thanks for joining us. fear not. nicolle will be back tomorrow. the beat with ari melber starts rite now. hi, ari. thanks so much. i m ari melber. after all this breaking news coverage of trump s indictment we have been at the table. all of our colleagues following this. tonight we turn from this fast fluid first draft of history to a wider view of how history may absorb this historic precedent breaking week, because tonight pulitzer prize winning journalist bob woodward who you see on the right will analyze what you see on the left. he s known for best selling books, including about now defendant donald trump. he is our exclusive guest tonight on the beat. we begin as the nation absorbs the fallout of something many thought was impossible, even recently, something donald trump said would roil the country, the former president arrested by the same government he once ran. that was yesterday. jack smith spoke out through his filing, through his team in court, and today
it s also an issue in many races around the nation. we are 35 days out from these midterms, and right now the scandal engulfing republican herschel walker in one race, but tells a similar story. he follows a report that states he has backed abortion in his own personal life, specifically funding an abortion for a woman in 2009. that was before the supreme court recently allowed states to ban abortions outright. and it is that personal act that is exactly what walker also claims to be run against. the beast, as you see here, documents what he allegedly did to support abortion in his personal life, including an account of the woman involved, while he publicly claims the opposite and wants to take away that right from others. it is running he is running on this plan to ban abortion while he has been allegedly caught supporting it. so in its own personal scandal louse way it is an echo about who makes the larger decisions, whether this is about what they say, or whether this is
The second thing still on his to do list that he said he hoped to do before he died. In the time you have left, d what would you like to see me happen . Completely eradicated before i die. I would like the last guinea worm to die before i do. That was president jimmy carter speaking in 2015. He was 90 years old. President carter is now 99 years old. It turns out hes getting very close to having that wish fulfilled. In whats a guinea worm . Guinea worms are a thing that ne humans can get essentially as a parasitic infection. You can have infected water that has the larva of guinea worms in it. I could show you what that means in humans. Im not going to. I have seen the photos myself in terms of what it mean for Human Infection and how these worms grow in your body. I have seen these photos. I am haunted by them. Im not going to show them here. Trust me, it is vile and very, very memorable. Basically you unknowingly drink water that has the larva of theh worms in it. Then the worm grow i
But he considers the question and he has this answer really ready. He says, declaratively and simply, yes, there are two things that he intended to get done during his lifetime. Two things that were on his to do list that he hasnt quite been able to finish that he would like to finish before he dies. He said, the first one was middle east peace. He had already been given the Nobel Peace Prize in part for his work in pursuit of that goal. Middle east peace. But yes, thats still not done. Still work to do there. Thats one. And then this was the second thing. The second thing still on his to do list that he said he hoped to do before he died. In the time you have left, what would you like to see happen . Completely eradicated before i die. I would like the last guinea worm to die before i do. That was president jimmy carter speaking in 2015. He was 90 years old. President carter is now 99 years old. It turns out hes getting very close to having that wish fulfilled. Whats a guinea worm . G
Trumps relationship with the National Enquirer was even sleazy or than it looked into the lead starts right now former Tabloid Publisher david pecker, under oath on the record revealing just how far donald trump wins, allegedly to protect his 2016 president ial campaign. But when it comes to whether trump committed a felony in the process how damaging was todays testimony. And that infamous meeting in august 2015, what packer said went down in that room that could hurt Donald Trumps case nearly nine years later, plus trumps legal team admonished in court today, scolded by the judge over social media posts by the former president that prosecutors say violated a gag order coming up the tough decision for the judge deciding how to punish trump welcome to the leaf im jake tapper. Were going to start with our Law And Justice lead a dramatic day of testimony in the new york hush money coverup trial. Tabloid mobile. David pecker testified in front of his longtime friend, donald trump, reveali