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
[speaking in a global language] [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 was matt drawn his past experience? january. that s where we begin . 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 pulpy, who tortured abner lima, and a tory s 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 doc. 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 entities, a somewhat repetition of a prosecutor that you can pick up and call with a tough case like that. sm
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 prosecutor s
good evening. welcome to cnn tonight. breaking news. in just the past few minutes, the house voted to pass the debt limit bill. this is a huge relief for president biden and speaker kevin mccarthy and you can argue, the global financial system. a vote could happen in the senate as soon as tomorrow. we ll take you live to capitol hill. plus, first on cnn, the justice department has an audio tape of donald trump at a meeting in the summer of 2021 acknowledging that he kept a classified pentagon document after he was out of office about a potential attack on iran. sources say he suggested he would like to share that info with a group of people at his golf club but he was aware that there were limits to his ability to declassify documents. that, of course, is the opposite of what he later claimed that he could just declassify anything by thinking about it. what does this development mean for the special counsel investigation? a lot more only in a moment. and neil de grassi is
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