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The Beat with Ari Melber

NY grand jury returns tomorrow

The Beat with Ari Melber

Ari Melber, MS NOW

News, Government, Versant Media, Daily News, Ms Now, Versant, Politics

4.64.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

MSNBC's Ari Melber hosts "The Beat" on Wednesday, March 22, and reports on Donald Trump's hush money probe in New York, as Trump braces for a possible indictment. Plus, Melber reports on the Fox-Dominion case. Neal Katyal, Asha Rangappa, Dan Horwitz, Barbara Res, and Nick Akerman join. To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the beat. We are following some big legal news. I am Ari Melbourne. Here we are. Let me start like this.

0:05.3

One day later, and Donald Trump's prediction of his own indictment and arrest has not occurred, which is why we've always followed the facts and the evidence in this still quite hot escalating legal story.

0:17.1

We don't follow the claims, the predictions, or self-serving pronouncements. Whatever drove Trump to claim, he knew what was coming was not, as of tonight, the whole entire or accurate picture.

0:30.3

Tonight we do have some new reporting that the grand jury investigating Trump did not meet at all today.

0:34.9

This is one of the days when it can regularly meet, and initially

0:38.3

it was scheduled to do so, but it did not. Then we have new developments that cross just

0:43.3

in the last 10 or 15 minutes, so you may be hearing it for the very first time right now,

0:47.2

a bit of developing legal news. I wouldn't call this giant breaking news, but it's interesting

0:51.4

because we're tracking every piece of this. NBC News now reporting,

0:55.9

according to two sources, that the grand jury will be back in session tomorrow. And it may hear

1:01.4

from at least one more witness before being asked to vote, that detail courtesy of the New York Times.

1:08.6

So we didn't get any new witnesses today. And obviously, if they

1:12.4

didn't meet, no kind of votes today. The DA is clearly continuing to work on his timeline.

1:18.4

And so if you put to the side of the speculation, here is what did happen at the start of this week,

1:23.1

because even without the indictment that Donald Trump proclaimed was coming,

1:29.7

we can see a lot of things happening.

1:34.8

There is a reason the whole country and really pockets of other parts of the whole world are now watching to see whether Donald Trump is indicted.

1:38.5

So here it is.

1:40.1

This week, the grand jury heard from the kind of rebuttal witness that often signals

1:43.7

this process is near its conclusion, whether that is days or weeks.

1:48.6

That witness then went public with that harsh and at times quite unprofessional attack on another key witness, Michael Cohen.

1:56.0

And Cohen's counsel said Mr. Cohen will be stepping back from TV interviews.

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