Allen weisselberg has been seen dUtifUlly going into work at trUmp tower. How he is balancing those Uties'>Job DUties against hUge pressUre from prosecUtors for evidence against trUmp with reports that he continUes to resist cooperating. One d. A. Veteran likening his approach to playing Ussian-roUlette'>RUssian RoUlette with prison time. A serioUs game for a 74yearold. The post reporting reinforces the pictUre from a recent New York times accoUnt aboUt charges as near as this sUmmer. Also new the Urnal'>Wall Street JoUrnal Utors'>Reporting ProsecUtors are investigating whether trUmps former bodygUard who was a Ump-execUtive'>TrUmp ExecUtive received his own taxfree Fringe Benefits and whether that is a scandal or worse, a crime. There is plenty of bad news in all these developments for trUmp. BUt if weisselberg stands tall against the d. A. , it coUld give Ump'>Donald TrUmp the oUt he needs. WithoUt weisselbergs cooperation, its Unclear whether prosecUtors woUld be able to establish any reqUired intent on Umps-part'>TrUmps Part in crimes. So yes, there is heat on weisselberg, a lot of it. BUt theres also heat on the prosecUtors becaUse trUmp kept sUch a small financial circle, which means very few people can speak to his decisions. That same Washington Post Article inclUdes a point we first reported last year on The Beat. Dan alonzo told Us aboUt this other legal road where as The Post pUts it the d. A. Has the option to indict companies rather than individUals. Now, that woUld split the proverbial legal baby if weisselberg gives Up nothing bUt if there is enoUgh evidence for prosecUtors to indict him and the company as a first step by december to then see what the players woUld do then. Joining Us right now is nyU Law Professor Urray'>Melissa MUrray and former Rnc Chair Michael steele. Professor, yoUr view of the combined pictUre were getting from each of these reports aboUt the probe . Well, its definitely a case of keep yoUr friends close and yoUr enemies or at least those who can testify against yoU closer. And so it seems that former Ump'>President TrUmp is Keeping Tabs on mr. Weisselberg becaUse mr. Weisselberg is one member of that small circle of trUst. Its not jUst that the circle of trUst is small that makes it difficUlt for the prosecUtors, its also that former Ump'>President TrUmp has over his coUrse of bUsiness been really reticent to docUment his doings in email. He famoUsly doesnt email. He doesnt write things down. So its really mr. Weisselberg who has been the eyes and ears of this whole operation that can provide the information to link any misdoings to trUmp. Thats really whats needed here. If Weisselberg Isnt talking, its going to be very difficUlt to get the goods to prove intent on the part of trUmp. Yeah. Michael, this Urnal-story'>JoUrnal Story again shows all the different ways that the probe is going forward, becaUse weve had all these drips of news from the Ury'>Grand JUry being Impanelled To whos facing it. Matthew calamari, prosecUtors have an interest in him, once a bodygUard, alleging that the practice of providing employees with cars and apartments extends beyond weisselberg and also extends to whether this was, michael, in the eyes of the d. A. A kind of a Us-operandi'>ModUs Operandi that they were looking for ways to cheat the government, to lie to regUlators, to nip and tUck every which way. If yoU take it altogether, does it get to a financial nUmber where yoU have not only a case bUt a jUry going oh, well, if its tens of millions of dollars, why do they get to write that off if nobody else does . Yeah, i agree with that approach analysis, ari. BUt heres the rUb. Look, the reality of it is, and i think this is what a lot of this investigation is exposing, that this is a corrUpt enterprise. It jUst the Ump'>Way TrUmp did things, deliberately or not so deliberately, theyre corrUpt elements to it. The qUestion still remains what can be proven, and thats one. Two, how mUch of it rises to and sticks to Ump'>Donald TrUmp. Im still not convinced with all of the Hand Wringing aboUt weisselberg and his daUghterinlaw, yoU know, so on, prosecUtors are talking to her and shes oUt here, okay, laying oUt some tracks. I still dont know how mUch of this is really going to doUble back on him. BodygUards, weisselberg. TrUmp endears a level of loyalty that absent someone like his lawyer, it jUst it jUst seems to be one of those things that everyone jUst kind of sticks close to this gUy. Michael cohen is the only one whos really kind of gone oUt here and laid down a little bit of the inside on the inside, bUt, yoU know, others have not. I mean even those who are tangentially attached to Ump-havent'>TrUmp Havent tUrned States Evidence to the degree, whether yoUre talking aboUt the Ueller-probe'>MUeller Probe or i think now with whats going on with weisselberg, i jUst want to sit back and assess this. Im skeptical that theres a lot there that weisselberg and others are jUst going to tUrn over. Look, cUt the deal. Take Care Of my family, i got yoUr back. Its that scene from The Godfather when they visit whats his name in the jail. He asks hows my brother doing . Well Take Care of yoUr brother, dont worry aboUt yoUr brother. Its that kind of deal. So the family will be taken Care Of. Okay, maybe i dont tUrn States Evidence and i take one for trUmp. I jUst dont thats how people think in this world and i dont know how we can rely on something other than that. Yeah. No, i think thats the skepticism thats relevant and that brings Us to the way that even when caUght hes gotten oUt of things. OUr panel stays bUt i want to also mention some Special Reporting here on weisselbergs past depositions. There was the criminal probe of Ump-U.'>TrUmp U. Weisselberg described his relationship with trUmp as close and onesided. I woUldnt go in and jUst chitchat bUt if i had a reason to discUss a bUsiness matter, wed have a conversation. This is context for a very special gUest we have, Tristan Snell, a prosecUtor who helped lead the investigation of Ump-U.'>TrUmp U. Thank yoU for joining Us. TrUmp U was famoUsly a bUsiness that gave oUt Usiness-advice'>BUsiness Advice and Ultimately went oUt of bUsiness so it wasnt a great smash sUccess. BUt to Michael Steeles point, there is the view that even when caUght, even to the tUne of millions, the big gUy tends to swim off. What are yoUr insights on all of this from yoUr experience there . Well, we actUally had a Urt-decision'>CoUrt Decision in that case that he didnt swim off. We actUally got a Urt-decision'>CoUrt Decision at the intermediate level of that case before it settled where it was decided that trUmp and the Ump-organization'>TrUmp Organization were liable for Ump-University'>TrUmp Universitys misdeeds. So he doesnt always swim off. Its jUst that no one has really come at him this hard that often. As for cohen being the only one to tUrn, well, hes the only one or one of the only ones whos actUally been indicted in trUmps inner circle. When things are actUally hitting yoU and yoUre actUally really seeing the prospect of being convicted of a crime, Une'>Peoples TUne can change. So i think were way too early to say that hes going to tUrn or not tUrn. I think once hes indicted, We CoUld see a very different sitUation arise. If hes indicted if hes indicted. If weisselberg is indicted, We CoUld see a very different story. Yeah. Well, im going to let michael respond to yoU, becaUse the orator that he is im sUre he has rebUttal cooking. BUt weisselberg is someone that yoU dealt with in this manner. Im reading here and he oversaw the Spending Decisions at Ump-U.'>TrUmp U. , the online program and the deposition in the case speaks to that. There are experts here who say Money Man only scratches the sUrface. He was at times basically the acting ceo. What, if anything, can yoU tell Us aboUt that based on yoUr knowledge and is that good or bad for him as he faces this heat . Well, first off, yoU can find oUt a lot aboUt an organization, aboUt a company, aboUt a target withoUt actUally having them cooperate with yoU. So we were able to get a lot of information on how the Ump-organization'>TrUmp Organization worked and Weisselbergs Role in it despite the fact that we did not have weisselbergs cooperation. We never even felt like we needed to bring him in as a witness becaUse we had already had enoUgh knowledge of everything that we didnt really need weisselberg bUt we were still able to find the Ump-organization'>TrUmp Organization liable and a lot of why the jUdge in the Ump-University-case'>TrUmp University Case decided that Ump-organization'>TrUmp Organization was liable was becaUse of weisselbergs very heavyhanded Daytoday Control of the organization. Very mUch he was the acting ceo. I woUld also say that he was basically the coo, the chief Operating Officer of the Ump-organization'>TrUmp Organization, a role which has never really been filled, at least not that i know of in the past 20 years. So the cfo, yoU know, theyre the ones actUally keeping the Books and tracking the p ls and seeing exactly what money is coming in, what money is going oUt and making highlevel decisions based on that. Weisselberg was doing more than that. He woUld decide which bUsinesses woUld live and which bUsinesses woUld die. At one Ump-University'>Point TrUmp University was not making very mUch money at first and it was weisselberg who actUally had the Ump-University'>TrUmp University people come in and say, hey, this bUsiness better start making more money or im shUtting it down. He gave them an UltimatUm. That came from weisselberg, not from trUmp. We think of trUmp being the gUy that rUns aroUnd telling people yoUre fired. A lot of times it was weisselberg who was the enforcer. He was not jUst the bean coUnter, he had a lot of power within the organization to determine what bUsinesses were going to do what, which ones woUld go forward and which ones woUld be shUt down. Michael . First off, im not going to clap back on the assistant Attorney General, Umber'>Thats NUmber one. So hes got the cred, im going to fly on that Street Cred on The Point. BUt two, he actUally jUst made The Point i was probably not that well articUlating and that is at The End of the day, trUmp is in the game bUt hes removed from the game. In other words, hes in the process bUt hes removed from it. He creates that distance that when stUff goes soUth, he can go, well, that wasnt my decision. Weisselberg made that decision. He was rUnning these operations. He was the one who made the financial determination to do x, y, z, to open something Up or shUt it down. It is that part of this process that to the first point whether weisselberg goes, yeah, bUt we know how the commUnication goes in trUmp world, right . So i act Understanding what it is yoU want done. And if he comes forward and says, timeoUt, let me clarify how this Unication-process'>CommUnication Process worked. Yeah, i made the decision bUt here are the series of conversations i had with trUmp in which it was either relayed to me directly or indirectly what strategy i coUld take. If he does that, then All Hell Breaks Loose and it opens Up the game. BUt if he keeps it tight, i dont know how mUch theyll be able to land on trUmp. Theyll get weisselberg bUt i dont know how mUch theyll be able to land on trUmp. BUt im not in the case so i rely on the Attorney General who did prosecUte the University case. Lets go i agree with that. I agree with that. I think the kicker is that is trUmps defense is basically i had nothing to do with that, it was allens problem or the finance departments problem. The danger for weisselberg there is a nUmber of other observers have pointed oUt is that trUmp coUld jUst throw weisselberg Under the bUs here. So weisselberg, if he wants to actUally come oUt of this okay, if he thinks showing Up to work every day is going to somehow endear him to Ump-and-trUmp'>TrUmp And TrUmp will Take Care of him, it doesnt matter. TrUmp doesnt have loyalty aboUt any of the other people aroUnd him. Well see aboUt how loyal he is to his own children. Hes never shown mUch loyalty to anyone thats worked for him. So well see. He coUld decide that hes going to Use weisselberg as the scapegoat so i very mUch agree with that. Professor . I think this all goes to the qUestion of what the prosecUtors are going to be able to prove here. As Michael Steele says, the fact that trUmp has managed to keep himself removed from the operation of all these bUsinesses makes everything hinge on what Allen Weisselberg will provide by way of information and how mUch Allen Weisselberg is really willing to go to the mattresses to preserve his relationship with Ump'>Donald TrUmp or to save his own skin. Again, it depends on what the prosecUtors know aboUt weisselberg, what weisselberg is willing to tUrn over and Ultimately how that connects, if at all, to former Ump'>President TrUmp. Melissa mUrray, Tristan Snell and Michael Steele, thank yoU. President obama going at repUblicans over Voting Rights and obstrUction. 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Democratic party has featUred many powerfUl advocates for the constitUtional and political potency of Voting Rights. From John Lewis to Stacey Abrams to barack obama, who often stays oUt of daily politics bUt is speaking oUt now, linking this cUrrent Gop Crackdown to the aUthoritarian impUlses of the Uary-6th'>JanUary 6th insUrrection. In the aftermath of an insUrrection, with oUr democracy on the line, and many of these same repUblican senators going along with the notion that somehow, there were irregUlarities and problems with legitimacy in oUr most recent election, theyre sUddenly afraid to even talk aboUt these issUes and figUre oUt solUtions on the floor of the senate. They dont even want to talk aboUt voting, and thats not acceptable. The former president is referring to the crackdown by repUblicans and their inability to even talk or debate the democratic plan to mandate voter registration, expand mailin voting, limit gerrymandering and adding barriers to stop the State Level crackdowns i mentioned. The context for the crackdowns in many of these states gets racial in a hUrry. Take the State Of Georgia where traditional conservative voters jUst handed the senate to democrats. There are these local pUrges that dont always make national news bUt they have oUsted ten election officials, most of them democrats and most of them racial minorities. Tomorrows battle is aboUt Voting Rights. Its aboUt americas racism. And its also, when yoU think aboUt it and see whats coming down the pike, its aboUt more than that. The democratic partys liberal wing is saying enoUgh is enoUgh and now is the time. And if the gop can Use antidemocratic tactics like the filibUster to block even a Floor Vote on the rUles that woUld protect democracy itself, then there is no more Urgent time to reform those very obstrUction tactics. That this woUld be the time. So were going to dig into all of it, the Voting Rights, the fUtUre of the senate and the biden agenda when were back in 60 seconds. N agenda when were 60 Um'>Seconds GUm issUes. Does it worry me . AbsolUtely. Sensodyne Um'>Sensitivity And GUm gives Us a dUal Action Effect that really takes Care Of both oUr Teeth Sensitivity as well as oUr gUm issUes. Theres no qUestion its something that i woUld recommend. Nobody bUilds 5g like verizon bUilds 5g becaUse were the engineers who bUilt the most reliable network in america. ThoUsands of smarter towers, with the 5g Coverage yoU need. Broader spectrUm for faster 5g speeds. Nextgeneration servers with sUperior network reliability. BecaUse the more yoU do with 5g, the more yoUr network matters. Its Us. PUshing Us. Its verizon. Vs verizon. And who wins . YoU. We are back with former Rnc Chairman and Msnbc Analyst Michael Steele. Michael, i jUst walked throUgh some of the stUff here that i think everybody knows becaUse i think the Battle Lines on voting are pretty clear and then the political intrigUe aboUt biden facing a party and a grassroots here that really wants to go hard. YoUr thoUghts on all of this, what were going to see in the Senate Tomorrow . Well, what yoUre going to see, i think, is the first part of a political ballet that the democrats are going to try to perform, if yoU will. Theyll pUt this vote Up. I think they have an idea of where its going to go. I think all of Us, yoU know, to yoUr aUdiences and the coUntry, we Understand one thing thats trUe. There is no political incentive for repUblicans to agree to anything, whether it is on Voting Or Anything else. And specifically in this Space Given Whats happening at the State Level, to hear mcconnell and others scream that this is an affront to the constitUtion, its a grab for power, what the hell do yoU think state legislatUres are doing aroUnd the coUntry . YoU saw the election Unfold in these varioUs states. They didnt like the oUtcome. They didnt like the fact that the democrats were able to pUt together a Coalition And Win in their states like georgia, so what do they want to do . They want to grab the power back and rewrite the rUles. So, yoU know, talk to the political hand aboUt that. We dont really we know yoUre not serioUs. So what the democrats now have to figUre oUt is in the first part of this ballet where we pUt it all on the table, we show yoU the grand stage, right, everything. Do they come back and say, okay, mitch, yoU dont like the whole package, here is Ub'>Bill SUb 1 on that. Carve it oUt. Take the sections of the Voting Bill and pUt that in front of repUblicans and say, all right, do yoU want to do this, do yoU want to do that . Where do yoU draw the line on what yoU will sUpport in addressing the Voting Problems that we have in the coUntry, that yoU came we have, nUmber one, and nUmber two, how we better enfranchise the american people, a, to access the Ballot Box and incentivize them to do it. That, i think, is going to be an interesting opportUnity. Whether or not democrats are able to take advantage of it in this first roUnd, well see. I think yoU dont stop at jUst pUtting the Voting Bill, whether its the John Lewis Bill Or Senate bill 1 or whatever, hr1, whatever it is, pUt the initial thing oUt there and break it into smaller bitesize chUnks and watch the repUblicans choke on it. Hmm. ShoUtoUt to the talk to the hand reference, first of all. I think yoUr approach to the legislative strategy is very interesting becaUse it is a qUestion of whether people stand. And then the racial component is so glaring, althoUgh theres certainly plenty of repUblican officials who are on record to want to make it hard to vote and cheat, and the racial overlay, coming amidst this symbolic break throUgh on jUneteenth. YoU do have some repUblicans who are trying to have it both ways or still dont want to get they dont want to be oUted as too pUblicly obvioUsly against certain racial jUstice initiatives bUt we see how they vote. This is something we see from very right Wing Senator Ron Johnson. Take a look. I sUpport celebrating the emancipation of slaves. I jUst didnt really Understand why the only way to do that is to give 2 Million federal Health Care workers that costs 600 Million a day off bUt apparently the rest of the congress wants to do that so i dont want to stand in the way. Boo Boo we pUt that together for the context becaUse he is sort of against it bUt then said okay and was roUndly Booed when he showed Up. Im cUrioUs what yoU think especially given yoUr history in the repUblican party and trying to move it on some of those issUes. There are those that look at that and say, well, at least he showed Up. BUt theres a lot more people in the coUntry who say, well, weve got big problems to fix and that means doing the work. Yeah, we do have big problems to fix and it reqUires the work. BUt can we jUst be honest. They dont want to do the work. They dont even want to have the debate. I mean i can see if Ron Johnson like, yoU know what, im going to sUpport sr1, pUt it on the floor becaUse i want to debate whats in this bill. And i want to let the american people know why i think x, y, z. Or i want to in the debate aboUt Uneteenth-or-anything'>JUneteenth Or Anything else, i want to tell yoU why i think its a waste of pUblic fUnds to give federal employees another holiday off. Okay. Lets have the debate. BUt yoU dont want to do that. BecaUse there is no Upside for yoU, becaUse as my mama say yoUr ass is exposed, right . YoUre exposed at that point. What do yoU do . What do yoU do when yoUre exposed politically to the trUth . And so thats what the Ron Johnsons in the world of the world are at right now. Thats where they are. They dont want to have the debate. That does not help them. It goes back to the first point. There is no incentive to have the debate. It is mUch easier to send oUt the Marjorie Taylor greenes and have them go oUt and scream and yell and grift and get the residUal benefit from that than it is to actUally engage in a conscientioUs debate with yoUr political opponent, not enemies, yoUr political opponents who may have a different political, philosophical or ideological perspective on policy. Thats what we Used to do. BUt these gUys dont want to do that. And the Ue'>Race IssUe really trips them Up becaUse thats jUst all kinds of, yoU know, Gnarly Entanglements that they dont want to have to discUss. Thats why theyre trying to Use the critical Race Theory as a sledgehammer and theyre hitting themselves in the head with a 40yearold Policy not policy, bUt idea, discUssion, that occUrs at the college level. Theyre talking aboUt oh, my Grade School stUdents, i dont want that shows how ignorant they are aboUt basic stUff. Yeah. Instead of learning yeah. They jUst retrench and react. All fair points which is why i wanted to check in with yoU on this. Its going to be the big Story Tomorrow as well. Good to have yoU on more than one topic, michael, appreciate it. Always, my friend. Still to come, the election to come set the coUrse for the Ump-org'>TrUmp Org criminal probe. We have a candidate rUnning to be d. A. And as promised Adam Schiff saying its time for more accoUntability. 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Hes been calling on the Biden Doj to Undertake an extensive, fUll review of alleged abUses dUring the Ump-era'>TrUmp Era of the Ustice-department'>JUstice Department. Schiff also became part of all of this news with reports that his Phone Records were seized or swept Up by investigators with the Ustice-department'>JUstice Department Under then Ump'>President TrUmp. Congressman, thanks for being here. Lets start with what yoUre calling for from this garland Ustice-department'>JUstice Department and what, if anything, so far they have given yoU or told yoU theyre going to do . Well, they have referred the matter to the Inspector General of the Ustice-department'>JUstice Department to look into this broad sweep of records belonging to members of the Press And Media organizations as well as records belonging to members of Congress And Committee Staff And Family members. BUt i really want the Attorney General to go beyond that. The abUses dUring the department inclUded very graphic interference by the president in specific cases in which he was implicated. For example, Urging the Ustice-department'>JUstice Department to lower the Sentencing Recommendation of Roger Stone and an associating of his who lied to Us dUring oUr investigation of the president. Bill barr acted on that, redUced his sentence. The president later pardoned him. Similarly the president intervened with michael flynn, another this time the former national Urity-advisor'>SecUrity Advisor for the president , someone who pled gUilty repeatedly to federal crimes. They made that case go away. It goes well beyond anything Impacting Congress or the press to very specific abUses and essentially aUthorizing a criminal investigation of the people who were investigating him in the case of what Bill Barr did in aUthorizing Urham'>John DUrham to move forward with his probe. With the qUestions that yoUve posed to the garland Ustice-department'>JUstice Department aboUt the natUre of that sUrveillance, have yoU gotten all the answers yoU need at this point . No. We really havent gotten any answers. We still arent sUre what was the predicate for seeking congressional records. Did they know whose records they were seeking . Were they seeking only democrats records or also repUblicans . We havent been able to get any answers to that. Im not sUre that we will before the Inspector General conclUdes their report. BUt certain things need to take place now and that is i think they need to pUt in mUch stronger safe gUards to make sUre that their Leak Investigations or any kind of investigations havent essentially broad Fishing Expeditions and dont infringe on peoples first amendment rights bUt dont violate separations of Power Concerns when it comes to a coeqUal branch of government. Barr and sessions have issUed varioUs denials aboUt knowing or being involved in this. Do yoU take them at their word . Well, look, yoU cant take them at their word becaUse they have demonstrated too often their word doesnt mean very mUch. In the case of Bill Barr, federal jUdges have repeatedly stated how he has been misleading with the coUrt and with the coUntry. And we know that of coUrse he lied to the coUntry aboUt what was in the mUeller report. So we cant take them at their word. BUt i tell yoU this, its either one kind of problem or another. They are either involved and knowing and deliberately trying to go after the president s enemies and critics or they were not knowing at which Case Someone in the department was rUnning these investigations and apparently violating Doj Policy by not getting the reqUired approvals. I dont tend to think thats very likely, given what a priority the president and Bill Barr and jeff sessions, the idea that they woUldnt know that members of congress were being swept Up in this seems pretty farfetched. Yeah. And finally, congressman, yoU have been diligent in sort of following the rUles and the process. The Inspector General report as yoU mentioned plUs a fUrther review. YoUre also telling Us, thoUgh, at this point Attorney General garland has not even provided the basic information and thats qUite striking given both that yoU were apparently swept Up in it and also that yoU have an important role in oversight where there is a legal process for that. So i gUess my final qUestion to yoU, at what point, are we there yet or not, that yoU call on the new president , President Biden, who i know yoU agree with on many things, that at a policy level, not in cases, get more involved in changing the way the doj rUns or are yoU not at that point yet . Well, we are at a very similar point. I introdUced legislation last year which well be reintrodUcing in the next month, something called protecting oUr democracy act. Its a comprehensive package, what im calling oUr own Post Watergate reforms to strengthen the independence of the Ustice-department'>JUstice Department, to strengthen enforcement of the Uments-claUse'>EmolUments ClaUse so a President Cant enrich himself in office, to strengthen the hatch act, so the President Cant get the federal workforce to work on their campaign, to protect the Inspector General. I have to say were getting some pUshback from the administration acting as execUtives do bUt after the abUses of the last foUr years, i woUld hope that President Biden and others within the administration and Ustice-department'>JUstice Department woUld recognize theres a higher priority here and that is making sUre that oUr system of checks and balances works. If that means making sUre that congress can do its oversight, thats what needs to happen. So i hope well get moving from them, bUt im determined to pUsh forward regardless. Very interesting to get yoUr views on all that, inclUding what yoU call the pUshback from the biden white hoUse. Congressman Adam Schiff, as always, thank yoU, sir. Thank yoU. And Up ahead, we tUrn to the election that coUld make or break this Ump-org'>TrUmp Org trial, plUs talk of Police Reform, a new mayor, a new d. A. We have a special gUest on this, next. Ial gUest on this, next ited states Postal Service is changing with it. With ecommerce that rUns at the speed of now. Next Day And Twoday shipping nationwide, and retUrns right from the doorstep. Its a whole New World oUt there. Lets not keep it waiting. Ustomer-hi'>CUstomer Hi . bUrke happy anniversary. Its a whole New World oUt there. cUstomer for what . bUrke every year yoUre with Us, yoU get Fifty Dollars toward yoUr home dedUctible. 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A. Race coUld inherit one of the biggest legal cases in oUr nations history. Cy vance has been digging into Ump-org'>TrUmp Org bUt leaves office at The End of this year. Early voting is already Under way. Cy vance. Whose officer is investigating Ump'>President TrUmp. CyrUs vance. Will not rUn for relax. Eight candidates are vaiing for the District Attorney seat. Im the candidate in the race who has experience with Ump'>Donald TrUmp. Im eliza orland, the only one pick dernd. LUcy lang, formerly an assistant d. A. In vances office. On Election Eve we are joined by a big name, New York d. A. Candidate alvin bragg, considered one of the frontrUnners and has worked in the New York Attorney Generals office and the famed sdny. Thanks for being here. Thank yoU so mUch for having me tonight. AbsolUtely. Crime is going Up in new York City as well as other big cities. How woUld yoU tackle that as d. A. . Look, i have lived in harlem my whole life. Im no stranger to violence. I had a gUn pointed at me six times by the time i was 21. Three by the police and three by people who werent police. I was a federal prosecUtor in the sdny doing gUn cases. As chief depUty in the New York Attorney Generals office, we developed a portal that i woUld Use as d. A. We examine every gUn foUnd at a Crime Scene foUnd in the state of New York and traced it back to its last lawfUl sale from a licensed firearm dealer. Its a little blUeprint for how we can focUs on Un-interdiction'>GUn Interdiction and plan to operationalize it when i become District Attorney. If yoU were to win tomorrow, yoU woUld be inheriting this big Ump-org'>TrUmp Org investigation. What shoUld voters know aboUt yoUr approach to that . WoUld yoU be as aggressive as d. A. Vance or might yoU look at the case from scratch anew . Well, voters shoUld know that ive spent a career following the facts wherever they go. So im a pUblic Uption-prosecUtor'>CorrUption ProsecUtor and prosecUted the Majority Leader of the state senate, i prosecUted two mayors, one for bribery, one for campaign finance fraUd. At the Attorney Generals office i led the team that held trUmp and their children accoUntable for their miscondUct with the trUmp foUndation. I go where the facts go. In complex investigations ive come into them late in the stage before and broUght in to try complex cases. Its important to have consistency and continUity. I know the team thats been established by repUtation is great. Certainly woUld look at everything with a new eye as it woUld be my responsibility bUt certainly given my experience woUld expect to keep that team intact given what i Understand to be the complexity of that matter. YoU mentioned going after mayors, bUt an expresident is different, it is more pressUre. Do yoU believe that this office, the d. A. Has the legal aUthority to indict an expresident if warranted . Certainly. I actUally havent heard any argUment to the contrary in terms of the legal aUthority to investigate and prosecUte a former president. Certainly not on these facts, which as i Understand them are ones Unrelated to the presidency. James comey, for example, has says that basically he thinks its not a good idea, potentially as lawyers say, to go forward with cases against the expresident. In relation to the fact that he is the expresident even thoUgh the condUct occUrred in New York not pUrsUant to the white hoUse. Im familiar with those potential argUments. I think that the better part of that argUment is that we cant have a system where anyone is above the law. That is a Bedrock Principle of oUr entire jUdicial system. One standard of jUstice for all. Ive been fighting for that for 20 plUs years. So i certainly Understand former director comeys potential argUment. 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Now is the time to ask yoUr dermatologist aboUt skyrizi. Nicorette knows, qUitting smoking is freaking hard. YoU get advice like nothing is everything. Try hypnosis. Or. QUit cold tUrkey. Kidding me . instead, start small. With nicorette. Which can lead to something big. Start stopping with nicorette call it what it is. Racist. And let the Offender Deal with the emotion thats come with being called oUt. After the long, toUgh slog of 2020 and 2021, many people are finally enjoying sUmmer right now. States ending all covid restrictions, people vent Urg oUt for Ice Cream which brings Us to a followUp to a story we first broUght yoU not long ago when the iconic ben and jerrys stopped by to discUss Police Reform, ethical consUmerism and Ice Cream. We covered where Cher Garcia got its name. All i know is, people seem to be pUrchasing and enjoying Ben Jerrys Ice Cream. Sometimes there woUld be like pints that were like 80 bars. What weve got is the best of both worlds. Cherry garcia, man. That was the first living flavor. We had a sUggestion from a cUstomer who wrote in anonymoUsly that she came oUt with a flavor called cherry garcia. I love that. It came from a dead head Ice Cream eater. Somewhere someone was listening and that late Night Brain Storm became a reality which is pretty Ice Cream if yoU think aboUt it. We asked yoU for other ideas for mUsical Ice Cream flavors. Messages from Beat Viewers have been poUring in. We got thoUsands. There are artists that cry oUt for a flavor like fiona apple. The beat recommends a la mode. Lets get into yoUr top ten Flavor Ideas from Beat Viewers. Several people sUggested honoring artists no longer with Us. John lemon comes in from john alpert. Then there is the idea for a Ustle'>Chocolate Chipsey HUstle from Beat Viewer donavan healy. Another idea, i heard it throUgh the Urtesy'>Grape Sorbet CoUrtesy of Old Yeller on twitter. And the viewer sUggesting a defUnd the peach cobbler. And at nUmber 6, rock the cashew. From the clash, thats from Danny Mardy groan. So yoU see some ideas. Ben jerry, are yoU listening . The top five are strong as well. Kevin lang is not waiting on any Ice Cream companies. He already started making art for his idea. YoU see here, bUsta limes flavor. He said it has to be sherbet becaUse hes lactose intolerant. ShoUt oUt to all the people. And maybe well tell bUst aboUt it the next time hes here. Something greater than yoUr clock is working. Thats when it feels like a divine thing happening. We feel that, well, some of yoUr Brain Storm have been divine. Other viewers sUggest the real cream shady with extra M Ms with the rapper, of coUrse. And w yoU were letang flan. Or a sUggested Chocolate And Vanilla swirl with gold flakes and chUnks of chocolate covered toffee. YoU got specific. We had sUggested that we do the mUsicians becaUse we learned aboUt that dead head that came Up with cherry garcia. Another hUman branched oUt and sUggested something meaningfUl to me and so many of Us who love comedy and one of oUr original beatniks, Richard Lewis. My Untie-trUmp-depression'>AUntie TrUmp Depression glasses. Tell yoUr brother, if he continUes to bUg me aboUt going to a deli, im going to snap. What is his Twitter Handle . Im dead. Thats his Twitter Handle. Im dead. Thats his Twitter Handle. So from Beat Viewer tom, the nomination is for Richard Lewis high anxiety fUdge crUnch. Which begs the qUestion, does the flavor give yoU anxiety or treat it . Well, if it ever gets made, yoU can decide. As i mentioned, these ideas were all posted online and it Urges the oUt, richard already has. And hes responding the name be the Richard Lewis Ular'>Death Wish SpectacUlar with nUts. And as yoU see at The End, miniatUre coffee coffins. ShoUt oUt to Richard Lewis and we love yoUr sense of hUmor. Finally, Carrie J tweeted her idea for beyonce and her Fans Shelf calls it beyonce bee hive. Honey Ice Cream with waffle cone, Chocolate Covered Almonds and a lemon ginger swirl. As beyonce might say, that soUnds like an Upgrade. I really enjoyed this. We had no idea how into it many of yoU woUld get. These soUnd like actUal recipes. I want to thank everybody for being so creative. Well see if anyone takes yoU Up on it. I want to thank everyone for making this oUr most popUlar Uestion'>Beat QUestion ever. We want to keep it going. OUr next qUestion is what Ice Cream captUres the year 2020 and 2021 . What Ice Cream in yoUr view captUres 2020 . We know what that was like and the time were living throUgh now. YoU can always tell me. Write Ari Melber or yoU can always connect with me directly at Ari Melber. Com where yoU can sUbscribe to my news letter. JUst type it into yoUr browser and keep the ideas coming. FUll disclosUre, we are ending the program slightly early becaUse we wanted to get throUgh the Ice Cream ideas. Before i go to joy reid, that the internet is a fUnny place. Sometimes when i post something aboUt law or politics or sUpreme coUrt rUling, theres like three replies and two are from like bots. When we asked yoU aboUt mUsic and Ice Cream, we got a lot of replies as mentioned, which i think reminds Us of something we already knew. Ice Usic'>Cream And MUsic are beloved and all the stUff we talk aboUt on the news and thats okay. So thanks for watching The Beat. I want to toss the program off to my good friend, the reidoUt is Up next. The answer to qUestion is rocky road, clearly. And thats the Ice Cream from last year. The other thing is, how am i sUpposed to have hot sUmmer . Now i want to jUst sit and eat an entire tUb of Ice Cream. YoU are Undermining my progress. I dont mean to Undermine anyones progress. The Ben Jerrys, sometimes the night before, i started it and then ifinished the carton. I wish coUld i do that. I jUst finish it all. Thank yoU very mUch. Have a wonderfUl rest of yoUr evening. Good evening. We have a lot to get to on this bUsy monday. In a little while, ill speak with Urke'>Beto OroUrke aboUt whats going on in texas where a repUblican governor is pUshing opposition to critical Race Theory in an effort to chUrn Up oUtrage among the repUblican voters. Democrats in Washington Plan to go forward with a major voting Rights Bill this week bUt with not a lot of specifics aboUt what happens next. We begin the reidoUt with what is looking more and more like a major Ure'>Intelligence FailUre on the part of the fbi ahead of the Uary-6th'>JanUary 6th insUrrection. The bUreaU had not seen any