thank you so much for letting us into your homes during these truly extraordinary times. we are grateful the beat with ari melber starts right now. welcome to the beat. we begin with what many are saying is the revelation of something we knew but continue to see in more depth, a kind of staggering weakness of speaker mccarthy. as you see him giving out rewards to the very people who broke with him and tortured him before finally relenting this that historically chaotic beginning to the new congress. there s also some santos news so first the full picture today of what mccarthy has given away to the rebels who according to many republicans and this is again mccarthy s allies, they say those folks were politically extorting him. the lesson that mccarthy may be teaching which is why it matters in the news tonight and in the future is that his weakness can be exploited on any number of issues so this caucus which held the speaker bid hostage is getting assignments this he m
capitalism is not known for its overwhelming wokeness or its super pro-labor standards. i mentioned that briefly so i m curious what you think as well the disney thing could have been a one-off or brief and wants to run on it and played the sound there. he is saying out loud that the government should help pressure and then decide what are in private companies cartoons. it s anti-first amendment and anti-the old version of conservatism. well, it is and they should be standing up to him, you know, and they should fire the lobbyists who gave him money to be honest but they won t. you know, the other thing that he did today or yesterday, i m losing track is, again, very statist, very anti-old school republicanism is ban vaccine, mask mandates vaccine mandates in private businesses. as well as in cities or counties or public buildings, it doesn t matter, public or private,