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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 ...

thank you so much for letting us into your homes during these truly extraordinary times. we are grateful "the beat" with ari melber starts right now. >> welcome to "the beat." we begin with what many are saying is the revelation of something we knew but continue to see in more depth, a kind of staggering weakness of speaker mccarthy. as you see him giving out rewards to the very people who broke with him and tortured him before finally relenting this that historically chaotic beginning to the new congress. there's also some santos news so first the full picture today of what mccarthy...

good to be with you, i'm katy tur in for hallie jackson. and we're on the cusp of something, but what that something is still unclear. the fbi search of former president trump's mar-a-lago home has stood up a lot. republicans slammed the move as politically motivated with many of his allies claiming witch hunt and basically blaming president biden for the search. the white house said it was not given a heads-up for the events and found out with the rest of the country when the news broke. at this hour, we have more questions than answers. here's what we know so far. a source familiar...

my first question for you, sir, is who do you believe? >> they think it's russia. i have president putin, he just said it's not russia. i will say this, i don't see any reason why it would be. i will tell you that president putin waswi extremely strong an powerful inro his denial today. >> president of the united states of america, donald trump, standing alongside russian president vladimir putin, aligning himself with russian claims over u.s. intelligence. and denying what everyone at that point knew to be true. russia interfered in the 2016 election. throughout his time in office, ...

>> a heavy media focuses on hunter biden trial in the drug addicts tail and even natural suffering his defense was downright awful, so awful that even in delaware where the biden name is golden the federal georgia took three hours to convict him on all three gun felony charges, so awful that nobody was buying it, so awful he had nothing to say afterwards but d.o.j. special counsel david wise did tell the reporters the verdict was not about addiction. >> 's choice to line a government forum when he bought a gun and the choice to possess that gun. it was these choices and accommodation...