Part of its freedom and progress conference in washington, d. C. [applause] good morning, everyone. I am the president of the foundation and i wanto welcome you to the 2023 editn of the conferce. I thought we would lead with a speech. It is a speech we have all heard, especially in clips. So many amazing elements of that speech resonate with us today. It will become clear why i waed for us to watch that address. There is lot to think about that relates to what we are trying to accomplish over the next two days. Why do we call this the freedom and progress conference . We call it freedom and progress inspired by a speech Frederick Douglass gave in 1870. He was asked by a bunch of newly freed slaves, what should we do . Should we only vote for republicans . Should we feel free to vote for democrats when we want to . Frederick douglass said, look, you should vote your conscience but because that is what we fought for. We fought for people to be able to vote for whichever party they want t
department is considering four separate charges against the president s son, two sn misdemeanors for failing to file taxes, one count of lying on a gun application. we re also reporting that the fbi and irs have been finished with their investigation for more than a year and there s growing frustration within the fbi, for example, as to why nothing is moving on this case, and now there s a whistleblower who has come forward, raising questions as to whether there s been political interference at levels of the biden administration ken dilanian, thank you for that i want to go to capitol hill where kevin mccarthy is scrambling to get skeptical republicans behind his plan to raise the debt limit garrett haake is on capitol hill at this point, how confident or not is mccarthy that he can get to 218 mccarthy and his team have been projecting confidence all week they just rolled out this debt limit plan the other day they re hoping to get it on the floor early next week. that wi
thank you so much for once again letting us into your homes during these extraordinary times. we are grateful. the beat with ari melber starts rite now. thanks so much. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber, and we are tracking several stories for you tonight, including potentially remarks from president biden. but we begin right now with a mystery. consider that nobody really publicly has said they know exactly what secret deals were cut to make kevin mccarthy speaker. mccarthy isn t making it public even though there s been dribs and drabs in reports. house republicans actually say they are in the dark about what s been reported as a shod doe document, that there s a secret three-page addendum that includes mccarthy s most controversial conseeings to those so-called rebels. now controversial is one of those words that could mean different things to different people in politics, but that s reporting a lot of people in d.c. or people around mccarthy think it s controversi
Pretty mild weather right now high clouds streaming into the in terms of low cloud cover and farm it remains along the coast Kurt Fairfield 51 nappa. 53 for San Francisco. Temperatures first upper 50s for daly city. Mother nature put a blanket of the bay area thats where temperatures are called this morning. With a start to burn off and the afternoon revealing the 80s and lends it temperatures a little warmer than where we should be for this time of year. Some expected and said the bay below 6 is for the coast tomorrow carbon copy of state see today. We do have subtle changes to talk about early next week in fact we could see some rain thats very unusual for this time of year. Details on that clustered seven there and bay coming up and 15 to develop news in fairfield fire crews continue to me and by on the brush fire that grew to five alarms last night destroyed or damaged several homes and buildings fire was out flexible local sporting an hour ago the Fire Department came back out and
Marie harf and joining us today on the couch fox News Politics editor of Halftime Report Chris Stirewalt here. He is outnumbered and you never know what you are going to get when stirewalt sits on the couch. Should be a good hour. Enthusiastic gratitude. Start with that thank you for having me. Harris on fire. Sandra we look forward to the hour. Lets get it started. Unilateral move diane spine stein released the tringted of her committees interview with Glenn Simpson the cofounder of fusion gps. The firm that was behind the antitrump dossier. Republican Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley saying while they will continue to Work Together is he disappointed and that the release could hurt their investigation Going Forward. Guys, its did create some problems. For instance, when you are getting people to voluntarily come to you. It make a lot of people a lot more reserve about whether they want to cooperate. And i think particularly in regard to Jared Kushner, that it could maybe effect movi