the beat with ari melber starts right now. it is friday. i appreciate you sharing that story and i wish you a great weekend. thank you. and it is friday and one of the fridays with a lot of news. there is even more fallout from the scandal engulfing fox news and rupert murdoch. my colleague chris hayes is here with us his fellow author, one place and one show and stick with us, you ll hear from them by the end of the hour. we begin with the political heat emanating from the cpac gathering in the beltway and it upd scores a dilemma for republicans in realtime. after the midterms where they recoiled from the big lie and the trumpy obsession with the party, and this gathering is televising the out right domination, sometime even self-parity of once fringe figurers in charge. candidates who may run against trump decided to cut and run from even trying to make a cpac appearance leaving to to leaders doubling down on things that turned off many voters in november. the far
off, which is the opposite of the whole spirit of democracy in this body politic, that you could lop off part of the education. and for people who are so snowflaked, so triggered by other ideas they re afraid to have them discussed. whether that is in public or in the school and that is ant thet cal to all of this. thank you, bill crystal, and specially with you sprinkled in a dash of foreign reporting and we welcome that as well. have a good weekend, you guys. coming up, florida republicans actually have a putin style plan to protect desantis. we ll explain into and gary stein gart and chris hayes together on the beat. and we ll talk to joyce vance when we re back in 60 seconds. o when we re back in 60 seconds. e. marriage. kids. college. kids moving back in after college.
hebrew or russian? i want to say shall om. it means something. tell the people. peace and hello in russian. i want to say [ speaking non-english ] i can t translate it in on television. it is a big slogan. interesting. it is a big slogan that is used in ukraine and other countries to tell putin where he should and a great one. and what the longest you ve ever worked on a novel? a longest? i would say four years on my first book. the russian debutante. the last one, our country friends i wrote in six months because i was up state and there was no alcohol and to i just there you go. if was during the pandemic. i love you two together. gary steingart and chris hayes. when we come back, we have another story that get news how political pressure could work on some corporations. see you in a minute.
during the day helpful but hannity and ingram dupping on him might save the day. this is the talk of a party chair. this raises other campaign finance questions about whether fox s coverage phoned in by murdoch should be treated as some kind of in kind contribution. this is propaganda. and we will stay on these parts of the case, which mattered just as much as some of the other stuff that might actually lead to who wins or loses. now, activists say that there are corporations teaming up with republicans to attack basic fundamental rights. we have that story later tonight. we have the new bill in florida i told you about that is putin s style desantis politics. but we have something very special. gary steingart and author and host chris hayes, you see them, they re here next.
blogger law that forced those russian bloggers to, wait for it, register with the government. well we have people who have skilled and thoughtful about these exact issues. my very special guest russian born acclaimed novelist gary steingart with books and his new novel our countriy friends is out in paper back. he was here discussing that. thank you. an interesting covid story. but more than that. and as mentioned, our other author, chris hayes, twilight of the elites an colony in a nation and hosted a weekly podcast why is this happening and our colleague right here every night at 8:00 p.m. this may be my first fallback friday. i think it is. and look at who you pulled. i m so honor to fall back with you. i m going so start with chris although i want your putin views. what should we think when we see