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The Beat with Ari Melber

Trump insider Mike Lindell has phone seized by Feds; Innocence Project co-founder Barry Scheck on criminal justice

The Beat with Ari Melber

Ari Melber, MS NOW

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

4.64.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

MSNBC's Ari Melber hosts "The Beat" on Wednesday, September 14 and reports on another Trump insider, "Pillow Guy" Mike Lindell's phone being seized by the FBI. Plus, Innocence Project Co-Founder Barry Scheck joins on DNA evidence, wrongful convictions and criminal justice reform. Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson, Fmr. ODNI General Counsel Robert Litt and Mother Jones' David Corn 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. Today we begin with another Trump ally having his phone seized by the FBI.

0:06.0

And it's someone you may have heard of, Mike Lindell, CEO of My Pillow, but also the reason he's come up in these cases,

0:14.0

a very well-known and rich public ally and supporter of Donald Trump, including in The Big Lie, the lies about the

0:24.3

election, the lies about its results. He says the FBI stopped him and seized his phone.

0:32.6

We stopped to go through a hearties in Mancato where I was born in Mancato, Minnesota, and cars

0:39.3

pulled up in front of us to the side of us and behind us, and I said, these are either bad guys

0:47.3

or the FBI. Well, it turns out they were the FBI.

0:53.5

There you have it.

0:54.7

He's talking about what he went through and gives you a little bit of a clue into how law enforcement works.

1:00.8

They know where he is.

1:01.7

They choose a place where they think they can make the best possible contact, and they take what they need to that they've had lawfully approved.

1:09.5

He's a conspiracy theorist.

1:10.8

He's had a front row seat in the Trump White House.

1:14.0

He says the feds there, as you heard, took the phone.

1:16.1

This comes after they seized the phones of other Trump aides,

1:19.1

including one who admitted to the fraudulent elector plot right here on this broadcast.

1:24.3

Seven Trump allies have had their phones now seized.

1:27.2

This, my pillow,ow CEO is kind of an

1:29.7

interesting addition because it is mostly political leaders or lawyers who have what you might

1:36.6

call a more formal role in working for Donald Trump. John Eastman released this video of the FBI,

1:43.0

seizing his phone. That was earlier in the summer.

1:45.6

Now, the feds have used search warrants each time for each incident that we know of,

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