Us into your homes. Were grateful. The beat with Ari Melber starts right now. Hi, ari. Thanks, nicolle. Welcome to The Beat. Let me tell you what we are tracking and multiple stories including this deadly horrific School Shooting in georgia. In have an update on that during tonights newscast. Theres also very serious revelations about the ongoing scandal surrounding the supreme Court And Clarence thomas and his wife. We have that. And in the middle of the program im going to share with you my report on the Maga Play Book and accountability in the age of trump. Why they want you to be retired, and you might want to resist. So all of that is coming up. I want you to know what were doing on a very serious news day. Well begin with our top story, the general election under way. Donald trump has a light schedule this week. Kamala harris has a busy one. Shes an Offense Campaigning in New Hampshire on abortion rights. You know how hard people fought for these freedoms and that they are founda
And we then started on our respective book journeys and we sometimes we would get the library of congress doing Research Together but a lot of people from the outside still new us as competitors. I will never forget one day when we decided to have lunch together on a a break from the library of congress and our research and we were walking out and a group of older visitors who looked like the classic washington crowd who mightve seems on that said look, theres Linda Greenhouse and it is joan biskupic, and they are togeth. I always think yes here we are one more time together, and its a real privilege and pleasure to start asking you about your book, which lots of people will see but ive got all marked up to talk to you about. Before we start i just thought i would ask you if you wanted to say a few words about what you were trying to do here before we got down into some of the nittygritty. Thank you. We go back a long way. It is not as competitive as people may think. You always had gr
Good morning. It is wednesday, june 27th. Lets try to get a little smarter. A federal judge in california stepping in to the immigration battle ordering a temporary halt to the separation of parents and children at the border. It orders all children to be reunited specifically families with kids under the age of five. Theyve got to get reunited within 14 days. Families with children five years and older, they must be reunited within 30 days. Its so simple. Its called im sorry you cant come in. You have to go into a legal process. The rhetoric we hear from the other side on this, as on many others has become radicalized. These same people live in gated communities, many of them, and if you try to scale the fence, believe me, theyll be even too happy to have you arrested and separated from your children. This 28yearold firsttime candidate stunning the political world. Alexandria ocasiocortez taking down tenterm democratic congressman joe crowley. As democratic leader or even speaker of t
Deemed offlimits. The confirmation hearings for Brett Kavanaugh. And Elizabeth Warren appears to make a president ial run in 2020. Trying to put away President Trumps favorite issue against her, the controversy over whether she is nativeamerican. Thats ahead this hour. But we begin with the russia investigation. Were just days away from a key date. September 7th, 60 days before the midterm elections which trumps legal team long portrayed as a line in the sand where Robert Mueller must come to a conclusion or else. The pending date perhaps behind the president s weekend tweet storm taking aim at the special counsels top attorney Andrew Wiseman among others, tactics one prominent democrat warned could make the president s situation even worse. Theyre getting very close to making a case for obstruction of justice. The steps taken in terms of the president demeaning and attacking the witchunt. But also the fact that Rudy Giuliani himself said that the whole purpose of their effort is to un
Supreme court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, during which period the fbi has a week to investigate these allegations against kavanaugh. This came after the Senate Judiciary committee this morning voted to send kavanaughs nomination to the senate floor for a final vote among all 100 senators. But that came with a condition. Republican senator jeff flake said his vote came with strings attached. And those strings were the oneweek delay and the fbi investigation. Flakes move coming after he was confronted by Sexual Assault survivors minutes after he announced he would vote for kavanaugh this morning. Look at me when im talking to you youre telling me that my assault doesnt matter that what happened to me doesnt matter and that youre going to let people who do these things into power. Thats just an 11second excerpt of a nearly fiveminute passionate confrontation where senator flake looked, frankly, wrecked. Moments ago, President Trump, who said on wednesday night that if it had been up to him,