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welcome to "the beat." im ari melber joining you live on this monday to start the week and the holiday. donald trump hit with brand new restrictions hit with his government trial and now under court order blocking him from discussing trial evidence in public this is a kind of a brush back it limits donald trumps ability, at least the way the rules are set, to respond to statements that may also quite bother him new condemnations coming from former trump administration officials themsel...

getting some of our biggest clues yet about the directions special counsel jack smith is taking the politically fraught and complex and unprecedented investigations of an ex president by the justice department. there are major developments in both the january 6 investigation and the probe into the classified documents. well get to that in a minute. but we begin with what we know about the sprawling criminal probe into the capitol insurrection and the coup plotted by the ex president an...

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Lot of stuff in the public domain and i think a lot of your viewers and our readers are like, they make the fundamental point that you made. there is a lot of public -- a lot of public statements, some out of the presidents own mouth that seem to indicate the points being explored in the grand jury. and ill throw another element at it. were hearing that the grand jury investigation out of georgia is like some of this material is likely to be pead public. which could also, not to complicate matte...

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