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The Beat with Ari Melber

RFK Jr. joins The Beat

The Beat with Ari Melber

Ari Melber, MS NOW

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

4.64.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

MSNBC's Ari Melber hosts "The Beat" on Wednesday, May 8, and reports on Donald Trump's criminal trial. Plus, RFK Jr. joins Melber for an extended interview, that you can find on YouTube at msnbc.com/ari. 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, I'm Ari Melber.

0:01.6

We're tracking some big legal developments today,

0:03.4

including a new delay in Trump's federal espionage case

0:06.4

overclassified documents.

0:08.1

The judge there in Florida giving Trump lawyers what they wanted.

0:10.7

It's a big delay and a big part of his overall legal situation

0:14.1

then there's also this continuing fallout from the damning testimony by a key

0:18.5

witness in the New York trial where one of the most famous people in this case Stormy Daniels took the stand to

0:24.4

tell her story under oath for the first time.

0:27.5

The former president coming face-to-face with adult film actress Stormy Daniels.

0:33.3

The star witness to the prosecution took the stand.

0:35.8

Even the judge was pumped, he was like,

0:37.5

please welcome to the Stand Stormy Daniels.

0:42.4

Stormy Daniels gave a really detailed testimony, really detailed.

0:49.0

Wow, there been some contentious moments just here in the past few moments as Stormy Daniels faces

0:54.4

cross-examination. Let me tell you it is not over yet because Daniels is going to

0:58.4

be back on the stand again on Thursday. True as this continues forward.

1:04.0

Daniels is the first eyewitness to recount Trump's conduct in their encounter

1:09.0

that he later paid to cover up.

1:11.0

And that's been driving headlines here. We learned about much of

1:13.8

what happened yesterday and we're seeing the fallout here in the world as well as for

1:17.2

the jury headlines about how upset Trump got. We'll get into that right now,

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