exposure criminally. the fact that donald trump s foreign trip was blown up by the day michael cohen testified before congress tells you how badly donald trump didn t want the inside of his businesses turned out. and this ally of donald trump said, you know what, the russia thing isn t going to bring him down. michael cohen is because michael cohen knows everything. now, who knows more than michael cohen? allen weisselberg. the fact that these two men are ensnared and in the spotlight tells us that donald trump is concerned. ari, it is your turn. i ll go upstairs and watch you. all right. we ll keep going. i want to welcome everyone to the beat. i am ari melber. we begin with bombshell breaking news in the trump criminal probe. the washington post is reporting the manhattan da investigating donald trump s company has convened a grand jury for the first time to weigh possible charges. this grand jury would be expected to decide whether to indict any individuals at the
election denier who got action to the white house. the powerpoint detailed a plot to overturn biden s win. here is the brand-new letter from the committee stating that waldron has, quote f. information regarding the attempts to delay or disrupt the election results. meadows got a copy of the powerpoint one day. waldron says he visited the white house on multiple times after the election. a subpoena citing the very statement he made to a the washington post. here he is last december at a georgia senate hearing spreading false information. president chavez, they re designed to control and manipulate votes, and that s what we found review these things. we have affidavits in pennsylvania and in arizona that these machine-printed ballots were injected into the system. have you had an opportunity to examine any other dominion machines? no, but we d like to. [ laughter ] that was rudy giuliani laughing, but he may not be laughing now. former campaign manager brad scale a
thanks so much. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. a we begin with this ongoing and conservative hunt for some kind of evidence or damning narrative about political opponents and how this keeps coming up empty in revealing ways. this is one a those stories that s crested this week because we had the trump era investigation end. i have new material on that, including how it s playing on the right and why that matters. at the same time, house republicans are struggling with their own investigations into the biden family. but it is telling to watch how people are dealing with the evidence this week, especially evident that was channelled but none other than a trump/barr hand picked prosecutor. part of this is playing out on a platform that s been recently discredited. i m talk about fox news, which was caught lying to their own audience and lying so badly and blatantly they were worried they broke illegal lies and they broke history the bad way work a $787 million settleme
misleading attacks on joe biden over to people in trump s circle. the report identifies them as people close to trump and his administration. just as in 2016, this new report out now documents how the democrats white house bid had to contend not only with its own campaign rival, like usual, but also fight on two fronts against a well-funded, armed, independent country with its own agenda. now, there are differences as well. this time many voters may be more on gourd against foreign prop ga da. the russians had a plan for that, too. they tried to get prominent u.s. persons and media conduits to launder their narratives against democrats so russia attacks on biden might seem more american by coming through u.s. officials and audiences. and then there is this. rudy giuliani debunks the impeachment hoax and exposes biden family corruption in ukraine. watch top ukrainian officials testify under oath. the side of the story schiff doesn t want you to hear. that heavy handed prom