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
[barack] i believe governor romney s a good man, but when he said 47% of the country consider themselves victims, think about who he was talking about. [tim] for conservatives across the country, they ve been frustrated for a long time. justice antonin scalia has died. i simply ask republicans to give merrick garland a fair hearing. i am running for president of the united states. there are questions swirling tonight around hillary clinton and they concern a personal email account. you say that you have the most transparent administration ever. it s true. it can be frustrating, this business of democracy. mahalo. as some of you heard, the state of hawaii released my official long-form birth certificate. [amy] president obama, a first black president, was constantly questioned not really because of the policies but literally because of who he was. it s not just that they disagreed with obama, the undertones of it were pretty clear. he is an other. [chip] donald trump called th
i will cap federal spending and finally balance the budget. i believe governor romney is a good man. but when he said 47% of the country consider themselves victims, think about who he was talking about. for conservatives across the country, they ve been frustrated for a long time. justice antonin scalia has died. i simply asked republicans to give merrick garland a fair hearing. i am running for president of the united states. there are questions swirling tonight around hillary clinton, and they concern a personal email account. you say you have the most transparent administration ever. it s true. it can be frustrating, this business of democracy. mahalo. as some of you heard, the state of hawaii released my official long form birth certificate. president obama, a first black president was constantly questioned, not really because of the policies, but literally because of who he was. it s not just that they disagreed with obama. the undertones of it w
good evening. welcome to the whole story. conclusion i m anderson cooper. tonight brings us to one of the most beautiful and progressive cities in america. a city known for its social activism as well as it wealth, particularly in the tech world. it s home to the highest number of billionaires per captain in the country. but it s san francisco, in steep decline because of homelessness and drug use. more people died from drug overdoses in this city during the covid pandemic than from the virus itself. cnn s sara sidner heads to the bay area, a place she once called her home to show us what it looks like now and find out what happened to san francisco. so when i first laid eyes on san francisco, i was enchanted. from where i am right now, driving over the bay bridge, and it looked like someone had taken an enormous vat of fog and just continuously poured it over the hills, like dry ice being poured over a perfectly sculpted city on a stage. and then you get down into the cit
thank you so much for letting us into your homes during these extraordinary times. the beat with ari melber starts now. happy monday. thank you very much. i m ari melber and of all of the important items that begin this week, we have one our office is buzzing about that we are lighting up about, if you will, if you ll take the visual entendre. the man you see there rainn wilson from nbc s hit the office will join us live by the end of this hour and that is some office news. believe me, we think it s worth sticking around for that. the top story of the news, though, is a loss for a trump-era prosecutor who has been trying and failing to find any deep state conspiracy against donald trump after getting his special political assignment from trump attorney general bill barr. i m talking about a special counsel, you may remember, was tapped originally in that trump-barr doj before the biden administration and the project was to investigate the investigators to hash and re-li