zikomo! [applause] welcome to the beat with ari melber. we have a big show for you tonight, prosecutor ronaldo murat he will join me as we look at jack smith s big coup case against donald trump, which faces a key appeal in january. how will smith draw on his past experience? that s where we begin tonight. he s a tough prosecutor with a long record. he s led difficult and victorious cases, including, the prosecution of new york police officer, justin vulpy, who tortured abner lima, a notorious case, which resulted in a 30-year prison sentence, unheard of for a prosecutor at the time. he was unknown prosecutor at the time. he went on to develop and expertise that other lawyers sometimes duck. the kind of cases that go at the powerful and government, police senators, heads of states. he developed experience for the pressures of those specific cases and something of a repetition of a prosecutor that you can pick up and call with a tough case like that. smith did a stint at the
and wants to return, tells people on christmas day that they can rot in hell. just as congresswoman debbie dingell says, trump s rot in hell christmas message was, to say the least, unpresidential. now, special counsel jack smith is filing a new motion to block trump for making political arguments during his criminal trial. also tonight, michigan supreme court decides against removing trump from the 2024 ballot, unlike colorado s highest court and now extra security is needed for those justices. plus, the republicans all out assault on voting rights, which includes plans to ask the u.s. supreme court to preserve their undemocratically gerrymandered maps in wisconsin. good evening. i m charles coleman, in four joy reid, and we have got a lot to talk about. we begin tonight with a new year faster protesting, many looking head to 2024 and wondering what else could be in store. that certainly appears to be the case for former president donald trump who has been the holidays not
expecting to be right back here at nine am for jury selection and opening statements. in this case for fox. it might be worth it to see this in front of a jury and see if they can get a lower down amount than what they would have to settle for fourth. florida s governor, escalating his right against disney, suggesting competing directly with the mouse. should we do with this land? maybe you need another state prison who knows? the possibilities are endless. you re not gonna win a fight with american people against the wall disney company. this has gone from kind of going after a headline to something that convoluted the entire republican message. calls for justice for jalen walker after in ohio grand jury declined to indict eight officers in his shooting down. they believed that at that moment in time when he was running from that car, he still had his weapon on him utterly failed them again. hearts are hurting. our hearts are heavy. you were convicted of fraud. you spent nea
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