thank you so much for letting us into your homes during these extraordinary times. we are grateful. happy monday. happy monday and thank you. welcome to the beat. on this monday many are marking today s holiday which honors doctor martin luther king. you can see the replay at the king monument at the national mall. also present biden making it clear that he does not see today i work about commemorating some past history but a test for right now, for all of us about how america faces the rising hate with today s problem and not just yesterday s. also how we deal with what we know is the original sin of racism and racial strife, supersized in some way for this maggot era. we face another inflection point and one that will determine what this country will look like several decades from now. will we choose democracy and community over chaos? love over hate? these are the questions of our time and in the life and legacy of doctor king and remind us to show us the way forward
in georgia, raphael warnock s lead in the polls over herschel walker, it is a narrow lead and stacey abrams is trying to unseat brian kefrpt in the second head-to-head battle for governor. nearly three quarters of a million georgians have already cast their ballots. in pennsylvania, john fetterman is holding a slim lead in a race with trump backed mehmet oz. and tonight in florida, ron desantis holds his only televised debate with charlie chryst. this morning bernie sanders who caucuses with democrats is warning them to focus more on the economy and less on abortion rights. house speaker nancy pelosi pushing back on that. nobody said we re doing abortion rather than economy. but it s about both. and i can tell you, that that issue is very, very provocative and encouraging people to vote. here now cnn s senior data report harry enton. a laser focus on key senate races here. and in some of them, republicans have gained ground. in some of them, most of them they ve gaine
bipartisan issues of support, and so is the principle of not holding the full faith and credit of the united states hostage for ideological aims just because the president is from a different party. and that s your reality check. john, thank you very much for that. and new day continues right now. today, the trump organization goes on trial for tax fraud. i m john berman with brianna keilar. the former president s family business charged in connection with an alleged scheme to compensate executives off the books. one of those executives ex-cfo allen weisselberg, cooperating with the d.a. if the trump organization is convicted it would be required to pay back taxes and fines. donald trump and his children are not accused of wrongdoing in this case. kara scannell is outside the courthouse with the latest. just an hour or so from now, jury selection will begin in the criminal tax fraud trial of the trump organization. the judge will begin the screening of prospective
thank you so much for letting us into your home during these extraordinary times. we are grateful. beth beet with ari melber start rights now. we start with breaking news a legal first for president biden. attorney general merrick garland upending washington today with an announcement, he is appointing a special counsel to hand it will probe of classified do you means found in joe biden s office at home. this is a significant legal development. no matter what happens from here. it s also the kind of twist that would have seemed like a movie plot even just a few months ago when former president trump was clashing with the doj over his handling and alleged mishanding of classified material. would have felt like a twist in the last couple weeks when biden s team was optimistic after the midterms and then the gop s chaotic start to the congress. garland did not preview plans at all. he announced he would deliver remarks today. didn t deliver the topic and then said the words
thank you so much. tonight, we have a report on some of the key evidence that can inform whether there are charges in the trump probe by special counsel smith. that s amidst new reports crossing the wire late today in the new york times about his aggressive approach to all probes, including this one. that s coming up. by the end of the hour, we turn to the director behind a movie obama says he lived. cameron crowe makes his beat debut tonight. show me the money, et cetera. but we begin right now with the top story in america. the new order in washington. this is the first formal week of speaker mccarthy s tenure after his late start. while there was talk about inflation and pocketbook issues, the gop s new house majority is using its power to highlight abortion and its stances against abortion rights, with votes on two separate bills. one appears to be a kind of while it does not apply to over 99% of procedures. the other using the force of federal law to basically take