Welcome to The Beat, im ari melber. But we begin with Breaking News in politics. Former republican Vice President and Defense Secretary Dick cheney is backing Kamala Harris. That marks one of her most high Ranking Republican endorsements in this campaign probably the most iconic. Dick cheney is an Arch Conservative Hawk and a gop icon, a fixture running republican administrations as chief of Staff And War policy as Defense Sect and Vice President and during 9 11 and the wars in afghanistan and iraq. Those were stints that made him a Fire Brand Folk hero on the right and loathed by most prominent washington democrats. And indeed this news right now tonight would have been unheard ever 10 or 15 years ago and cheney is far from a never trumper. He endorsed Donald Trump in 2018. This also completes the Cheney Family unusual evolution and it did not come during the actual four years of trumps presidency, his governing priorities and his mistakes, it came over whether were a democracy or a C
trump s new message. i did everything right and they indicted me. president front-runner at the center of his came. but is it what voters want to hear? plus biden hits the road. are you with me? the president holds his first big campaign rally with the focus on the economy. two word he did not say donald trump. and a taunt from gavin newsom. and a dare from ron desantis. are you going to throw your hat in the ring and challenge joe? a new war of words between two of america s most prominent governors. welcome to inside politics sunday, i m manu raju, abby phillip has the day off. my dad and all of the dads out there, thanks for spending your father s day with us. we re still 7 months for the first votes being cast for the 2024 republican primary. five candidates gracing the sunday shows today to make their case to voters. but like it or not, there is one question every republican contender must answer. should voters look past a federal indictment of
president trump today, that is not justice. now some of trump s former cabinet officials say the charges are serious. including former defense sect mark esper this morning here on cnn. he said trump cannot be trusted with the nation s secrets. based on his actions, if proven true, no, it is just irresponsible action that places our service members at risk, it places our nation s security at risk. so let s discuss all of this and more with toluse olorunnipa, and leigh ann caldwell from the post and alayna treene and amy walter. thanks for spending your father s day morning with us. let s talk about how these candidates are trying to deal with the trump indictment or not deal with it or try to ignore it. amy, what do you think is the strategy for how these candidates should deal with it? should they take it head on and step aside from it.
president. he has a book to sell, obviously, he sfrm taking a different tone while he was serving as defense sect. history is about to be made at the white house, with the new press secretary. the first black woman, and the first lgbtq person, currently, the deputy press secretary. i can t wait to see her shine, bringing her own brilliance and grace to the podium. keeping an eye on the stock market right now. market right now. it is down 270 points or so.
also from republican lawmakers. now the background on in just for those folks at home is that essentially the pentagon is able to delay or suspend over 100 military projects to get about 3.6 billion for the president s border wall. and the only reason the defense sect, mark eppser can legally ask for that is because you remember the president declared the national emergency earlier this year along the southern board are border after he lost the fight with congress to get funding for the wall. now what makes this interesting about delaying or suspending the military probabilities, as you heard, kamala harris saying, some to do with schools for military families and children is a lot of them could affect some of the republican senators who are in danger of keeping those election keeping the senate seats to be red, including arizona, north carolina, and colorado. another state going to be affected by in is the senate majority leaders, mitch mcconnell s in kentucky and he put pout a stat