thank you so much for letting us into your homes during these truly extraordinary times. we are grateful the beat with ari melber starts right now. welcome to the beat. we begin with what many are saying is the revelation of something we knew but continue to see in more depth, a kind of staggering weakness of speaker mccarthy. as you see him giving out rewards to the very people who broke with him and tortured him before finally relenting this that historically chaotic beginning to the new congress. there s also some santos news so first the full picture today of what mccarthy has given away to the rebels who according to many republicans and this is again mccarthy s allies, they say those folks were politically extorting him. the lesson that mccarthy may be teaching which is why it matters in the news tonight and in the future is that his weakness can be exploited on any number of issues so this caucus which held the speaker bid hostage is getting assignments this he m
it s anti-american when this individual cocks the shotgun and says rino hunting. he s talking about republicans. they re talking very directly about shooting anyone who disagrees with them. yes, democrat, yes, minorities, but also republicans. also police, which they battered and attacked there on the 6th. what do you think is the way out of this to hold them accountable for being literal in their encouragement to violence? you know, my first politics was in 1959. this is my eighth decade in american politics. i never would imagine that i would see something like this. i mean, i went through, you know, the civil rights movement, anti-vietnam war move. anything that you can imagine and to see people that support and encourage this kind of