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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

Ari Melber, MS NOW

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

4.64.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2023

⏱️ 41 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. 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 Melburgh. We have a special report tonight on the prosecutor in America who may scare Donald Trump the most.

0:08.4

New, unseen footage from special counsel Jack Smith. That's coming up. Meanwhile, McCarthy has tapped Santos for a committee that, well, you wouldn't believe it.

0:18.2

We begin now with the serious reports of actual domestic terrorism

0:22.2

in our nation, a New Mexico Republican, arrested for allegedly targeting the other party,

0:27.2

Democrats, accused of shooting into at least four homes of Democratic officials. There's

0:33.9

new video of feds taking this suspect, Solomon Peña, into custody, in New Mexico.

0:38.9

He calls himself the Maga King. He's basically a failed candidate for local office. He lost that

0:44.2

November election by a wide margin. He will be in court tomorrow, facing possible criminal

0:49.3

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

0:55.5

right, in this case, targeting Democrats that goes all the way back to last month, December.

1:00.8

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

1:06.9

November.

1:09.0

After the election in November,

1:12.7

Solomon Pena reached out and contracted someone

1:14.2

for an amount of cash money

1:17.6

to commit at least two of these shootings.

1:20.0

On the last shooting,

1:21.0

we now have evidence to

1:22.1

that Pena himself went on this shooting

1:24.3

and actually pulled the trigger

1:25.8

on at least one of the firearms that was used.

1:29.6

This is very serious and very dangerous.

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