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
Welcome to Msnbc Specia Coverage of the indictment o former president , donald trump im Jonathan Capehart live fro Msnbc Headquarters in new york and i am katie phang. And we begin today with a history that will unfold befor our eyes, and just under 7 hours. Former president donald trum is set to turn himself in at 2 15 pm eastern time thi tuesday. We are learning much more about exactly how that dramati moment will take place the former president wil arrive in new york city monday evening, and on tuesday, the will be driven from trump towe to the courthouse around 1 p eastern time as of now, there are no plans to handcuff him, and n plans to place him in a holdin cell but there will b fingerprinted. Trump will then leave new york that same night, and head back to florida. So, katie, this i incredible what we are about to see and we have never seen anythin like this in all of ou history. A former president of Th United States indicted by an manhattan grand jury and we use the adag unpr
afternoon to you i m yasmin vossoughian we got extreme weather coast t coast. hard hit california taking i on the chin again. with millions at flood risk. we are on the ground there the biggest bank collapse sinc the 2008 recession sake shakin up silicon valley. and new reporting on wha appears to be the and stage of new york s crimina investigation of the forme president. the da s invitation for donald trump to testify it is highly unlikely that h will show up, but his former fixer is going to be there o monday i have to applaud distric attorney brad for giving donal the opportunity to come to tel the story. now knowing donald as well as do, i understand that he doesn t tell the truth it s one thing to turn aroun and to lie on your untruth social, it s another thing t turn around and lie before the grand jury i don t suspect that he is going to be coming all this is happening a trump s nemesis ron desantis hits i while continuing to tes the presidential waters an taking
i m mehdi hasan. this is ralph yarl, 16-year-old from kansas city missouri he is a star student, excellen athlete and a talented musician his teachers and friends are described him as a quote, quie and kind soul that is always willing to help. the father of a 16 year ol myself, i can tell you he is the type of kid that would mak any parent beam with pride he is even a great older brother. on april the 13th, girl mother asked him to pick up hi younger brothers from a friend house. according to court documents just before 10 pm yara walke up to the door and rang th bell however, unbeknownst to him he was actually at the wron address. that has happened to a lot o us, right? knocking on the wrong door but we all waited at the doorway and then saw a man answer the fireman hand an then from there things escalated quickly. y all says he was shot almos immediately, first in the head while he was on the ground the shooter opened fire second time, striking a role in the arm that is wh
stephanie s one-on-one with two time winner of rupaul drag race james monsoon. her message for those attackin members of her community 11th hour gets underway on thi friday night good evening. i m alicia menendez in for stephanie ruhle. we might be just days away fro finding out whether donald trump will be indicted by grand jury in manhattan. tonight, nbc news has learne exclusive state and federal la enforcement are preparing for possible indictment as early a next week. five senior officials tell nbc this involves conducting preliminary security assessments and discussing potential security plans nbc s laura jarrett has more no charges have bee announced but behind the scene officials are focused on how t secure the area around the criminal court building in lower manhattan for what could be an unprecedented moment - a former president in cour arraigned before a judge nbc news reached out to all of the agencies involved. all have declined to comment the crux of the gr