yeah, you can hear. this is the beat with ari melber, where one week at official voting of 2024, launch of these presidential primaries. candidates already barnstorming iowa this weekend. you re seeing just some of what happened on your screen. and for many reasons, these first few primary states at the pivotal and possibly last test of the republican party deciding whether to bring its trump passed into the future. nikki haley, trying to emerge as the one alternative to trump, arguing voters can get mugshot without trump chaos. by just picking her. i agree with a lot of his policies. he was really good at breaking things. he just wasn t good at fixing them. and now, we look at the fact, rightly or wrongly, chaos follows him. chaos follows him. and that may sound like a pretty team contrast that she s drawing, but trump views haley now as his main possible threat. an establishment hack of sorts. trump s pivot toaley after months of unrelenting attacks against desantis
that tonight with ms. cheney, drawing on her experience and the mission she took as one of only ten house republicans to ultimately cast an impeachment vote over that insurrection. cheney key to the bipartisan jan 6th committee, deemed by independent expert as one of the most effective congressional probes in our modern air ram i m sure you remember some if not all of these evidentiary hearings. cheney relying on her experience, how to get and then tell, convey, and a full at canning of what was donald trump s multipart conspiracy. we know the committee s work actually reached ten of millions of americans, presenting the evidence and testimony at those hearings, and we have indications that they impacted some prosecutors pursuit of justice. they led to two precedent making convictions who tried and basically failed legally to defy the lawful subpoenas. news that impacted many cases, from fox news, to fortifying the case for donald trump s coup indictment. the former presiden
Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. Their way to keep trump out of the trial. Abc news reports that prosecutors have been coaching their witnesses not to mention trumps name or even that manafort lives in trump tower. The judge in the case has warned that bringing up manaforts ties to trump could unduly influence jurors. There is at least one thing about this trial that is important to the relationship between Paul Manafort and donald trump. The first witness today was tad devine, chief strategist for Bernie Sanders an president ial campaign who worked with manafort on political campaigns in ukraine. The prosecution called him as their first witness to have him describe how much work manafort was doing in ukraine and how lucrative it was. Before we came on the air, we got a rush version of the transcript from todays hearing. Im not going to be able to act out a whole conversation but heres one little bit of the prosecutors Opening Statement worth hear. Th
broken my party is. how broken its leadership is. how bereft we are of men and women of principle. and courage. and political morality. all right? that s the kind of morality that in the face of, you know, scorching political opposition, you stand for the right thing. you do the right thing. that s liz cheney. that s as adam can some juror. that s denver wriggling i love the job, and it s a great gig if you can get it, but i m not willing to sacrifice my country for it. those individuals you showed us clearly have a different understanding of their responsibilities and every day, they continue to perform that understanding by showing us what they, are what they stand, for and why in november, they should no longer
next to the president of the united states. this has been the work of decades and kim jong-un knows his nuclear weapons guarantee him insurance from invasion by the united states. so donald trump played all of his cards, pushed all the chips into the middle of the table, and he s left with the pair of twos. what he proved himself to be was inexperienced, naive, ignorant and a fool on the world stage. that was insided by every other adversary of this country. i want to ask you if you re surprised not a single politically appointed national security official has resigned over what you just described is obvious to everyone in this country and around the world in the american president. i m shocked by it that there are so few men and women of principle that there aren t more sally yates out there, that there aren t more people who say enough. particularly when we see a president of the united states