spending part of your monday with us. we are grateful for that. the beat with ari melber starts right now. hi, friend. i, ali. thank you so much. welcome to the beat , everyone. and i m ari melber. i m just gonna start like this. if you go back to 2015, which is a different time in american politics, there was major interest in finding some sort of alternative to the burgeoning trump maga onslaught. one conservative wrote a whole book about what he cast at the time as potentially informed conservative alternative to what he called the reprehensible donald trump. a book which advances his own profile so much that you saw an opening to run for office. and then, as you see in the images on your screen, this individual lived out the very trumpism, that reprehensible dogma, that he spent all his time documenting and fighting against which is what he wrote about. but he figured out that after doing all of that and doing the book, that trump could help him win what he, want a s
on board. one pilot. four tourists. the company leading this tour is ocean gate expeditions. type of sub they used is pictured here. the dive takes customers to see the wreck which sits 12,500 feet beneath the ocean s surface. they re stuck down there somewhere. the company has yet to comment on the report or confirm whether one of their subs is currently missing. the coast guard, though, telling us that the rescue operation is way off the coast of newfoundland, canada 900 miles east of cape cod, massachusetts. let s pause there because oceangate has issued a statement in the last few minutes saying they are able to do whatever they can. they do confirm that this is actually their sub. and they will keep us updated as best they can. we re following them on their social media platforms but also now in contact with them and we ll let you know how this is going. a couple of things have changed about the story. we weren t sure if they were supposed to be down there for days or ho
number of migrants putting a strain on both their governments. what can they get done? we ll have the latest coming up. we re going to start in the middle east where israel says it is battling enemies in gaza, in the west bank. lebanon, syria, iraq, yemen, and iran simultaneously. the heaviest fighting is happening in central gaza right now where israel says refugee camps are now considered a new battle zone. the u.n. says bombings there have killed at least 100 palestinians since christmas, and despite evacuation orders there is, quotes, no safe place for gaza residents to go. jay gray is live in tel aviv. jay, give us the very latest on the intensity of fighting happening now. reporter: yeah, it s very intense right now. in fact, some humanitarian agencies saying this is the most violent and deadly fighting we ve seen since the beginning of the ground invasion into gaza. we know that the idf is working, as you talked about, in these refugee camps, in central gaza just o
hey there, everyone. i m alex witt at nbc world headquarters here in new york city. our top stories this hour, we are awaiting a key meeting that could be critical in helping the crisis on the southern border, as,000 more migrants begin their long journey north. secretary blinken and other officials plan to how old talks with mexico s president. we re look at what s at stake as resources are stretched to the limits. tension in the west bank after a new israeli drone attack kills six palestinians, and increasing threats from settlers put pressure on palestinians, who say they re being pushed out of their homes. back here in the u.s., gun shop owners are noting a new trend. black women buying guns at a rapid pace. what s behinds the spike in sales? we begin this hour with that critical meeting in mexico city. a u.s. delegation led by secretary blinken arrived in mexico just a few minutes ago. they ll meet with the president lopez obrador, as the administration trying to g
sproefd support for athletes speaking out against biological men who keep trying to compete with women in sports. you know, the guys who keep putting the meat in swim meet. disgusting. ponder tweeted i barely said anything publicly about this issue and i ve had so many people message me stop me in the streets and say thank you and tell me stories about girls afraid to speak up for fear of loss of employment or hateful but it s not hateful to demand fairness for girls in sports that s logical fair and based on er refeudable scientific facts. what happens next? liberals in the media are furious because well they re stupid and what do they do to a woman speaking out against bullying of women? they bully her of course. riding in on her broomstick is nancy armor a ghastly sports columnist for usa today the official dor matt for americans staying at low priced hotels. if the laquinn take inn goes out of business, so does she. the god awful armor writes quote don t be fooled by the