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we are grate. . "the beat" with ari melber starts right now. >> see you tuesday. >> i'm ari melber, we begin with the breaking news. we start the new week with the federal defendant, donald trump, back in florida. this is the eve of his federal arraignment tomorrow, and he made the trip from new jersey preparing to voluntarily surrender into federal custody for the first time as a defendant. that is the consequence of the indictment unsealed and briefly explained by jack smith on friday. the former president indicted for breaking several laws including the espionage act and laws rela...

Died, and big bucks were on the table from the epstein compensation fund. >> what about the the invocation of donald trump, the pilot mentioned him. and then one of the girls as well. he was not the only famous figure mentioned of course. epstein had relationships with lots of very famous people. tell me about the context for that. >> so the i think they're laying a foundation -- i mean we'll wait to see. but one of the things that the psychologist, the expert psychologist on child predation talked about was the fact that predators of children often hide behind sort of very powerful people, th...

Power. from legal impeachment perspective does that argument hold water? >> it does not hold water. i mean, we know just from criminal law that an attempt to do something illegal is itself criminal. even if you don't succeed in bringing it to fruition. here what is really important is both the intent of the actor here, the president in undertaking the actions. and what he hoped to achieve, whether or not he ultimately achieved them. and his intent was basically to secretly and corruptly ask another government to engage in actions benefitting him personally. doing so undermining congress's auth...