That, in fact, donald trump did attempt to hold up a constitutional proceeding. Yeah. He admitted that last week. Yesterday, he admitted that he violated the constitution of the United States. Just a technical violation of the United States constitution. Pretty bizarre. He violated the constitution. I mean, the admissions keep rolling. Yeah. Keep him was this a full ginsberg . He was on a lot of the sunday shows trying to own the narrative. Meanwhile, the former president himself spent the weekend raging on social media, and this could get interesting, with posts that could defy the judges orders. Remember the directions the judge gave him at his arraignment . Well get legal analysis on that new development. Also ahead, one of trumps allies in the senate makes light of the humiliating nature of his relationship with the former president. Plus, republican senator Tommy Tuberville has held up crucial Military Promotions since february over the pentagons abortion policy. His Unprecedented
hi, nicolle. i only ask of you one thing, and we make no predictions. i just ask that you don t go on vacation or stay near your phone or facetime and broadcasting abilities, okay? i feel like the whole summer is potentially hazardous for vacation planning. i haven t totally broken this until this moment on live tv to my family but i feel like between jack smith and willis it s dicey. to your family and everyone, we say, that s a little bit of personal breaking news. good to see you, nicolle. have a good show. thank you. our thanks to our colleague nicolle. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. while we try to do it all with good spirit, ace mentioned, there is a lot going on. facts and precise aspects of what we know, because we don t know everything and don t know the future. here s something i know, it will be a pretty packed broadcast. donald trump s number one aide during the insurrection in the classified documents handover, chief of staff mark meadows just w
as the first prosecution and perhaps not at all. number three, trump s republican poll numbers have gone up as his most ardent supporters have rallied around him. trump s reaction on truth social is to blame d.a. alvin bragg s case on thugs and radical left monsters and accuse bragg of doing joe biden s dirty work. this is an attack on our country the likes of which has never been seen before. the u.s. is now a third world nation, a nation in serious decline, so sad. as for all the saturation coverage, the stark reality doesn t fully hit you untilst the happened, a former president of the united states has been indicted. i m howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz. howard: ahead, alaner the can, wits on why he believes all four investigations of donald trump are unfair. the new york indictment caused a media eruption that quickly broke down along partisan lines. democrats are branding trump as a criminal. along with the 74 million people who voted for him. they think the m
to the defense team as part of the discovery process. and if the defense misuses that stuff, if mr. trump starts posting the names of witnesses and what they say on social media, there are real consequences to that. not just that witnesses can be intimidated or harassed or threatened but potentially worse. i think the judge is handling this appropriately, and if you push her too far, there will be consequences for mr. trump and his lawyers, as there ought to be. well, i mean, there certainly should be, sam stein, but you have a prosecutor being threatened by donald trump online and in a speech. he s called deranged, i m coming after you. he calls the federal judge bias. he attacks a witness in the case, trying to intimidate the witness. listen, let me help everybody
smith put himself to lead toward probably both strategy but i m sure he wanted to participate as well. so i think different people could be indicted in different places. i would prefer if i were the prosecutor being in d.c. but there may be elements of the crimes that dictate against that. so i think the location is not as important as the charges and who you re charged with, so that s sure. as you say, the location yeah, the location legally comes second. it s just them planning ahead. although it speaks to their style. you know, the late ken starr, who we ve interviewed, is the type where, when he was council, you would have heard about this before it happened. he would have been out giving press conferences and leaking to the washington post about every single aspect. it s just interesting as we kind of make sense of it. as you remind us, it s the statutes that come first. i don t know whether to call it a lighter note, but on a