Welcome to the beat. I'm Ari Melver and let's get right to it. We begin with the

actually unprecedented collision of law and politics that America is facing in

2024, whether we like it or not, whether we're all tired or not, which I get.

But the nation has never actually put a former president on trial.

Several prosecutors are working on that very task, even as Donald Trump's civil fraud trial

stretched through the December of 2023 and in 2024 as you've probably heard

because you're watching the news defendant Trump faces several criminal trials in

different jurisdictions while running for

president again. Special Counsel Jack Smith leading the prosecution of

Trump's coup in Washington and separately the stolen intelligence documents case

in Florida, the Atlanta DA pushing

ahead on a long-term plan for those RICO trials after winning convictions of Trump AIDS

through this 2023, and then the smaller criminal case in New York.

Take it together, you got over 90 felonies charge.

That is not normal even if it has been normalized.

The first coup trial initially slated for March, while those schedules

can of course change, America is facing more serious warnings from people who know about

this, from actual legal legal experts discussing a very real possibility

that one of the major political parties in America, the Republican Party, will ultimately

rally around and keep a nominee who might also be a convicted felon who's legally lost his right to vote.

Even half of what is alleged accepted by a jury, this case he will be convicted.

If the judges are right, I think that he's going to be in deep trouble.

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