Newark mayor on arrest: 'What they've done is egregious and it's authoritarian'

Newark, N.J., Mayor Ras Baraka (D) on Tuesday called his arrest last month “egregious” and “authoritarian,” as he made the case that interim U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Alina Habba acted politically in bringing the misdemeanor charge. In an interview on MSNBC’s “The Beat with Ari Melber,” Baraka backed up his claim that the arrest...