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welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. we are tracking several stories tonight, including another supreme court ethics scandal, tying gop appointee samuel alito to another billionaire on a fishing trip. we ll get into that later. it s a big story. but our news program begins tonight with not only the criminal trial of donald trump, now slated to begin on august 14th buck the broader ongoing threat of right wing individual lantyism and authoritarianism. tonight we begin with a special report on that very challenge, and trump s efforts to hijack the criminal justice system that now is trying to potentially hold him accountable. we re talking about a range of actions that has prompted already fear of violence over the violent rhetoric and whether that could turn to action. we re about one week out from the federal arraignment that trump did try to prevent. we remember he was forced to sit silently in that miami courtroom. outside cameras showed a very small crowd. the scen ....
this legal pressure that is engulfing donald trump to a degree he s clearly aware of. his former white house lawyer made waves and concerned people by ricking trump will go to jail over white house documents. now we have this short but unusual letter from donald trump s lawyers, signed by them, publicized by donald trump that reads like a cry for help or some sort of freakout. i can tell you straight up it s not a normal legal proceeding. it s addressed to attorney general merrick garland. the wall street journal made waves that the quays may be nearing the intend although no one can say what happened, it clearly had bad news in there at a minimum for trump with insiders bracing for a possible indictment. again, that s not news you can go to the bank with, but it s wall street journal, which is own by the murdoch empire, and that may among other things may have led trump to write this letter. it basically tries to shake down the attorney general of the united states ....
it strikes and claims it makes neither of which are typical of the category. quoting now from the introductions first line, politics cannot be allowed to impact the use of justice. so, we ll focus on the filing ahead in the chances that a judge will agree with any or all of it given how early in the process it is. as well so examine how the various a surgeons are in fact in the filing, actually stand up to the facts themselves. also tonight, cnn exclusive that the justice department is issued a new subpoena for more january six related documents. katie collins starts us. off what is the president seeking and with this? one, is a third party attorney which is known better as a special master. it can go through these documents if they re appointed. see what has regal privilege, what doesn t. it takes up time though. it s a little unusual that they waited two weeks to file for this. there s a chance for the justice department has already gone through this, the investigat ....
Our show, but i want to bring this to our attention right now thinking of those fizzles crowds. we had that search at mar-a-lago. we didn t know publicly then how bad it was and how much evidence was found at the time. it came out overtime. but trump after that dispatched an ally to pass along a secret back channel message. trump wanted attorney general garland to know people around the country were enraged by the search, and trump added, according to a new york times report, a mafia-style threat to garland. country is on fire. what can i do to reduce the heat? trump was suggesting that he had the power to do that. that he could either reduce the heat or, if garland didn t play ball, increase the heat. that may sound quite brazen for someone literally under investigation by the doj for that very approach to attacking the capital, and a kind of legal review over whether he was turning up the heat in a way that could be charged. ....
Of his home. that was the threat tom give it to you specifically so you can see what he said, the country is on fire. the new york times reported trump said, what can i do to reduce the heat? on the flip side, anyone who s ever seen any mafia movie knows is turn to heat on or turn it up. we have to reason to believe that that attempted back channel message, whether you call it a threat or incriminating evidence against trump, or something the doj should ignore, we have no evidence or public sense that led to the attorney general doing anything or reaching back out, let alone holding a meeting. this new letter comes at a time of rising heat and on a night when trump will for the first time face a primary, an alternative who will connect with the maga crowd but is juggling zero indictments for federal probes. to get into it, we bring in bill kristol. welcome back, sir. thanks, ari. ....