Welcome to the beat, I'm Ari Melber and today marks a serious even grim day for defendant

Donald Trump, who of course was indicted, booked, and had his mug shot taken very famously in an election case regarding possible crimes in the 2020 race in the Georgia

RICO case.

He was also indicted by federal prosecutor Jack Smith.

In two cases which carry serious charges, but like the Georgia case,

are actually not currently on track to go to trial by the election.

But for Trump, the only case where it now matters that he is a criminal defendant is in New York,

where Trump's trial reached its inflection point today.

As DA Bragg's team has just told the judge today that the DA's office has proven its case

based on the evidence and thus in toning the well-known phrase,

quote, your honor, the people rest. That's today. In the only case that looks to be going to trial by the election.

That means the prosecutors literally rest their case and take the position.

They've supplied enough evidence to prove each and every element of this crime

which they say Donald Trump committed this felony beyond a reasonable doubt and that

does something today. It hands control of the case, meaning the witnesses and requests to put in evidence and all of those things,

back to the court, which can hear the defense's case unless the defense were to decline to mount one and I could tell you tonight we already know they are mounting one.

So we are legally in the uncharted territory here.

I told you about those other cases they matter in

various ways and Donald Trump could clearly lose the election and go on to face

trial in those cases but in this unusual time in this

chapter of history that we're living through, the defense is now up

after the prosecution has rested its case.

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