Its all so new and exciting. Its all so exciting. Scramble the circuits. Youll have msnbc punched up but youll be seeing abc. A nice thing. A nice way to let everybody see it. Yeah, im only lightly joking, but youre doing a Public Service announcement, reminding everyone while yes, there are all these companies and competitors this is one night where all of the usual competitors agree to simulcast the same thing because its for civics. In service of our democracy and i think a nod to how important this election is. Amen. Well put. Thank you. Have a great show. See you soon. Our thanks to Nicolle Wallace for the handoff. Welcome to The Beat. Our top story is the Harris Campaign on offense with this new ad Hammering Trump for project 2025. Well show you some of that ad in a moment. It reenforced the attack the Campaign Hit nightly at the convention which is trying to take what is now politically seen as widely a very toxic project 2025 and tie it to trump. Brand him with it. Link him to
The georgia case is for a lot of these we need translators, former prosecutors. What fani willis charged was the clearest thing we all saw with our own eyes. And i had this conversation in the 8 00 hour. What trump told his voters his first year as president in 2017 from a podium was dont believe what you see, dont believe what you hear, only believe me. And what fani willis indicted yesterday just blows that out of the water. In state court we could see with our own eyes. And my understanding again, youre the lawyer in these conversations was that if this, then that. So if this criminal enterprise with us corrupt in nature and all in pursuance of a crime, then all of these acts were a part of it and all these people were a part of it. From the outside having worked in politics, thats what it looked like to me. So, to read that narrative is what made that indictment, the fourth in just a few short months, different from the others. I agree. I think you put that very well. Sometimes we
Alleged coconspirators in that indictment. Charles burnham, defense attorney for coconspirator number 2 from the recent indictment. This is a person who has been confirmed and identified as john eastman, the lawyer, who advised donald trump, who spoke at the January 6th Rally there next to rudy giuliani, and was a key architect of much of what the president and his aides were trying to push heading into the january 6th certification. Charles, first of all, thank you very much for making the time and joining me tonight. Thank you for having me. Absolutely. We put aside some time for this. I want to start with a couple of quick things and then get into the case. But first and foremost, donald trump lost the 2020 election. You accept that fact . Well, look. There is a large portion of the country that has issues with the 2020 election. There are still discussion about things that went on. A large portion of the country believes in goats or horoscopes. Im asking do you accept the results o
Donald trump is now the Presumptive Republican nominee for president. His only opponent in this race, former governor nikki haley, had vowed to stay in the race through super tuesday. And this morning after only winning the state of vermont and the city of washington, d. C. , nikki haley dropped out. Now, if there was anything truly significant about haleys campaign, it was the degree to which it was a symbol of the dissatisfaction for donald trump. Yes, nikki haley advocated about Theal Deficit but really the whe point of the project was to offer republicans an alternative to the guy with the orange blow out. So when nikki haley dropped out this morning the big question was who was she going to endorse . You might think this would be a moment the last Person Standing between donald trump and the take over of the gop wouldnt just tupitulate to donald trump. Maybe she wouldnt endorse joe biden, but couldnt she, wouldnt shet suggest her supporters didnt have to vote for trump, that there
By Special Counsel jack smith. And then thursdays arraignment on the most grave case of all, this new indictment and arraignment for donald trump, the defendant, over his failed effort to overthrow democracy. We begin there tonight because we have a special for you tonight. Its called indicted the coup conspiracy. A detailed look into trumps failed coup plot with new reporting and context from that detailed Speaking Indictment this week. If youve been following this all really closely, so have we. Weve been working to bring you an even more indepth set of reports tonight. If you happen to be catching up after a long week, ive got a onestop shop for you on what really matters and what weve learned. And by the way, if you are a longtime viewer, i know some of you are, you might recall about a year ago, we broke down trumps efforts to overturn the 2020 Election Results along that grid, how his desperation and his plotting grew as all the legal challenges lost in court and he turned to plo