thank you for spending part of your tuesday with us. the beat with ari melber starts right now. ali, always like to see you? how you doing? saw you in person last week even better. our thanks to alley velshi, our colleague here. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. great to be back with you. tonight we re tracking new report on what former vice president pence told jack smith about trump s coup plot, and later how right of had wing nationalists are winning in south america to parts of europe, where some find that surprising. this new election sending shock wave about so-called maga populism and trump s abroad. everyone later a fun item of interest to what the i ll have this for and explain why we think it s a good thing by the end of the hour. all that coming up. our top story are the signs of kremtle progress in the middle east conference. today marking a sixth day of cease-fire or pause. hamas released two more hostages, including two thai hostages, all part
The days biggest political and news stories, with interviews and reporting from around the nation. Why would the American People believe what youre saying about the fbi when the president says that the investigation on the Special Counsel is a hoax, and the Press Secretary yesterday said there was a lot of corruption within the fbi, do you have any respondent to those statements coming from the white house . Well, i can assure the American People that the men and women of the fbi, starting from the director all the way on down are going to follow our oaths and do our jobs. That wasnt an answer to the question asked. The fbi director sidestepping the question about trumps attacks on the mueller probe, attacks that have been escalating as the pressure appears to escalate. The Manafort Trial is under way. Reports indicating a trump mueller interview is looking more likely. Well get to all of that tonight. Start with the warning from trumps very own intelligence officials, a warning that l
particular focus on something when a hurricane is coming? baton rouge is far from the coast, and it s rare we get hurricane-force winds here, so this is a little bit on the high end, i would say, for a hurricane for baton rouge. so the wind element, it seems to be the biggest thing so far, and as a hurricane, that s everywhere, it s all over the place. as far as flooding, the amy river basin which is to the east mr. mitchell, i m sorry to have to interrupt you. i apologize for interrupting you, and we are having a problem with our connection with alley velshi all night long, and we re getting to him now. can you hear us, ali velshi? we have all a lot of
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i m alley velshi in for lawrence o donnell. the president is condemning the horrific terrorist attack in new zealand, where a white supremacist killed 49 people in an attack targeting muslims. the killings are sparking a worldwide discussion about islamophobia, but they have also brought attention to the words of our president. political scientist brian class writes in the washington post that, quote, trump is an islamophobic bigot. brian will join us to talk about his piece later and the hour and we ll have a live report from the southern border from nbc s cal perry who is going to give us the facts about a situation that donald trump often seems to misrepresent. but first, a day after the president s own party revolted and voted to end his national emergency declaration at the southern border, donald trump did something he s never done before. he issued his first ever presidential veto today in order to block that congressional resolution. the president was forced into that pos