we are grate. . the beat with ari melber starts right now. see you tuesday. i m ari melber, we begin with the breaking news. we start the new week with the federal defendant, donald trump, back in florida. this is the eve of his federal arraignment tomorrow, and he made the trip from new jersey preparing to voluntarily surrender into federal custody for the first time as a defendant. that is the consequence of the indictment unsealed and briefly explained by jack smith on friday. the former president indicted for breaking several laws including the espionage act and laws relating to obstruction of justice. trump is current still seeking what he needs legally, the required local counsel, amidst reports that many are balking at him as a quote nightmare client. now, sooner or later, you can find a lawyer there that s not going to be a hangup forever, but it is a striking piece of legal reality for donald trump here on the eve of that arraignment. he spent the weekend out o
compared to either mueller or really every other investigator trump has faced: the district attorney in new york was kind of stuff trying to make a narrow case. mueller landed with a convoluted story, i say that charitably, what do you think? because as you know, the jury is going to be instruction on the law and listen to the story. it s the best story tellings yet, and i think that s because the facts are clearest. you and i are both in the story telling business, and whether you have a good story to tell, it s a question of what are the facts and how is it told. those two things both have to be there. if you go back to the mueller indictment of the russian operatives, that was incredibly compelling story telling. it never got litigated in court. we didn t have those trials. but that was very compelling