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welcome to "the beat." i'm ari melber. we're tracking several pieces of news in this coming criminal trial of donald trump. his allies advise delay, this key tack we hear about in dealing with the indictment. we know jack smith, however, guaranteed a speedy trial. >> my office will seek a speedy trial in this matter, consistent with the public interest and the rights of the accused. >> there are some complexities with the case, but the federal judge is making news with a fast time line, ruling that trump's espionage trial will now be set to begin august 14th. that's just eight weeks ...

hello, and thank you so much for being here. it is 10:00 eastern. i'm ana cabrera reporting from new york, and this morning underwater sounds detected in the desperate search for the missing titan submersible. with more assets rushing to the search zone with time running out, the five on board believed to only have one day of oxygen left. the latest on that urgent race against the clock. plus, powell in the hot seat, the fed chair appearing before a house committee this hour. what's his next move with fears of a recession still looming? and later, new reaction from the attorney g...

the sources into the matter verse the investigation is still officially open should any new information surface. >> the investigation into the bidens on capitol hill is still open. house oversight committee chairman james comer says he reviewed go unclassified fbi forms regarding a foreign national who claimed to have bribed then vice president joe biden. >> well, unfortunately, we saw a lot redactions in these documents. i would estimate that 55 to 60% of the two documents were redacted. it's just a complete waste of my time. it's another example of the fbi stalling, stonewalling, d...

>> thank you for joining us. alex is off tonight. the biden butter of conservative media for years now husband hyping up an investigation into president biden's old son hunter biden. and never seemed to end. the investigation, which was open in 2018, under trump's justice department, has then a black box of sorts by republicans. they use it to create a symmetry that didn't really exist between trump's alleged crimes, when they speculated was the crime ridden biden family. so long as this case was open, and the investigation was behind closed doors, they could really make it whatever ...

>> my office will seek a speedy trial in this matter, -- consistent with the public interest and the rights of the accused. >> trump on trial -- in august? the first court date is officially set, and it is just eight weeks away. tonight, what it all means for the possibility of a trial before the election -- and, the motives of the trump appointed judge in charge of it. then -- >> after a five year investigation by a trump appointed prosecutor, hunter -- unlikely that the august 14th start date, the one that is two months from today, will hold. it's fairly common practice for a judg...