So good to see you again. When this all happened last night, i thought of many things, but i did think of you, and ill tell you why. Its evidence related. You have used your knowledge, your program over the many months of this to talk about how initially it was pretty clear that the Justice Department was not going beyond the events of that day, and you and i talked about that. Other reporters have weighed in, and im curious even though i know you have been talking about it for two hours how you think we got here. Because what we saw in this indictment that i thought was both strong, gripping and bad for the indicted donald trump, was how long and repeatedly they tried to end democracy in america. Yeah, the indictment is so harrowing, and i think that jack smith was at this for just ten months, obviously he built on all of the good work of the committee. I have learned that things are never as clean as what they appear, and we dont always have all the facts before them. But i think the
tonight may soon be the top story in the markets or even on main street. the president summoning leaders to the white house scheduled for next week to face what they re now calling a far more urgent threat of default with some republicans threatening to take the economy hostage. the final deadline is earlier in the month, republicans doubling down on threats which you may recall picked up in the obama years that instead of voting against new spending, which is the standard way that a politician or a legislator can curb the size of government, totally fine, you say, hey, let s not spend as much. nowadays you may have heard, republicans try to hijack the process of paying the bill, the debt, and they do that as a sort of a voodoo to scare the market, scare the white house, e tract concessions and keep the government from paying the bills it has, that includes naturally bills run up by both democrats and republicans, including recent spending under former president trump. we
deals with that caucus after the small but effective group of republicans showed impact. yanked away mid tirade against congressman gaetz. now, that process was used to take new powers away from leadership and em power mccarthy foes. in a new piece reporting that whatever everyone think of gaetz his critics across the spectrum acknowledge he must be dealt with after the speaker clash, and mccarthy allies don t like it, saying it s not the outcome they preferred but gaetz s stature has been elevated. true on house rules and visibility as well. mccarthy setbacks in this early period, they often played as gaetz s gains. there are a handful of far right holdouts and they warn they will not support him. the more conservative freedom caucus members pledged not to vote for kevin mccarthy. kevin mccarthy celebrating a victory that almost didn t happen. this looks like a bit of a heated conversation. this is incredible. this is an incredible moment. mccarthy is directly enga
thank you so much for letting us into your homes during these truly extraordinary times. we re grateful the beat with ari melber start right now. never more extraordinary than now. right j hi, nicolle. thank you so much. good to see you. welcome to the beat. tonight we are here as a nation. everyone got up, everyone started their day. if you re on the east coast you re ending your day, and everyone s doing just about fine you can have the america and do what you re supposed to and not worry about who gets as long as it s faithfully and fairly executed. we re a day out from what happened yesterday and everything s okay. the reality, though, is one that is different for defendant donald trump this is his first full day deal welcome an open criminal case against him not his lawyer, not his cfo, not one of his many aides. this is something he never experienced himself, and only he can say how much he thought about or emphasized with all the other many people who wer
reality, a phrase you may have heard this is what democracy looks like. that can be an appeal, an argument, or a kind of protest, and lament to how democracy is going, which is how many view what is going on tonight, as we keep track of some of the first hearing of this new republican congress and some of the floor speeches defining the new agenda. alcohol, tobacco, and firearms. in western colorado, we call that a fun weekend. bottom line, socialism bad, capitalism good. sounds like you re prepared to go over the cliff if you have to. over the cliff. shut it down. drag queen story time, where men dress up as women and read confusing books to children. first i thought you said dry clean. confusing indeed. now, in all fairness, selected rhetoric or a few sound bites need tot define an entire party. take other eras in history, a few sound bites and that would not be the whole story. but the spats we re seeing, the often bizarre and downright hateful speeches tha