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
you watch that story, and if you know only in the vaguest terms, you go, oh, well, he went to jail for a campaign crime. did he go rogue? they didn t have it on him, versus his own problems. we have some of the lawyers that donald trump has been through. you see convicted, mcbegan spoke out. reservations have increased. that s more since friday. subpoena, that s the real bad one. it doesn t mean they all did something wrong. it means, again, in various proceedings, they were called upon the role you were supposed to play to being a witness. the little bit of sound with trump is true. attorney client privilege is a bedrock of anglo-saxon law, and i think law the world over in all sorts of traditions and codes. it s very clear, you know, trump obviously was a property jay of protege of roy.
office. president trump took air force one to missouri today in pursuit of exactly one vote in the senate. one vote. that was a one-vote plane ride. of course donald trump is going to urge missouri voters to vote claire mccaskill out of office next year whether she votes for donald trump s tax cuts or not. she s a democrat. he s going to be campaigning against her. so his threat is not as scary as he thinks, but it was a political campaign threat issued to a named united states senator during an official white house trip paid for entirely by the taxpayer on what was supposed to be an official visit by the president of the united states to a company in springfield, missouri, to talk to the country about tax policy. and specifically to build support for the trump tax cuts, a bill that has yet to be written and was described by the president today only in the vaguest terms. the president spoke today at the lauren cook company, a factory
taxpayer on what was supposed to be an official visit by the president of the united states to a company in springfield, missouri, to talk to the country about tax policy. and specifically to build support for the trump tax cuts, a bill that has yet to be written and was described by the president today only in the vaguest terms. the president spoke today at the lauren cook company, a factory that makes industrial fans. when the president talked about possibly eliminating some deductions in the tax code, he said that that might be harmful to rich tax filers like the owner of the factory, mr. cook, and donald trump. that is why tax reform must dramatically simplify the tax code, eliminate special interest loopholes, and i m speaking against myself when i do this, i have to tell you. and i might be speaking against mr. cook, and we re both okay with it. is that right? it s crazy. we re speaking maybe we shouldn t be doing this, you know?