the. i am ari melber. i will be joining you now for the next two hours of a special holiday edition of the bee tonight on this friday december 29th. donald trump s criminal trial several looming in 24. that s where we begin tonight, and we ll do it a little different tonight here for the holidays. i have former federal prosecutor joyce vance, already with me to start the show. we are looking at this legal heat coming up. i want to get into this with the, joyce, but first show you and every something we put together to consider the historic indictments on the road that donald trump has already been on. donald trump has been indicted under seal of the new york grand jury. 34 felony counts of falsified business records. we have one set of laws in the country that we apply to everyone. this will now be months if not the next year of our lives. the former president was placed under arrest on charges brought by the government he once led. the guy running for president
should be dropped immediately. [applause] norah: new details in the covenant school massacre investigation. what police found while searching the home of the shooter, as we hear from the hero officers for the first time. once we started hearing the first shots, that is when everything kind of kicked into overdrive. norah: millions of americans facing severe weather, including more violent tornadoes. stretching from parts of the great lakes, all the way down to eastern texas. the fbi search for a fugitive, a former top aide to maryland s ex-governor, has come to a sudden and shocking end. we can now declare that finland is the 31st member of the north atlantic treaty. president putin wanted to slam nato s door shut. today, we show the world that he failed. every dog has its day, and this day belongs to the huskies! your mom and dad are watching right now. do you want to pass along a message? i just want to say anything is possible.
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 to the new congress. there s also some santos news so first the full picture today of what mccarthy has given away to the rebels who according to many republicans and this is again mccarthy s allies, they say those folks were politically extorting him. the lesson that mccarthy may be teaching which is why it matters in the news tonight and in the future is that his weakness can be exploited on any number of issues so this caucus which held the speaker bid hostage is getting assignments this he m
candidates to run against the republican who is defied him, a sort of authoritarian revenge tour. here s the news tonight as we approach tomorrow s primary. fresh signs that tour may fail. trump s hand picked challenger to the governor, backing the big lie by claiming that the actual winner joe biden stole the race. first off, folks, let me be very clear tonight the election in 2020 was rigged and stolen. all that started right here in georgia when our governor caved and allowed radical democrats to steal our election. so, that s what trump s candidate perdue is selling, and trump s using his mega phone to brand the incumbent governor, kemp, as a turncoat or coward. but trump s not pulling out all the stops to campaign for him, instead offering a telerally for perdue tonight, and that bring us to the facts portion of this little interscene primary brawl. how is this actually playing in republican primary where we ve heard from politicos and d.c. elites so much about don
if he was going to hold onto the white house. that was the big issue. we are covering it going into election night. it was a huge deal when biden won arizona. arizona. are you 100% sure of that call and when you made it and why did you make it? absolutely. we made it after basically a half hour of debating it. we finally called it right now. nbc news is projecting that when every last vote is counted in the state of arizona, joe biden will be awarded 11 electoral votes. joe biden your projected winner in the state of arizona. trump and his allies were enraged over exactly that call, especially the fox news call to arizona. it was seen as kind of the nail in the coffin as a state that the trump folks would need to win or somehow continue to cast as too close to call, which might offend these plots you re hearing about. fox later fired the staffer who accurately called arizona for biden. it was close. they were separated by 10,000 votes. biden won with 1.6 million votes