thanks so much. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. a we begin with this ongoing and conservative hunt for some kind of evidence or damning narrative about political opponents and how this keeps coming up empty in revealing ways. this is one a those stories that s crested this week because we had the trump era investigation end. i have new material on that, including how it s playing on the right and why that matters. at the same time, house republicans are struggling with their own investigations into the biden family. but it is telling to watch how people are dealing with the evidence this week, especially evident that was channelled but none other than a trump/barr hand picked prosecutor. part of this is playing out on a platform that s been recently discredited. i m talk about fox news, which was caught lying to their own audience and lying so badly and blatantly they were worried they broke illegal lies and they broke history the bad way work a $787 million settleme
Southern delaware a couple showers popped up, and flood advisory for that particular cell over Sussex County, delaware. These storms are few and far between. Most of the area is mostly sunny this afternoon but if you get caught driving in these brief downpours it can slow you down. Plan according willly heading outside tonight. Temperature wise we are at 90 right now. Ninetytwo in trenton. Ninetyone in reading. Dew points rising in the upper 60s and lower 70s. That means what it feels like is warmer. Ninetyfour is what it feels like in philadelphia a. Ninetyfive the the heat index in dover delaware. None in stop 90s is what we have on the dock it. The hottest day is tomorrow, the most humid day probably thursday, and then a reductions in humidity for friday but notice 90s continue through the weekend and even into next week. Ill tell you when heat wave may give us a break when i join you inside in just a few minutes, ukee, back over to you. Traffic along with our meteorologists, all yo
Steady. Road map on a busy day for earnings including apple, coke and boeing. Apple surging in the premarket on the sfwheets more from the dnc. Less discord from inside the convention. President obama, joe biden and Vice President ial nominee tim kaine are on tap to speak today. Another tough quarter for twitter and jack dorsey, the stock plunging after results disappoint. What happens to the company next. But first up, apple shares are surging after the Company Reports a beat on the top and bottom line. Revenue did fall for the second straight quarter. Iphones saw the steepest sales decline year on year but that number was less than what the street was expecting. Analysts expecting an uptick in iphone sales when the new 7 is released later this year. Revenue guide not too bad. Jim, cost control, margin guide, okay. Yeah. I think there are probably people at home saying how could they have a huge decline and the stock run. The answer is in the number of iphones that they sold a lot of
Meet with all the time, we understand in politics that you have to say things over and over again for them to penetrate. You in the news business, we tell you once, and weve given you the news. Therefore is no longer news and we dont have to report it again. These things that matter need to be on the front page day after day. With interesting angles and different takes and new perspectives. We get some of that. I dont wnat to shortchange the journalism out there. We need more of that if we are going to get people to focus on what is important. [applause] if we could thank our panel for this clicks on american on American History tv, we will washington journal with guest craig shirley, author of reagans revolution. At 10 00 on road to the white house rewind, in 1976 Republican National convention, and a close race between gerald ford and Ronald Reagan for the nomination. Acceptancefords speech and remarks from Ronald Reagan. I believe the Republican Party has a platform that is a banner
The middle part gets more interesting and relevant for today where the secretary spends time in boston and other corporations working in the field of technology and innovation. That is what he brought with him back to the pentagon and part of what is at the core of what he is tried to do. He was a distinguished fellow at Stanford Hoover institution. He was an advisor to goldman sachs. At Harvard Kennedy school he was the professor of science and international affairs. Of a miterhe boards corporation. , longer ago, even longer ago, he had his degree from yale where he studied physics and medieval history, of course. Before he gets medieval on all of us, will let him get to his speech and hear what he has to say. A round of applause for secretary of defense. [applause] thank you, kevin, thank you for having me here and organizing and extort nearing and extort nearing gathering and writing on the airplane with me. We do very much appreciate that. I want to thank all of you. s fromyou part