Giuliani testifies before GA grand jury; Special report - Double standard of MAGA “just comply” rhetoric
The Beat with Ari Melber
Ari Melber, MS NOW
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🗓️ 17 August 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the beat. I am Ari Melbra, and we have a lot going today, including Giuliani, |
| 0:04.1 | now going under oath after he was targeted for indictment. This is before the Georgia grand jury. |
| 0:10.9 | Here was the scene. On a momentous day, one many would have not expected years ago, |
| 0:15.4 | given how he was once viewed in the legal community, as the once prosecutor had the tables turned arriving at court. |
| 0:23.6 | Do you lie to them? |
| 0:24.6 | We will not talk about this until the grand jury and grand juries, as I recall a secret. |
| 0:31.6 | Do you believe President Trump is the ultimate target of this investigation? |
| 0:34.6 | I'm not going to comment on the grand jury investigation. What do you think their ultimate is here? |
| 0:39.3 | What do you expect me to talk about here today? |
| 0:41.3 | Well, they ask the questions and... |
| 0:43.3 | Will you be cooperative? |
| 0:45.3 | I mean, your attorney in New York says he can't promise how responsive you'll be. |
| 0:49.3 | Mr. Giulani making his way inside. You will know one thing if you watch the news, and if you're hearing my voice, I bet you do, you may recall over all those choppy waters, those months of the election drama, that Mr. Giuliani would talk about all kinds of things, out of pocket, sometimes against his own client's interest. |
| 1:08.6 | What you just saw there was a different Giuliani, one who |
| 1:11.1 | was a little more careful, more ready to avoid answering any questions, and that may be because |
| 1:16.2 | of the legal heat he's under. We know he testified for about six hours, but we don't have the |
| 1:20.5 | details. So we can't tell you whether that was six hours of voluminous interaction or not unlike |
| 1:25.3 | his client, Donald Trump, last week, was it perhaps many hours |
| 1:29.2 | of repeating the same answer? We don't know yet. He's the closest person to Trump to testify in the case. |
| 1:34.8 | And it's one of several legal headaches. Tomorrow you have a federal judge in Florida deciding |
| 1:38.5 | on this matter, this question of whether to unseal any more information about the Trump search and the related warrant, the underlying affidavit, the DOJ, fighting on that. |
| 1:49.1 | They're saying they already basically released more than usual, but there are operational and security reasons not to release the underlying affidavit. |
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