thank you so much for letting us into your homes for another week of shows. we are so grateful. the beat with ari melber on a friday night starts right now. thanks, nicolle. appreciate it. welcome to the beat. we begin with what some democrats are tout as the best day for domestic news within the biden presidency. not only the best days for the economy in this choppy covid era with all the upheavals but we re going to go through the numbers for you, the single best day for economic numbers in literally 50 years. the unemployment rate has not been this low, in other words, the unemployment rate has not been this high since americans were seeing things like this. hi, this is dick clark and it s time now one small step for man, one giant leap for man kind. as we chart our goals we shall be lifted by our dreams. i like your show, and i like your style shouldn t you brand be true today? kid, the next time i say go someplace like bolivia, let s go someplace l
in office, juanita. just like the tweet you put up earlier from the potus account said we broke records more than any other president, period. and we know that breaking records is something that s going to get under trump s skin. he doesn t like being called out like that and he doesn t like being outdone. but the reality is this administration has outdone him by multitudes, so i appreciate again the jubilation in your tone. you said the president was excited. i m going to go with jubilance looking at a bounce in his step because he was able to point to this. i think again it s something going to carry him through on a high through the state of the union where he absolutely is going to be crowing this through that dias because this is a big marker for him and vindicates again all the work democrats did in the last term with the same margin republicans have right now, which we know republicans are squandering with ridiculous policies, efforts to target women of color, and trying to