the. i am ari melber. i will be joining you now for the next two hours of a special holiday edition of the bee tonight on this friday december 29th. donald trump s criminal trial several looming in 24. that s where we begin tonight, and we ll do it a little different tonight here for the holidays. i have former federal prosecutor joyce vance, already with me to start the show. we are looking at this legal heat coming up. i want to get into this with the, joyce, but first show you and every something we put together to consider the historic indictments on the road that donald trump has already been on. donald trump has been indicted under seal of the new york grand jury. 34 felony counts of falsified business records. we have one set of laws in the country that we 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 running for president
- rudolph giuliani, thank you for being with us. - thank you. - and in new york city s race for mayor, democrat david dinkins is leading in the polls over republican rudolph giuliani. - all of a sudden, david dinkins comes along, riding the wave of, you know, he was gonna be the first black mayor. and that was at a time when that had a real kind of emotional resonance, both within new york and nationally. - it was a historic day for new york and a triumphant moment for the biggest black population of any american city. - quiet! quiet! - rudy very quickly seems to have made the decision to embrace the sort of racism that a lot of his party believed in. - white power! - i saw god out on the block today he was darker than the preachers say with a teardrop tattooed on his face and dirt in his fingers i heard angels when he laughed the way that people do when they have known true pain for his sins i don t know who to blame what choice was he given?
[dramatic music] - i can hold a quarter right here, in this room, and ask this side of the room to tell me what they see and this side of the room what they see. and they will be looking at the same exact coin, but describing two very different realities. - calling it insurrection it wasn t. it was peaceful protest. - it s anarchists. breaking the glass of the united states capitol. - facts are indisputable. - i ve got secrets - i think that s the problem that we have. more people need to be able to stand up and say, that s crazy. it s a quarter, and we can talk about what s on each side of the quarter, but let s not disagree about the fact that it is a quarter. [people shouting] - january 6th was predicated on propaganda, in the most terrifying way. - so much for those claims that voter fraud never happens. of course it happens. they knew it happened when they told us it would never happen, because they re liars. - we re at a crossroads today between the promise of trut
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 running for
half past three local time, that is half past three local time, that is half past three local time, that is half past one gmt, i believe it. we know little detail about the gunmen and the government has made motives. what we do know is that the gunmen opened fire on students and staff inside the university building. i heard earlierfrom a professor who was giving a lecture at that precise moment. he described to me the moment. he described to me the moment when police entered the lecture hall and told him and the students to close the door, lock the door, and barricade themselves inside the lecture theatre. in fact, if you now look at these pictures that have come into us on bbc news, they are not very stable pictures, but you can understand the person filming and was running from what they believed was their life. they show people running away from the university. this was around 330. people were told by the police to vacate the area as soon as possible. police quickly reacte