eastern. our thanks to you for let us into your home. we are so grateful. the beat with ari melber starts now. thank you. i ll see you tonight. i want to mention to viewers nicolle was just reporting on the new u.s. air strikes in syria. we have more on that later but we begin with the big political news right now in america. so tonight i say welcome to the beat with ari melber, and welcome to the beat with james carville, one of our special leadoff guests as we track what is clearly a political earthquake in america. democrats surging to victories as these results poured a win for conservative ohio that s upending politics across that state and the nation today. it puts pressure on the republicans who are squaring off in tonight s debate as nicolle just mentioned. this was a moment that was supposed to go different little you re looking at live shots where they re supposed to be talking. it was a moment the republicans were hoping to discuss better news. but right no
from msnbc headquarters in new york. welcome everybody to alex reports. we begin with breaking news in former president s donald trump s hush trial. donald trump will sit down via news with a u.s. probation officer. this is according to three sources. we have vance a attorney she s also an mnbc legal analyst. what more do we know about this interview? thank you, alex. nbc news has learned from three independent sources mr. trump will appear tomorrow morning we believe via zoom for his investigative presentencing report. he will be meeting with a probational officer who will be on the tenth floor of 100 center street in manhattan. s that is where he appeared for six weeks for his criminal trial and he will be intervowed. interviewed. this is a highly unusual situation doing this over zoom versus in person. but they found it s the best way possible because of the security involved. we saw the intense security involved during his former trial. that would have to be again if
[applause] wow. The science room is rocking today at the Convention Center. Unbelievable. We are here to hear dr. Michio kaku who is just amazing. I love this guy. [applause] just a footnote i am joe from the washington post. It i assume you knew that i love the big cosmic questions and there is no one better than asking the cosmic amazing questions than dr. Kaku. He is a genius at it. He is the cofounder of the strings. Has written multiple bestsellers. He refers to them as New York Times bestsellers but i dont use that term. [laughter] this book begins the first, his new book is the future of the mind is the name of the book and a first line is the two greatest mysteries and all of nature are the mind and the universe. We start from that and he asks the questions do we have a soul . What happens to us after we die . Who am i anyway . Where do we fit into this great cosmic scheme . Thats just on the first page. [laughter] this is the stuff that when youre in college at 3 00 in the mor
Lori rothman has Market Movers from the floor in the nyse. First to the cme and trader Scott Shellady. Many analysts blaming the drop in oil prices for the market loss, scott. Weve seen other days with 3 oil drop that didnt lead to 250 point drop in the dow. So what else, what else is going on besides oil . Well, i think the underlying problem here is the fact that weve got equity prices overstretched because of free money. I have said before, you know, we dont have Interest Rate problem here in the u. S. But the fed has an Interest Rate problem, right this they have pushed us out the risk curve looking for yield. That is the big problem. No, we dont have a problem with our Interest Rates as a country but the fed has to find a way town wind this thats why this little hiccup here sent things tumbling down. Bearish news in oil sent us lower didnt help things. But it is still the fed with Interest Rate problem, not the economy. David almost an impossible problem. Scott, you will join us a
Have you always been a reader . Yes, i have always been a reader. Science fiction has always been ply favorite followed by the political thriller genre. Does it help you in your work here . It it helps me unwind. There is a lot of reading to be done here but it is all bills and reports and nonfiction. One is the redistribution by the university of chicago professor who dives into the incentives that show americans not to work too hard. The other is the scandal of money by george guilder. He is from wealth and poverty. It deals with the Federal Reserve is right now making the wealthier People Better off but the policies over the last six years in particular have kind of hurt the average guy. This week on q a, Robert Kaplan. Mr. Kaplan discusses his book, in europes shadow two cold wars and a 30year journey through romania and beyond. Cspan you start in the proto logging by talking about books prologue by talking about books. Why . Guest because i think the ultimate goal of travel is to