DOJ: Trump blew chances to return docs and avoid charges
The Beat with Ari Melber
Ari Melber, MS NOW
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🗓️ 15 June 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the beat on R.I. Melburn amidst this unprecedented news week, which is why there's so |
| 0:03.9 | many hours of work being slotted around as mentioned. Let me start with a quick question. |
| 0:09.2 | Is there anything more to learn or say about the federal case against defendant Donald Trump? |
| 0:17.7 | Our team of journalists on the beat says the answer tonight is yes. We've been working on something |
| 0:23.6 | special, a new roadmap, Gleene from Jack Smith's case, which we now can see for the first time |
| 0:29.6 | this week against Donald Trump. And so later tonight, we're actually going to show you this timeline |
| 0:34.0 | from the very first clues about the missing documents to Trump's historic arrest, that whole |
| 0:39.6 | road. It is new legal reporting, and I can tell you you'll only see it here. So that's coming up |
| 0:44.6 | on this edition of the beat. Our top story right now stems from the rapid developments on the |
| 0:51.5 | defense and legal side of Donald Trump's case here. We had the booking this week, and if you take a |
| 0:57.2 | look of you inside that courtroom, we have the different sketches. I'm sure you've seen them by now. |
| 1:02.0 | You have a judge, the photographer, of course, the defendant Donald Trump. You've got the lawyers, |
| 1:06.5 | the co-defendant, assorted, but obviously we are drawing your attention tonight right now in our |
| 1:11.6 | top story to a very particular person that has been in these sketches. This is one of Donald Trump's |
| 1:18.0 | lesser known defense attorneys, as you see there named Christopher Keiss. He's a lawyer who is a |
| 1:23.8 | long ways from Donald Trump's louder or more famous defense lawyers. You've probably heard |
| 1:29.6 | over seen Joe Takapina who's involved in a New York case. He's been known for even clashing with |
| 1:34.2 | some of the lawyers in this very serious DOJ case. We know about Rudy Giuliani, who's now under |
| 1:39.0 | investigation for his work for Donald Trump. Now to be clear, Keiss is not like them, not in his |
| 1:45.0 | prominence and not apparently in his counsel, but he is this week vital to Trump's defense. He was |
| 1:50.8 | called in at the last moment after two of those other lawyers in the DOJ case were basically unable |
| 1:56.7 | to continue. They departed Donald Trump's defense and he was literally on the hunt for basically any |
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