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
sounds really familiar i went to school with him. a good kid, had a good head on the shoulders, wanted to joi the military that s all i can say about that i heard the name and i wa like are you kidding me? i know this guy. just a fact that he would have access to it, surprises me prettiness, i completel disagree with it i go through - i know what it s like with all of the regimen stuff and everything like that i know that it s wrong and h deserves to be punished fo what happened. we will have much more on the suspect as well as congressman marjorie taylo greene defensive fame, claimin he is being targeted because he s white, male, christian an anti-war and donald trump another gop 2024 pools give their full throat support for gun right at the nra convention. even after two mass shootings, but one republican may hav stolen the show with her story about her two-year-old granddaughter. let s elements adi, who has almost two, now add a who yo know soon will need them, w
Foreign aid page passed on a bipartisan basis despite threats to tank it from republican isolationists. Take a listen. I hope our republican colleagues stand together. Im a child of the 80s, regan republic. I understand maintaining peace through strength. That is a guiding principle. A big part of our party and worldview. Here is an opportunity to make that stand at a critical time in world history. With that bipartisan win, johnson was effective liable to silence those same far right members threatening to move him from the speakership. Speaker johnson yesterday addressed a group of protesters at Columbia University who hack lettered him as he attempted to speak to the press. Take a listen. A Growing Number of students have chanted in support of terrorists. They have suchased down jewish students. They have mocked them and reviled them. They have screamed leat those w bear the star of david. Enjoy your free speech. We will do idwhat is right by america. We respect free speech. We resp
Romney and President Biden making jokes about donald trump. There was a lot to go around yesterday. Mitt romney, wow. Bring it home, willie. Yeah, mitt romney going in there, obviously no love lost between those two men. Mitt romney, expect to hear more of that throughout the campaign. Expert legal analysis on yesterdays testimony in the Hush Money Trial and the Gag Order Against Trump. Straight ahead. President bidens joke came while he was campaigning in florida. On the issue of Reproductive Rights and Womens Health care, blaming trump for Overturning Roe and these extreme Abortion Laws. Well show you more of the president s speech. Quite a flex going down to florida while trump was stuck in court in New York City. On capitol hill, a Top Republican admits its trumps fault that Border Security hasnt passed. We knew that. To hear this republican say it really brings it home. Willie, i had the news on all day, if i heard the word pecker one more time, i was going to lose my mind. David
Narrowly tailored order to stop the former president from Making Statements that could, well, intimidate witnesses or jurors or even lead to harassment. And how do you think trump is responding . Ill give you a cliffhanger and tell you about that in just a moment. Plus, its day one of the autoworkers strike, the first in history against all of the big three automakers. And the union is now warning that more workers will go on strike if they dont get the better pay and the benefits theyre demanding. Theyre walking the picket lines as we speak right now, but in a matter of hours, they will be back at the Bargaining Table. Meanwhile, the companies are fighting back. Ford laying off 600 workers. Tonight ill talk to one striking worker. Shes a mom of seven who works up to six days per week and is barely making enough to survive, she says. I want to begin with the latest on the filing from the new Special Counsel, of course jack smith. Joining me tonight, washington correspondent t. M. Mitch