By Special Counsel jack smith. And then thursdays arraignment on the most grave case of all, this new indictment and arraignment for donald trump, the defendant, over his failed effort to overthrow democracy. We begin there tonight because we have a special for you tonight. Its called indicted the coup conspiracy. A detailed look into trumps failed coup plot with new reporting and context from that detailed Speaking Indictment this week. If youve been following this all really closely, so have we. Weve been working to bring you an even more indepth set of reports tonight. If you happen to be catching up after a long week, ive got a onestop shop for you on what really matters and what weve learned. And by the way, if you are a longtime viewer, i know some of you are, you might recall about a year ago, we broke down trumps efforts to overturn the 2020 Election Results along that grid, how his desperation and his plotting grew as all the legal challenges lost in court and he turned to plo
the window and goes! one of the all-time great lebron performances. 22 points, 20 rebounds and 7 assists. miami has won it and goes up three games to one! jimmy butler with the fourth most individual points in playoff game history. you denied it before. playoff jimmy, are you ready to it s not a thing. it s not. i just be hooping. good morning, everyone. especially to jimmy butler, unreal performance by him. i just couldn t even bereave that. but also that is not the breaking news this morning. we do have real breaking news this morning. as president biden is officially announcing he is running for re-election. the president launched his campaign with a video that took aim at republicans over abortion, social security and culture wars. around the country maga extremists are lining up to take on those bedrock freedoms. cutting social security that you paid for your entire life while cutting taxes from the very wealthy. dictating what healthcare decisions women ca
thank you so much for letting us into your homes for another week of shows. we re grateful. the beat with ari melber starts right now. hi, ari. hi, nicole. thank you. welcome to the beat. i am ari melber. right now this is a busy friday for news after a week that began with the abrupt firing of tucker carlson and the sedition case against the proud boys for january 6th reaching a jury and then just last night we reported that mike pence went under oath for the first time about the coup to the doj. each of those are distinct developments. each stem from the ongoing if tardy accountability for the insurrection. fox news reeling from a record payout for insurrection and election lies which tucker carlson doubled down on which compounded his problems and the transfer of power we should note that this week the current president formally announced he is running for re-election in a video that discusses and shows what he says are the stakes. usually when the incumbent president an
protest? a riot? the makings of some scattered illegal violence? or do you see something worse. one of the most severe felonies against the u.s. which is now on trial tonight. do you see sedition? that is what federal prosecutors see and what some juries saw and have now convicted, and it s our special report for you right now. we are living through a test of accountability, the doj s effort to convict in these separate sedition trials two years out from an attack that might fade out of view for some people. today the doj demanding juries continue to face what it felt like, what happened, the facts of that day. seemed like they just took mike pence out really quickly. yes, they did. a moment i never saw in my life, these individuals just rushed through security. they are inside statuary hall. obviously this is a huge victory for these protesters. they have disrupted the system in an enormous way. i completely condemn the violence in the capital. i ve spoken to the
2020 meeting in the Sedition Case against five oath keepers on trial for plotting to block the peaceful transfer of power. This as a sitting republican senator warns Political Violence is escalating. That senator says this. I wouldnt be surprised if a senator or a house member were killed. Up first for us, though, we count the midterm votes five weeks from tonight and there is a Blockbuster Development today in one of the senate races critical, absolutely critical to the Balance Of Power here in washington. The Daily Beast Reporting Monday Afternoon that georgias Republican Senate nominee, Herschel Walker, paid for a womans abortion back in 2009. Walker calls this accusation untrue. It is a flat out lie. And now you know how important this seat is. This seat is very important that theyll do anything to win this seat and lie because they want to make it about Everything Else except what the true problems that we have in this country is. This inflation. The border wide open. Crime. They