starts right now hi, ari. hi, nicole. so nice to see you welcome to the beat everyone i m ari melber we are running and gunning i have a lot for you tonight i have the secret tapes of ted cruz about how he tried to steal the election and we have ted cruz s response. he responded directly to that beat report from last night and we have something else a a new excerpt from the cruz tapes and tucker carlson s firings and new details and new implications that go well beyond media. we begin in washington, and we have jen psaki with me on set in person so she s going to be the person explaining everything that i m about to update you on and it appears speaker mccarthy is buckling to the right flank on the republican budget bill, mccarthy had put concessions to the so-called right-liners whatever you want to call them including congressman gaetz. he said he would not be, quote, re-opening the bill. will you re-open the bill no. are you guys not listening to my answers? did
get lost, goof ball. ice cream? you said ice cream? girl like ice cream. come on, that s not going to work. i want to make sure i m not analogizing myself to scarface. you had to talk to people and pick-up lines like that didn t work. some guys keep trying and using them and hitting on girls no matter how many times they get blown off. and joe biden he is one of those guys. in fact, you could say joe biden is a testament to persistence. he has been flirting with america for 50 years. trying to romance us into making him president. and he was denied time and time again. until finally in 2020, america got into bed with biden. the average voter didn t know much about biden even though he had been in washington for 50 years. during a presidential campaign he largely hid away from the public. hid away from the basement. while the media and the big tech essentially ran the campaign for biden. then biden blew it. and now everybody wants out. but now biden is trying to bu
this one is asked to appear in trump s defense as the grand jury makes a decision on whether to hand up an indictment. trump set off shockwaves by posting a prediction he would be indicted tomorrow and calling for protests against the new york d.a., law enforcement officials meeting today to prepare, just in case. also ahead, china s president arriving in moscow for his first visit since russia invaded ukraine, a three-day visit where vladimir putin hopes to strengthen ties and hopefully obtain aid for his failing ukraine invasion. we ll talk to ukraine s ambassador to the u.s. and nbc news s richard engel will join us live from baghdad with a view of how the country has changed on the 20th anniversary of the u.s. war in iraq. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. thanks for being with us. at the center of this investigation, alleged false filings about rush money payments by former trump legal adviser, michael cohen, to former adult film star stormy daniels
i m ari melber in for nicolle and i ll anchor for the next three hours right now with a lot of news breaking out of new york as the d.a. alvin bragg moves forward with two witnesses who faced this grand jury today, robert costello a legal adviser to that key witness we all know about, michael cohen. he s testified today at the request of trump s legal team. under new york law a person who is expected to be indicted which in this case may or may not be donald trump but in an abundance of fairness, that individual can request a witness appear for them before this grand jury finishes its work. so that s part of what we re following on this big breaking news day. today cohen also on hand, this weekend he said he would be back today to address what costello says making him the rebuttal witness and this, today, is his third appearance before the grand jury. so, that alone makes all of this a major day and probe that is quite near deciding whether or not to indict donald trump. so,
we re also going to have expert analysis on just how historic this indictment really is. the political fallout that s unfolding how it could potentially benefit trump. i ll tell you what s happening right now. moments ago here in new york city, alvin bragg, the manhattan district attorney, arrived at his office just hours after former president donald trump was indicted. we ve learned this morning that trump had been asked by braggs office to turn himself in today to face those criminal charges here in new york, but his defense lawyers say that trump and the secret service needed more time to coordinate his surrender. after yesterday s historic indictment, sources tell cnn the former president is facing more than 30 counts. they re related to business fraud. and he is expected to turn himself in. on tuesday. the manhattan district attorney s case is centered around those hush money payments. surrounding stormy daniels caitlin s reporting that number of members of trump s camp