during these extraordinary times. we are grateful. the beat with ari melber starts right now hi, ari. thanks, nicolle welcome to the beat. i m ari melber we are tracking several stories, including maya wylie we begin with the escalating heat on defendant donald trump the nation watched as he came to new york for the first criminal arraignment of his life, a legal requirement, not a choice. trump had to sit in court for this unusually long i rainment which included a rare rebuke by the judge for threats he had been making. those threats part of a second civil case also filed this week by the d.a. dealing with the clash of some house republicans. here s the news right now. today donald trump is back in new york again and again under court order. these are not trips that he chose. they have been forced on him by the law and how often he is on allegedly, under the allegations, the wrong side of the law. if you re trying to keep track or it seems like this stuff is happening
mr. president, for as long as it takes. president biden s bold and historic visit to kyiv. coming at the end of the first year of putin s war of aggression. also tonight, fox s own lawyers argue that viewers should not believe what tucker carlson says. now, kevin mccarthy has given tucker exclusive access to 41,000 hours of january 6th security footage. so that tucker can feed his audience more january 6th disinformation. plus, the final days of a good and decent human being. as jimmy carter, the 39th president of the united states, begins hospice care. we begin the reidout tonight with presidents day, a federal holiday that technically only celebrates the birthday of america s first president, george washington. which is why it s written with an apostrophe s. america s 46th president, joe biden, spent the wee morning hours of this president s day pulling off an unprecedented visit to ukraine, something the white house spent months planning. biden s visit to kyiv wa
at long last, kevin mccarthy is the new republican speaker of the house. but to say it didn t come easy, would be a massive understatement. mccarthy scratch out a victory in the early morning hours with just barely more than the absolute minimum support he needed. it took him 15 rounds of voting to get to the finish line. including a scuffle on the house floor on the anniversary of the january six insurrection. the contrast between the two parties has never been clearer. while republicans created new chaos at the capitol, president biden honored the men and women who protected the building and his its occupants from an angry mob just two years ago. and, while gop lawmakers bigger with one another, democratic representatives rallied around their leader, akeem jeffries. while the white house has confirmed that president biden reached out to congratulate mccarthy earlier today, the 118th congress is off to an unforgettable start. we are talking about what comes next, tonight, on
good evening. with two weeks to go until the 2020 midterms, the control of office in statewide offices around the country is changing day by day. there is no better example than the contest for pennsylvania s open senate seat between lieutenant governor john fetterman, and dr. mehmet oz, his first and only debate just got underway in harrisburg. if you hours ago, the independent challenger efforts turned pulled out of the race through his support behind lieutenant governor fetterman, quoting from his tweet, announcing the decision that i am pulling around 3%, which places democracy at risk. it s not clear what pennsylvania voters will make of that notion, but it certainly one thing that you have to consider, along with what they see from the two main candidates tonight, in a race that could decide the control of the senate and perhaps congress for the next two years. what is true as well as the voters nationwide have more factors to weigh than in most midterms. not just the
good evening, once again, i m stephanie ruhle. the breaking news tonight, new video of trump ally roger stone that is likely to be on display during the january 6th committee s hearing on wednesday. the washington post reports that the panel plans to show video of stone from a danish made documentary. and one specific clip, stone speaks out about violence before the 2020 election. excellent bleep the violence, believe the voting, let s get right to the violence. shoot to kill. cnn teva, shoot to kill. the washington post reports, that stone went on to say that he was getting, and renounces violence completely. the 16 committee only obtained that video after the filmmakers complied with the subpoena, some responded to the video in a statement saying in part, this i challenged the authenticity and accuracy these videos and believe they have been manipulated and selectively edited. wednesdays hearing will be the committees first in over two months and it could be the final