see you. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. i hope you stay with us. tonight we begin with developments that i think really offer a kind of a contrast in this period of legal reckoning and accountability we have been talking about together because we were thinking about this for tonight s show. if you look at all of the prosecutors and all the investigators and all of the probes that donald trump has faced, including squaring off against big-time experienced investigators like prosecutor and former fbi director mueller, there were crimes found. there were issues that ensnared donald trump s aides. but even as the now-two-year probe of a public insurrection and attempt the coup has grinded on and on and not reached donald trump or most of his top aides, there are more clear signs and steps that show one prosecutor on a different fact pattern, a different case, has proven able to legally get farthest against donald trump and make precedent. i m talking about the new yor
donald trump and make precedent. i m talking about the new york district attorney alvin bragg. he actually recently took over that office. he has less experience as a prosecutor or in this role and certainly less power than the leaders of the federal justice department like the current attorney general, but it was bragg who put donald trump dead center right there, as you see, at that infamous arraignment table. the first criminal indictment of anyone who has ever been a president of the united states. it is d.a. bragg who is now gearing up to go forward after that arraignment, that ig noble day for donald trump as a defendant and put donald trump on trial and it is alvin bragg doing all that methodically moving forward while the other probes that we hear about in washington or down in georgia continue to basically take a lot