the beat with ari melber starts right now. hi, nicolle. thank you so much. our top story is about this push that we need in america, the push for accountability as we face political lies and violence. so let me start here tonight. do you remember where you were when joe biden beat donald trump? do you remember how that entire race came down to that official call on the weekend? there was rejoicing. there was spontaneous crowds gathered in the nation. people making their own signs, walking around. it was kind of a big moment. it was unlike as a reaction, any recent president losing an election. do you remember the road to that call? because the election actually took several days to be formally resolved, but the key to that resolution i m about to show you, when the writing was on the wall, was when trump lost a state that he almost certainly needed for any hope of victory. it was arizona. among insiders, people on the campaign, people who follow this closely, steve kornac
among insiders, people on the campaign, people who follow this closely, steve kornacki, people counting every state, everybody knew, you lose arizona and you re donald trump, you re the loser of the race. and it was actually an arm of fox news, not tucker carlson, not the hosts being sued for defamation, which i ll get to, but something they have over there called their election decision desk, which when it came to the fateful arizona decision, well, they made that call. the fox news decision desk is calling arizona for joe biden. that is a big get for the biden campaign. big indeed. that call decimated the reality based wing of the trump campaign, because those numbers showed it was over, and now for the first time we re actually learning about back room deals at the highest levels of that losing president s campaign and fox news who you just heard make that call. and we re only learning about