diaz-balart, and there are many people out there, including george santos, and marjorie taylor greene who per your reporting last hour showed up for a couple minutes surrounded by a lot of press. reporter: i was on camera with you guys and her suv pulled up and she was literally incased in press as they followed her into the park. i couldn t make a guess of how many folks were there. she was in the park for maybe five or ten minutes or so and then exited the park after a lot of commotion inside the park george santos was here as well and he was run out of the park we are three hours away from the beginning of the arraignment, about 2:15 eastern time, and we are expecting the former president at the united states to leave his residence, trump tower, and likely to leave around 1:00 or 1:30. he will have security with him as he makes his way down here. more barricades behind me beginning to go up as i take a look behind me, you see all of the barricades were recently put in pl
Me. Welcome to the beat. Im ari melber and we have a packed show tonight. Michael cohen is here. You know the name. Lanny davis joins us later tonight as we track what could become a verdict that would hinge more than anything else on Michael Kahns testimony and by the end of the hour, al sharpton is here for a cultural moment unlike anything weve ever tried on the beat before. You see him there was james brown. The reverend is here joined by an artist making his big debut tonight, henry mack. Our top show story shows why verdict is on the way and trumps criminal trial, his Defense Lawyers resting their case today telling the judge theyve completed their mission without ever having to call trump to testify, as is their right. They finished after less than two days in control. Trumps lawyers call just two witnesses compared to the 19 witnesses the d. A. Called, some of whom you can see right here, the star witness cohen, former trump aid hicks, Stormy Daniels, a Tabloid Chief and an arr
Here. You know the name. Lanny davis joins us tonight as we track what could become a verdict that could hinge more than anything else on mierk call cohens testimony. Al sharpton is here more than anything else weve tried on the beat before. You see us with james brown. The rev is here. An artist making his beat debut harry mack. Our top story shows why a verdict is on the way in trumps criminal trial. His Defense Lawyers resting their case today telling the judge theyve completed their mission without ever having to call Defendant Trump to testify as is their right to call or not call. So they finished after less than two days in control. Trumps lawyers called two witnesses compared to the 19 witnesses the da called. Some of whom you can see right here. The star witness cohen, former trump aides like hope hicks, Stormy Daniels, tabloid chief and an array of many different important people. Now legally youre looking at the typical mismatch. The da the the prosecution calls more witness
given the nature of the case and who the defendant is, are you expecting a long detailed charging document, or are you expecting more of something like a speaking document, like a bare bones document normally you can see an indictment, a narrative, a story provided by the prosecutor to explain the facts, how did we get here there are media reports that there are 34 felonies in the indictment, and we don t know what they are and will have to wait until the afternoon we have seen the players, and in this instance, once this indictment is unsealed we will be able to see the specific statutes in the state of new york that bragg has alleged to have been violated by donald trump, and most importantly, what is the second crime, what
has been accurately reported. one has to wonder whether that fits to the story over the weekend in which giuliani said well, mueller told me this is going to be done in september and ten minutes later another news organization said actually some, they didn t say who. a senior u.s. government official said huh-uh, not true. i don t know who that source was. yeah, paul, can you imagine anyone from that team having any purpose including mueller to say that to giuliani? no, and the thing is, they also wouldn t say to the press even if giuliani is lying, they re not going to go around correcting every misstatement. this is kind of a speaking document. this is as close to a press conference as mueller s ever going to get. but when you look at phrases like multiple lines of inquiry, many aspects, not complete investigation. there s no way this is going to be wrapped up by september. the relevance of september is this 60 day guideline that the justice department has where