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The Beat with Ari Melber

Special report: Feared from warzones to Congress, Counsel Jack Smith leads Trump probe

The Beat with Ari Melber

MSNBC

Government, Daily News, Politics, News

4.64.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2023

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

MSNBC's Ari Melber hosts "The Beat" on Tuesday, January 17 and reports on the New Mexico Republican arrested for allegedly targeting Democratic lawmakers in a string of shootings. Plus, a special report on Special Counsel Jack Smith's long career from prosecuting war crimes to now leading probes of Trump. Andrew Weissmann and Michael Steele join.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the beat up, Mari Melber. We have a special report tonight on the prosecutor

0:05.6

of America who may scare Donald Trump the most. New, unseen footage from special counsel

0:11.4

Jack Smith that's coming up. Meanwhile, McCarthy has tapped Santos for a committee that, well,

0:17.2

you wouldn't believe it. We begin now with the serious reports of actual domestic terrorism

0:22.3

in our nation. A new Mexico Republican arrested for allegedly targeting the other party, Democrats,

0:28.0

accused of shooting into at least four homes of Democratic officials. There's new video of

0:34.6

feds taking this suspect, Solomon Penney and Ducusty, in New Mexico. He calls himself the

0:39.8

MAGA King. He's basically a failed candidate for local office. He lost that November election

0:45.3

by a wide margin. He will be in court tomorrow facing possible criminal conspiracy charges.

0:50.9

Police say he's the mastermind of a string of shootings, political violence from the right.

0:56.4

In this case, targeting Democrats that goes all the way back to last month December. Police say

1:01.2

he might have been motivated by the anger he felt over his loss as a Republican in November.

1:09.2

After the election in November, Solomon Penney reached out and contracted someone for

1:15.2

a amount of cash money to commit at least two of these shootings. On the last shooting, we now

1:21.2

have evidence to that Pena himself went on this shooting and actually pulled the trigger on at least one

1:26.8

of the firearms that was used. This is very serious and very dangerous. The new criminal complaint notes

1:35.0

among other issues that the bullets tore through the walls of a 10-year-old girl's bedroom while she

1:41.1

slept present inside the room. Pena has posted online, and most recently, November 15th, when he

1:47.6

talked about Trump announcing and noting he didn't concede the race he lost, researching my options.

1:54.0

He wrote, he had his MAGA gear and a Trump signature at the bottom of a hoodie. You can't tell from

1:59.5

the photo whether that is a legitimate hand signature or some other facsimile. Pena appears to

2:05.9

have attended the January 6th insurrection, at least in some format according to Albuquerque

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