Ari melber starts right now. Nicole, one week down, thousands to go. Eternity to go, we hope. Have a great show. Eternity, we could be so lucky. Have a great weekend, our thanks to Nicolle Wallace first big week back. Welcome to the beat, im ari melber, we have a special show for you tonight. We have a lot to get to. Lets get right into today. Jack smith making a new pitch on behalf of the doj on why donald trump must be put on trial before the election. If that sounds like a familiar issue, jack smith has more than one case against Defendant Trump. So, the defendant was actually down in Federal Court today watching as doj prosecutors argued for a july beginning to a trial in the other jack smith case, earlier in the week discussing the big coup case and the Supreme Court slowing that down. This is the classified documents case, you probably remember both, and they are saying, over at the doj, there is nothing in their rule or precedents which prevents this trial, on the documents, fro
this legal pressure that is engulfing donald trump to a degree he s clearly aware of. his former white house lawyer made waves and concerned people by ricking trump will go to jail over white house documents. now we have this short but unusual letter from donald trump s lawyers, signed by them, publicized by donald trump that reads like a cry for help or some sort of freakout. i can tell you straight up it s not a normal legal proceeding. it s addressed to attorney general merrick garland. the wall street journal made waves that the quays may be nearing the intend although no one can say what happened, it clearly had bad news in there at a minimum for trump with insiders bracing for a possible indictment. again, that s not news you can go to the bank with, but it s wall street journal, which is own by the murdoch empire, and that may among other things may have led trump to write this letter. it basically tries to shake down the attorney general of the united states, whic
welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. we have new tapes. in a beat exclusive we have new audio tapes of congressman george santos, arraigned today for that indictment. they are the santos tapes and they re coming up shortly. later i want to tell you we also have my special report on clarence thomas problem with law and precedent. we ll get to that breakdown and these tapes. our top story right now is the santos indictment itself. this is the most controversial new lawmaker in congress, now indicted for breaking laws. prosecutors say his lies became crimes, to put it simply, and today, for his part, the congressman vowing to fight the case while echoing a maga witch-hunt defense. now, i m going to have to go and fight to defend myself. the reality is is it s a witch-hunt. i m going to fight my battle. i m going to deliver. i m going to fight the witch-hunt. i m going take care of clearing my name. i will prove myself innocent. he pled not guilty and is now out on bon
policies. she said don t make the city s first black woman and openly gay mayor. and in 40 years. prime sort under lightfoot s watch since 2019, murders jumped 40% and skyrocketed a whopping 40%. a recent poll shows overwhelming number of chicago s say that the cities on the wrong track. lori lightfoot does not attribute to that. she claims she was treated unfairly because she has a black woman in america. she conceded the race after coming in third and failing to advance to a runoff. we didn t win the election today, but i stand here with my head held high and my heart full. regardless of tonight s outcome, we fought the right fights and put the city on a better path, no doubt about it. kayleigh: that better path, brian, included homicide rate the highest in years and 53% of chicago s not feeling safe. brian: this is where you lie in a concession speech. and what she said also, did she say 63%? kayleigh: 63%. brian: the other percentage left chicago. and now, empty
we ve got lawson uso cover, and lots of questions to answer. so let s get started. that ceiling showdown, house speaker kevin mccarthy not just a win in the house, but his victory lap may run out of gas in the senate. or live on capitol hill with the latest as the nation inches closer to a debt default. plus, telling their side, the same moment a woman suing former president trump for an alleged rape it is giving tearful over price jerry six insurrection in d.c.. we re going in-depth on all those trump troubles ahead. later, desantis drama, florida governor ron desantis arrives at the white house, while the house memos hits him with the federal lawsuit. we go inside the drama and how it will impact his presidential aspirations. all of this and more is coming up. and a good saturday morning to you, i am katie phang. we start today s show with the standoff over the debt ceiling. speaker kevin mccarthy is taking a premature victory lap after house republicans narrowly lashed