starts right now hi, ari. hi, nicole. so nice to see you welcome to the beat everyone i m ari melber we are running and gunning i have a lot for you tonight i have the secret tapes of ted cruz about how he tried to steal the election and we have ted cruz s response. he responded directly to that beat report from last night and we have something else a a new excerpt from the cruz tapes and tucker carlson s firings and new details and new implications that go well beyond media. we begin in washington, and we have jen psaki with me on set in person so she s going to be the person explaining everything that i m about to update you on and it appears speaker mccarthy is buckling to the right flank on the republican budget bill, mccarthy had put concessions to the so-called right-liners whatever you want to call them including congressman gaetz. he said he would not be, quote, re-opening the bill. will you re-open the bill no. are you guys not listening to my answers? did
the president called me and asked me to personally argue the tech tex case if the court took it i told the president i would be happy to do so the lawyers in the pennsylvania case likewise asked me to argue that case if the court took it and i told them i would be happy to do so this idea to argue a case that wasn t strong enough to get to the supreme court, it was out there. court had shut down all such cases as i mentioned and while washington and much of the world didn t really know what was coming down the pike for january 6th, trump allies were talking up the plans in their own chat rooms and their own silos and their own sort of right-wing media lanes and we re about receipts and evidence here people and the public and maybe investigators will ultimately decide what that all amounts to, but boy, did they do a lot of spinning so we need to know what went down. so as for receipts, we actually