The beat with Ari Melber starts right now. Happy monday. Happy monday and thank you, i appreciate it. I welcome everyone to The Beat and we begin the program covering the developments in the terrible, Near Miss Type Incident at Donald Trumps Golf Course on sunday. The secret Service Opening Fire after seeing a gun that was pointed inside the course, inside the area where the former president was. More details on exactly that exchange of gunfire and what happened and i can tell you with the most recent information, federal authorities are treating this as a second Assassination Attempt. The first occurred at the Pennsylvania Rally with shots fired, agents killing the shooter, and a Rally Attendee being fatally shot. Here, authorities have apprehended the suspected gunman, alive. 58yearold Ryan Routh charged with two federal counts of gun possession. The authorities are stressing how the investigation for determining the motive, thats an ongoing investigation and they also praised the re
Donald trump agreeing to that or sticking to that, not to mention that promise will be a problem for current candidates who have already said they would never support trump if he gets the nomination. And then there are other republicans about to jump in, including chris christie, trumps number to bike and north dakota governor doug joining me now on the road, nbc news correspondent Vaughn Hillyard in des moines. , this is the first time we have seen a lot of these gop hopefuls on the same stage, why are these events crucial for these candidates . Hey, right. This really was the Summer Campaign kickoff here. But you just laid out why it is extra important. It is because the debate is just two and a half months away. And in order to spread the message for so many of these candidates to a broader part of the electorate, being on the debate stage is going to be key. You just laid out, they are not 45,000 unique donors. Some of these candidates, they are going to have to work to get to that
All this is a Democratic National committee is facing pressure to open up the primaries and hold debates and we are on top of all of it. Im sandra smith infer neil cavuto, we have Fox Team Coverage in washington and three more republicans ready for launch. Of Jacqui Heinrich in the white house where pressure is mounting on the president to begin debate. The field of republican candidates is growing fast today, former Vice President mike pence made it official hes good to be challenging his old running mate former President Trump for the revoke a nomination, he will officially unveil the campaign on wednesday he files paperwork today and will be delivering remarks in iowa, the former vp is expected to campaign heavily on his faith, his record and policies he fought for during the trump administration. Im very confident that whatever things look like right now, that republican primary voters are going to look at the field and think very deeply about who can best carry our message and car
said we will appeal vigorously. he said they will be going to the supreme court and he believes the government is likely to win its case there but he was asked what would you do if that fails, and if rwanda is allowed to go ahead it could only take a small proportion of those who have arrived already, and he said at that point, well, the policy is open ended, suggesting it could send many more thanjust open ended, suggesting it could send many more than just a few hundred people to rwanda. then there was a very, the most difficult exchange for him, with chris bryant, who was questioning him about various things, various votes and debates that the prime minister had not turned up for, so he asked him about the fact he s not turning up for prime minister s questions this week and next week, and this week he has and next week, and this week he has an engagement with the 75th anniversary of the nhs and next week he will be at a nato summit. chris bryant asking him about this. he