Ari Melber is an American journalist and attorney who currently hosts the MSNBC show The Beat with ARI Melber. He is a former Chief Legal Correspondent for NBC News and a former Senior Legal Analyst for MSNBC. Melber has also written for The Nation, The Atlantic, and The New Republic. He graduated from Cornell Law School in 2006 and was a clerk for the Honorable Damon J. Keith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.