letting substance abuse your homes during these extraordinary times. we are grateful. the beat with ari melber starts right now. hi, ari. hi, nicolle. thanks so much. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. today, may 4th, marks one legal conclusion in a quest for justice began on january 26th, 2021. today federal prosecutors won their big case against a key militia that first breaches the capitol, the proud boys, who donald trump specifically shouted out. now convict of sedition, the most series possible charge for an insurrection, and a rare charge in american life and law. it is proven against these four sedition conspiracy including top gun. you may remember the nation was watching in realtime, and from casual observers to security experts, many were aghast and astounded that a group would so quickly overrun the security apparatus, the police during one of the most significant national security gatherings of the year, during a time when we know all of congress and the
hi there, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york. new developments in what is one of the biggest stumbling blocks for every one of the criminal investigations into the twice impeached disgraced ex-president and his campaign to overturn the 2020 presidential election that he lost. we are talking about all the ways in which ex-trump officials and aides and allies are trying to prevent investigators from getting the answers to some of the biggest questions around the capitol insurrection and donald trump s potential criminal cullibilities. the new york times reports the justice department has asked a judge to force the two trump lawyers to provide additional grand jury testimony as prosecutors seek to break through the former president s attempts to shield his efforts to overturn the 2020 election from the investigation. that is according to two people familiar with the matter. prosecutors filed a motion to compel testimony from the two lawyers, pat cipollone and patrick philbin last
Kayleigh former President Donald Trump is back in court today, where a judge has held him in contempt for a tenth time. Thats for violating a gag order. And now the judge is threatening trump with possible jail time, if he fails to comply going forward. We will review the breaking details in just a moment. But first, we are monitoring the developing situation in rafah and the gaza strip. President biden and Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on the phone a short time ago as the israeli army orders some 100,000 palestinians to begin evacuating the city, signaling that a longpromised Ground Invasion into the hamas stronghold could be imminent. Hello, everyone. This is outnumbered. Im Kayleigh Mcenany here with my cohosts, Emily Compagno and harris faulkner. Also joining us, Hudson Institute senior fellow, rebeccah heinrichs, and Fox News Contributor and host of The David Webb Show on sirius xm patriot, thats david webb. We begin in tel aviv where jeff paul is standing by with the latest on israels
With drug addiction, alcohol abuse, and in and out of rehab, which he wrote about openly in his book. Hunter biden, his legal team, and really the whole white house had hoped this would be in the Rearview Mirror by now, but his plea deal collapsed over the summer in stunning fashion. Now tonight his legal team is vowing to fight these new charges. This charge brought today violates the agreement the government made with hunter biden. That was a standalone agreement different than this plea. Second, the constitutionality of these charges are very much in doubt. And third, if it got past those two and we dont think it would if there were ever a trial on the facts, we dont think the facts are as your experts thinks them to be. Hunter owned an unloaded gun for 11 days. There will never have been a charge like this brought in the United States. Well see how those arguments end up and if it works out in court. But what all of this means is that we could be in a pretty remarkable place, where
Not only is the Biden Justice department prosecuting former President Donald Trump in two separate cases, it is now also prosecuting the sitting president s son, indicting hunter biden on three criminal charges, all in connection with a gun that he purchased in 2018. The charges include two counts of lying on an atf form to buy that gun, and possessing a firearm as a drug user. He allegedly lied about his drug use to buy a revolver in delaware, as he was struggling with Drug Addiction and alcohol abuse, and in and out of rehab, which he wrote about openly in his book. Hunter biden, his legal team, and really the whole white house had hoped this would be in the Rearview Mirror by now, but his plea deal collapsed over the summer in stunning fashion. And now tonight, his legal team is vowing to fight these new charges. This charge, brought today, violates the agreement the government made with hunter biden. That was a standalone agreement, different than his plea. Second, the constitution