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Formatted Video Transcript (by ChatGPT): Hey guys, this is your girl Melanie, and I have breaking news in the YSL case. We know that Ashley Merchant, one of Trump's co-defendants' attorneys, had to go in and try to remedy the situation where this corrupt judge had that ex parte meeting. Brian Steele, the attorney for YSL, made his objections and was actually held in contempt of court and sentenced to jail—specifically, 20 days of jail time each week throughout the entire summer up until August. He even requested to do jail time with Young Thug. Ashley Merchant and about 60...

Ashleigh Merchant—the attorney who led the effort to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from the election interference case against former President Donald Trump and his allies—is wading into another major RICO case prosecuted by Willis' office. Merchant made an unexpected appearance at the Fulton County Courthouse on Monday afternoon to defend another Atlanta-based attorney who, in a shocking twist, was arrested while in court.

Channel 2′s Michael Seiden was in the courtroom when Brian Steel was taken into custody after he refused requests to answer how he heard about a “secret” meeting between prosecutors, the judge and a key witness in the YSL trial, Kenneth Copeland, on Monday morning. Judge Ural Glanville gave Steel until 5 p.m. to disclose the source of information about the meeting, arguing that Steel wasn’t supposed to have any communication with a state witness sworn to testify. Despite facing a contempt charge, Steel refused to reveal his source, citing client-attorney privilege. Video showed Steel take off his jacket before...

FIRST ON FOX: Hunter Biden and his longtime business partner Eric Schwerin were actively working behind the scenes in 2016 to solicit donations for a top former Biden adviser's congressional campaign while also working on Chinese business deals with the adviser's business partner, according to emails reviewed and authenticated by Fox News Digital. Francis "Fran" Person, who served in the Obama administration as an adviser to then-Vice President Biden and a special assistant to President Obama between 2009 and 2014, left the White House in late July 2014 for an advisory role at the University of South Carolina, his alma...

The CNBC executive who oversaw the disastrous Republican presidential debate is a former Clinton White House staffer, Breitbart News has learned. Brian Steel, senior vice president of communications at CNBC, was the second highest-ranking network official at Wednesday night’s debate in Colorado after only CNBC CEO Mark Hoffman. Steel was described by an insider as the “executive on hand” for the debate, which was marked by the moderators’ partisan attacks and gotcha questions for the Republican candidates. Brian Steel worked in Bill Clinton’s White House as a domestic policy adviser to Vice President Al Gore. His White House gig was...