yeah, you can hear. this is the beat with ari melber, where one week at official voting of 2024, launch of these presidential primaries. candidates already barnstorming iowa this weekend. you re seeing just some of what happened on your screen. and for many reasons, these first few primary states at the pivotal and possibly last test of the republican party deciding whether to bring its trump passed into the future. nikki haley, trying to emerge as the one alternative to trump, arguing voters can get mugshot without trump chaos. by just picking her. i agree with a lot of his policies. he was really good at breaking things. he just wasn t good at fixing them. and now, we look at the fact, rightly or wrongly, chaos follows him. chaos follows him. and that may sound like a pretty team contrast that she s drawing, but trump views haley now as his main possible threat. an establishment hack of sorts. trump s pivot toaley after months of unrelenting attacks against desantis
police are just identified the body of eliza fletcher, a school teacher and mother of two children. she was abducted while jogging early friday and now the man charged with first degree murder just wrapped his first court appearance. gary tuchman is live at the courthouse in memphis with more on this. what s the very latest? kate, ten minutes before this arraignment was scheduled for an accused kidnapper, it ultimately became an arraignment for accused murderer. we were informed by the memphis police that the body that was recovered last night was identified as eliza fletcher. such a sad outcome. this woman who was kidnapped on friday had been missing since then. before her body was found, the arraignment was scheduled in the court for cleotha abston. we saw him coming in. he was wearing a mask, hard to tell what his facial expressions were because of the mask, but he looked impassive, he looked impatient. he had handcuffs behind his back. the only thing he said was yes whe
the latest on the district s new security measures just ahead. plus, bracing for blackouts, a brutal heat wave blankets parts of the nation. people are cranking up their ac units, and it could be more than the power grid can handle. and we obtained surveillance video that shows a georgia election official escorting two trump operatives into an election office the same day the voting system was breached. let s begin in memphis. el eliza fletcher s body has now been recovered. gary, what are officials saying this hour? reporter: well, the accused kidnapper of eliza fletcher is now the accused murder of eliza fletcher. we were told this morning that a body that was recovered yesterday late in the afternoon behind a vacant duplex is indeed the body of the 34-year-old mother of two, wife, and schoolteacher. already before this happened, before the confirmation, a hearing was going to be held in the courtroom 13 here in the shelby county courthouse. an arraignment on the
welsh this is brand new contemporary music. we re going to get into that as well as the politics. also tonight, carole king, the icon is here with us live. we re going to get into her activism, and why she says she has something to talk about on the beat, and we said come on over. it s a lot cooking here on this late august summer vibes. a lot of news, guests and a lot to get to. it ain t summer as far as the president is concerned. president biden going at what we calls the semifascism of certain maga republicans in that party. these are, according to some, the strongest comments yet, as he rebukes maga today just days after making waves in what was a parentally a very clear deliberate effort to address authoritarianism in america. so let me say this to my maga republican friends in congress don t tell me you support law enforcement if you won t condemn what happened on the 6th. for god s sake, whose side are you on? you can t be pro law enforcement and pro insurrect
of the 11th hour, stephanie rule, tom costello with us, white house correspondent carol lee and host of public radio s full disclosure. the news is in, stephanie, three quarters of a point. we thought originally it was going to be 50 basis point but jay powell is in a situation. we are in a serious inflationary environment. normally the fed likes inflation to be around 2% and it s currently approaching 9. so 75 basis points is a big move but it s still tricky because what they don t want to do is move so much so quickly that they push us into recession. but if they don t do something aggressive, prices will likely continue to rise and the economy is suffering for it, especially right around gas prices. this is a big move. it s not unexpected. it s the thing that people have been waiting for. most economists across the board have said this should have happened months ago. markets are going to take this as a positive. robin, it is hard to thread this needle, though. the