Welcome to The Beat. I'm Ari Melbourne. Let me tell you tonight. We have actually a top lawyer on who declined a request to represent Trump as he faces these escalating probes. That should be interesting. We have a report on how top Republican Ron DeSantis just lost a free speech case. And by the end of this hour, the beat will go full, happy days. Henry Winkler, our special guest tonight on Fallback Friday.

Our top story right now is the escalation in the probe in Georgia,

where Rudy Giuliani is targeted for indictment officially,

and the DA has just won a standoff with Trump ally Lindsey Graham.

He had been resisting a lawful subpoena to testify.

A judge is now telling him, just comply. Ordering testimony, which the DA says will be

crucial because of what Graham knows, and he will not be allowed to delay the revelation of

relevant witnesses. Georgia is something of an epicenter of more than one of those

plots we've been covering for you that you see here. On the left, you have some of the plots that

were technically legal, like filing lawsuits or the beginning of the electors scandal, which turned

into something that might be illegal. But Georgia has several of those red arrows, overthrowing votes, trying to install fraudulent

electors.

So the probe is eyeing a whole range of witnesses, and that includes lawyers who might not

be as well known as Giuliani, including Trump campaign lawyer Jenna Ellis, who is actively

lying about Trump's loss even after the votes were in and counted. We asked her,

what was the point of that seemingly public relations effort at the time when she appeared on the

beat in November 2020? Our strategy is to make sure that we continue to challenge all of these

false and fraudulent results.

What is the point of all this?

Well, the point of this, of course, is to get to fair and accurate results because the election

was stolen and President Trump won by the landslide.

That was late November.

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