biden s memory are things the president actually disputes. he says he does remember, for example, the dark somber fact of when his son died. now, tonight it s dialing up. axios reporting the republicans partisan plans to try to exploit and run with this as a matter of governance, i use that word specifically, you see the headlines about using subpoena powers to get weeks or months of hearings to hype just those parts of the report, not, of course, the part clearing biden. some admit republicans don t think it even matters what they find. now, that confession is in the article about the republican plans, which itself sounds damning and i want to tell you tonight, it s not sufficient to say, ah, this is just politics. politics is, of course, something a lot of people tune out precisely because there s so much spin and crap and that s been true for a long time. politics is what candidates in campaigns say. it can be hype, spin, exaggeration, i not saying false equivalents but t
spending part of your monday with us. we are grateful for that. the beat with ari melber starts right now. hi, friend. i, ali. thank you so much. welcome to the beat , everyone. and i m ari melber. i m just gonna start like this. if you go back to 2015, which is a different time in american politics, there was major interest in finding some sort of alternative to the burgeoning trump maga onslaught. one conservative wrote a whole book about what he cast at the time as potentially informed conservative alternative to what he called the reprehensible donald trump. a book which advances his own profile so much that you saw an opening to run for office. and then, as you see in the images on your screen, this individual lived out the very trumpism, that reprehensible dogma, that he spent all his time documenting and fighting against which is what he wrote about. but he figured out that after doing all of that and doing the book, that trump could help him win what he, want a s
defendant donald trump as you may have heard. he is facing off against this jury that is being selected in his home state. the criminal trial where he has been mandated to attend every day the court is in session. that s been the last two days. today as has been scheduled is a dark day. most wednesdays the new york court is not expected to meet, although that can change. they made a lot of progress yesterday. more than 1/3 of the total jurors needed have now been sworn in. trump is going online complaining this is moving quickly. that is an odd complaint for someone who has also said it takes him off the campaign trail or it s not fair as a so-called witch hunt. if you think those things logically you would want to get them over with. if you think you are innocent you would want to go through with it and show the jury that and move on. his attorney who is not involved in this direct case but does speak out for trump on a host of issues, legal and otherwise, is arguing that th
all so much for joining us on this very busy news hour. we are still watching that race in virginia very closely. and de and a news night with abby, phillip starts right now virginia is not for lepers, at least not tonight. that s no, i don t need sign cnn breaking news good evening. i m abby phillip in new york, down to the wire or thousands of republican voters in a district of 800,000 people in virginia are now rendering a verdict. it is technically about two men, bob good and john maguire. but it s about something else. what donald trump prizes most what he s always valued above all else is loyalty. and bob good, the chairman of the freedom caucus and house, a band of congressional hardliners that has fought hard for the mega agenda inside of congress is not good enough for trump. good found himself on the opposite side of the primary race with trump and the reason and it s pretty simple, good. wanted ron desantis to be the republican presidential nominee, not donald trum