starts right now hi, ari. hi, nicole. so nice to see you welcome to the beat everyone i m ari melber we are running and gunning i have a lot for you tonight i have the secret tapes of ted cruz about how he tried to steal the election and we have ted cruz s response. he responded directly to that beat report from last night and we have something else a a new excerpt from the cruz tapes and tucker carlson s firings and new details and new implications that go well beyond media. we begin in washington, and we have jen psaki with me on set in person so she s going to be the person explaining everything that i m about to update you on and it appears speaker mccarthy is buckling to the right flank on the republican budget bill, mccarthy had put concessions to the so-called right-liners whatever you want to call them including congressman gaetz. he said he would not be, quote, re-opening the bill. will you re-open the bill no. are you guys not listening to my answers? did
the epa chief in ohio again today as officials battle over where to send the waste from that toxic train derailment. why the epa s plan to transport contaminated water to texas is back on after local leaders objected. the new drone strike deep inside russia, and our rare look inside crimea. will it become the new flash point in the conflict? the white house giving a deadline to remove tiktok from all government devices. could the popular app be banned altogether in the u.s.? and the american skier who just made history on the world stage. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening and welcome, everyone, in a pair of cases that will impact tens of millions of student loan borrowers, the supreme court heard arguments today on whether the biden administration had the authority to forgive some of those loans. the president s loan debt relief plan calls for erasing up to $20,000 in student loans for certain borrowers at an estimated cost of $400
i m lindsey reiser, we ve got a jam-packed hour ahead. right now, 50 million americans are waking up to winter alerts, including heavy snow, ice, even some tornadoes. a fast moving storm system tearing across the great lakes into new england, dumping heavy snow and complicating the morning commute for many. new york city is seeing its first steady snowfall of the year. take a look at this, the normally bustling bridge in the daylight hours eerily empty covered in a soft bed of snow. illinois dealing with its own severe weather. two tornadoes touching down, setting off terrifying sirens. we re tracking all of it for you this morning. plus, growing frustration in east palestine ahead of the epa administrate s third trip to the town since that toxic train derailment. federal officials knocking on more than 500 doors in town checking on residents, some of whom have been diagnosed with health conditions like bronchitis. others are fearful of getting sick in the future. i m sca
richard nixon himself disgraced, beach, forced from office in the end, got a pass by comparison to donald trump. reporters hate trump with an all-consuming mania. they hate him so intensely that at times it s been amusing to watch . i m sorry, what talker? who hates trump? hypocrisy given that we learned that he hates trump passionately but to this day he is still doing trump s bidding. global protests on this international women s day at a time when women s rights are being taken away and lots of countries including, here in the u.s. we began with the outpouring of praise donald trump has been bestowing on tucker carlson for his revisionist history of the january 6th interaction . calling it a great job by tucker calling for the members of the january 6th committee to be tried for fraud and treason. i know what you all must be thinking, joy, why are you starting your show with this tomfoolery and you are right. yesterday we learned what the guy trump is praising has
tonight on the reidout companies call dominion voting. several days ago, dominion came under heavy fire after allegations their machines caused thousands of votes in one michigan county were switched from donald trump to joe biden. we talked about the dominion software. there were voting irregiarities. that s to put it mildly. that s what they were saying on the air. when the cameras were off, those same fox hosts were calling election fraud claims bs, because on fox, it is all a performance. they knew trump lost but continued to lie to their audience to keep their maga viewers happy. also tonight, the real giuliani. although some called him america s mayor, there were disturbing signs long before he became trump s lawyer that he was willing to do or say anything to get rich and grab another moment in the spotlight. plus, senator john fetterman s battle with clinical depression and how things have changed since another senator caused a firestorm with his own rev