Welcome to the beat, I'm Ari Melber and tonight we have a special report on Elon Musk's free speech

hypocrisy from that Don Lemon controversy to a big and important pending Supreme Court case.

So that's coming up, stay with me for that. Well our top story right now

are the new developments in the first criminal trial of a former president. This is now

under two weeks away and a judge toughening the gag order for defendant Trump and rebuking his efforts to, as they put it, inject fear

into the trial while attacking family members. They discuss the threats to the case.

This is a response in part to the DA who is prosecuting Trump and has the the judge's daughter in this case circulating pictures of her online as the AP and

other outlets report today.

Trump using his platform to push the pictures as well as the coverage of this very

storm he created. He responds now to the tough and gag order by

sharing a Fox segment that also goes after the judge's daughter and that is a topic

that's only in the news or at least over on Fox News because of Trump's

earlier smears. The judge also dismissing baseless misrepresentations in uendo

and exaggeration from Trump's attorneys as they fail in their arguments to delay this case.

Now, Trump's team is today asking about the judge accusing himself,

DA Bragg has been opposing that, we have no reason to think that's going to happen,

meaning we are on track for a trial within two weeks.

And those are the tensions in that criminal trial that looms.

While last night, Trump took a very different approach, and I'm going to explain this contrast here where he complied with the laws in his civil fraud case.

The contrast is telling because Trump is testing and defying all of these criminal rules on the one hand

where he clearly doubts that this judge will jail him before trial

regardless of what he does or even if he clearly violates the gag order

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