letting us into your homes during these truly extraordinary times. we re grateful. the beat with ari melber starts right now. happy monday. hi, noig nicolle. thank you so much. the first vote of this new congress under this new speaker is slated for this hour. it s the rules package for the 118th congress. a rules vote is not typically coveraged but assist last week showed washington is not taking typical for granted under speaker kevin mccarthy, who begins the job in a diminished posture as it took 15 ballots over four days, or five if you count saturday at 12:00 a.m. to even get the votes from his own party. it s a public squabble we all witnessed. no speaker has had to go through anything like that since 1819. as we track the rules vote, we begin with something special i want to show you, if unusual bruising way we got here. a speaker has not been elected. this dramatic day that is not turning out remotely the way kevin mccarthy had hoped. a speaker has not baske
that harmed children, close businesses and churches, even the endless re upping ofg emergency covid o powers, the destruction of historical markers and statuesal, the use f big tech as proxy sensors forme the current regime. all of this, all o of it pointst to one ugly, inescapableug conclusion. our governmentpabl is being run by a cadre of powerful post american forces. our current political leadership acts as thoughol our constitution and the freedoms protected by that constitution areoms no longer valid. they ll always be a reason forn them to ignore our constitution these days like systemic racism, they ll talk climateid change or another covid variant, maybe gun violence january six and they won t explicitly sayay at least not yet. but they don t want us to live under a constant illusion. that leaves the primary decision making to the people of the 50 states , nor thatnt they want the designation americans d citizen to really have any special meaning at all for any of us
The gloves are apparently really off between those two. Well see where this goes thank you, caitlin. Good evening, im abii phillip, we bring with Breaking News that will have as massive impact on the entire United States economy. Less than two hours workers across the country are going on strike against the three auto makers. The first ever simultaneous of ford, General Motors and stellantis. Which owns jeep and chrysler. Were expected to hear from the president of United Auto Workers. 145,000 union members. Economic impact of 5 billion dollars. The union is demanding 40 pay increases. Better benefits and a fourday work week. Among the players in this whole saga is shawn fain, shes that uaw president who has been pretty unpredictable in talks so far. Also, the ceos of these companies who say that the demands will them out of business. Also there is the president himself. President biden. Hes under pressure both economically and politically tonight. First lets start with cnn Business Co
america. these people love to hate america for our so-called th. intng history and they remind me of aner interview i did for the get it together series, the statue top topper. as you know, i m a big advocatei for keeping historical statues. they symbolize our identity and what we ve achieveng d. but not everybody believes this. i talked to mikeody believes foa mike support of the anishinaabe tribe, a father of four, and the leader of the american indian movement. e le o he became infamous forr toppling the statue of columbus in minneapolis during the george floyd riots. mike really, i mean, really hates america. but why? let s bring in mike. why do you hate america so much? becausey do you to me, ameria built on , slavery and colonialism. and we have been through so much trauma.