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
think it s controversial. the rules not officially voted on. if watch the beat last night, we went through that. rules package is codified but this other stuff is off the books. we were told they were approve in the a closed door session quote, according to a handshake according to the new york times, and some of that apparently was partially revealed, including conseeings to the freedom caucus, to other republicans some their questions about what mccarthy promised matt gaetz and others to get the big job. can you confirm, like, is there an addendum? is thereth an official piece of paper or a word of mouth agreement? there s no addendum. i wouldn t call it ady den dumb. isn t it essential for the american public to understand what deal worse cut to get the speakership? the speaker talked about that today. some of the things involved making sure our committees are represented by a full swath of our membership. what you can hear there is