I spent an extraordinary 12 months in american politics. Twice impeached president is facing multiple criminal investigations, civil and praise across jurisdictions. Its antisemitic in some cases and the platform. As the conservative Supreme Court and the 50 real constitutional right to an abortion. We get all that and more tonight but we begin at the end of this year with historic results with the Midterm Election or democrats came to see in the senate and republicans managed to have defeat from the victory and historically the elections had been a disaster for a first term president in the party in power. As and as nbc noted democratic president s in their first midterms have seen the party lose an average of 40 have seats in five senate seats so watergate i look even worse for the party. Democratic president s in the first midterm at cnn part of those an average of 44 house seats and six senate seats. Many political observers had a bloodbath on the level of 1994 republican evolution
thank you so much for letting us into your homes for another week of shows. we re grateful. the beat with ari melber starts right now. hi, ari. hi, nicole. thank you. welcome to the beat. i am ari melber. right now this is a busy friday for news after a week that began with the abrupt firing of tucker carlson and the sedition case against the proud boys for january 6th reaching a jury and then just last night we reported that mike pence went under oath for the first time about the coup to the doj. each of those are distinct developments. each stem from the ongoing if tardy accountability for the insurrection. fox news reeling from a record payout for insurrection and election lies which tucker carlson doubled down on which compounded his problems and the transfer of power we should note that this week the current president formally announced he is running for re-election in a video that discusses and shows what he says are the stakes. usually when the incumbent president an
every member of the committee, regardless of democrat or republican, were unanimous many that in that this position that we are left in limbo until somehow a special counsel designates thatst okay for us to get briefed is not going to stand. maria: coming up, texas senator ted cruz on his calls for a hearing on what exactly is in those documents amid new questions about the so-called biden records, that s 1,850 boxes of records that joe biden donated to the university of delaware can. why is the university withholding the so-called gift agreement of the mystery funder of maintaining those documents? and did the money come from china after the ccp sent $50 million plus to the university of pennsylvania and was able to get penn to lobby for the china initiative investigation to get shut down as oversight committee chairman james comer told me recently. we i now learn that the university of penn successfully lobbied the fbi to drop their china initiative which was an inves
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2020 meeting in the Sedition Case against five oath keepers on trial for plotting to block the peaceful transfer of power. This as a sitting republican senator warns Political Violence is escalating. That senator says this. I wouldnt be surprised if a senator or a house member were killed. Up first for us, though, we count the midterm votes five weeks from tonight and there is a Blockbuster Development today in one of the senate races critical, absolutely critical to the Balance Of Power here in washington. The Daily Beast Reporting Monday Afternoon that georgias Republican Senate nominee, Herschel Walker, paid for a womans abortion back in 2009. Walker calls this accusation untrue. It is a flat out lie. And now you know how important this seat is. This seat is very important that theyll do anything to win this seat and lie because they want to make it about Everything Else except what the true problems that we have in this country is. This inflation. The border wide open. Crime. They