the beat with ari melber starts right now. welcome to the beat with ari melber. we have a great show for you tonight wednesday, december 27th. we look at jack smith s big coup case against donald trump which faces a key appeal in january. how will smith draw his past experience? that s where we begin tonight. he s a tough, but low-profile prosecutor with a very long record. he led difficult and victorious cases including the prosecution of new york police officer justin volpe who tortured lima, smith was a younger federal prosecutor then and went on to develop something of an expertise in the hard cases that other lawyers sometimes duck. the kind of cases that go at the powerful in government or police, senators, heads of state. he developed experience for the pressures of those specific kind of cases a something of a reputation as the kind of prosecutor you actually pick up and call with a tough case like that. smith did stints in federal and local prosecutor s
, everyone i m yasmin vossoughian on a very busy saturday afternoon. it s down to the wire as negotiators say they are very close to a deal on the debt ceiling, as talks continue right now. i feel closer to agreement now than i did last time before i couldn t see progress. but this is not easy. but that since [inaudible] i am cautiously optimistic a deal will be negotiated and the default will be averted, and congress will be called back into session next week. but there s nothing to celebrate here. this is purely a self inflicted wounds. we re also keeping an eye on the rare side of the house hearing in texas as well, considering the impeachment of state attorney general, ken paxton. and its fellow republicans leading the charge against him. we also have new information about donald trump on tape. part of the evidence against him in a manhattan d.a. s investigation, and it is, everybody, as you all well know, memorial day weekend. the unofficial start of summer. we re
Hello and welcome. Im sarah campbell. Americas top diplomat, Antony Blinken, has arrived in israel in the past hour, as the us and other nations try to prevent a wider Conflict Erupting in the middle east. Theres also growing diplomatic pressure to get Essential Supplies into gaza which has been sealed off after hamas launched attacks into israel. Here are some of the latest developments. The United Nations says more than 338,000 people have now been forced to flee their homes in gaza and food, fuel and water are urgently needed. Ahead of a possible incursion into gaza, the israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has established a National Emergency unity government with Opposition Leader, benny gantz. Israel has continued its mobilisation of troops. Hundreds of thousands are on the southern boundary with gaza. President biden says hes told mr netanyahu that israel must abide by the rules of war, in its fight against hamas. All this as israeli air strikes on gaza continue. The Pale
Made yet on any ground incursion. And this is the scene live for you in gaza today as the Palestinian Health Ministry Says the number of people who have been killed has hit 1200. Americas top diplomat the Secretary Of State, Antony Blinken has arrived in israel. Hell express us solidarity as he meets israeli officials but is also expected to urge restraint to protect palestinian civilians, as air strikes on gaza continue. Mr blinken is expected on friday to meet the palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, whose Fatah Faction is a political rival to hamas. We can speak now to lord darroch, kim darroch, who served as the uks National Security adviser between 2012 and 2015 and has also served as its ambassador to both the eu and the united states. If the eu and the united states. I can ask you first of this if i can ask you first of all about this visit by Antony Blinken, what can he hope to achieve . I this visit by Antony Blinken, what can he hope to achieve . This visit by Antony Blinken,