16 million citizens with 20 million weapons of war. the people in power acknowledging that change isn t in the cards right nowment so do we have to wait for a whole new generation before kids are safe in their classrooms? music lovers at a concert, or shoppers at the grocery store, and if we have to wait, how many more americans will die between now and then? plus, gut wrenching claims in missouri where residents who lost everything in those devastating tornados say they had warning sirens set up, but they never went off. so why not? and former vice president mike pence testing the campaign waters in iowa, but he can t escape questions about his looming legal issues in d.c. what he s saying now about the court order to force his testimony against former president trump and about his plans for 2024. but we start with those weapons of war, the ar-15 an estimated 20 million of them stored and stashed across the country as republican lawmakers refuse to address or even ackn
constant communication with the ukrainians about what their needs are, and those have evolved as the war has evolved and we ll see where this go. the air base, is the u.s. prepared to facilitate the delivery of the meg 29s. we have never dictated to another partner what they can or can t give or on what time line. if one of our allies or partners wants to provide fighter aircraft to president zelenskyy, that s a sovereign decision they have every right to make, and we would welcome that. there s $100 million in the appropriations bill. so john kirby in the white house briefing room. the trip to poland by the president, the latest move to show support for ukraine and to continue to work with our allies to keep that support for ukraine going, but a lot of interest continuing on those four unmanned objects in the sky. a couple of things came out of that. you heard him say there s an increasing focus that we have, and we heard the president outline four things yesterday t
the beat starts with ari melber. has it ever happened to you a tickle in your throat? i was going to say, real quick, do you want a lozenge? i just chewed one. my dentist will be so mad. i don t know if i should share this but i used to do a show on msnbc, and one of my coanchors would get on me about putting the cough drop on the paper in the commercial and then back and forth. i was like, i m going to conserve it. it was here a second ago. i chewed it up to clean up for you. america appreciates your voice, i think, so let s keep it. thanks, ari. have a great show. nice to see you, nicolle. you re welcome. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. notwithstanding our voices and whether we keep them or lose them, i can tell you i m going to use my voice to tell you about two legaling aments surrounding president trump. we can tell you the wall street journal and cnn are reporting that trump s chief of staff mark meadows has been officially subpoenaed by spec
ex-president very clear publicly known efforts and plot to overturn his defeat in the 2020 election. a series of court battles over the last few weeks have largely gone in special counsel jack smith s favor, resulted if a whole slew of new trump officials and allies now being ordered to testify. some big names, none of them bigger than the one, vice president mike pence, news broke on tuesday that a federal judge had ordered him to answer questions under oath regarding conversations that may involve illegality on donald trump s part. here s what mike pence told nbc news about all of that this morning. i ll be in washington, d.c., later the week. i ll be meeting with my counsel that week and we ll determine the best way forward. again, i have nothing to hide. i believe we did our duty under the constitution on january 6th. nothing to hide, but that response begs the question, if that s the case, and frankly the fact that he wrote the book about it, why hasn t he testified
lord, when babies die at a church school, it is time for us to move beyond thoughts and prayers. remind our lawmakers of the words of the british statesman, edmund burke. all that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing. senate chaplain barry black appealing to lawmakers to do something about gun violence. but one of the party has made it clear where they stand. and it is not with american children who just want to grow up. a republican congressman admitting today we re not going to fix it. also tonight, trump s goons wanted to murder him. so why is it taking a court order to force mike pence to testify about his life and death ordeal on january 6th? and gone are the days of a functioning house of representatives. kevin mccarthy has handed the keys to the insurrection caucus which has no agenda except punishing their political opponents and doing the dirty work for donald trump. former speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, widely considering on