Gulf coast ports shut down. That was going to be disastrous. President biden helped get that thing fixed fast. They have agreed, tentatively, to a 62% increase in wages over the next six years. The first offer that the union turned down, to show you how far apart this was, was 40%. That is where this began, so the pressure that the union put on related work and of course the port companies, they were hoping that president biden would feel the pressure of this and just order a tafthartley return to work by that union to get through the election and you can imagine how the company s thought the president will have to do this because this will be so difficult for the harris campaign, but the president kept the administration pushing both sides to an agreement. At 5:30 you can imagine how this was at the white house. The white house chief of staff is on zoom. Pete buttigieg and others in the administration, with both sides forcing them to get together and so both sides understood that it l
today we learned it was basal cell carcinoma. it was all removed at the time of the biopsy and no further treatment is required but the president does face new woes tonight from fossil fuel defenders. an internal memo accidently posted by the interior department shows the biden administration moved forward with increasing royalty fees on fossil fuel drilling off the alaskan coast despite its own assessment that lower fees would increase energy security for the state. the senate energy committee chairman joe manchin saying he is appalled and the leaked memo makes quote crystal clear this administration is putting radical climate agenda ahead of the needs of the people of alaska and the united states. the president today focusing on ukraine security meeting with german chancellor olaf schultz. we have been together throughout this. the picture is less clear. schultz at the white house friday with zero fanfare and no blirl news conference causing questions how aligned the
policy both at state, city, federal i simply ask you to do something. because doing nothing, which is what we ve been doing, is not working. we have to do something because this is just getting out of hand across our city and across this great nation of ours the louisville doctor who treated victims of monday s mass shooting is among the growing voices calling for action on gun violence we ll have the latest on the survivors and the investigation straight ahead plus the manhattan district attorney is now suing one of donald trump s top allies in the house. it s the latest escalation in the political fight over the former president s indictment. and we ll have a break down of what to expect today during president joe biden s visit to northern ireland all right, good morning, and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, april 12th i am sam stein in for jonathan lemire the manhattan district attorney leading the prosecution of donald trump is suing a top house republi
the washington wrote of peace will always promoted unproven and questionable products on the television show and that marks legitimate those questions dog just before he got into politics but nbc used an unbelievably cheap shot the columnist said the doctor is an investigator for columbia university lab with over 300 dogs, 31 pigs and 661 rabbits and rodents. not only has every doctor in scientist and animal research and testing new medicines it s required by law, the columnist by a professor who had the group devoted to reducing animal products nbc never should ve let him smear oz as a part of a puppy killer, yoga journalistic question why are most of the negative stories and candidates from one political party i am howard kurtz, this is mediabuzz . . howard: how the networks are handling the leak report that federal agents have enough evidence to bring criminal charges against hunter biden, the unnamed woman was accusing herschel walker with pain for her abortion or than
thank you so much for letting us into your homes during these extraordinary times. we are grateful. the beat with ari melber starts right now. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber and this is the final friday until the elections. we head into the weekend campaigning, four days out from election day and the campaigns are bringing out some of the big guns. i said it was up to the citizens of pennsylvania, and of course, but i will tell you all this. if i lived in pennsylvania, i would already have cast my vote for john fetterman for many reasons. there it is. that s oprah pushing democrats in the key battleground state of pennsylvania. we can report that tomorrow, there will be rallies there with biden, trump, and obama. so if you think about it, if there s one thing both parties do seem to agree on right now on this final friday heading into the midterms weekend, it is that pennsylvania is clearly important. important because it s close and it could decide control of