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The Beat with Ari Melber

Ari Melber, MS NOW

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

4.6 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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MSNBC's Ari Melber hosts "The Beat" on Monday, September 11, and reports on Mark Meadows, Ginni Thomas and police brutality. Plus, Juanita Tolliver and rap artist Common "fallback" with Melber. Michael Steele, and Marq Claxton also 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 Beat Everyone.
0:01.9	I am Ari Melbourne.
0:02.9	Welcome to this new week.
0:04.3	We are tracking a lot of developments from new revelations in Clarence Thomas' billionaire
0:09.8	scandal.
0:10.8	Device President Harris making news just over this weekend.
0:13.7	We have this story by the end of the hour, and we'll actually be joined by the artist
0:18.2	Common, who is with Harris on Saturday.
0:22.0	Our top story is the loss for a key Trump legal defense strategy in Georgia, where Donald
0:26.7	Trump's former chief of staff led an effort to remove his rico case out of the Georgia
0:31.3	courts.
0:32.3	And then lost a federal judge denying the bid to take that trial of federal court, we
0:36.5	thought his odds were better.
0:38.3	The loss for Mr. Mark Meadows now a defendant means he will face trial in Georgia.
0:44.3	It's also bad news for other Trump co-defendants who hope to take this same tack, and that's
0:48.7	what I'm going to get into you into this with you right now until we bring in Michael
0:52.5	Steele.
0:53.5	And here's the bottom line.
0:54.5	The judge has rejected what Meadows was claiming that he was acting as a proper federal
0:59.5	official for activities that are alleged in this rico indictment because Meadows is accused
1:04.3	of crimes about overturning the election results.
1:07.0	In Georgia and the judge noted, the Constitution does not even provide any basis for executive
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