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republican congressman george santos who admitted to lying about parts of his background arrested. he is in federal custody this morning. we have the 13 count indictment and well break down the very serious charges hes facing. moments from now, homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas is set to give live remarks on operations at the southern border, one day before the health restrictions known as title 42 were set to be lifted. were live on both sides of the border as the amount ...

>> welcome to "the beat." im 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 theyre coming up shortly. later i want to tell you we also have my special report on clarence thomas problem with law and precedent. well 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 congre...

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A look at breaking news, politics and reports from around the world. Guiliani described the supposed meeting, then said it never happened. And he once again reiterated the president knew nothing about the meeting in advance. Tonight, Rudy Guiliani seems to be muddying the waters about what meetings may have taken place before the now controversial june 2016 sit down between donald trump jr. And the russians. Guiliani brought up for the first time another meeting without the president three days ...

News, analysis and interviews with politicians and observers. Back in the jury room. So how this all unfolded, just after 11 00 a. M. , the jury did send a note to the court asking the judge, judge, what do we do if we cant come to a unanimous decision on one of the 18 counts. That implies that perhaps they have reached a decision unanimously on the other 17 counts, but they havent said that definitively. What the judge had to do was he had to come up with instructions to give the jury as it per...

Entering Lucy Mackenzie’s exhibition at Nancy Hoffman, simply (and aptly) titled “Still, the viewer espies a channel of postcard-sized still lifes lining the gallery walls. If one is not familiar with Mackenzie’s work, they might be forgiven for mistaking her paintings for photographs.

Vote by posting their preference online, which of course isnt true. and hes prosecuted under 241, and joy, what it reminds me of is these paper cases we used to see where people would go in to black neighborhoods and mail out these glossy postcards and say republicans vote on whatever the correct date of the election is, democrats, you vote the following tuesday. this is that same sort of kkk inspired conduct, keeping people from voting. if jack smith is crafting a case around the notion of eith...

Of these charges. and, you know, is george santos his real name? if he goes to trial, it will be very interesting. these are -- many of these charges are all backed up, i bet you, without a doubt by documents. you know, hes accused of lying on disclosure forms. the documents are there. it is very easy to determine whether or not, you know, he was unemployed when he said he was. well, theyre going to see he was working because he was receiving income, but now hes getting $24,000 unemployment. thi...

Soon. we are out of preseason and we want to know how to prevent that from happening. i think that the argument -- if you are prosecuting a case -- dan knows 100 times more about this than i do. you can build a paper case. sometimes it matters more there are some cases that are paper cases. they want to produce all of the paper they can. it has been a big 24 hours for that if the courts continue to rule the way they are ruling on the question of executive privilege. but on the question of making...

Lifestyle. is he going to face potentially more jail time if convicted on those fraud charges as well? >> he is because the amounts are bigger, so when youre talking about stealing $4 million, its a much bigger deal than stealing $300,000, but as you point out, these cases have a lot of jury appeal, if youre the government, and none if youre michael avenatti. juries dont like people who steal from paraplegics to fund their lavish lifestyle. hes got to try to get a resolution in these cases. >> i...