but now there s news of this damning tape that s put more focus on a different jurisdiction on that federal probe in washington where trump was caught on tape admitting key parts of a crime, including stealing documents after leaving office. the tape is from after he was in the white house, 2021, and that s bad for him based on what he appears to admit, because prosecutors are already using it while gathering their grand jury testimony, and it s showing jurors how trump acknowledges and admits himself on the tape that he had classified materials. this is a total breakthrough in the evidence in this case. real talk some people might say, all right, ari we already know trump took the documents down to mar-a-lago and the feds seized them and took them back. didn t we know all that? yes, but in court to win a case like this, prosecutors must prove, one, the documents were classified. two, trump willfully took or directed action to take the documents. and three, he intended to kee
See you soon. Welcome to the beat. I am ari melber. A lot going on. We begin reporting on two major Breaking News stories. Hamas is releasing two american hostages. They are safely back inside israel. Also, Breaking News from the trump coup rico case. A key architect of the trump coup plot Pleading Guilty in a georgia courtroom. This is the second trump lawyer in as many days to be convicted. We have joyce vance standing by as we follow this story, and we also have a reporter coming up from the mideast region on the major breakthrough on those hostages. First, we begin with what were learning in the United States in one of the biggest cases to ever come down the pike in any court, state or federal, accusing a former president and aided by his lawyers of a coup. So a Top Trump Lawyer who is linked to that coup for the first time today Pleading Guilty. We had begun our jury Selection Process this morning, but ive been informed there is a change of plea. How do you plea to count 15, consp
some of trump s lawyers even ended up in the unusual position of testifying in the grand jury themselves. and that s where this tapes dom shell which has made so much news this week overlaps with another development the clashes and fights among trump lawyers spilling and public. a top trump lawyer recently resigning. reports in several outlets that trumps lawyers are so concerned about one of their leaders, boris epshteyn, that they threatened a suicide pact. on the one hand, trump has had many, many lawyer problems before. lawyers turned witness like michael cohen, lawyers turned public critics like a statement we aired tonight from ty cobb. so to be precise, it wouldn t be true to say that every time trump has a lawyer problem he gets indicted or anything like that. he had them in the mueller