melber. you re very kind. thanks, alicia. good to see you. welcome to the beat, i am ari melber. get comfortable. we are going to walk through what was an absolutely unusual day in the legal trials, tribulations, and skirmishes over defendant donald trump. we are tracking, as my colleague just mentioned, major developments across three different cases. two courtrooms were in action today. in georgia, we saw the most significant day since perhaps the dramatic confessions and sentencing of other trump codefendants in that case, but we saw for the first time the d.a. leading the case, rico d.a. fani willis, taking the stand and testifying, which itself was a surprise last-minute move, while in new york, the other side of your screen, we got it. the first scheduled criminal trial of defendant donald trump. that case, you may recall, was not supposed to go first. there are a lot of reasons, legal reasons and delays that have led to this outcome, but we got, today, the first