another week of shows. we re so grateful. the beat with ari melber starts right now. hi, nicolle. welcome to the booet. joe biden just sat down for an msnbc exclusive. they just if he in the tapes. what you re seeing just happened. and you will only hear this exclusive on msnbc tonight, including starting this hour when stephanie joins us live with the first excerpt. there is no bigger inview in american government or politics. and we and stephanie have you covered with that coming up. i also have more on the expanding scandals, swirling around clarence thomas and his controversial activist wife. new evidence about her secret payments provided from a republican kecked insider. so we re going to get into that and what has become basically a pile of questions for not only clarence thomas but his colleagues on the court. what are they going to do about it. we ll get into that later tonight. it is one of those very newsy fridays. from the supreme court all the way over to the
pile of questions for not only clarence thomas but his colleagues on the court. what are they going to do about it. we ll get into that later tonight. it is one of those very newsy fridays. from the supreme court all the way over to the white house as you could see. but right now the top story is what you see here. this is brand-new. this is the video donald trump did not want anyone to see. it is the former president forced under oath to answer questions about an alleged asaul in his civil defamation and rape trial. what you see right here, for the first time tonight, is this brand-new footage from that case. and unlike say donald trump s arraignment, and what will be the process at his upcoming schedule criminal trial, where there were a few photographs that showed him right before the arraignment began, but there are no video cameras allowed in that proceeding in new york criminal court. but here, tonight, you could see that the cameras were rolling. which is exactly the scenario