the beat with ari melber starts right now. hi, nicolle. thank you so much. our top story is about this push that we need in america, the push for accountability as we face political lies and violence. so let me start here tonight. do you remember where you were when joe biden beat donald trump? do you remember how that entire race came down to that official call on the weekend? there was rejoicing. there was spontaneous crowds gathered in the nation. people making their own signs, walking around. it was kind of a big moment. it was unlike as a reaction, any recent president losing an election. do you remember the road to that call? because the election actually took several days to be formally resolved, but the key to that resolution i m about to show you, when the writing was on the wall, was when trump lost a state that he almost certainly needed for any hope of victory. it was arizona. among insiders, people on the campaign, people who follow this closely, steve kornac
deals with that caucus after the small but effective group of republicans showed impact. yanked away mid tirade against congressman gaetz. now, that process was used to take new powers away from leadership and em power mccarthy foes. in a new piece reporting that whatever everyone think of gaetz his critics across the spectrum acknowledge he must be dealt with after the speaker clash, and mccarthy allies don t like it, saying it s not the outcome they preferred but gaetz s stature has been elevated. true on house rules and visibility as well. mccarthy setbacks in this early period, they often played as gaetz s gains. there are a handful of far right holdouts and they warn they will not support him. the more conservative freedom caucus members pledged not to vote for kevin mccarthy. kevin mccarthy celebrating a victory that almost didn t happen. this looks like a bit of a heated conversation. this is incredible. this is an incredible moment. mccarthy is directly enga
around all our to help us deal with the breaking news. ari melber picks up our breaking news coverage right now on the beat. hi, nicolle, thanks so much. i m ari melber, and we continue to follow this breaking news. we have a brand new filing in the dominion fox lawsuit. it has bombshell allegations. our producers are pouring through it. our experts are standing by. rupert murdoch under oath says something that may sound obvious, and yet you have to remember it s exact opposite of what fox, some of its hosts and many of its guests were presenting at the time on the road to what became a violent insurrection. murdoch exposed for admitting the election was not stolen. he knew. that when it came to the factors of why they did what they did, company alleges, to the tune of $1.6 billion, murdoch says, quote, no one wants trump as an enemy. we re pouring through this. this is one of our breaking news nights. i want to bring in our experts right now, renato murray and chai koman
welcome to the beat. ari melber. we begin tonight with breaking news. murder charges have been issued for all five memphis police officers former officers for the beating death of tyre nichols. those officers are in custody. the people you see on your screen, now in civilian clothing, booked and incarcerated what would be a murder trial. they are charged with killing this individual through a knowing state of mind, and all five we ll explain the legalities of this accused of contributing directly to the death. this is justin smith, em met martin, desmond mills jr., demetrius and tadarius bean. this is a case that has royaled memphis. it s also a case that chose how law enforcement responses to law enforcement killings are changing. he died three days after being pulled over for what was something that shouldn t have been a violent interaction at all, alleged reckless driving. the d.a. revealing more about what was a confrontation where nichols apparently fled on foot
i think what joy reid did frankly is the issue that happens to black conservatives all the time. where somehow we re less black than black democrats. first of all, i ll tell you and i ll tell joy reid and anyone else who wants to hear it, i grew up in brooklyn, new york, in the inner city, in a single parent household. i am a black man. i m also a republican. the republican congressman you just heard, byron donalds of florida, who got a bunch of votes for speaker, joins me in studio tonight. meanwhile, kevin mccarthy and his far right overlords are off and running with an extreme agenda. and normalizing people like marjorie taylor greene and paul gosar. while punishing lawmakers like adam schiff, ilhan omar, and eric swalwell, who joins me in just a moment. plus, my pal and colleague, chris hayes, is going to help me make a big announcement tonight. you do not want to miss it. we begin with the extreme republican agenda taking shape in the u.s. house of representatives.