the star-spangled banner] the star-spangled banner] that a live performance of your national anthem by cory pasitoro. that is an honor, national accordion awareness month. rachel: i love it. we are going to will: an entire month, the accordion. rachel: we will do a little bit of that. pete: underused. how many accordion players are there out there? rachel: they are at paul, festivals. will: there are a lot of them. rachel: they even do a all, mass. all the music paul, style. pete: do they really? rachel: it is definitely polish approved. will: it is not vatican. these days they are taking a few corollaries. rachel: good to see you, good morning. thousands of christians and pro-life family groups are gathered last night to protest pride night at dodgers stadium. pete: as follows weeks of controversy over anti-catholic drag group and the teams back and forth whether to include them. will: actually has the details. reporter: 2000 protesters blocked the gates of dodge
i don t think anyone is counting hours anymore. brian williams used to call it tonnage. there you have it. thanks to nicolle. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. amidst this unprecedented news week, which is why there are so many hours being slotted around, let me start with a quick question is there anything more to learn or say about the federal case against defendant donald trump? our team of journalists on the beat says the answer tonight is yes. we have been working on something special, a new road map gleaned from jack smith s case, which we now can see for the first time against donald trump. so later tonight we re actually going to show thank you time line from the first clues about the missing documents to trump s historic arrest, that whole road. it is new legal reporting and i can tell you you ll only see it here. that s coming up on this edition of the beat. our top story right now stems from the rapid developments on the defense and legal side of don
right now on msnbc, we re following several breaking news stories. any moment now we re expecting police in rochester, new york, to give an update on a deadly crash yesterday outside a concert. the concerns it could have been an act of terror. plus, dramatic video out of japan, terrifying moments as a passenger jet bursts into flames. take a look at that after colliding with a coast guard aircraft on the runway. and miraculously hundreds escaped alive. also ahead, new year, new legal challenges for the former president. the high stakes hearing one week from today as he tries to claim presidential immunity. there is now just 13 days until iowa caucuses. we re live as republicans barnstorm the state ahead of the first in the nation contest. hey, everybody. good morning to you. happy new year. it is 10:00 a.m. in the east. i m yasmin vossoughian in for ana cabrera. we bring with dramatic video out of japan, showing a passenger jet engulfed in flames after colliding with a
there is, of course, the fall-out from what trump is accused of doing when he is facing 37 criminal counts for doing and the potentially grave national security implications of that. we ll get to that in a minute. but there is also a legal process that has been kicked off, which begins in earnest tomorrow when the e-president surrendered for his court appearance. the political world s eyes will return to miami when president trump is expected to surrender. after leaving office, he obstructed efforts to retrieve them and that he made false statement. the event will be the former president s second courtroom appearance as a criminal defendant after his arraignment in april in a new york courthouse on state larges that he falsified business records in connection with a hush money statement to a porn star just before the 2016 election. one of the big outstanding questions, though, ahead of tomorrow s appearance, who will be there representing donald trump? nbc news reports that t
watching. ash b erin burnett outfront starts now. outfront next, the supreme court will decide whether donald trump can be kicked off the ballot in colorado. as president biden warns, president trump is the biggest threat to democracy. plus, a new wave of documents tied to jeffrey epstein. new details about donald trump and bill clinton s relationships with the convicted pedophile. he is the billionaire who went after harvard s president for plagiarism again and again. now his wife admits she plagiarized, too. what is he saying now? the reporter who broke the story is my guest. let s go outfront. good evening. i m erica hill in for erin burnett. breaking news, the supreme court entering the 2024 election agreeing to hear donald trump s appeal of colorado s landmark ruling that found he is an insurrectionist and therefore unfit for office and therefore can t be on the ballot in that case. it is a historic case, one that is forcing these nine justices to act quickly.