Is the President Ever Above the Law? Ari Melber Weighs In

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🗓️ 27 July 2017

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Ari Melber, MSNBC's Chief Legal Correspondent and the host of The Beat with Ari Melber, joins Chuck Todd to talk about why he became a lawyer, and what comes next for the president's legal team.

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, we invite you to Meet the Press.
0:03.5	Meet the Predate the Press.
0:06.0	Welcome to 1947, the Meet the Press Podcast, one of the hallmarks of the Trump Presidencies
0:15.2	early days.
0:16.2	Yes, we're still in the early days of the Trump presidency.
0:18.1	Is the legal chaos that seems to constantly pile up at the White House?
0:22.2	Whether it comes from the multiple ongoing Russian investigations and the luring up that
0:26.3	comes with that, from confusion created by the President's tweets or from a litigious
0:32.0	habit left over from his life in real estate.
0:34.6	Lawyers never seem to be far away from the President.
0:37.2	So why not spend a little bit of time with my next guest, which of course is MSNBC's
0:42.0	chief legal correspondent, Ari Melber.
0:44.6	And these days, avid viewers of Meet the Press daily know that Ari is the host of a new
0:49.0	show, The Beat with Ari Meler, which airs at six Eastern right after Meet the Press
0:55.2	daily.
0:56.2	Ari, welcome to 1947.
0:57.9	Thank you.
0:58.9	And love being your neighbor, Chuck.
1:00.4	It's nice to have, you know, welcome to the neighborhood, as they say.
1:05.8	So before we get into all those legal questions that I promise, let's talk about you, the
1:12.2	person, Seattle Washington.
1:14.1	I have to say, I bet you a lot of people wouldn't say, oh, he's a Northwest guy.
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