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The Beat with Ari Melber

Before indicting Trump, Jack Smith led war crimes case

The Beat with Ari Melber

Ari Melber, MS NOW

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

4.64.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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MSNBC’s Ari Melber hosts “The Beat” on Thursday, August 10, and reports on Special Counsel Jack Smith, Trump’s legal battles and Clarence Thomas. James Schultz and Renato Mariotti join. 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 B. Don Murray-Melber. We have a lot in tonight's show, but we begin with

0:03.7

these new revelations about the case that's building by Jack Smith against Donald Trump.

0:08.7

You remember, of course, the violent insurrection. That's at the center of all of this. Well,

0:12.3

now, amidst the Smith case, I need to tell you up top, up front, about something quite

0:18.1

serious, and we'll go through it with great precision. There is an alleged new violent

0:24.4

threat that has led to the FBI shooting and killing a man in Utah. This was actually hours

0:31.0

ahead of President Biden's scheduled visit to that state. The agents executed a search

0:36.4

warrant for a suspect who had been caught making a number of alleged threats against the

0:40.6

president, which itself can be a federal crime, as well as, and this connects to the wider

0:46.2

environment we're in right now, as well as, the DA of Manhattan, Alvin Brack. Let me give

0:51.1

you one piece of context here. That's an individual at a law enforcement level who's not been

0:56.2

nationally famous, indeed, most people around the country, following what show in Utah, for

1:01.6

example, wouldn't be able to name the random DAs in random cities. Yet, this is the DA that

1:07.4

Donald Trump has been publicly targeting since the Manhattan DA and died at Donald Trump.

1:14.0

Now, I say with precision, because that's a fact. A law enforcement is not making any direct

1:18.7

link causal or otherwise yet, but this is the environment we're in. NBC News reporting

1:23.2

that this suspect identified as Craig Robinson. On Monday, made the threat referencing the

1:27.6

plan trip to Utah by President Biden and discussed preparing camouflage and a sniper rifle.

1:35.0

Then he called DA Brack a hack. He brought up a conspiracy theory about George Soros and

1:40.0

discussed a plot to somehow assassinate Brack in a parking garage, according to these

1:45.4

charging documents. The FBI is reviewing the shooting. How do you go from being an unknown

1:53.2

lawyer to being elected DA, to being caught up at a presidential level, targeted whatever

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