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reporter: jeanne moos, cnn, new york. time for this rat pack to pack it in. thanks very much for joining me this evening. i m jim acosta. we ll be back tomorrow night. good night. your way round the hill. and now the party bosses want a meeting. they have a proposition. they want you to take a shot at the white house. not eventually, but now. - think about it, will you? narrator: well, first you ll have to get past her, the senator with decades of experience and friends in high places, already at home in the oval office. and then you ll have to get past him, a senator and bona fide war hero backed b by a mean polititical machinine. [crowd chanting indistinctly] let s say you are ready. here s the real question. is america? [dramatic music] only one way to find out. [tense music] america, president george w. bush s second term. [chatter] at war in iraq and afghanistan, teetering on the brink of a global economic crash, disillusioned, divided, and d ....
thank you so much for letting us into your homes for another week of shows. we are so grateful. the beat with ari melber on a friday night starts right now. thanks, nicolle. appreciate it. welcome to the beat. we begin with what some democrats are tout as the best day for domestic news within the biden presidency. not only the best days for the economy in this choppy covid era with all the upheavals but we re going to go through the numbers for you, the single best day for economic numbers in literally 50 years. the unemployment rate has not been this low, in other words, the unemployment rate has not been this high since americans were seeing things like this. hi, this is dick clark and it s time now one small step for man, one giant leap for man kind. as we chart our goals we shall be lifted by our dreams. i like your show, and i like your style shouldn t you brand be true today? kid, the next time i say go someplace like bolivia, let s go somep ....
side of the screen, a motorcade escort of the indicted twice impeached ex-president donald trump. he is on route from his airport which landed at laguardia to manhattan to his apartment in trump tower. he will reportedly stay the night there ahead of his history making arrangement in the alleged hush money scheme. tomorrow there are a lot of open questions, a lot of vital considerations being made. even at this late hour first, security. as you might well imagine, the nypd is well aware of the possibility, the potential for violence tomorrow somewhere. as trump has previously called on his supporters to protest in a statement to nbc news, the nypd reveals this, quote, officers have been placed on alert and the department remains ready to respond as needed they add this, quote, there are no current credible threats to new york city. ahead of the big day tomorrow, we re on the lookout for any specifics related to the actual charges that trump now faces sources telling nbc ....
florida and texas where two controversial incumbents are leading in the polls. great britain has a new prime minister again. after boris johnson failed to meet the threshold to run for a comeback. despite rushing back from the caribbean vacation. i ll talk to brittney griner s russian lawyer on the eve of greiner s appeal of her nine-year prison sentence. good day. our poll reveals democrats are fired up, but republicans are even more enthusiastic about their efforts to take over the house and senate. joining me now, steve kornacki, our research partner, washington post political correspondent, ashley parker. there is so much to dig through here. let s start by where likely voters are leaning with two weeks to go. two weeks, one day, and early voting underway in a number of places. here you can see the generic ballot. this is among likely voters here in our new poll. 48% for the republicans. 47% for the democrats. a one-point advantage there for republicans. so ....
senator chris murphy and ben o rourke, the current candidate for texas governor. we have a lot to ask both of them, but first. one revelation that we got yesterday about donald trump s attempt to overturn the 2020 election did not come from the big public hearing yesterday about the january 6th investigation. rather, it came from mother jones magazine, which contained leaked audio of this guy, steve bannon, former white house advisor, and double layered buttoned down shirt aficionados. the audio is from a few days before the 2020 presidential election. rewind a little bit, and remember with me. a couple months earlier, he had been arrested on charges that he had been milking unexpected donors out of their money by telling them that their nations would go towards building a wall on the southern border, when in fact the money was going into steve bannon s pockets! bannon was arrested on this luxury yacht off the coast of connecticut. it is a yacht belonging to an exiled c ....