starts right now. martha: thank you both very much. i m martha maccallum and this is the story. former president trump about to hold a rally in virginia, a tight race right now. he s trying to become the first republican presidential candidate to win the state in 20 years. biden won by ten points last time around. we will see what he has to say. we expect in any moment and will take you there. clearly he will reflect on last night s debate, which was very consequential in many ways, not grade ways for joe biden. we will talk about that quite a bit. the president also on the campaign trail in north carolina trying to clean up on aisle 5, and he worked hard at that this afternoon to get a bounce back from a very difficult night last night. here s some of the reaction to last night in the media, after the debate. the biggest issue he had to prove to the american people was he had the energy and stamina, and he did not do that. how long do we continue to act like we did not
when you get knocked down, you get back up! whit: a stark contrast to last night, today president biden trying to reassure voters, acknowledging his age. admitting he doesn t debate as well as he used to. top democrats, including former president obama, rallying behind him. donald trump criticized for repeated false statements, taking a victory lap in virginia, seizing on biden s rocky night. rachel scott with the fallout. also tonight, the supreme court ruling potentially affecting hundreds of people prosecuted after the january 6th attack on the u.s. capitol. what the ruling might mean for the special counsel s case against former president trump as we await the decision on presidential immunity. terry moran at the supreme court. the images coming in. first responders on the scene of a horrific crash outside new york city. the car slamming into a building. the former uvalde school district police chief indicted on child .child endangerment, charges linked to the d
letting us into your homes during these truly extraordinary times. we are grateful. the beat with ari melber starts right now. hi, ari. happy friday. happy friday. thanks, nicole. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. i m joining you on this friday, june 28th, a day that marks a major shift in this presidential race. it s something you can basically feel and that many felt in their core. the emotion hitting probably before the logic or any intellectual observations, even as president biden first walked out to the stage. at this debate which his campaign pushed for. earlier than ever. and then delivered a performance that has, for now, up ended this race and done so so swiftly the discriminations had begun long before he and trump walked off that very stage. this is a debate that is certainly memorable but not in a very happy way. it seems to be another in a series of shared american experiences and memories that feel more infamous than famous, more traumatic than cathart
reply, is that the number is published by hamas are not only inflated they include the number of terrorists combatant death, every one civilian death, and every civilian deaths, by the way, is a tragedy is one civilian deaths, too many but compared to any other modern conflict, including the united states involvement in iraq, afghanistan, and syria, where the ratio was a for civilians to every combatant debt or nine civilians, 30 combatant. that that is a record that s not been matched by any other army in history including the united states military. so we re going to have an issue with the vitamin striation about those numbers but at base, i think the goals of the war remained unchanged, destroying hamas, assuring that over seventh can happen again i think we should point out that the white house has assessed that those numbers historically have been fairly accurate coming from the palestinian ministry of health. nevertheless about us ambassador michael oren, we have to l
we begin this hour with a fox news alert. a blast and smoke rising from gaza all morning long. it s really forces ramp-up activity in the strip, entering the second phase of war. next we have two goals in this war. to destroy hamas in all this infrastructure. do everything that s possible to bring our hostages back home. relearning this morning to her 30 israelis including americans are still being held by hamas idf said they destroyed at least f 4050 terrorist sites including tunnels in gaza over the weekend. a full-scale invasion still looming appears israeli officials are urging innocent civilians in gaza to save themselves. simulate in northern gaza and gaza city should temporarily move south to a safer area where they can receive water, food, and medicine. the response of the latest strikes around president said israel quote across the red light many which may force everyone to take action but burlesque at a senior foreign affairs correspondent greg powell caught