I'm Ari Melbre, we're tracking these two big legal breaking news stories.

We have just learned the controversial New York Republican Congressman George Santos

has been indicted by the Justice Department.

That's a federal indictment.

We're tracking this story as you heard Nicole just say in the handoff.

This is as breaking as it gets.

We don't have the exact details.

We don't have the paper yet.

But we do have reporting that this very controversial member of Congress known if nothing

else for his many lies that he was busted for is now indicted.

Indeed, this is a fast-moving story because he's expected to appear at court as soon as

tomorrow.

We're tracking that story as well as the other big legal development, a jury finding

Donald Trump liable for sexual abuse and lies, the defamation that this jury says and found

that he committed against E. Jean Carroll.

That is a huge story.

It's important when we've been covering that trial continuously.

And I have two special experts to lead us in covering that case and what it all means.

And we're going to be joined by them in a moment.

As we juggle these two breaking stories, I'm going to start with the indictment of Republican

Congressman George Santos.

And we're joined by phone former federal prosecutor, Ronaldo Marriotti, kind enough to jump

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