letting us into your homes during these truly extraordinary times. we are grateful. the beat with ari melber starts right now. hi, ari. happy friday. happy friday. thanks, nicole. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. i m joining you on this friday, june 28th, a day that marks a major shift in this presidential race. it s something you can basically feel and that many felt in their core. the emotion hitting probably before the logic or any intellectual observations, even as president biden first walked out to the stage. at this debate which his campaign pushed for. earlier than ever. and then delivered a performance that has, for now, up ended this race and done so so swiftly the discriminations had begun long before he and trump walked off that very stage. this is a debate that is certainly memorable but not in a very happy way. it seems to be another in a series of shared american experiences and memories that feel more infamous than famous, more traumatic than cathart