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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 ....
that and it is tracked back to that. god forbid. these kids knew what they were getting when they signed up for the ad. so part of the program, they are losing weight. we re not finished. i have to go. thank you so much. live out of new york. now hour two. here we go. top of the hour. i m brooke baldwin. rick santorum is expected to speak live this hour. we ll take part of that for you. also a big surprise concerning jobs in america today. and prosecutors want death by for a famous expresident. time to play reporter roulette. jim acosta, let s begin with you in new hampshire. you re standing by at the santorum event. what is the buzz like surrounding mitt romney s latest challenger? reporter: rick santorum s rise after iowa has changed this campaign, brooke. you can just tell by seeing this crowd that he had earlier today, over in new hampshire, it was just filled with folks wanting to hear what rick santorum has to say about all sorts of issues. and you re also s ....
i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com he s plunging in the polls and in need of a boost. will a new plan help rick perry climb back to the top of the republican race? his rival, herman cain, is leading the pack according to a brand new poll and perry is a distant fifth with cain apparently benefitting from his 9-9-9 tax plan, perry today unveiled his own new tax plan and 20 is the magic number. he proposes a flat tax of 20% for individuals and corporations, but in a twist, perry would let people choose to pay his flat tax rate or file under the current system, which he derived. the size of the current code is more than 72,000 pages. that s represented by this palate right over here and the reams of paper. that s what the current tax code looks like. the best representation of my plan is this postcard. this is is size of what we re talking about right here. taxpayers will be able to fill this out and file their taxes on ....