the beat with ari melber starts right now. it is friday. i appreciate you sharing that story and i wish you a great weekend. thank you. and it is friday and one of the fridays with a lot of news. there is even more fallout from the scandal engulfing fox news and rupert murdoch. my colleague chris hayes is here with us his fellow author, one place and one show and stick with us, you ll hear from them by the end of the hour. we begin with the political heat emanating from the cpac gathering in the beltway and it upd scores a dilemma for republicans in realtime. after the midterms where they recoiled from the big lie and the trumpy obsession with the party, and this gathering is televising the out right domination, sometime even self-parity of once fringe figurers in charge. candidates who may run against trump decided to cut and run from even trying to make a cpac appearance leaving to to leaders doubling down on things that turned off many voters in november. the far
ex-president it is explosive reporting from the washington post. there s this saying when it comes to donald trump and his slogan, remember the one on the hats, make america great again, that what maga said make attorneys get attorneys. the late breaking news from the washington post proves this case that now donald trump s attorneys appear to be in special counsel jack smith s cross hairs including some of the most notorious ones. federal prosecutors investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 election have asked witnesses extension sieve questions about the actions of rudy giuliani, including where he got his information about alleged fraud, what he did in the days around january 6th and what he knew about the actions coming that day. people who have appeared in front of the grand jury say. investigators looking into classified documents pertaining to mar-a-lago have sought testimony from another trump lawyer, ben cork ran saying there is evidence that the former president u
the viet cong accepted the loss of factories. they accepted enormous destruction in the country. we think they are winning. now, if we think they re winning, you can imagine what they think. nif they win it, why would they want to talk? lbj s worse fears about vietnam come to fruition in june of 1965 when general wes morland requested 150,000 ground troops. and he spends the next six weeks agonizing on what will become the most pivotal decision of his administration. you have lbj, who cares deeply. the problem was he campaigned in being the peace candidate, the one who wouldn t send american boys 9,000 to 10,000 miles away to fight a war that south