during these extraordinary times. we are grateful. the beat with ari melber starts right now hi, ari. thanks, nicolle welcome to the beat. i m ari melber we are tracking several stories, including maya wylie we begin with the escalating heat on defendant donald trump the nation watched as he came to new york for the first criminal arraignment of his life, a legal requirement, not a choice. trump had to sit in court for this unusually long i rainment which included a rare rebuke by the judge for threats he had been making. those threats part of a second civil case also filed this week by the d.a. dealing with the clash of some house republicans. here s the news right now. today donald trump is back in new york again and again under court order. these are not trips that he chose. they have been forced on him by the law and how often he is on allegedly, under the allegations, the wrong side of the law. if you re trying to keep track or it seems like this stuff is happening
ruling that protects some access to the abortion pill the appeals court basically ruled this abortion pill is available, meaning people will have access, but there are additional restrictions. including three office visits in person, above the original one and it also in a sort of legal twist, would still ban shipping the pill by mail there s a trump appointed texas judge who had halted the fda approval of the drug last week we re joined by cecile richards, the former president of planned parenthood you and others warned what would happen if roe was overturned is it happening? absolutely, ari i think looking at what s happened in florida, as you say, they just passed a six-week abortion ban, which is effectively a total abortion pan since most people don t know they re pregnant at six weeks. and in fact, the republicans in the state even refused efforts to say that you could get an
aphictual point, the republicans control the house. if you macke ron desantis president, they would be able to do a federal ban on abortion you could watch in new york, california, or anywhere else, it s exactly what people warned about even as apologists said it s going to be limited cecile richards, thanks for coming on the beat and walking us through some of this. we have covered a lot of topics i don t know if you feel like we have a lot going on. what i want to show you next is something you may know about it s something that s lit, and it s a nice way to end the hour. we ll be right back. makes trading easier. with its customizable options chain, easy-to-use tools, and paper trading to help sharpen your skills, you can stay on top of the market from wherever you are. power e trade s easy-to-use tools make complex trading less complicated.
they can control everything, and that is a really hard client to have, as danny knows when you are a defense lawyer you really need to control those people and reign them in from their world impulses so here, if that is going to be the issue there s one really really dangerous third rail, which is, is he going to say something that the d.a. can show is false and because of his hubris he thinks he s not going to get caught i haven t heard what anyone flesh out what that criminal exposure is today, and there s so much going on, that s striking danny, before i get to the heart of the question for you, which is what you offer for trumps after defense in this kind of case, i did mention, that arraignment room, you, your lawyers know it well i m curious what you thought seeing not only a former president in general indicted but specifically in that room. i worked very briefly as a public defender. you ran legal aid for years. what did you think
this is an unprecedented kind of calling it a felony. they wouldn t have done that to anybody else maybe there was some business things by the way, when i ran for president and when i was president, i wasn t involved in the day-to-day things of my organization. right, get some distance and say basically paper work. and then. i m only moving us, because so far, longest segment of the show, believe it or not. secondly sblame cohen. say he s a felon. they have done that now the yes or no question would you put this defendant trump on the stand i don t think you re going to have a choice. i think this guy is going on the stand. i heard everybody say he won t this guy wants to chance to tell to american people. andrew, yes or no no way. there s an example of this he said for years he was going to testify and welcomed coming into the mueller investigation we knew that was never going to