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good evening. happy holidays. welcome to "the beat." i am ari melber. ill be joining you the next two hours for a special holiday edition of "the beat." donald trump has a criminal trial problem. he has several trials looming in 2024. thats where we begin tonight. well do it a little different for the holidays. former federal prosecutor joyce vance with me to start the show. were looking at this legal heat coming up. i want to get into this with you, joyce, but first show you and viewe...

thank you so much for letting us into your homes during these truly extraordinary times. we are grateful "the beat" with ari melber starts right now. >> welcome to "the beat." we begin with what many are saying is the revelation of something we knew but continue to see in more depth, a kind of staggering weakness of speaker mccarthy. as you see him giving out rewards to the very people who broke with him and tortured him before finally relenting this that historically chaotic beginning...

good to be with you, im katy tur in for hallie jackson. and were on the cusp of something, but what that something is still unclear. the fbi search of former president trumps mar-a-lago home has stood up a lot. republicans slammed the move as politically motivated with many of his allies claiming witch hunt and basically blaming president biden for the search. the white house said it was not given a heads-up for the events and found out with the rest of the country when the news broke....

my first question for you, sir, is who do you believe? >> they think its russia. i have president putin, he just said its not russia. i will say this, i dont see any reason why it would be. i will tell you that president putin waswi extremely strong an powerful inro his denial today. >> president of the united states of america, donald trump, standing alongside russian president vladimir putin, aligning himself with russian claims over u.s. intelligence. and denying what everyone at th...

>> a heavy media focuses on hunter biden trial in the drug addicts tail and even natural suffering his defense was downright awful, so awful that even in delaware where the biden name is golden the federal georgia took three hours to convict him on all three gun felony charges, so awful that nobody was buying it, so awful he had nothing to say afterwards but d.o.j. special counsel david wise did tell the reporters the verdict was not about addiction. >> s choice to line a government fo...

Katy Tur hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Something extraneous to the facts of the investigation just to get them to lie. That is clearly not whats going on here. Mueller has 100 valid reasons to want to talk to trump. What we have here is a perjury risk. Its a great risk. Thats because trump isnt capable of telling the truth, and particularly when he knows he is in trouble if he does. So if itts not a perjury trap, which is a technical term. This au...

Which i believe according to the laws of physics is impossible, and of course driven by ill motives. The story broke land wednesday. We are six days into this and the speed i guess we knew there was a whistleblower complaint coming out of the dni. One of the defining features of the trump era is the incredible speed, ferocity with which information happens. It was apt that we would end up here after all these months of waiting around, that the thing that turned out to be the trigger could turn i...

The police and officers viciously attacked him and have now been charged with second degree murder and other charges in that case causing his death, and they have been fired from the force, five of those officers, and so thats the criminal case. this is the civil pattern and practice investigation. >> nbcs ken dilanian, thank you for that. today hunter biden in legal limbo of a the courtroom chaos that ended with his legal team and prosecutors under orders from the judge to come up with a new ...

Cement this moment in the history books as the moment the american people proved they would never bend the knee to the lefts tin pot dictatorship. i want to bring in nbc justice reporter ryan reilly who is outside the u.s. district courthouse. msnbc political analyst, brendan buck is with me as well as msnbc legal analyst lisa rubin. ryan, all the action happening inside that courthouse behind you. what do we know at this hour? >> reporter: you know, we know that the grand jury is meeting and we...

And back with me msnbc legal analyst lisa rubin. i know our colleague ken dilanian is in the courtroom. any idea what might be going on? >> i think theyre going back and forth on a whole host of issues related to scheduling which in the normal case would be boring. in this case its everything and we are waiting with baited breath if judge cannon gives the government what they want, a december trial date, or push it out a few months in which case running smack dab into another trial the same defe...