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The Beat with Ari Melber

Trump confirms Thursday surrender in GA for RICO case

The Beat with Ari Melber

Ari Melber, MS NOW

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

4.64.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

MSNBC’s Ari Melber hosts “The Beat” on Tuesday, August 22, and reports on Trump’s legal battles and new Roger Stone tapes that were first obtained by “The Beat.” Plus, Chance the Rapper joins for the latest “Mavericks” installment. Emily Bazelon and Michael Steele also 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, everyone.

0:02.0

I'm Ari Melver, and tonight we have a special report on a story that we broke and that

0:06.4

we have been bringing you updates on, a report on the meaning of these Roger Stone tapes,

0:13.0

why they go out more widely than just his own criminal exposure, and in writing a response

0:18.8

from him tonight.

0:19.8

He's not on the program, but he wrote a response to what we broke last night.

0:23.0

I will share that with you as well as the hour continues.

0:25.8

We begin with major news involving the Georgia case against Donald Trump's many

0:30.6

indicted co-conspirators, because we are seeing the wheels of justice turn.

0:35.3

And if you've been living through this in America and you followed, say, the case in New

0:38.9

York, which is mostly just about Donald Trump's business history, and perhaps some of his

0:44.1

potential campaign finance shenanigans, or the case in federal courts in Washington,

0:49.9

which involved Donald Trump and one or two other people.

0:52.2

Well now we're seeing the wheels of justice grind in a very different way.

0:57.2

It is, and I say this with all seriousness, not news hyperbole, it is unlike any criminal

1:04.6

justice proceeding we have seen for a group or alleged gang of racketeering, influenced

1:10.6

people to ever come out of any White House.

1:14.1

One by one they are today turning themselves into the Fulton County jail, Trump himself,

1:19.2

the defendant atop the alleged Rico conspiracy, scheduled to turn himself in on Thursday where

1:24.0

he faces a bond.

1:25.0

Today, Trump's cool lawyer, John Eastman, went in there, turned himself into authorities.

1:30.5

This is some of the footage of him just outside that courthouse.

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