. i did not believe then. i did to the believe today. the reason i went for bernie is because of msnbc and