DOJ asking witnesses about Trump in Jan 6 probe

The Beat with Ari Melber

Ari Melber, MS NOW

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🗓️ 28 July 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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MSNBC's Ari Melber hosts "The Beat" on Wednesday, July 27, and reports on the DOJ eyeing Trump. Former Mueller prosecutor Andrew Weissmann responds. Former party chairs Howard Dean and Michael Steele talk about Murdoch’s Fox News ignoring Trump and comedian Samantha Bee joins The Beat. 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 am Ari Melbaugh, and we've got a lot for you tonight.
0:03.4	I'm going to tell you everything that's coming up.
0:04.9	We begin with the brand new heat on the DOJ probe.
0:08.4	New peril for Donald Trump, and we'll explain federal investigators have a new search warrant to access the contents of the coup lawyer you see right here with his last brush with the federal agents, of course, caught on tape.
0:20.5	That was when they were
0:21.3	seizing who lawyer John Eastman's phone in June. Now, he has tried to fight them from gaining access,
0:28.3	and he is allowed to do that in court. But the news is he is losing that legal battle. Also in
0:33.8	recent days, Trump's name coming up in these grand jury proceedings. If you ever catch your news on the phone or on the internet,
0:39.7	you've probably seen more than one news alert from the Washington Post and New York Times
0:43.1	about the DOJ criminal probe.
0:44.9	I'm going to break that down with a very special guest joining me in moments.
0:49.0	The thrust of those news reports, whether you've heard about him or not, is this.
0:52.5	The grand jury is pursuing
0:54.6	questions about Donald Trump, which thus means potentially his alleged crimes. Two top
1:01.0	aides to Vice President Pence asked about the elector fraud scheme, and now, new today,
1:06.4	news that a star witness from those hearings, Cassie Hutchinson, cooperating with the federal criminal probe,
1:13.7	and that appears to be intensifying.
1:17.2	Well, it is happening.
1:20.0	Donald Trump is being investigated.
1:23.1	Today, federal prosecutors are asking questions and digging deeper.
1:26.6	What would Trump 2.0 look like, do you think?
1:29.4	The abuse of the pardon power, I think, which we already saw, I think would create a completely
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