numbers soaring and think the race is over. how about the year 2000. fighting for the nomination texas governor george w. bush. out of nowhere maverick senator john mccain. people were surprised when the bush coronation turned into a cage match. if you don t take care of social security, my friend, that s all hat and no cattle. that s cute. they are always cutest when they are true. it s not true. brian: bush would get the nomination and face al gore. it was not a tough battle. bradley would not win a primary. so much for the so-called experts. who could forget 2004. howard dean led john edwards, richard gephardt and john kerry in the polls. people would love howard dean but he finished almost as fast as he rose with the dean scream in california. we are going back to washington, d.c. to take back the white house. brian: former new york mayor rudy giuliani was leading in those polls. governor mike huckabee stole into prominence from behind. remember tv start fred thom
numbers soaring and think the race is over. how about the year 2000. fighting for the nomination texas governor george w. bush. out of nowhere maverick senator john mccain. people were surprised when the bush coronation turned into a cage match. if you don t take care of social security, my friend, that s all hat and no cattle. that s cute. they are always cutest when they are true. it s not true. brian: bush would get the nomination and face al gore. it was not a tough battle. bradley would not win a primary. so much for the so-called experts. who could forget 2004. howard dean led john edwards, richard gephardt and john kerry in the polls. people would love howard dean but he finished almost as fast as he rose with the dean scream in california. we are going back to washington, d.c. to take back the white house. brian: former new york mayor rudy giuliani was leading in those polls. governor mike huckabee stole into prominence from behind. remember tv start fred thom
welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. we have new tapes. in a beat exclusive we have new audio tapes of congressman george santos, arraigned today for that indictment. they are the santos tapes and they re coming up shortly. later i want to tell you we also have my special report on clarence thomas problem with law and precedent. we ll get to that breakdown and these tapes. our top story right now is the santos indictment itself. this is the most controversial new lawmaker in congress, now indicted for breaking laws. prosecutors say his lies became crimes, to put it simply, and today, for his part, the congressman vowing to fight the case while echoing a maga witch-hunt defense. now, i m going to have to go and fight to defend myself. the reality is is it s a witch-hunt. i m going to fight my battle. i m going to deliver. i m going to fight the witch-hunt. i m going take care of clearing my name. i will prove myself innocent. he pled not guilty and is now out on bon
asking for help. mother from venezuela telling the new york post she s waiting for food, clothes, and a place to work. chief economic advisor says core inflation is likely on the rise. inflation will come down with a slow down in the economy or a major recession. dodger is in trouble. recovered underneath, and the giants come from behind, and knock off the packers! that was a great win, but this is not great. we start with the fox news alert, explosions rocking kyiv as russia carries out a new assault on ukraine overnight. many people are dead. was in the last hour, the u.s. embassy issuing a dire warning urging american still in the country to shelter in place. ainsley: alexandria hoff is monitoring the situation and joins us. what s the latest? residence in multiple cities have been one to take shelter. we have trey yingst on the ground reporting that, at this hour, there s currently a total blackout in kharkiv and he reports sessions are aiming at civilian
11th hour gets underway on this friday night. good evening once again. i am stephanie ruhle. here we go, after yet another week of growing pressure, the former president is taking his attacks on the fbi to an even more alarming, and potentially, dangerous level. donald trump and his allies have been escalating their rhetoric against law enforcement, ever since the search of his florida home, which was almost two weeks ago. america s law enforcement officials are now on high alert, and they ve been asking to tamp down the heat of rhetoric. but tonight, here we are again. on trump s social media site, i want you to hear how he referred to the fbi and doj. quote, atrocities being perpetuated by the fbi and doj having to do with the raid and breaking of my home, mar-a-lago. he goes on to write, they have no shame. they are destroying our country! of course, there was no break in. the fbi s search, not raid, was carried out legally, with a signed warrant by a federal judge