times. we are grateful. the beat with ari melber starts rights now. hi, ari. thanks so much. i m ari melber, and yes, this is another busy news night. we have one of the special reports we have been working on this is brand new, and i m going to share with you tonight. it is about how donald trump as a client has been likened to a mob boss by his own lawyers. how the lawyers who have gotten in trouble have been the biggest assistants, factual, evidentiary and otherwise to the prosecutors pursuing trump, and how there s a lawyer we ve heardless about but i m going to get into details tonight, who can be a key, a lynch pin in any federal indictment. as we come on the air as well as the news we brought you tonight. we brought you a reporter who broke it last night, and now it s everywhere, not being disputed that the doj formally targeted donald trump for indictment. i ll walk you through what that means. number one, it s the clearest signal that charges at this time are p
that is all in. and i ll be back sunday at noon eastern for my show with jen psaki. the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. good evening, jen. they ve already got you working triple time in. something like that. well, this is it down side of being very good of what you re doing then you have to do more and more of it. thank you. i had a pretty good time. an hour went quickly. some interesting things. i felt the same. that s a very good sign. thank you, my friend. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. it s good to be here. so he spent 21 years spying against the united states, he did it for money and who knows what else, but they did pay him. they paid him in cash. they also paid him in diamonds, which is a nice spy movie touch. but he spied against the u.s. for 21 years, and for the next 21 years after that he resided in federal prison. so 21 years as a spy against america and then 21 years and counting in prison because of it before
we are getting a wealth of new details today in the criminal investigation into donald trump s handling of classified documents thanks to some pretty stunning brand-new reporting. new york times reports this. prosecutors are expected to question a new witness in front of a federal grand jury sitting in florida later this week. that is according to people familiar with the matter. at least one other witness has already appeared before that florida grand jury, which is separate from the one that has been sitting for months now in washington. why prosecutors have continue seened a separate grand jury from the one in d.c. is one of the mysteries, one of the major outstanding questions every one of us from the outside has regarding this case at the moment. wall street journal has described the action in the florida grand jury this way, as, quote, tying up loose ends ahead of a decision on possible charges. bloomberg is reporting teem trump is bracing for that decision to l
former president trump has been indicted boy a criminal court in new york city and arain in the manhattan next week that will likely be tuesday. fake news cnn saying he could face over 30 charge in a statement trump is quote. political persecution an election interference the highest level in history the time i came down from trump tower and before i was sworn in as president the democrats the enemy of hard working men and women engage instead a witch hunt to destroy the make america great again movement. you remember russia, russia the mull are hoax. ukr ukraine, impeachment hoax one approximate 2 and mar-a-lago raid after partisan witch hadn ts alvin brag thrown the rule of law to the winds in exchange for a cheap act of pet political vengeance and brought political differentses to a new level. this is repulsive a disgusting hit job the likes of which we have never teen in this country. a pandora box opened. we have a new era of political revenge and weaponized justice s
weapons. biden said this world faces a pos armageddon. it is not just the war in ukraine, north korea is texting badly again. is acting badly again, and sa saudi arabia threatening alliances and world security. joining us now former ambassador to the u.n., former governor of great state of south carolina, author of the new book if you want something done. ambassador nikki haley thank you for joining us, what do you make of what putin is saying and doing? i think putin is feeling desperate, i think you see it is he hit a low point he gets drones from iran and rockets from north korea, he lost the faith of his military and confidence of his people. and i think he is trying to buy time to figure out what he will do. what we have to do is make sure when we goes and adds the nuclear threats we don t go running for the hills and keep our foot on the gas. he said if he took ukraine that poland and the baltics were next, we don t need to be giving ukraine blank checks but to wo