right now, and i m glad it s you, are a, because i ve modeled way way through two hours of legal staff. it s in your hands no, friend. you re very kind. i wouldn t go that fire, but i leave all, she great to see. welcome to the beat, everyone, i m ari melber, and as we mentioned, there s a lot going on, even as we get towards the holidays, december vibes. but jack smith, making a big move today, going straight to the supreme court. that is unusual, and it tells us something about the hand he thinks he s holding. we ve seen delays from the trump folks on this coup trial and they have every right to file appeals, and sometimes appeals have the consequence of delays. what s new here, ali velshi militant shunning that this is something everyone s trying to make sense of tonight, it s jack smith is moving first. he s basically calling for whatever delay or bluff the trump folks have been pushing out to be over. asking the supreme court to intervene. it s a move of confidence,
democracy are they themselves enemies of the state. all part of the same plotting. now, trump saidn this kind of odd exchange with fox s sean hannity, who seemed to be push against the idea he would be a dictator, trump said, well, he d be a dictator only on day one, which breaks his promises and vows to have retribution. liz cheney has been on msnbc and other channels and right here on the beat. she brings a very important perspective to this, because as many people remember, she was in leadership. she had a front-row seat to them she also took a stand pushing for donald trump s impeachment over the insurrection and chairing the jan 6th committee. here s what she told us. donald trump won t deny that he has plans like the one we have been discussing. what donald trump over the last several years has taught us is we have to take him seriously and we have the take him literally. he has shown us what he s willing to do. he has shown us, take him literally, and be ready to
that tonight with ms. cheney, drawing on her experience and the mission she took as one of only ten house republicans to ultimately cast an impeachment vote over that insurrection. cheney key to the bipartisan jan 6th committee, deemed by independent expert as one of the most effective congressional probes in our modern air ram i m sure you remember some if not all of these evidentiary hearings. cheney relying on her experience, how to get and then tell, convey, and a full at canning of what was donald trump s multipart conspiracy. we know the committee s work actually reached ten of millions of americans, presenting the evidence and testimony at those hearings, and we have indications that they impacted some prosecutors pursuit of justice. they led to two precedent making convictions who tried and basically failed legally to defy the lawful subpoenas. news that impacted many cases, from fox news, to fortifying the case for donald trump s coup indictment. the former presiden