1. Ari Melber then joined Senator John Kerry's presidential campaign, working the Iowa caucus and as California deputy political director.
15 Facts About Ari Melber
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When Kerry lost, Ari Melber attended Cornell Law School, where he was an editor of the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy and graduated with a JD in 2009.
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Ari Melber interned at New York County Defender Services, a public defender's office.
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Ari Melber was a substitute host for The Rachel Maddow Show and other programs.
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Ari Melber is a legal analyst for NBC News as well as MSNBC's chief legal correspondent, covering the Department of Justice, FBI and the Supreme Court.
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Ari Melber has won an Emmy Award for his Supreme Court coverage.
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In 2017, Ari Melber hosted The Point on Sundays on MSNBC.
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Ari Melber interviewed former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski in February 2019 about whether Trump asked him to interfere in the Mueller probe, and Ari Melber later reported that Lewandowski's response was false.
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Ari Melber broke the story of police repeatedly tasing a Virginia man until he died in police custody, an investigative report that led to an FBI investigation of the officers' conduct.
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The Beat with Ari Melber has featured newsworthy interviews, such as Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who talked to Melber after receiving the first pardon of Trump's administration; Eric Holder, Kamala Harris, Trump attorneys Jay Sekulow, Drew Findling and Joe Tacopina; WH aide Stephen Miller, Dave Chappelle, Robert De Niro, Meek Mill, Erykah Badu, Ken Starr, and a range of witnesses in the Mueller probe, including Steve Bannon, whose Beat interview was his first-ever appearance on MSNBC.
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Ari Melber has drawn attention for his interviewing skills, nominated for an Emmy Award for "Outstanding Live Interview," for interviewing four key witnesses in the Mueller probe at once.
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Columbia Journalism Review stated Ari Melber is "a remarkably effective interviewer", adding "his veins appear to contain ice water; he betrays no emotion at all" during intense exchanges.
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Ari Melber conducted several newsworthy interviews with former Trump aide Peter Navarro, and one of the interviews was cited as evidence by Congress to hold Navarro in contempt, which led to his DOJ indictment and subsequent conviction.
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In 2024, The Ankler's Lachlan Cartwright reported "MSNBC has become the most-watched news network" on YouTube, "thanks to Ari Melber posting there regularly" along with videos by Rachel Maddow.
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Ari Melber has been divorced from Drew Grant, the Managing Editor of Passionfruit, since 2017.