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
job, and we re going to have to stop funding a department of homeland security that refuses to secure the border of the united states. and we re going to do that this year. okay. so let s review these two moves. conservatives say they want the irs to be weaker so they try to defund it. and they say they want homeland security to be stronger on the border, so they try to defund it. got that? no matter the agency or the purpose, defunding is the answer. no matter what an agency does or what they have to say, if they re against it, if no policy proposition will be heard, like the border experts who say if you want tougher enforcement and more agents, you obviously need more funding, not less to do that, well, again, that s why we re in prime groucho territory. i don t know what they have to say, it makes no difference anyway whatever it is i m against