the beat with ari melber starts right now. hi, nicolle. thank you so much. our top story is about this push that we need in america, the push for accountability as we face political lies and violence. so let me start here tonight. do you remember where you were when joe biden beat donald trump? do you remember how that entire race came down to that official call on the weekend? there was rejoicing. there was spontaneous crowds gathered in the nation. people making their own signs, walking around. it was kind of a big moment. it was unlike as a reaction, any recent president losing an election. do you remember the road to that call? because the election actually took several days to be formally resolved, but the key to that resolution i m about to show you, when the writing was on the wall, was when trump lost a state that he almost certainly needed for any hope of victory. it was arizona. among insiders, people on the campaign, people who follow this closely, steve kornac
think he was a jerk. art squad, starring senator jesse helms. will not be seen tonight. that was a long time ago, and it might have been a punch line then, but it s still happening now. when you have someone in goth telling you what they think art is, well, they ve lost the threat. we don t hire them and pay them with our tax dollars to lecture us on what is art, what books we should read, or heaven forbid use their powers to start banning books, which is already happening right here in america. that brings us to a special day here on the beat. it s chai day. political strategist chai komanduri, works on three campaigns including the obama campaign. welcome back, chai. i m, good, ari, how are you? i m great.