we are so grateful. the beat with katie phang starts now. it s so good to see you. welcome to the beat. i m katie phang in for ari melber. we re going to start with what could be a consequential plea deal. the new york times reporting former trump organization ceo alan weisselberg is in negotiations with manhattan prosecutors to plead guilty again, but this time to the charge of perjury. now, this deal would require weisselberg to have to admit that he lied on the witness stand in trump s civil fraud trial and that he lied under oath in an interview with the new york attorney general s office. weisselberg previously admitted to orchestrating an off-the-books scheme within the trump organization for which he spent 100 days at rikers jail last year. this breaking news just came out from the new york times. your reaction to this news? i guess timing is everything, right? we are waiting for judge arthur engoron to issue his ruling on the remaining counts that were under
to the drone strike that killed u.s. troops. so how long until the rest of the country and the world find out what it is. plus, republicans border strategy increasingly fixated on a man instead of a plan. hope surrounding a border deal fade as the house is stepping up efforts to impeach alejandro mayorkas. tempers flaring inside the committee room. we ll take you there in a minute. and a dream vacation turns tragic. at least four people are dead, including a young boy, after a boat carrying tourists sinks off the coast of mexico. so what went wrong? so much to get to. we start with president biden, telling reporters just a short time ago that after several days and multiple meetings with his national security team, he has settled on a plan to punish iran for the deadly drone attack that killed three u.s. service members. now, the details, the timing and matter of that response is still unknown. but here is the president on the south lawn of the white house earlier toda
rnc meeting which shows the maga elitism problem the party faces. this is behind the closed doors. the r fl rnc meeting has a behind the doors closed meeting. this is a departure from the past. you can see how it used to look in the old days. take haley barbour, 94 rnc chair or michael steele who so many people know from the similar meeting they held when he was chair to the closed press secret meetings. this is a file photo that shows the contrast over the years, the tightening secrecy. why is it a secret? the rnc is clearly trying to duck any further pressure, scrutiny or efficacy to end the employ primaries which would have tried to declare the primaries over and trump the nominee. the rnc said haley should drop out, trump has to be the winner. this morning nikki haley did something unusual, something trump hasn t done, which is face questions from a different and more adversarial set of interviewers. she went, just like biden has, to the breakfast club and took the que
than 100 years. the reason for that, thatis than 100 years. the reason for that, that is probably quite a deep, dark story but prince harry has always maintained he was prevented from taking legal action against newspapers by buckingham palace. that they didn t want him giving evidence in the witness box went the argument. of course, buckingham palace denied that. it has tried to settle claims here and there when it could come against the many newspapers who have been involved in this long saga. just to give you some of the background to this, before we get into what s happening here today, back in 2006, it became known that newspapers had been accessing people s mobile phone voicemails. most of us don t leave voicemails. most of us don t leave voicemails any more, do we? we leave text messages or we do video calls. but in the 90s, and 2000s of the people often left voice mail messages and journalists worked out that because the pin numbers were not changed very often, they c
around the white house were temporarily closed and several buildings nearby were evacuated. thankfully no one was hurt. steve: that is crazy image. and you got it just as he was trying to get into the white house campus. ainsley: we were getting images in the middle of the night. weren t sure it was confirmed. saw reports it was confirmed. interesting way to get into the white house to take a huge truck there are barricades everywhere down there. you saw how it was stopped immediately. of course, you never know what s in a big truck like that. just think back to oklahoma city back in the day. pete: for sure. steve: welcome to our show this tuesday. pete is in. brian has the day off. pete: thanks for having me. steve: latest from the race for the white house, the rails for the presidency that is. a republican senator tim scott launched his 2024 presidential campaign yesterday in his hometown of north charleston, south carolina. ainsley: and he says he is the gu