thank you so much for letting us into your homes during these extraordinary times. we are grateful. the beat with ari melber starts right now. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber and this is the final friday until the elections. we head into the weekend campaigning, four days out from election day and the campaigns are bringing out some of the big guns. i said it was up to the citizens of pennsylvania, and of course, but i will tell you all this. if i lived in pennsylvania, i would already have cast my vote for john fetterman for many reasons. there it is. that s oprah pushing democrats in the key battleground state of pennsylvania. we can report that tomorrow, there will be rallies there with biden, trump, and obama. so if you think about it, if there s one thing both parties do seem to agree on right now on this final friday heading into the midterms weekend, it is that pennsylvania is clearly important. important because it s close and it could decide control of
democracy, and you claim you love america, you should love democracy as much as you claim to love america. yeah, and not bury your head in the sand when your being attacked by your own political party. i ll schmidt, it has been a pleasure, i appreciate your time and you coming forward to sharing your experience with the committee. it strengthens our democracy and lets us know what you went through. we appreciate it. thank you, ayman. a quick programming alert. tonight, you can catch an encore of foresees in its documentary film that delves into rudy giuliani s election lies and his infamous election lies at the four seasons. that is at ten eastern, right after the second hour of ayman that starts right now. coming up coming up , we ll break down the federal state actions of democratic congressman adriano espaillat. plus, making sense of our inflation and what is being done to right the ship. ginni thomas s plan to overturn the election was far bigger than we realized. w
stand? less than a week after the bipartisan framework was publicly announced, it now seems that the two sides, as i expected, still have a lot of work to do. this week, texas senator john cornyn who was booed at the texas gop convention for his role in those negotiations, walked out a meeting with democratic negotiators, saying, it s fish or cut bait through talking. at issue are too central provisions of framework. one, red flag laws and how congress should ascent the vice states to docket them. a so-called boyfriend loophole. what method should be used that would be barred from purchasing fire arms. at this point, it is unclear whether the sticking points could pose a fatal threat to negotiations, but blue states are not waiting to find out. this month, near governor kathy hochul signed a slew of bills into law designed to curb gun violence, including raising the age to purchase semiautomatic rifles. new jersey and california or are considering their own safety packages. n
By an explosion last night at a hospital in gaza city. The Health Ministry says a71 people were killed. Israel and hamas are blaming each other for the blast, which has inflamed tensions and sparked protests across the region. Israel says the blast was caused by a rocket misfired by the Palestinian Militant Group islamichhad. A senior us official says its high confidence that israel did not do it. But hamas, palestinian authorities and other countries blame israel for the explosion. The bbc is trying verify the claims from both sides. After talks with benjamin netanyahu, President Biden warned israel not be consumed by rage and to learn from mistakes the us made after 9 11. Israels Prime Minister called biden a true friend and commended his Deeply Moving decision to visit israel during a time of active war. He also said he would not block Aid Deliveries from egypt to gaza where food, water and fuel are running out after nine days of total siege. Well have the very latest on a day of di