The Special Counsel. This is the first signal that Delay Tactics will not stand in her honors courtroom. Plus, Congressman Colin is on the ballot in texas. Hes vying for senator ted cruzs seat. How he plans to impact his democratic rivals. I am symone sanderstownsend and i have something to say. By this time tomorrow, Donald Trumps attorneys will be up against a five pm deadline. The judge in this case could be setting the tone for what is ahead. This election interference trial. The first major decision of the case, judge Tanya Chutkan denied the trump legal teams request for an extension of the deadline to respond to the governments proposal for a protective order. Appointed by former president barack obama in 2014, judge chutkan has handed down at least 38 sentences stemming from the january 6th insurrection. 19 of those sentences were harsher than penalties requested by the Justice Department. The Protective Order Proposal Shelby considering would limit the Trial Information that d
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
chase freedom unlimited with no annual fee. how do you cashback? chase. make more of what s yours. election we ve been talking about it. the highest profile contest in 2024 it s not the only one will have a critical impact on the everyday lives of americans. 34 senate seats and maybe even control of the chamber will be decided next fall along with every seat in the house of representatives. not to mention voters in 11 states will also be choosing their governors. so here on simone we are unpacking some of these key things with our series on the ballot and today we re focusing on the lone star state it s been three decades since the democrat represented texas and my next guest is looking to change that given that he be running against a component who won his last election by only two and half points, he may have a shot joining me now is
power, for the way you can have just a few votes and use that to stop the action in congress or stage a high profile contest or withhold votes that someone needs to be speaker and get a lot of things done that otherwise leadership would not want to do because they re politically unpalatable, whether it s extreme cuts to spending or putting bills on the floor that people like nancy grace in her swing district may not be particularly fond of. they have been able to use the sort of tools of the swamp against it and they re done that intentionally and by studying the rules and procedure, and i think we can say they have been successful, although as we have been talking about, we don t know exactly how. yeah. so gene go ahead, gene, if you were going to say i was just going to say, the difference there between the squad and the maga caucus is that nancy pelosi, who s an extremely effective leader, was able to bring the squad along on
white that sits there for a long time in the middle of the senate. let s take a look at new york. this has become a really closely watched race because of the crime issue in new york. the incumbent, kathy hochul has a lead against lee zeldin. there was a time not long ago where nobody thought this was close. he s given her a run for her money. we ll see how this all goes. that s where it stands at this point. in arizona, another high profile contest. too early to call the race between katie hobbs and republican kari lake. let s go to michigan. gretchen whitmire has a slight lead. that race is too close to call. in wisconsin, tony evers and tim michels, too early to call there. another tight race. texas, our decision desk believes that republican governor greg abbott has a lead but too early to call. in kansas, derek schmidt and