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the beat with ari melber starts right now. welcome to the beat with ari melber. we have a great show for you tonight wednesday, december 27th. we look at jack smith s big coup case against donald trump which faces a key appeal in january. how will smith draw his past experience? that s where we begin tonight. he s a tough, but low-profile prosecutor with a very long record. he led difficult and victorious cases including the prosecution of new york police officer justin volpe who tortured lima, smith was a younger federal prosecutor then and went on to develop something of an expertise in the hard cases that other lawyers sometimes duck. the kind of cases that go at the powerful in government or police, senators, heads of state. he developed experience for the pressures of those specific kind of cases a something of a reputation as the kind of prosecutor you actually pick up and call with a tough case like that. smith did stints in federal and local prosecu ....
this is something out of a gangster movie. the star witness in a dramatic trial who has damning information about the boss, contacted by someone who may be trying to intimidate them, to keep them telling what they know. sources are telling us that is exactly what happened to cassidy hutchinson. three sources telling cnn that hutchinson was one of the witnesses trump world tried to influence, which tells you a whole lot about what they thought about her testimony. right? the committee so concerned about her security that they kept her identity a secret leading up to the hearing. in the wake of her block buster testimony, we may be about to learn a whole lot more with the subpoena for pat cipollone who knows what was going on behind those closed doors at the white house before, during and after the january 6. we are also learning more about the lengths trump world may be willing to go to. liz cheney saying two unnamed witnesses told the committee they heard from people in ....
sira good morning to viewers here in the united states and auld around the world, it is thursday, june 23rd, i m john berman. brianna is off this morning. chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins is with me. we do have brand-new developments in the january 6th investigation. newly obtained footage from a documentary film crew that was embedded within trump world for nearly six months before and after january 6th. this is footage that maggie haberman reports is causing anxiety for the trump family. the british documentary filmmaker has handed over his interviews with former president trump, his adult children and former vice president mike pence to the house select committee and will be meeting with them behind closed doors today. what we have now for the first time is this film s trailer. okay. my father, he is very honest and he is who he is. he believes everything that he s doing is right. i think i treat people well, unless you don t treat me well, ....
Classified documents case against the former president trump, a new cooperation deal between jack smith and the i. T. Worker known as trump employee number four. What might this mean for the prosecutions case. Plus, a manhunt commands in pennsylvania for a convicted brutal killer. Two entire School Districts in the commonwealth have canceled classes as incredible new video is released showing just how that inmate escaped. Welcome to the lead, im jake tapper. Donald Trump On Trial moments ago, a critical hearing wrapped in the Fulton County, georgia, Election Subversion case against donald trump and defendants. Cameras were allowed in the courtroom. A first in any case against the former president. One of the biggest topics discussed, whether the 19 defendants ....
Fourmonth trial time line. Also raising what might happen if any or all of the motions to remove are granted or appeal to the 11th circuit. For the first televised hearing regarding the attempts to overturn the 2020 election, it was fascinating, if a little complicated. Were going to begin with georgia. Please dont go anywhere, there is also news out of the Special Counsels classified documents case. More on what one of Donald Trumps lawyers said on tape, warning the former president , what the government would do if he did not comply. Lets start, though, in georgia. Joining us now is nbc news correspondent garrett haake, and outside the Fulton County courthouse for us, nbc legal contributor, katie phang. I was surprised how quickly he denied the motion to sever from kenneth chesebro. Reporter we were pleasantly surprised ....