Lawyer for Trump “co-conspirator” on new charges
The Beat with Ari Melber
Ari Melber, MS NOW
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🗓️ 8 August 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you very much. Welcome to beat. I'm Ari Melbourne. We're following some of the |
| 0:03.8 | same late developing news. It's been on MSNBC here. The big clash between |
| 0:07.5 | Jack Smith and Donald Trump. This is the first new Trump filing since the |
| 0:11.0 | arrangement and there are threats and there is accountability for that. I |
| 0:13.8 | actually have a special report that we've been planning on that news and that's |
| 0:17.4 | coming up tonight. We actually begin with our top story and a special guest. It's |
| 0:23.3 | an individual an attorney making his beat debut. He has a front row seat to some |
| 0:28.0 | of these crucial legal clashes in this set of charges against defendant Donald |
| 0:34.5 | Trump and the alleged co-conspirators in that coup indictment. Right now let's |
| 0:39.2 | get into it. I'm joined by Charles Burnham defense attorney for co-conspirator |
| 0:43.2 | number two from the most recent Jack Smith Trump indictment. This is a person |
| 0:47.6 | who has been confirmed and identified as John Eastman, the lawyer who advised |
| 0:51.8 | Donald Trump who spoke as you see there at the January 6th rally. They're |
| 0:54.8 | next to Rudy Giuliani and was a key architect of much of what the president |
| 1:00.6 | and his aides were trying to push heading into the January 6th certification. |
| 1:03.9 | Charles, first of all, thank you very much for making the time and joining me |
| 1:07.8 | tonight. Thank you for having me. Absolutely. We've put aside some time for this. I |
| 1:12.3 | want to start with a couple quick things and then and then get into the case. But |
| 1:16.9 | first and foremost, Donald Trump lost the 2020 election. You accept that fact? |
| 1:24.1 | Well, look, there's a lot of large portion of the country that has issues with the 2020 |
| 1:29.3 | election. There are still discussion about things that went on. Large portion of |
| 1:33.8 | the country believes in ghosts or horoscopes. I'm asking you do you accept the results |
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