Welcome to the beat. Im ari melber. With all the trial news we have been covering, the top story is political news that will help decide the election. Because it usually does. Today, President Biden and donald trump both agreed to do two new president ial debates. The first coming next month. Capping weeks of posturing and negotiation. That breakthrough came today as the Biden Campaign took control of things with a plan that was months in the making. Biden using this video to publicly challenge trump. With two partners on board. Abc and cnn. If a debate starting next month sounds different than usual, earlier than usual, it is. This will now be the earliest general Election Campaign debate ever. And that matters actually not only for people tuning in and paying attention, but also for the political strategy at play. Which we will get into right now. The times reporting this is what biden wants for a couple of reasons. Democrats think early voting helps them more than the other side. I
Ari melber is here now. What a season of gratitude. Get some rest because well be seeing a lot of you and everyone soon. Have a good show. Thanks, niccole. Welcome to the beat. Im ari melber, and with all the trial news, and more that have late they are house, the top story is political news that will help decide the election because it usually does. Today President Biden and donald trump both agreed to do two new president ial debates, the first coming next month capping weeks of posturing and negotiation that. Breakthrough came today as the Biden Campaign took control of things with a plan that was months in the making, biden using this video here to publicly challenge trump to two debates on the biden schedule with two ready partners on board, abc and cnn. If a debate starting next month sounds different than usual, earlier than usual, it is. This will now be the earliest general Election Campaign debate ever, and that actually matters not only for people tuning in and paying attent
scaramucci as he went down the list, i will fire anybody on this staff. he said awful things about priebus, steve bannon. he has shown already he has no problem publicly going against people in the white house. john kelly is about order. he s a military general. he s used to kind of the chain of command. and we ll see how having him and scaramucci as communications director but clearly high up in trump s eyes and has access to the president already, we ll see how they go together. we sure will. molly, by my count, president trump tweeted 13 times yesterday, pretty prolific, even by his own standards. is that because he s still operating under the let trump be trump scaramucci rule and do you think that will change when john kelly takes the reins? let trump by trump because trump is going to be trump. the more people in the white house who push back against that, the more trump wanted to be himself and would tweet
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fishermen, some of whom the president met with yesterday. i don t want to sugarcoat this thing. this is a big mess. reporter: it s a mess spreading throughout the gulf, even as the white house tries to keep questions about its response at bay. the administration responded with all hands on deck from day one. we are prepared for the worst case scenario and we have been doing it since day one. a possible catastrophic failure from day one. the president directed from day one we spare nothing at all in terms of the effort. reporter: administration officials used day one more than a dozen times yesterday, a c chorus critic said showed seep- deep seeded criticism. the white house credits the coast guard with the immediate search rescue and response to the april 20 explosion on t the deepwater horizon rig and they say that resources were deployed before janet napolitano said