hard to erase female athletes. and later, more shocking video d from the breakdown of lawca s and order in america s major cities. it s happening everywhere, every place, every day. take a looplace,k. s mr. now, as mr. rogers usedegular to say, just a regular day in ht the neighborhood. not really. this has to end now.o en bau re not going to believe how bad these far left has nows become. it is getting worse every day.o and we ll have more in a moment. but first, for many, today t days represents one of the worst days of the year. it is the official deadline today because the 15th weekendoi to file your taxes this year, you, the american people, youe e have already forked over more money to the federal government than ever before in history. even if resnow, even if you ren a deep blue city, in a deep vas t mablue state, the vast majorit of your tax dollars being sent to the washington sewer and swamp, the average american household is now forking overo almost thirty seven
this committee for one term. my voice will get louder and stronger and my leadership will be celebrated around the world as it has been. [ applause ] so take your vote or not. i am here to stay. and i am here to be a voice against harms around the world and advocate for a better world. i yield back. the gentleman from mississippi is recognized. good day. i m andra mitchell in washington. this breaking news, you wafrp e it on the house floor. a heated debate is under way to remove congresswoman omar from the foreign affairs committee over her frequent criticism of israel. she later apologized for some of her comments but stood by others. omar is a refugee and one of the first muslim americans to serve in congress. speaker mccarthy claims he has the votes to oust her after two republicans who were opposed flipped their positions in the last 24 hours. this comes after democrats voted to remove republicans marjorie taylor greene and paul gosar last year for promoting violence
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
katy tur. here we are again, another fed meeting and another expected rate hike. we re going to get to the number in just a second. it is expected to be a quarter of a point. we re going to see how the markets react to that because they have been on a relative upswing and we re wondering does that trend continue? we are also watching as you well know, memphis. the funeral for 29-year-old tyre nichols is today. and supposed to begin right about now. weather has been delaying it, so we ll go there as soon as it does start. but again, there is breaking news from the fed. just confirmed, they are raising it, interest rates, by a quarter point. joining me now is nbc news business and data reporter, brian cheung. a quarter point, what can you tell us? the nation s central bank, the steward of the u.s. economy raised interest rates by .25 percentage points in their meeting today, after some encouraging news we had gotten in previous weeks that inflation was coming down. was at 6.5
now. mind bending. they are. they are. see you soon. welcome, everyone, to the beat. i m ari melber. the top story is the earthquake rocking the fox news empire. a lawsuit putting pressure on fox for the first time, puper murdoch who s wielded power and enjoyed it, and he s said so for about seven decades. do you like the feeling of power you have? yes. murdoch deploys fox news and his tabloids with that power that he admits he enjoys, to shape and sometimes all but run america s republican party and impact conservative discourse in this country. now he s under legal pressure because fox aired falsehoods and lies about the 2020 election. and allegedly pushed the specific lies they knew were false at the time which paved the way and built the support for many of the people who then showed up at the election. the company hit with this billion dollar lawsuit. weaver covered that before on this program, from a voting company that alleged defamation. this is the top