thank you so much for once again letting us into your homes during these extraordinary times. we are grateful. the beat with ari melber starts rite now. thanks so much. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber, and we are tracking several stories for you tonight, including potentially remarks from president biden. but we begin right now with a mystery. consider that nobody really publicly has said they know exactly what secret deals were cut to make kevin mccarthy speaker. mccarthy isn t making it public even though there s been dribs and drabs in reports. house republicans actually say they are in the dark about what s been reported as a shod doe document, that there s a secret three-page addendum that includes mccarthy s most controversial conseeings to those so-called rebels. now controversial is one of those words that could mean different things to different people in politics, but that s reporting a lot of people in d.c. or people around mccarthy think it s controversi
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believing that getting rid of one president in favor of another may actually help. the military did their best, trying to do something they had never done before. they conducted a major evacuation from the war that we lost while they were being shot at. while the evacuation was over, kissinger said in response to a press question that he had no idea how many americans were left in vietnam. he had no idea how many of vietnamese were left behind. that was the secretary of state official answer, no idea. joe biden was a senator in 1975, watching all of this, and when we evacuated from vietnam he clearly remembers that evacuation. because today he said this. the bottom line is, there is no evacuation from the end of a war that you can run without the kinds and complexities,
the only model we have for an evacuation from a war that we lost. and every day of the evacuation of vietnam was utter chaos at every level. the president of the united states did not believe there was a thing he could do or say to reduce the chaos. secretary of state henry kissinger was enveloped in the chaos himself. the military did their best trying to do something they had never done before. they conducted a major evacuation from a war that we lost while they were being shot at. henry kissinger said in response to a press question, that he had how many americans were left behind, had no idea how many vietnamese were left behind who should have been evacuated. that was the official secretary of state s official answer, no idea. joe biden was a senator in 1975