Welcome to the beat everyone. I am Ari Melber and as mentioned there is a lot going on even as we get towards the holidays, December vibes, but Jack Smith making a big move today going straight to the Supreme Court. That is unusual and it tells us something about the hand he thinks he's holding

we've seen delays from the Trump folks on this coup trial and they have every right to

file appeals and sometimes appeals have the consequence of delays.

What's new here, Ali Velshi, mentioning that this is something everyone's trying to make

sense of tonight is Jack Smith's moving first.

He's basically calling for whatever delay or bluff the Trump folks have been pushing out to be over and asking the Supreme Court to intervene

It's a move of confidence doesn't mean he'll win but we're to get into that tonight a little later in the program.

Also, we talk about accountability. It is sometimes a long time coming in the system, but the

indicted Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani in court on a different case today facing potentially

tens of millions of dollars of sanction over his defamation of two Georgia

election workers. So we're going to get to all that, but we begin with what many say is the full crisis for

U.S. democracy facing us now and whether we deal with it or not.

The Washington Republican, who so many people say, did as much as anyone to amid to

amid all the scandals and the coup continue to enable Trump. Kevin McCarthy now

speaking out in ways that hold some peril for Republicans next year.

Now in a few moments we're actually going to walk through some vintage early McCarthy video

that's pretty revealing, but first we're going to show you why he's in the news tonight.

Obviously it's been a bruising year.

After everything he had to do just to get the gavel, he then was ousted in one of the

shortest speakerships in American history.

It was humiliating. He was

defenestrated by his big public enemies including people who are not very

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