good evening. happy holidays. welcome to the beat. i am ari melber. i ll be joining you the next two hours for a special holiday edition of the beat. donald trump has a criminal trial problem. he has several trials looming in 2024. that s where we begin tonight. we ll do it a little different for the holidays. former federal prosecutor joyce vance with me to start the show. we re looking at this legal heat coming up. i want to get into this with you, joyce, but first show you and viewers something we put together to consider tonight, historic indictments on the road donald trump has already been on. donald trump has been indicted under seal by the new york grand jury. 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. we have one set of laws in this country, and they apply to everyone. this will now be months if not the next year of our lives. the former president was placed under arrest on charges brought by the government he once led. the guy who s running for
Christie . I dont. Youre even more expressive. I admire it in you. I dont have that chip. But i admire it. Thank you, nicolle. Good to see you. Thanks to everyone for joining us on the beat. Were all returning from this holiday weekend. I hope youre ready to dive back into the news. We have Breaking News nicolle was just reporting on. We also have lots to cap up on. Reports of trump allies turning on him in the rico case. Where seinfeld meets legal accountability. Really. For all the talk about whether defendants believe their own lies, we will break down that costanza defense and its problems. Also tonight, Chai Komanduri back with us on a chai day for the data one Talking Point is turning into a loser. Right now, Breaking News, a reckoning for the militant violent lead earth of the January 6th Insurrection. Breaking news in the last few moments, a judge handing down an extraordinarily stiff and historic Prison Sentence for insurrectionist and proud boyce leader Enrique Tarrio. 22 yea