the beat with ari melber starts right now. it is friday. i appreciate you sharing that story and i wish you a great weekend. thank you. and it is friday and one of the fridays with a lot of news. there is even more fallout from the scandal engulfing fox news and rupert murdoch. my colleague chris hayes is here with us his fellow author, one place and one show and stick with us, you ll hear from them by the end of the hour. we begin with the political heat emanating from the cpac gathering in the beltway and it upd scores a dilemma for republicans in realtime. after the midterms where they recoiled from the big lie and the trumpy obsession with the party, and this gathering is televising the out right domination, sometime even self-parity of once fringe figurers in charge. candidates who may run against trump decided to cut and run from even trying to make a cpac appearance leaving to to leaders doubling down on things that turned off many voters in november. the far
politics banner and sort of wall of that. does he run into that wall. before we move on, just quick fact check. if you re standing from front of a sign that said truth, does that mean you are true? yes, i believe so. that is how that works. read the sign. you can t fact check that. so we have the lighters out because this is a news segment and fall back. what is on your fallback. the first group to fallback who have fallen back is the many people which include record labels, intellectual property lawyers other musicians for past 15 to 20 years have prevented the great artists from having their music available and accessible on streaming platforms. they re one of the formative seminole acts of the late 80s and early 90s and because they were such mad geniuses with samples, have an entire catalogue that wasn t clear or