we are grate. . the beat with ari melber starts right now. see you tuesday. i m ari melber, we begin with the breaking news. we start the new week with the federal defendant, donald trump, back in florida. this is the eve of his federal arraignment tomorrow, and he made the trip from new jersey preparing to voluntarily surrender into federal custody for the first time as a defendant. that is the consequence of the indictment unsealed and briefly explained by jack smith on friday. the former president indicted for breaking several laws including the espionage act and laws relating to obstruction of justice. trump is current still seeking what he needs legally, the required local counsel, amidst reports that many are balking at him as a quote nightmare client. now, sooner or later, you can find a lawyer there that s not going to be a hangup forever, but it is a striking piece of legal reality for donald trump here on the eve of that arraignment. he spent the weekend out o
it s historic. we ve never seen anything like this before. let s get the latest now from laura ingle live in new york. good evening, laura. good evening, bret. as you can see, cameras are downtown at the courthouse. fox news can confirm that a manhattan grand jury has voted to indict former president donald trump. the first former u.s. president to be charged criminally. the 23 grand jurors have been listening to ed since january on trump s role in hush money payments to former porn star stormy daniels. trump has denied having an affair with daniels and any wrong doing. but his former lawyer and fixer, michael cohen has testified that he paid stormy daniels $130,000 to not speak about her relationship with the former president. and that trump reimbursed him for that payment. earlier this week, former national inquirer publisher day vick pecker testified for a second time. pecker has played a key role in linking trump to daniels. during a rally waco saturday, trump who is ru
thank you so much for letting substance abuse your homes during these extraordinary times. we re grateful the beat with ari melber starts right now hi, ari. hi, nicolle thanks so much today we have a special report on what new york prosecutors might be eyeing on trump there s now report on that later tonight on the beat. the big legal development making waves right now is from a different legal jurisdiction from new york. it s how georgia prosecutors have been building a case against trump down there over what might be a lot more significant to a lot of people than financials in new york, which is effort to overturn the election when the foreperson spoke out, it was fascinating, an unusual development. it drew criticism from people who really care about the justice system, regardless of what she was saying critical of mr. trump, there were concerns about. that you may recall that wellin welling, right now it s not the same, but her colleagues if you will five more grand
meeting moments ago, symbolically at the reagan library is beijing warns the chinese government will quote resolutely fight back plus one day after donald trump s arrest and arraignment in new york. two major developments in the federal case investigating him one a cnn exclusive the grand jury testimony. revealing the trump was warned he could not legally sees voting machines, plus the decision from his vice president, mike pence that could set up his own historic testimony before the special counsel. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper, and we start with the world s superpowers on edge and potentially provocative show of solidarity between democracies. moments ago, taiwan s president, sighing when wrapped up a news conference with us house speaker kevin mccarthy on the republicans home turf in california in the chinese government is not happy about it. the top official in beijing warning that size visit could lead to a quote serious unquote confrontation with the united sta
The arguments in this criminal trial of donald trump, the firstever for a first president. Michael cohen was on the stand. We saw the team both rest. And we saw the Defense Witnesses stumble. New ba grueling three days. The defense has called their first witness. After yesterdays fireworks. Tossed and his testimony was almost stricken from the record. The defense has rested its case after calling two witnesses. Donald trump did not testify in his own defense. That is how it went down. Michael cohens cross was not all smooth sailing. He was saying that he himself stole from the organization. Prosecutors got their turn with cohen on redirect where they basically said, were you too busy . And he said, he was not. The point was that it mattered and he got the confirmation and the prosecutors are going to continue to turn the jury. To look about wire we are hearing from you. Not because he is a model citizen, because he was the person that was picked to be involved in all this stuff. He is