Ari melber is here now. What a season of gratitude. Get some rest because well be seeing a lot of you and everyone soon. Have a good show. Thanks, niccole. Welcome to the beat. Im ari melber, and with all the trial news, and more that have late they are house, the top story is political news that will help decide the election because it usually does. Today President Biden and donald trump both agreed to do two new president ial debates, the first coming next month capping weeks of posturing and negotiation that. Breakthrough came today as the Biden Campaign took control of things with a plan that was months in the making, biden using this video here to publicly challenge trump to two debates on the biden schedule with two ready partners on board, abc and cnn. If a debate starting next month sounds different than usual, earlier than usual, it is. This will now be the earliest general Election Campaign debate ever, and that actually matters not only for people tuning in and paying attent
I talked to Business People over the years, whats happened to them when you have political persecution. And now all these cases, this is simply, they dont want this guy on the ballot. Says the man whose company committed the worst Medicare Fraud in u. S. History, senator rick scott is the first in what will surely be a parade of trump sycophants and Veep Wanna Bes to show up at his criminal trial. Also tonight, the truly bizarre president ial campaign of robert f. Kennedy jr. The worm that ate part of his brain is just the least of it. But we begin tonight with Donald Trumps need for vengeance, which has been a fundamental which has been fundamental to the man which has been as fundamental to the man as his orange hue. Hes promised to imprison President Biden, he savaged the women who have accused him of sexual abuse and impropriety, and humiliated his political opponents. Theres a reason hes a bully. Thats because trump is a dogmatic believer in retaliation. How do we know . Because h
Documents case. Once upon a time that case was set to take off, may 20th. Less than two weeks from today. We have been waiting for judge cannon to set a trial date, since march. We got the news the judge has postponed that trial indefinitely. This means the onset donald trump ends up in a florida courtroom before the general election, those odds are slim to none, which is good news for the former president. But, less apparent good for the former president was the fact today donald trump was back in manhattan criminal court. Today was the 13 of the Hush Money Case against him, and it was by no means a normal day. Today, we got testimony from the central figure at the heart of this case, Adult Film Star, stephanie clifford, a. K. A. Stormy daniels. As far as the spectacle of this trial goes, today was a blockbuster. A lot of the testimony really sounded like it was ripped from the tabloids, which makes sense because the story at the center of this case is quite literally about tabloid sl
Happy monday, thanks, nicole, welcome to the beat, everyone. We are tracking a Major Development in this criminal trial of trump. The judge today going farther than ever, warning defendant donald trump that he can be jailed if there are more gag order violations. Let me show you exactly what happened. You may have heard about it, but were going to walk through it specifically. The judge telling trump today he can face a, quote, jail sanction. That is the big key part, which is why we put it in big letters. Jail sanction for Defendant Trump if he repeats these gag order violations. Judge merchan drawing a line and directly noting why this is a big deal with the repeated violations of the gag order. Other defendants have been jailed for less. You probably heard about that. But on the other hand, lets be clear, Defendant Trump has not been convicted in this case. And there are practical issues around the unprecedented prospect of jailing an expresident and current candidate for the white
Washington, d. C. I am jen psaki. Chris hayes has the night off and will be back tomorrow night. Donald trump is back in court this morning for day 10, if you are counting, of his criminal trial. Todays proceedings began with another hearing on the ex president s repeated and i mean repeated violations of his gag order. We will talk about that later in the show for sure, but things really got interested once davidson returned to the stand today. He is the former lawyer for both of the women trump is accused of paying off. Karen mcdougal and Stormy Daniels. From the witness stand, davidson pulled back the curtain on a statement he wrote on behalf of daniels, seeming to deny her affair with trump. He admitted with trump sitting in front of him in the courtroom that the Stormy Daniels statement was designed to look like a denial. Basically a nondenial denial, you could say. The statement wrote i have recently became aware that certain news outlets are alleging i have a sexual or romantic