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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
Deer. All i want for christmas is you. And you. Millivanilly, yall. From the cnn studios in new york city, its king charles. Were not going to waste your time. Nope. With gayle king. Im beyonce, but you can call me gayle. And charles barkley. Its cold out here. Tonight, astrofphysicist, tyson, writer, director, jefferson, and from the New York Times, herndon. King charles starts now. Welcome, welcome, we thank you for joining us tonight. First, toif say this off the bat. Charles, whats the name of your nba show . I know last inside the nba. Inside the nba, on tnt, i was watching that last night, and you, he, you sounded terrible, and i thought theres no way youre going to make it here tonight. Gayle, never going to let you down. I was so worried about that. Full hazmat suit, ill be here for you. Uh wasnt the only one who was worried. This is what your coworkers had to say about you last night. This cant be good. Shaquille oneal, kenny the jet smith. Sir sickalot, the oh, my god. Whats
the 2024 election is quickly approaching in donald trump is showing no signs of tempering his dangerous rhetoric. for months, the disgraced ex president has spent his time on the campaign trail echoing the language of dictators like adolf hitler. you may be asking yourself, why is a former president stealing lines from history s worst figures? well, because it is working. i knew des moines register and nbc new post poll of likely iowa republican caucus goers reveals that voters are embracing trump s authoritarian language with a greer percentage saying they are more likely to vote for him after he referred to his political adversaries as, quote, vermin. even more concerning, they support his racist attacks on immigrants. including his remarks that they are, quote, poisoning the blood of the country, which he doubled down on this week. they come from africa, they come from asia, they come from south america, but not just south america, they re all over the world. they dump
moment that you will be forgiven if you don t remember are missed at the time, a lot happened on this day, but at his speech before the insurrection on january six, president trump had a lot to say about bias on the supreme court. you know, look, i am not happy with the supreme court. they love to rule against me. the supreme court, they rule against me so much, you know why, because the story is, i have not spoken to any of them since virtually they got in, but the story is, that they re puppets. the only way they can go out to, because they hate that, not good on the social circuit, and they only way to get out is to rule against trump. let s rule against trump, and they do that. now, in reality, the current supreme court is one of the most conservative courts in modern history. they are the court that overturned roe and ended affirmative action, all practically speaking, gave it to citizens united. conservatives dominate the bench, 6 to 3. but donald trump is not compl