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our top story tonight is a brand new filing by special counsel jack smith. you can see it right here in this paperwork. you can see what they re talking about which is evidence, what lawyers call discovery material. this kind of filing reminds donald trump and his evolving team of lawyers they re on a collision course with jack smith s aggressive office, barreling towards a trial slated to start in august. that could be delight, but only by rulings. it s not a timeline that donald trump s team controls. so they re headed towards that. this filing that we just got outlines the new evidence that donald trump s team will get. that includes interviews of defendant trump conduct bid non-government entities obtained by the special counsel s office. the key word here is interviews, plural, because even in this sparse word we got new information. it means smith has at least one more recording of trump beyond the one we knew about, the one that made news, that was also featured ....
congress for failing to pass a spending bill. ainsley: peter doocy is live with the latest, hi, peter. peter: his face was so red, like he was embarrassed or likely at some point forgot to put on sun screen. the first policy he was asked about in the new year was immigration. [indiscernible] president biden: they have to give me the money i need to protect the border. peter: he plans to reopen four points of entry, two in texas, one in california and one in arizona. cbp has been overwhelmed by the 302,000 migrants showing up in december. the white house wants supreme court to allow feds to take down the razor wire set up by texas governor abbott. today republicans will show up at the border today. speaker johnson is continuing to block president biden s proposed funding to hire agents and invest? cutting-edge technology that is to stop people from flowing into the country. jim jordan is part of the delegation. he changed what was working, no more building th ....
good evening. happy holidays. welcome to the beat. i am ari melber. i ll be joining you the next two hours for a special holiday edition of the beat. donald trump has a criminal trial problem. he has several trials looming in 2024. that s where we begin tonight. we ll do it a little different for the holidays. former federal prosecutor joyce vance with me to start the show. we re looking at this legal heat coming up. i want to get into this with you, joyce, but first show you and viewers something we put together to consider tonight, historic indictments on the road donald trump has already been on. donald trump has been indicted under seal by the new york grand jury. 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. we have one set of laws in this country, and they apply to everyone. this will now be months if not the next year of our lives. the former president was placed under arrest on charges brought by the government he once led. the guy who s runni ....
they take in the case directly to voters and they are going that they are the best parties hope for the future and for retaking the white house. we have to bring common sense back into the country. from one point thing is i am a person with common sense. and so are the people in this room and our country needs common sense back in leadership. i m running for president because i don t think there s a client of our is inevitable, we have it in our power to choose a better path. a path is going to lead to the revival of this country and a restoration of american greatness. dana: at least ace presidential hopefuls will be it therefore the ammo roasted right what is that? what is going to get pretty busy here i think barbecue and harleys in fund-raising and all sorts of other fun stuff at the iowa fairgrounds here in des moines, the two republicans in the top of primary polls they ve been coming to iowa over the last few days. in the former president donald trump, ....
tomorrow thanks to at-home for joining us this hour. so today was the big day. the day the man who was widely seen as the strongest potential competitor to former president trump in the 2024 republican primary, today was the day this guy entered the race. it is the biggest day of florida governor ron desantis s political career so far. the biggest state, certainly, since he first stepped out into the national stage in 2018 as a candidate for florida governor. everyone knows my husband ron desantis is endorsed by president trump. but he is also an amazing dad. ron loves playing with the kids. build the wall. he read stories. that mr. trump said, you are fired. i love that part. he s teaching madison to talk. make america great again. people say ron is all about trump, but he is so much more. fake lead. so good. that ad was from way back in 2018 when desantis was positioning himself as a trump understudy. someone who knew all the lyrics, who had studie ....