welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. we re tracking several pieces of news in this coming criminal trial of donald trump. his allies advise delay, this key tack we hear about in dealing with the indictment. we know jack smith, however, guaranteed a speedy trial. my office will seek a speedy trial in this matter, consistent with the public interest and the rights of the accused. there are some complexities with the case, but the federal judge is making news with a fast time line, ruling that trump s espionage trial will now be set to begin august 14th. that s just eight weeks from now, and trump s run for office is ongoing. it puts the trial on a collision course with the first republican presidential debate the following week. it will be held in a small florida courthouse, and this plan is putting even more pressure on trump to get in gear. he has seen several lawyers depart his defense team. he was recently adding new ones as of last week. now, to be ready for a trial
it s also an issue in many races around the nation. we are 35 days out from these midterms, and right now the scandal engulfing republican herschel walker in one race, but tells a similar story. he follows a report that states he has backed abortion in his own personal life, specifically funding an abortion for a woman in 2009. that was before the supreme court recently allowed states to ban abortions outright. and it is that personal act that is exactly what walker also claims to be run against. the beast, as you see here, documents what he allegedly did to support abortion in his personal life, including an account of the woman involved, while he publicly claims the opposite and wants to take away that right from others. it is running he is running on this plan to ban abortion while he has been allegedly caught supporting it. so in its own personal scandal louse way it is an echo about who makes the larger decisions, whether this is about what they say, or whether this is
week. we ve been going through this together. you ve probably watched the hearings as we have and we ve done our live reactions, but tonight a little later, i m going to walk through what i think is the most damning thing we learned this week. stay with us for that if you re interested, but there was an investigation about how the proud boys violence was more methodical. this is new from a new york times investigation out today. recruits are told to meet at the washington monument the morning of the 6th. many worked as teams. like this group in tactical gear. within two minutes of biggs arrival, they are all at that entrance. a fellow member tells the group to push inside the capitol. one of the leaders responds, we are trying. it s further evidence of their collective intent. at this point the proud boys have been critical players in five major advances. you can see from the aerial shot the blueprints they were apparently trying to use and plan. well, some of it work
and your anxiety, everything is gone. it s definitely worth trying. it is an amazing product. salt, we ve got a few new developments out of fulton county, that s where the georgia election interference case is happening. , first attorney fani willis asked a judge to clarify if all the 19 defendants in her case, including donald trump, are set to go to trial in less than two months, after the court scheduled coup lawyer can chesebro s trial for september 23rd of this year. there s also this remarkable scene very few people saw coming yesterday, when the guy that you see there, in the graphic, not long trump, the other one, white house chief of staff testified in federal court as part of that case. mark meadows is trying to get his trial moved from state
few new developments out of fulton county, that s where the georgia election interference case is happening. , first attorney fani willis asked a judge to clarify if all the 19 defendants in her case, including donald trump, are set to go to trial in less than two months, after the court scheduled coup lawyer can chesebro s trial for september 23rd of this year. there s also this remarkable scene very few people saw coming yesterday, when the guy that you see there, in the graphic, not long trump, the other one, white house chief of staff testified in federal court as part of that case. mark meadows is trying to get his trial moved from state court to federal court, heading into the hearing before a federal judge on that removal proceeding, the contentions among legal experts is there is no way meadows himself will testify will testify at that hearing. so we re shopping with the former congressman took the stand for about four hours