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testifying tomorrow in new york. trump, as you know, was expected to take the stand in his own defense as his company s civil tax fraud trial enters the final week. a short timeo, trump announceinhe long and defiant rant online that he would not be doing so. the former president, as usual, attacking the case, as he quote, rich witch hunt. no matter how much donald trump tries to distract from reality, the facts don t lie. trump had been using the courthouse in new york as a sort of campaign stop, and is already planning rallies in nevada and new hampshire this week. this, as trump s vision for his second term only becomes more extreme. at a fund-raiser last night, trump doubled down on his comments, saying he would be a dictator, but just on day one. his words? they speak for themselves. baker today in the new york times, he said that i want to be a dictator. i didn t say that. i said i want to be a dictator for one day. but the new york times said and you know ....
hey, everyone, it is 4:00 in new york. the question of when donald trump s rhetoric crosses the line was a subject of a bit of a lips as pivotal court hearing. prosecutors and attorneys met in front of a three-judge panel in the u.s. court of appeal for a d.c. circuit for oral arguments. the substance was the validity of a gag order imposed on the ex-president that limits what donald trump can say in public about prosecutors, witnesses, and court staff. the heart of arguments, how do you balance the first amendment rights of a defendant who was also a former president and front runner with the need to protect prosecutors, witnesses, and prevent the railing of the justice system? trump s attorney was grilled by the judges for more than an hour, judges pushed back, that they had no right to step in with a gag order. essentially what they are finding is we have a past pattern when the defendant speaks on this subject, threats follow. now he s making similar statements ....
good evening. alex. i have some bad news for you. it s official, it s not just me saying it. george santos cannot be trusted. [laughter] that is the official verdict. i have play so much trust in him, lawrence. [inaudible] and then they go on to prove that. we will be discussing that tonight with one member of that committee. i will be watching. thanks, alice. i would echo. you can accomplish a lot in this world in nine months. we are all here, thanks to the miraculous work that our mothers did in the nine months that it took to bring us into this world. but donald trump says nine months isn t nearly enough time to prepare a criminal defense in any of the criminal cases pending against him. but in the last eight and a half months the republican-controlled house ethics committee authorized 37 subpoenas and attained and studied over 172,000 pages of documents. it conducted an investigation that was so thorough it found even more crimes committed by george ....
eastern. our thanks to you for let us into your home. we are so grateful. the beat with ari melber starts now. thank you. i ll see you tonight. i want to mention to viewers nicolle was just reporting on the new u.s. air strikes in syria. we have more on that later but we begin with the big political news right now in america. so tonight i say welcome to the beat with ari melber, and welcome to the beat with james carville, one of our special leadoff guests as we track what is clearly a political earthquake in america. democrats surging to victories as these results poured a win for conservative ohio that s upending politics across that state and the nation today. it puts pressure on the republicans who are squaring off in tonight s debate as nicolle just mentioned. this was a moment that was supposed to go different little you re looking at live shots where they re supposed to be talking. it was a moment the republicans were hoping to discuss better news. but ri ....
environment that prosecutors handling cases involving the ex-president are facing right now. in the federal indictment of a man who allegedly made let s to fulton county district attorney fani wli and fulton county sheriff patrick la bat. arthur ray hanson ii was charged on monday for making threats to willis and la bat back in august, days before willis charged trump and 18 others in a sweeping rico case alleging a, quote, criminal enterprise that sought to overturn the r new york times reports this, quote, in a voicemail message for sheriff labatt mr. hanson threatened the sheriff to not take a mugshot of,quote, my president, donald trump, that s according to the indictment. i m warning you right now adding that t sheriff to,quote, get hurt real ba he also left aoicemail message for ms. willis in which he threatened her and referred to the georgia case. ing to your car at night, when you re going into your house. tch everywhere that you re going mr. hanson said acco ....