the beat with ari melber starts now. happy friday. happy friday, nicole. hope you enjoy your weekend. it s been quite a week. welcome to the the beat. i m ari melber here on the beet both beet. up top, there are a lot more developments in the unprecedented story that broke last night. if you have been busy, you maybe didn t hear it. the new york times dropping this bombshell news that donald trump is likely to be indicted in new york. tonight trump s lawyers acknowledge a key point in that account. the d.a. has indeed invited donald trump to testify to the grand jury. this isn t hypothetical. this isn t some day. this is next week. an invite to testify next week according to trump lawyers. they are in florida over the weekend discussing strategy, taking this as a real thing. seriously, they tell nbc news they have no plans to meet with the manhattan d.a. mr. bragg. so, let s get some clarity up top. there are many stories we cover we say here is this thing and here ar
this election. frankly, we did win this election. reporter: donald trump s false claim that he won the election before all the votes were counted, a lie he continues to peddle but one the january 6th committee didn t believe, like his attorney general. he had become attached from reality if he really believes this stuff. reporter: his campaign manager. i didn t think what was happening was necessarily i remember tell being him i didn t believe the dominion allegations. what they were proposing i thought was nuts. the theory was also completely nuts. reporter: trump s assertion that he won the election is at the core of the committee s argument that he purposely and criminally worked to prevent the i told him that the claims of fraud wiere bullshit. bill stepien was supposed to testify live but when his went into labor, he bowed out. did anybody who was a part of that conversation disagree with your message? yes. who was that? the president disagr
Hello, everyone, thank you for joining me. Im fredricka whitfield. There is a new town of talks between striking auto workers and representatives from two of the big three carmakers. The strike is now entering the third full day. Todays talks are expected to be with ford and General Motors. The uaw said it had, quoting now, reasonably productive talks end quote, when it met with ford yesterday. And for the first time ever, workers are striking at plants from gm, ford and stellantis all at the same time. Workers want big pay raises and other benefits after years of concessions during rough times for the industry. The carmakers say despite big profits in recent years, the raises being demanded would drive them out of business. Cnns Vanessa Yurkevich is at a ford plant in wayne, michigan. Vanessa, what are we learning about the talks and whether anyone there on the picket line is optimistic . Reporter so ford and General Motors back at the Negotiating Table with the uaw in detroit. Stel y