Thank you so much for letting us into your homes during these extraordinary times. We are grateful to be with ari melber. Hi. We are all grateful. So grateful. Dupuis the Grateful Dead . Of course. Berkeley. We all grow up on the Grateful Dead. Im going to be honest. You grew up in berkeley. I dont think i knew that. I went to berkeley. I grew up about seven, i think turn miles away in arrenda. Respect. We have a big dead head here in our beat team. Now other people whats the campaign, the more you know . With the star. Good to see you, nicole. Have a good show. Thank you. Welcome to The Beat. Kamala harris looking to build on the momentum. Two nights ago Donald Trump and i had our first debate. And i believe we owe it to the voters to have another debate. Because this electiOn And what is at stake could not be more important. On Tuesday Night i talked about issues that i know matter to ac bringing down the cost of living. Investing in americas small businesses. Protecting reproductive
Territory in a single trading session. For some, it was even worse than that check out shares of apple down it lost 180 billion in market cap. That is the largest oneday lost for a u. S. Listed company on record if that isnt enough to get your attention. Apple lost more in market cap yesterday than the individual market capitalizations of 470 of the companies in the s p 500 it wasnt just apple microsoft, alphabet, microsoft and even tesla saw their market caps shrink. Microsoft down by 115 billion amazon off by 93 billion. This morning, things look a little better. You still have the dow down 150 points right now, it is reverse that up 300 points the nasdaq saw the biggest declines, up 27 points right now. We have to keep that in context a few things in here as well talking to people all day yesterday, here is the list. Youll want to know exactly what happened it was the nasdaqs largest drop you dont go up 400 and down that will be highspeed trading. That would matter until they do. Va
thank you so much for letting us in your homes during these extraordinary times. the beat with ari melber starts right now. happy monday. happy monday, thanks, nicole. welcome to the beat. i am ari melber. the civil case against donald trump over defamation and battery, nicole was discussing that earlier. we have that later in the hour here on the beat. our top story tonight is a topic that could be the top national story on most nights by many metrics. america s gun epidemic and the ongoing threat and reality of a highly armed nation with easy access to some of the most dangerous guns in the world and a gun-related death toll that exceeds every other country per capita in the world. that can look like this. [gun shots] that was the harrowing scene at a recent little league baseball game in south carolina. you can imagine and feel how all the kids and parents felt and that is the kind of story that may not even make what we call national news, that you may not have
good evening. speaker of the house kevin mccarthy weighed in late this evening on his decision to give tucker carlson first dibs on footage from january 6th, footage that carlson used to portray the attack as something it was not. several senators criticized his decision. documents revealing that carlson s contempt for the former president for his viewers and for the facts. we ll have more on that shortly. first, though, some of what the speaker just said. the one thing i always want to make sure is this capitol is protected and secured. i want to make sure the officers here have everything they need to provide that. my whole role for january 6th is just to bring transparency. people can make their own decision. mccarthy held this press conference today following a congressional budget office report on the debt. what did he say about the january 6th security footage? how much concern are you hearing from members of the house? members of the senate have spoken out but does
good evening, everyone. we begin the reid out with breaking news. the newest filing in the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit from dominion voting systems against fox has just been released. we are still combing through it but the more than 1,000 page filing already provides additional evidence that points to fox s intentional disregard for the truth as it continued to spread donald trump s baseless claims that the 2020 election was stolen. and from the very top we have fox corporation chairman rupert mourdock admitting that fox hosts actually endorsed it skk, quote, was it wrong for fox hosts to endorse these lies? rub per the mourdock replied, quote, if they knew they were lies, yes. if they knew they were lies. and the filing does show that some of those hosts knew they were lies. in one of tucker carlson s private texts an unknown individual asks him, do you think there s real evidence of significant voter fraud? carlson replies, i don t think there s evidence of voter fra