he is probing the night the trump aides and some outside allies tried to hatch a military coup plot. again, if those words sound disturbing to think about your own american government and not something happening in some other region, buckle up. your government is investigating this with an eye on indicting potentially the people who wanted to abuse your military to take away your vote. it s a big story. i know it s summer, i know it s friday, this is a big story. the night of december 18th in the oval office where some of the most extreme trump plotters were working on tactics that allegedly even rudy giuliani warned would land them all in prison. they wanted to have soldiers seize election machines. they wanted to install one of trump s political legal operatives to try to dictate unlawful orders, both pertaining to the justice department and the military. that would be sidney powell. she had been on the campaign side, more or less, meaning arguing in court or making motions
members of the national education union will walk out on the 5th and 7th ofjuly. the government says the strikes will cause real damage to pupils. now on bbc news political thinking with nick robinson. rishi sunak is talking rubbish, at least that s what boris johnson says, as a bitter row between the two men that have been simmering for weeks burst into the open. it s just the latest episode of tory infighting that dates back notjust to the fall ofjohnson, but arguably to the fall of margaret thatcher decades ago. my guest on political thinking this weekjoined the conservative party back then, in the early 1990s, he s been close to or an adviser to five of the last seven conservative leaders from john major to rishi sunak. and for much of that time, daniel finkelstein, lord finkelstein has been a columnist for the times newspaper, chronicling the ups and downs of british politics, drawing on his experience of that politics, but also drawing on his family s extraordinary
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
principal on this kind of case. that s coming up later. we will learn things. we will fact check. i invite you to stick around for that. that s later. the speech you may have heard about is landing tonight around 7:00 p.m. eastern, inside of an hour. president biden s first ever address from the oval office. we have heard him from the white house before. this is a thing we in journalism and white house junkies keep track of. this is in the views of the biden team, a positive that they are summoning the grandeur of an oval office address, the first several years in to talk about breakthroughs on debt, the economy and the new jobs report. that s 7:00 p.m. eastern tonight in joy s hour. we will cover that. you will see the president and the reaction. we have that. as for this moment, our lead story is what we are learning about the clear lid blowing off a key part of trump s dewith this report that everyone has been talking about all week, that he himself said he knew things
vladimir putin showing an increasing reliance on drones that russia is said to be getting from iran. or clarissa ward the only reporter seeing what ukraine has shot out of the sky. plus, roe v economy? president biden s midterm pledge today, if democrats can keep control of congress. he will get an abortion rights law on the books. but the reality check on that may rely on what is on the minds of most voters. and hunting the injured. protesters shot and breaten in iran. fear of going to the hospital, where police could be waiting to capture them. the desperate mrlengths some demonstrators are going to to get treatment. welcome to the lead, i m john berman, in for jake tapper. and we start with our world lead. today, a top ukrainian intelligence official predicted an end to putin s war. quote, russia s loss is inev inevitable. by the summer, everything should be over. that despite putin s attacks on ukraine s power plants. nearly a third have been destroyed. some of th