The beat with Ari Melber starts right now. Happy monday. Happy monday and thank you, i appreciate it. I welcome everyone to The Beat and we begin the program covering the developments in the terrible, Near Miss Type Incident at Donald Trumps Golf Course on sunday. The secret Service Opening Fire after seeing a gun that was pointed inside the course, inside the area where the former president was. More details on exactly that exchange of gunfire and what happened and i can tell you with the most recent information, federal authorities are treating this as a second Assassination Attempt. The first occurred at the Pennsylvania Rally with shots fired, agents killing the shooter, and a Rally Attendee being fatally shot. Here, authorities have apprehended the suspected gunman, alive. 58yearold Ryan Routh charged with two federal counts of gun possession. The authorities are stressing how the investigation for determining the motive, thats an ongoing investigation and they also praised the re
Designed to basically to find out what was going on and republicans stopped it even if their own lives are at risk. The house will establish a select committee on the January 6th Insurrection. The timeline will be as long as it takes for them and they need to do the investigation of the causes o f this. Speaker pelosi fleching on Mitch Mcconnell for blocking an independent commission into people that wanted to kill them all . It is imperative that we establish the truth of that day and ensure the attack of that kind cant happen and we root out the causes of it all. It is clear that republicans are afraid of the truth. This committee will have Subpoena Power so they can hold any witnesses with questions of who knew what and when and focusing on trumps role. The Department Of Justice released new body camera video. I want to warn you this video is disturbing. 500 have been charged in federal court in connection of the terror attack. A guilty plea for conspiracy and construction. Joining
Designed to basically to find out what was going on and republicans stopped it even if their own lives are at risk. The house will establish a select committee on the January 6th Insurrection. The timeline will be as long as it takes for them and they need to do the investigation of the causes o f this. Speaker pelosi fleching on Mitch Mcconnell for blocking an independent commission into people that wanted to kill them all . It is imperative that we establish the truth of that day and ensure the attack of that kind cant happen and we root out the causes of it all. It is clear that republicans are afraid of the truth. This committee will have Subpoena Power so they can hold any witnesses with questions of who knew what and when and focusing on trumps role. The Department Of Justice released new body camera video. I want to warn you this video is disturbing. 500 have been charged in federal court in connection of the terror attack. A guilty plea for conspiracy and construction. Joining
Is also poised to go on trial. Many advisers to President Biden say what were seeing tonight in these duelling stories is verification, a validation of his view that the government and the congress can do more than one thing. Now President Biden is talking up this new relief plan. It passed this key vote in the senate. It passed in the house. It is on its way. Take a look. If i have to choose between getting help right now to americans who are hurting so badly and getting bogged down in a lengthy negotiation or compromising on a bill thats up to the crisis, thats an easy choice. Im going to act fast. Act fast. And the major breakthrough here came with an assist from the person you see right there, an allnight Senate Debate followed by Vice President Harris Casting her first ever tiebreaking vote. This occurred after 5 30 a. M. This morning. The Vice President votes in the affirmative and the concurrent resolution as amended is adopted. Heres what you need to know. This is the blueprint
i m ari melber. we begin with breaking news. donald trump s federal trial is back on because this court is ruling against defendant trump today. they re green lighting the trial sought by special counsel jack smith. this spruling sets a precedent for holding a former president accountable. we have special coverage we ve been working on since this broke early on the east coast today. we start with the basics. you don t need to be a lawyer or constitutional scholar to understand this. the ruling rejects donald trump s very far-fetched arguments that his job history as president should mean he could never be arrested, indicted or tried for anything related to his time in office. trump s lawyers argued he should basically retain a kind of permanent immunity from the fact he used to be president. the court is rejecting that today. we re going to begin, like i said, with the clarity of this single spare sentence. quote, for the purpose of this criminal case, former president trump