Welcome to the beat, I am Ari Melber and we have breaking news.

Special Counsel Jack Smith's prosecution of Donald Trump for the big coup plot

has scored another procedural victory tonight. It goes to questions of

accountability and whether Trump will through the course of this process be treated

like other defendants or be allowed to use and abuse the following in the

power he has to undercut this important method

of holding him accountable of trying to have accountability for the coup who he's accused of

as he runs for power again.

And the headline you may have heard and we're going to get into it is

this powerful appeals court siding with Jack Smith and upholding most of the gag order that he

had sought and won at the lower court level. This limits what Trump can say in the case, the three-judge

panel barring defendant Trump from, for example, publicly attacking potential

witnesses and court staff and many of the other government employees and staff involved in this prosecution of Trump.

If you follow the news, you probably know he has tried these antics in other cases, including some with lower stakes.

This is the big case that is currently on a schedule to begin

next year in March and which could result in his conviction or imprisonment.

Donald Trump is a defendant is legally presumed innocent. Now one difference though is the court did revise the order and allows Donald

Trump as a defendant to publicly criticize Special Counsel Jack Smith

himself. Now the ruling says that some aspects of Trump's public statements pose a significant

and imminent threat to the fair and orderly adjudication of the ongoing

criminal proceeding against defendant Trump. Now in the initial argument and request for the order, which Jack Smith won,

he cited the fact that Donald Trump had all but made it legally likely that this would

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