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good evening. happy holidays. welcome to "the beat." i am ari melber. i'll be joining you the next two hours for a special holiday edition of "the beat." donald trump has a criminal trial problem. he has several trials looming in 2024. that's where we begin tonight. we'll do it a little different for the holidays. former federal prosecutor joyce vance with me to start the show. we're looking at this legal heat coming up. i want to get into this with you, joyce, but first show you and viewers something we put together to consider tonight, historic indictments on the road donald trump ...

letting us into your homes during these extraordinary times. we are grateful. "the beat" with ari melber starts right now hi, ari. >> hi, noicolle thanks so much i'm ari melber tonight we have a very big show, including an eye on that manhattan d.a. probe that may be closing in on president trump, and tonight in this life segment i will be including a major trump legal figure as my guest you're not going to hear that anywhere else right now because he's here sitting with me. the context is mr. michael cohen is heading back to testify again before this criminal grand jury tomorrow tha...

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Are extorting him before they can protect him from another attack. >> right now we're going to try to contact nicholas compton's mother again and see if she's able to come up with the stuff that she says she has. this is probably my guess -- i know it's been over five times i tried to contact her. >> compton's mother says she has receipts for the money orders used for the extortion payments. they're key to getting her son's request for protective custody approved. >> ms. compton? >> yes, it is. >> this is -- from the prison. how are you doing? >> fine. >> i'm still trying to get that informati...

That sounds like a classic case of extortion. but for whatever reason trump caves to it and directs michael cohen to pay the ransom. now more than two years later trump is a felon for doing this. it does not seem to make any sense. oh, but you are not a federal prosecutor on a political machine. if you were a federal prosecutor on a political machine, you would construe those extortion payments as campaign contributions. you do this even though the money in question did not come from or go to donald trump's presidential campaign. they knew would claim that trump and michael coyne violated camp...