starts right now hi, ari. hi, nicole. so nice to see you welcome to the beat everyone i m ari melber we are running and gunning i have a lot for you tonight i have the secret tapes of ted cruz about how he tried to steal the election and we have ted cruz s response. he responded directly to that beat report from last night and we have something else a a new excerpt from the cruz tapes and tucker carlson s firings and new details and new implications that go well beyond media. we begin in washington, and we have jen psaki with me on set in person so she s going to be the person explaining everything that i m about to update you on and it appears speaker mccarthy is buckling to the right flank on the republican budget bill, mccarthy had put concessions to the so-called right-liners whatever you want to call them including congressman gaetz. he said he would not be, quote, re-opening the bill. will you re-open the bill no. are you guys not listening to my answers? did
This friday edition of the washington journal. Were back tomorrow morning at 7 00. Check out our Schedule Information on our website at c span. Org. Have a terrific weekend. President obama yesterday ordered flags at half staff and honor of Nelson Mandela. He was in prison nearly three decades. He willly became be buried in his ancestral village on december 15. Following yesterdays news, president obama delivered a. Tatement at the white house at his trial in 1964, Nelson Mandela closed saying i have fought against white domination and i have fought against white ive cherish the ideal in which people can live in harmony. It is an ideal i hope to live within to achieve. It is an ideal for which i am prepared to drdie. Nelson mandela lived for that it real. He made today he has gone home, and we have lost one of the most influential, courageous, and profoundly good human beings that any of us will share time with on this earth. He no longer belongs to us. He belongs to the ages. Through
how tense things were at that time you can imagine ted cruz walking through those hallowed halls to go to bat for his former nemesis in a political debt, with johnny depp and george v. bush combined hear after trump actually lost and career tying into that he would wage a losing trump fight to the bitter end that he would now be eager, to take an assignment for his former tormenter and it matters with ted cruz s response to our report last night and he felt the need to respond today, but here s some more tape. ted cruz explaining then in the secret fox news tape now revealed that then outgoing president trump called in this supreme court hail mary request idea and that ted cruz would be happy to do it
wound, iowa bank slips away. we defeated mitt romney in my or. president obama rejects the keystone pipeline project. no other way to put it. the president is selling out american jobs for politics. captioned by the national captioning institute www.ncicap.org ok, first, housekeeping. full disclosure for our pbs audiences. we are putting this together friday, we have to get it out to our pbs stations that day but the primary is saturday. so if you are watching this program on sunday and it appears data dated, it is. but we soldier on. the field of candidates for the republican presidential nomination is narrowed to four. jon huntsman, rick perry got the message this week. huntsman endorses and romney, perry endorses gingrich. thursday night the remaining candidates took the stage in charleston. here is a sample. i am steady, i am solid, i am not going to go out and do things you are going to worry about. i am tired of the elite media at protecting barack obama
wound, iowa bank slips away. we defeated mitt romney in my or. president obama rejects the keystone pipeline project. no other way to put it. the president is selling out american jobs for politics. captioned by the national captioning institute www.ncicap.org ok, first, housekeeping. full disclosure for our pbs audiences. we are putting this together friday, we have to get it out to our pbs stations that day but the primary is saturday. so if you are watching this program on sunday and it appears data dated, it is. but we soldier on. the field of candidates for the republican presidential nomination is narrowed to four. jon huntsman, rick perry got the message this week. huntsman endorses and romney, perry endorses gingrich. thursday night the remaining candidates took the stage in charleston. here is a sample. i am steady, i am solid, i am not going to go out and do things you are going to worry about. i am tired of the elite media at protecting barack obama