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    Watch The Beat with Ari Melber Highlights: April 19

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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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  • Trump trial starts: D.A. argues Trump guilty of lies & 2016 crime

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  • Trump trial begins with a bang: See the DA’s damning case to bust Trump for jailable felony

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  • Why could Trump be convicted in NY? Lies and tabloid schemes, says insider

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  • Checkmate for Trump? Tabloid crimes are key to DA’s case to convict Trump for jailable crime

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  • MAGA's loser panic sets in as Trump retreats from dastardly women's rights crackdown

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  • He's going down: Trump's prison fears rise as trial insider previews damning case

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  • ‘Liar’ versus indicted fraudster: Trump goes on trial as former foe speaks out from prison

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  • Shocking prison interview: ‘Trump will be convicted’ in hush money trial, says Michael Avenatti

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Giuliani 'targeted' for indictment after years leading 'hell' jail in NYC

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In this special report, MSNBC’s Ari Melber reports on the harrowing history of Rikers Island, New York City’s notorious jail complex - the second-largest jail facility in the country - and how it captures classism and double standards in American justice from innocent inmates to the contrast with other privileged defendants and some top aides to Donald Trump. The detention center now features overcrowded cells, extreme under-staffing, squalid living conditions, all contributing to a cycle of violence that creates more crime in a facility that’s meant to stop it. The report tracks broader issues in the U.S. criminal justice system that spans across multiple city administrations, both Democratic and Republican.