For several weeks while Congress Worked on long term spending plans. The republicans, who hold a slim majority in the house of representatives, are at a deadlock, with members on the right of the party demanding wide ranging spending cuts. One of that groups main objections has been the white houses request for an additional 24 billion in aid to ukraine. Tonight, mr mccarthy urged the senate to drop that measure from its resolution. I think if we had a clean one without ukraine on it, we could probably be able to move that through. I think if the senate puts ukraine on there and focuses ukraine over america, i think that could cause real problems. Megan scully is Bloomberg Congress editor and shejoined me earlier. What is your initial reaction to this news there from Speaker Mccarthy that if ukraine was removed, a deal might be on the table . ,. ,. ,. , table . This is one of many ideas that table . This is one of many ideas that are table . This is one of many ideas that are percolati
This is the beat. In a moment we have The One And Only James Carville here and hes been making some news lately. But we begin right now with Breaking News. Atlanta d. A. Fani willis has scored her first conviction. A guilty plea in the Georgia Trump Coup rico case. If this sounds new to you, not just Breaking News but a first, it is the first plea deal in that case. That is significant. Were going to get into why. The individual, not that famous. And if youve ever followed any of these kind of cases, you know that you dont always start with the big fish, you work your way up. So this is the whole list of rico defendants. Well leave this on the screen for you. You remember some of them. You remember the mug shots. You see trump and giuliani up high. Some of the lawyers to the right there. Well, down on the bottom you see what this means. The first conviction there of defendant hall, now a convict. This is the first rico conviction. Hes a bail bondsman. He was a trump codefendant. The cr
democracy are they themselves enemies of the state. all part of the same plotting. now, trump saidn this kind of odd exchange with fox s sean hannity, who seemed to be push against the idea he would be a dictator, trump said, well, he d be a dictator only on day one, which breaks his promises and vows to have retribution. liz cheney has been on msnbc and other channels and right here on the beat. she brings a very important perspective to this, because as many people remember, she was in leadership. she had a front-row seat to them she also took a stand pushing for donald trump s impeachment over the insurrection and chairing the jan 6th committee. here s what she told us. donald trump won t deny that he has plans like the one we have been discussing. what donald trump over the last several years has taught us is we have to take him seriously and we have the take him literally. he has shown us what he s willing to do. he has shown us, take him literally, and be ready to
thank you for spending part of your tuesday with us. the beat with ari melber starts right now. ali, always like to see you? how you doing? saw you in person last week even better. our thanks to alley velshi, our colleague here. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. great to be back with you. tonight we re tracking new report on what former vice president pence told jack smith about trump s coup plot, and later how right of had wing nationalists are winning in south america to parts of europe, where some find that surprising. this new election sending shock wave about so-called maga populism and trump s abroad. everyone later a fun item of interest to what the i ll have this for and explain why we think it s a good thing by the end of the hour. all that coming up. our top story are the signs of kremtle progress in the middle east conference. today marking a sixth day of cease-fire or pause. hamas released two more hostages, including two thai hostages, all part
it s upended the case, upended the week, and we have put together a new video crash course of what s been going down, and why it matters. take a look. video recorded statements to prosecutors have leaked. this sort of evidence is basically how prosecutors are going to tear down trump s defense piece by piece. that is a devastating blow for the former president. sharply incriminating information. he said the boss is not going to leave under any circumstances. the only time you want to hear somebody say the boss is not going to leave is after if third encore of a bruce springsteen concert right before the opening notes of thunder road. surprising? no. unhappy? yes. i m not happy you and your colleague got to do the story. all his instincts told him he was defrauded, that the the election was a big fraud. making sure that everyone that is involved in the criminal enterprise is held responsible. there was a big shouting match in which rudy called me every name