thank you so much for letting us into your homes during these truly extraordinary times. we re grateful the beat with ari melber start right now. never more extraordinary than now. right j hi, nicolle. thank you so much. good to see you. welcome to the beat. tonight we are here as a nation. everyone got up, everyone started their day. if you re on the east coast you re ending your day, and everyone s doing just about fine you can have the america and do what you re supposed to and not worry about who gets as long as it s faithfully and fairly executed. we re a day out from what happened yesterday and everything s okay. the reality, though, is one that is different for defendant donald trump this is his first full day deal welcome an open criminal case against him not his lawyer, not his cfo, not one of his many aides. this is something he never experienced himself, and only he can say how much he thought about or emphasized with all the other many people who wer
donald trump this is his first full day deal welcome an open criminal case against him not his lawyer, not his cfo, not one of his many aides. this is something he never experienced himself, and only he can say how much he thought about or emphasized with all the other many people who were in this position, who woke up and said, wow, today i m a criminal defendant, wow, there s new rules. yesterday was something i d never been through before. the pressure is building, and if you heard these conversations about who twos first or second, where the pressure is, remember, as we ve shown you with facts, jurisdiction are deliberately second in america. that s been true since the founding wham one local jurisdiction does based on the time line it has based on evidence it has in its jurisdiction is separate from what the other jurisdictions or feds do. this is not linked to the reporting on donald trump but it is breaking late in the day that