during these extraordinary times. we are grateful. the beat with ari melber starts right now hi, ari. thanks, nicolle welcome to the beat. i m ari melber we are tracking several stories, including maya wylie we begin with the escalating heat on defendant donald trump the nation watched as he came to new york for the first criminal arraignment of his life, a legal requirement, not a choice. trump had to sit in court for this unusually long i rainment which included a rare rebuke by the judge for threats he had been making. those threats part of a second civil case also filed this week by the d.a. dealing with the clash of some house republicans. here s the news right now. today donald trump is back in new york again and again under court order. these are not trips that he chose. they have been forced on him by the law and how often he is on allegedly, under the allegations, the wrong side of the law. if you re trying to keep track or it seems like this stuff is happening
they can control everything, and that is a really hard client to have, as danny knows when you are a defense lawyer you really need to control those people and reign them in from their world impulses so here, if that is going to be the issue there s one really really dangerous third rail, which is, is he going to say something that the d.a. can show is false and because of his hubris he thinks he s not going to get caught i haven t heard what anyone flesh out what that criminal exposure is today, and there s so much going on, that s striking danny, before i get to the heart of the question for you, which is what you offer for trumps after defense in this kind of case, i did mention, that arraignment room, you, your lawyers know it well i m curious what you thought seeing not only a former president in general indicted but specifically in that room. i worked very briefly as a public defender. you ran legal aid for years. what did you think
able to prove the felony you ve gone into this so well. andrew has as well a d.a. overcharging someone? shocked about this a d.a. always does he overcharges because he wants a plea he overcharges because he wants a jury to come back with a verdict that s a compromise, okay so, on one hand, i look at this and of course i recognize how unusual it is, but a part of me just says, this is business as usual. this is what happens you put it it s so important what you re saying danny, and you re saying it from a lot of experience, not from observation or punditry. you re saying from that room i refer to the references of unprecedented. when people feel aspects of unprecedented because you re not accustomed, that s not a good reason to be against it.
part of the group we re talking about. she made the observation that here s thomas, who imposes his values on all the rest of us women can t choose what to do. gay people don t have any rights in somebody is religious and doesn t want to hire them. anti-discrimination laws but if you say to judge thomas if you say to chief justice roberts, you should have a code that you re bound by oh, no oh, no we look at it, we decide what we re going to do, but we re above the law. we can make the law about you, we can impose personal values on you, but don t you dare try to tell us. now, right now i ll just say that dick durbin and shell don whitehouse are contemplating legislation, because it s clear judge roberts is not going to do anything. you see how broken the system is when this is not allowed but way over the line. danny, on more than one topic, thank you for being here