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MSNBC’s Ari Melber is joined by Joy Reid, Lawrence O’Donnell, Jen Psaki, and Chris Hayes to discuss day one of his criminal trial in New York. (Bookmark The Beat’s YouTube playlist, updated daily: https://msnbc.com/ari. Connect with Ari on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AriMelber IG: https://www.instagram.com/arimelber Merch: msnbc.com/beat5)
Republican presidential contender is the first former US president to go on criminal trial
First criminal trial of a former president one significant step closer to beginning after full jury selected in New YorkA full jury of 12 people has been seated in the criminal case against Donald Trump, bringing the first criminal trial of a former president a significant step closer to beginning.At least one of six alternate jurors had been selected before court concluded on Thursday.A guide to Trump’s hush-money trial – so farThe key arguments prosecutors will use against TrumpHow will...
The second day of former President Trump’s criminal trial in New York was more productive than expected, with the jury beginning to take shape. Trump is charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. He is the first former president to be tried in a criminal case. The underlying story of the alleged crimes
Donald Trump has arrived at the Manhattan courtroom of Judge Juan Merchan for the second day of his criminal trial over falsifying business records connected to hush money payments made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. On Monday, Merchan ruled on several motions from each side and set a hearing date of April 23 for the issue of whether Trump is in violation of his gag order. Merchan kept up a brisk pace in the afternoon, bringing in the first 96 potential jurors before dismissing more than...
Donald Trump boasted that he would use his criminal and civil trials to campaign for president, but he already looks "needy and rattled" after just a week in court, argued one columnist.The former president – amplified by numerous media outlets – claimed he would bask in the wall-to-wall coverage to manipulate the courts and boost his campaign profile, but that's not what has happened since he lost defamation and fraud judgments for more than a half-billion dollars, wrote Washington Post...
The shocking self-immolation of a man outside the Trump trial on Friday is described in detail by NBC correspondent and anchor, Yasmin Vossoughian. "He burned for two minutes. It seemed like a lifetime," Vossoughian tells Joy Reid.
The Senate has dismissed all impeachment charges against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, ending the House Republican push to remove the Cabinet secretary from office over his handling of the the U.S.-Mexico border and ending his trial before arguments even began. Senators voted to dismiss both articles of impeachment and end the trial, with Democrats […]
Prosecutors with the Manhattan District Attorney have filed a notice of the prior bad acts they intend to interrogate former President Donald Trump on, should he choose to take the witness stand in his hush money trial.The case, which began jury selection at the start of this week, centers on Trump's alleged falsification of business records to conceal a hush payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels. District Attorney Alvin Bragg alleges this was effectively a scheme to interfere with the 2016...
Donald Trump looked a bit unusual during the second day of his fraud trial, as his tousled 'do sparked speculation on social media.
Donald Trump's boast that he may testify in the Manhattan hush money trial beginning on Monday was greeted with no small amount of glee by a former Jan. 6 Committee investigator on Sunday morning.During an appearance on MSNBC's "The Weekend," Marcus Childress claimed he was "praying and wishing" the former president would try to defend himself under oath for paying off adult film star Stormy Daniels in 2016 because that would allow prosecutors from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg to...