the beat with ari melber starts right now hi, ari. hi, noik coalle there s a lot happening, but that interview was certainly news making. also an exclusive many people would want so since i have you for a second, what came through to you on more than one topic talking to this fox producer turned whistle-blower it s so amazing you want to jump off the thor and process everything you heard. then we had another hour to do, soy haven t processed it i think what i m most impacted by, other than any human being going through this process of being part of and i said to her, look work cover the damage that i feel fox has done to our democracy by broadcasting lies to its millions of viewers you helped produce them. how does that work and she talked about wanting to advance her career but realizing now what she was a part of but the thing that strikes me is once again we are talk about an alleged toxic culture, a culture of misogyny. she alleged anti-semitism at fox news and th
elected. a speaker has not been elected. yes, the circus is still in town and the group of 20 serial insurrectionists opposing kevin mccarthy, they are right about one thing, this man has no business being speaker of the house. if he can t navigate his way around the basic vote to get the job he s not remotely capable of leading especially a radical caucus filled with this iteration of republicans. and we do begin tonight with the never ending republican fight over the next hour the never ending republican fight for speaker. over the next hour kevin mccarthy should be wise to learn this one lesson because he s going to be facing this hell over the next hour. any tolerance of insurrection breeds more. in the next hour as i mention the house will return to try to get done what they could not do earlier on this ground-hog day of voting. but beyond showing in realtime kevin s inability to do the job this dumpster fire is making it clear the republicans keeping republicans par
the majority of senators didn t go that farm that s just one thing. then there s step two, which you can hear yourself tonight. we have evidence we re going to play it for and, decide what you think of it this newly exposed tape, senator cruz proclaims that the coup plotters would jump from denying the certification, which i showed you they tried to do, and step two which they didn t reach, but here it is on tape they would seize power, he says, and overthrow the whole election he literally explains it that way. they would hijack the certification and use their made-up fake commission to declare that the biden win was fraudulent and that would decide who was inaugurated. now, it is rare to hear the end game of the january 6th plotters confess so plainly indeed, we heard one trump official, peter navarro talk about an aspect of this, the
the house will return to try to get done what they could not do earlier on this ground-hog day of voting. but beyond showing in realtime kevin s inability to do the job this dumpster fire is making it clear the republicans keeping republicans paralyzed are just digging in. on his second day of humiliation, while those 20 backed a new candidate, one of their own, former congressman byron donalds who previously supported mccarthy. in nominating donalds, a black republican, for the third time today on the sixth vote for speaker, house freedom caucus chair scott perry, one of the january 6th plotters who tried to subvert the department of justice to overthrow the last election precisely because republicans do not trust the results when black voters get their way, added something about frederick douglas because of course he did. and he justified paralyzing the house because washington is