thank you so much for once again letting us into your homes during these extraordinary times. we are grateful. the beat with ari melber starts rite now. thanks so much. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber, and we are tracking several stories for you tonight, including potentially remarks from president biden. but we begin right now with a mystery. consider that nobody really publicly has said they know exactly what secret deals were cut to make kevin mccarthy speaker. mccarthy isn t making it public even though there s been dribs and drabs in reports. house republicans actually say they are in the dark about what s been reported as a shod doe document, that there s a secret three-page addendum that includes mccarthy s most controversial conseeings to those so-called rebels. now controversial is one of those words that could mean different things to different people in politics, but that s reporting a lot of people in d.c. or people around mccarthy
member of el chapo, the drug lord, which is a big story down there. you have the ongoing issues around the border. tough you have the republicans now in charge of the house. they re upset about the border. some republicans say it s grounding to impeach biden. it s not a serious constitutional claim, but it s in the water politically. there s also talk of trying to defund dhs over their on genetics of the way it s handling the border. could also be theater if the senate s not going along. certainly a lot on the table for the first visit by an american president since 2014. what do you think is hanging over the white house now? there are a lot of issues. one of the things they re talking about is something lopez obrado was talk about in his remarks, which is a manufacturing and supply chain and this idea that the united
but he s got a lot of work to do, just with his own caucus, to say nothing of trying to get the house to actually do anything, which is going to be very difficult. yeah. well, that brings us to what s in the rules, molly. i also want to tell viewers, i mentioned at the top of the hour when nicolle and i did our toss we re got this summit there, and what we re waiting for so to see if any news happens, if president biden takes questions there, and we ll jump into that when we ve got something new. we ve got that in the corner of the screen. we ll get to that when it happens. punch bowl talks about this and say basically there s three seat on the rules committee, freezing spending, the debt ceiling strategy, the coveted committee assignments and more. and i guess my question there, which is sort of hypothetically or in the abstract is, if it s just horse trading over more conservatives on committees, why keep that so secret?
speaker, needs, and number one you have to count votes and two, trust leaders. there s no doubt about kevin mccarthy s ability to get either one of those thing, and there s a creeping suspicion among members of the conference that in the chaotic final hour of friday night, saturday morning, he was promising different things to different people, and they may or may not have been in writing. so there s not a lot of trust among the republican conference, and it s going to be difficult for him to lead going forward if people don t even know what s going to be agreed to, and we re going to continue to see this play out as people to whom the promises were made try to cash them in. gene, there s clearly a tension between the transparent rules that were circulated and passes in the house, there s a government process for that, which included a push for more transparency three days to text the bills, for example and then the contrast between that push for transparency and
made about documents found in an office he was using. they date back to when he was vice president. what s still at stake and what is at question the president clearly didn t answer is the timeline. we believe the documents were found on november 2nd. the midterm elections were november 8th. why were they not disclosed and then the special counsel for the trump classified documents was appointed on november 18th still no word about the biden documents and people are wondering why. well, i think in the not so long ago days, the department of justice, the fbi, as we get closer and closer to an election, tend not to make things public and we saw that not enforced during the 2016 election. look, we have a long way to go before we figure out what