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  • Explosive: National Enquirer insider speaks out after David Pecker admits plot to ‘help’ Trump

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  • Criminal trial begins! Prison fears get real for Trump as full jury sworn in after losing delay bids

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  • Trump's jailable felony? Inside America's first presidential trial to hear clash over NY state law

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  • Watch The Beat with Ari Melber Highlights: April 18

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  • Trump’s prison nightmare gets real as full jury gets seated in criminal trial

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  • NY lies haunt 'narcissist' Trump as jurors gear up for criminal trial

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  • MAGA Panic: New Speaker faces same GOP revolt that put him in power despite Trump nod

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  • Losing already: Trump criminal trial begins with losses on delay and Jan. 6 hearing

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  • Why Trump fears prison: Trial begins, and DA has receipts for jailable felony

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  • Humiliating: ‘Sleepy Don’ caught napping again at his criminal trial

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  • Trump’s trial starts: After failed delay tactics, Trump becomes 1st ex-POTUS to face criminal trial

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  • Rachel Maddow on Trump's criminal trial: He is dragging a ‘litany of criminality’ into elex

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Elie Mystal: SCOTUS can't be dictated by McConnell's 'whims'

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The Nation’s justice correspondent Elie Mystal joins MSNBC’s Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber to discuss the avenues ahead for Democrats to prevent the Senate from voting on Trump’s next SCOTUS nominee. Mystal argues that more justices on the Supreme Court would be beneficial for the country, saying “the more justices on the Supreme Court there are, the less important any one random death is to our polity.”