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spending part of your monday with us. we are grateful for that. the beat with ari melber starts right now. hi, friend. i, ali. thank you so much. welcome to the beat , everyone. and i m ari melber. i m just gonna start like this. if you go back to 2015, which is a different time in american politics, there was major interest in finding some sort of alternative to the burgeoning trump maga onslaught. one conservative wrote a whole book about what he cast at the time as potentially informed conservative alternative to what he called the reprehensible donald trump. a book which advances his own profile so much that you saw an opening to run for office. and then, as you see in the images on your screen, this individual lived out the very trumpism, that reprehensible dogma, that he spent all his time documenting and fighting against which is what he wrote about. but he figured out that after doing all of that and doing the book, that trump could help him win what he, wa ....
zikomo! [applause] welcome to the beat with ari melber. we have a big show for you tonight, prosecutor ronaldo murat he will join me as we look at jack smith s big coup case against donald trump, which faces a key appeal in january. how will smith draw on his past experience? that s where we begin tonight. he s a tough prosecutor with a long record. he s led difficult and victorious cases, including, the prosecution of new york police officer, justin vulpy, who tortured abner lima, a notorious case, which resulted in a 30-year prison sentence, unheard of for a prosecutor at the time. he was unknown prosecutor at the time. he went on to develop and expertise that other lawyers sometimes duck. the kind of cases that go at the powerful and government, police senators, heads of states. he developed experience for the pressures of those specific cases and something of a repetition of a prosecutor that you can pick up and call with a tough case like that. smith did a stint ....