see you. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. i hope you stay with us. tonight we begin with developments that i think really offer a kind of a contrast in this period of legal reckoning and accountability we have been talking about together because we were thinking about this for tonight s show. if you look at all of the prosecutors and all the investigators and all of the probes that donald trump has faced, including squaring off against big-time experienced investigators like prosecutor and former fbi director mueller, there were crimes found. there were issues that ensnared donald trump s aides. but even as the now-two-year probe of a public insurrection and attempt the coup has grinded on and on and not reached donald trump or most of his top aides, there are more clear signs and steps that show one prosecutor on a different fact pattern, a different case, has proven able to legally get farthest against donald trump and make precedent. i m talking about the new yor
of time without resulting in anything that seems like a coup-related indictment of donald trump. we hear about process and delays and witnesses, and it is d.a. bragg who is making waves tonight. that is the context for the story i wanted to kind of remind everyone that it s not nothing to be a local d.a. and indict a former president. now bragg is going so far that some trump critics are wondering in legal circles what he is up to. it s a new crackdown taking came at trump world. the d.a. is trying to pressure the convicted trump money man who already did some time in rikers for fraud. that s former trump organization cfo allen weisselberg who basically got convicted, went to jail, but never actually flipped on donald trump as a cooperating witness. and here is the big story. bragg is eying a new indictment. new perjury charges against weisselberg if he won t cooperate further. that is an effort in the ongoing campaign to either get or
watching our show, and we do have those. we like to snag fans early around here, it s good for the demo. congratulations to the whole gorman family, and ryan, man, you ll have to go find another bathroom. > we will see you sunday. is it good luck to have a baby during a very important house oversight hearing week? yes. if it s for diane, absolutely, it s the best luck of all. it will be marked overall, that great oversight hearing committee. have a good weekend. we have a lot of news tonight. democrats with subpoena power right now pressing the white house over a new nepotism national security scandal. new york times reporting trump overruled intelligence professionals who made a security clearance for jared kushner. we have that in the hour. also powerful house chairs demanding testimony from trump money man alan weisselberg.