and some late breaking criticism of donald trump. let s cut taxes on the middle class, and simplify those brackets. donald trump is running for his issues, haley is running on the donors issues, i am running on your issues. ron doesn t defeat biden, trump s head to head with biden. monday matters. your voice matters. i trust you. i think there s two america first candidates in this race, donald trump and myself. donald trump was president for four years, he did not make a dent in the administrative state. i know why you are excited, no more commercials after four days. haley, referring to the multi multi million dollar onslaught of ads that s been greeting islands. she made a joke, desantis has become a joke. don t believe a thing nikki haley says. ron desantis, losing and lying. haley even opposed trump s wall. haley disparages the caucuses and insults iowa. now, the intense wrangling between those two candidates reflects a bet about this republican
fighters will withdraw from a high profile battle in ukraine next week. the major blow to russian president vladimir putin and what it could mean for the war if they do retreat. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments here. i want to begin in ukraine with the latest commenting from the leader of russia s wagner group, threatening to withdraw from bakhmut if he s not supplied with more ammunition. this graphic video with the bodies of russian soldiers, he would draw as soon as next wednesday, significantly after victory day celebrations in russia. this is a guy trying to earn putin s good graces, the latest declaration is shocking. reporter: the words in the declaration are not necessarily so surprising because we have heard him in recent days since last week make this claim that he says russia s ministry of defense is not providing his group with enough ammunition in bakhmut. what is surprising here is the tone that he has in these videos and the
the beat with ari melber starts now. happy friday. happy friday, nicole. hope you enjoy your weekend. it s been quite a week. welcome to the the beat. i m ari melber here on the beet both beet. up top, there are a lot more developments in the unprecedented story that broke last night. if you have been busy, you maybe didn t hear it. the new york times dropping this bombshell news that donald trump is likely to be indicted in new york. tonight trump s lawyers acknowledge a key point in that account. the d.a. has indeed invited donald trump to testify to the grand jury. this isn t hypothetical. this isn t some day. this is next week. an invite to testify next week according to trump lawyers. they are in florida over the weekend discussing strategy, taking this as a real thing. seriously, they tell nbc news they have no plans to meet with the manhattan d.a. mr. bragg. so, let s get some clarity up top. there are many stories we cover we say here is this thing and here ar
thank you so much for letting us into your homes for another week of shows. we re grateful. the beat with ari melber starts right now. hi, ari. hi, nicole. thank you. welcome to the beat. i am ari melber. right now this is a busy friday for news after a week that began with the abrupt firing of tucker carlson and the sedition case against the proud boys for january 6th reaching a jury and then just last night we reported that mike pence went under oath for the first time about the coup to the doj. each of those are distinct developments. each stem from the ongoing if tardy accountability for the insurrection. fox news reeling from a record payout for insurrection and election lies which tucker carlson doubled down on which compounded his problems and the transfer of power we should note that this week the current president formally announced he is running for re-election in a video that discusses and shows what he says are the stakes. usually when the incumbent president an
meeting of his national security team today. why the video feed of that quickly was stopped just after it began. alec murdaugh continues to maintain his innocence after a judge sends him to prison for life. what his defense team just told our craig melvin about an appeal. that brand new interview later this hour. and a renewed push to make daylight savings time permanent with support coming for both democrats and republicans. could we be springing ahead for good. around the globe with the latest developments, first let s start with the critical meeting between president biden and german chancellor olaf scholz. allie raffa is at the white house where we re expecting to see the two leaders any moment. what more can you tell us? reporter: you mentioned that this would be the third visit by chancellor scholz since he took office in 2021, but the first since the war in ukraine began over a year ago. it s also going to be the first time these two have met since we know they both