spending part of your monday with us. we are grateful for that. the beat with ari melber starts right now. hi, friend. i, ali. thank you so much. welcome to the beat , everyone. and i m ari melber. i m just gonna start like this. if you go back to 2015, which is a different time in american politics, there was major interest in finding some sort of alternative to the burgeoning trump maga onslaught. one conservative wrote a whole book about what he cast at the time as potentially informed conservative alternative to what he called the reprehensible donald trump. a book which advances his own profile so much that you saw an opening to run for office. and then, as you see in the images on your screen, this individual lived out the very trumpism, that reprehensible dogma, that he spent all his time documenting and fighting against which is what he wrote about. but he figured out that after doing all of that and doing the book, that trump could help him win what he, want a s
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. well, look at that. the supreme court is right where it did not want to be, smack dab in the middle maybe of the 2024 election with the first votes in just a few days, tonight on laura coates live. okay. so if we re being honest, we knew this day was coming, right? i mean even if the supreme court did not want this day to come, they re probably still recovering a little bit from bush v. gore, and this seems to be the worst kind of deja vu. maybe that s why after several hours behind closed doors talking today, drum roll, please, the supreme court said yes to the dress. they will decide whether donald trump, the former president of the united states, one who is trying to become the president yet again, can even actually be on a ballot after his role on january 6th. well, which ballot? well, this one concerns colorado, but the supreme court knows that the floodgates, they re about to open. it s already been and i can t believe it either three years as of tomorrow sinc
3, 2, 1. [cheers and applause] baby, i can t wait to get this thing started rachel: happy new year, everybody, it s 6:00 and it s 2024. there you go. rachel: still partying with all those people out there. joey: did you even sleep last night? were you up all tight? griff: happy new year. i have a confession to make. i don t like new year s resolution. rachel: you aren t like will and do like 20. joey: will does enough for all of us. griff: percentage break down of what i accomplished. i admire will s list. i have one this year and it may be the secret to life. joey: oh, no. griff: that is go bed early. that you will past week joey and i were on the couch. forced me to go to bed at 8:00 every night. i deal like a million bucks. my wife says you look great. i go to bed at 8:00. i feel like i m joining the senior club my new year s resolution is go to bed early. rachel: senior club. it s just the morning show, people. [laughter] griff: i didn t even