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The Beat with Ari Melber

Ari talks to "Trump Employee 5" from DOJ indictment

The Beat with Ari Melber

Ari Melber, MS NOW

Politics, News, Versant Media, Ms Now, Daily News, Versant, Government

4.64.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

MSNBC's Ari Melber hosts "The Beat" on Wednesday, March 20, and interviews Mar-a-Lago employee Brian Butler, a witness in the DOJ's classified documents indictment against Trump. Melber also reports on GOP extremism in the 2024 election and the start of ex-Trump aide Peter Navarro's prison sentence. Howard Dean and Joyce Vance join to discuss. To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the beat, I'm Ari Mel.

0:01.2

We're back with you after getting some vacation time.

0:04.7

And we're hitting the ground running right now

0:06.1

because we are learning new information about the man

0:09.1

that Special Counsel Jack Smith identified.

0:11.5

You can see it right here as Trump employee 5 in the classified

0:15.9

documents indictment of defendant Trump. Well that witness, number 5, is my

0:21.2

special guest tonight. He will be speaking out live about Jack Smith's classified

0:25.2

documents probe about his own testimony, his involvement, and his now indicted former colleagues

0:30.4

and boss. This is the man who moved some boxes who observed the alleged

0:34.8

cover-up who has a lot to share and we're back here with you on this newsy night

0:40.3

and I could tell you we have that newsy guest coming up. We will get to that

0:43.8

interview. While our top story is this 20-24 campaign in high gear. We know that

0:49.5

Republicans voted in five of those primaries this week a shift in the format because Trump is of course

0:54.8

the presumptive nominee.

0:56.0

So these are races that are not designed at the presidential level to pick a nominee anymore

1:01.0

but they do still function to test a party's

1:05.0

's unity, it's strength.

1:06.6

And we're not talking about just some random states here.

1:10.2

We are talking about some of the key and large states that Donald Trump or any Republican would need to win in order to get the White House this November.

1:20.0

We're talking Ohio, Florida, Arizona. You may remember these states bandied about this week.

1:24.7

Well, the headlines from Republican voters in these key places, especially as people continue to

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