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abortion access. this time, coming from the largest pharmacies in the country, and in some states, where abortion is still legal. my question is, what s being done to protect the rights we still have? plus, cpac 2023. what used to be the hottest conservative event in town is now a big bust. former president trump is set to speak today, while a potential 2024 challenger is headlining a dueling event here in florida. is there a civil war brewing in the republican party? and trump s dealt another legal lost, this time by the doj, who says he can run but he can t hide behind absolute immunity. and a good saturday morning to you, i m key thing. we start to dig show with the republican-led house committee investigating the so-called weaponization of the federal government. not surprisingly, the first three witnesses that testified privately before the committee had little to nothing to offer. instead, the witnesses appear to be a group of former fbi agents who traffic ....
the beat with ari melber starts right now. it is friday. i appreciate you sharing that story and i wish you a great weekend. thank you. and it is friday and one of the fridays with a lot of news. there is even more fallout from the scandal engulfing fox news and rupert murdoch. my colleague chris hayes is here with us his fellow author, one place and one show and stick with us, you ll hear from them by the end of the hour. we begin with the political heat emanating from the cpac gathering in the beltway and it upd scores a dilemma for republicans in realtime. after the midterms where they recoiled from the big lie and the trumpy obsession with the party, and this gathering is televising the out right domination, sometime even self-parity of once fringe figurers in charge. candidates who may run against trump decided to cut and run from even trying to make a cpac appearance leaving to to leaders doubling down on things that turned off many voters in november. t ....
awaiting as a major victory heads into the victims as he makes this case that democrats are actually now getting things done. plus the former president bringing his continued focus on election lies to cpac. they are there to talk to the mega faithful. the chinese hacked the machines, labor all kinds of discrepancies. this time they found something different that they hadn t seen before, they re gonna join us ahead to talk more about that. first, to capitol hill, where we expect the senate to finally prosecute inflation reduction act as soon as this afternoon, we are hoping. but not before gop senators forced democrats to take some tough votes. during that vote-a-rama on, amendment it seems another amendment from john 15% minimum tax rate could create some problems for democrats. let s get to nbc s, julia before we see the potential hiccup and talk about that, and who it actually might involve, talk to me first about where we are at this hour, julie. yeah, ya ....
if he was going to hold onto the white house. that was the big issue. we are covering it going into election night. it was a huge deal when biden won arizona. arizona. are you 100% sure of that call and when you made it and why did you make it? absolutely. we made it after basically a half hour of debating it. we finally called it right now. nbc news is projecting that when every last vote is counted in the state of arizona, joe biden will be awarded 11 electoral votes. joe biden your projected winner in the state of arizona. trump and his allies were enraged over exactly that call, especially the fox news call to arizona. it was seen as kind of the nail in the coffin as a state that the trump folks would need to win or somehow continue to cast as too close to call, which might offend these plots you re hearing about. fox later fired the staffer who accurately called arizona for biden. it was close. they were separated by 10,000 votes. biden won with 1.6 million ....
reporter: in a hiss rick visit, president biden walked ross the edmund pettus bridge from voters fig. the right to vote, to have your vote counted is the threshold of democracy. reporter: the visit comes as he looks to reassure a key voting bloc ahead of a potential 2024 campaign announcement. on saturday, former president donald trump headlined the annual cpac gathering of conservatives. we will evict joe biden from the white house. [ cheers and applause ] and we will liberate america from these villains and scoundrels once and for all. reporter: the former president saying he would stay in the race even if he were to be indicted in some of the investigations he faces. at least three major gop candidates have jumped into the race so far, with several including florida governor ron desantis yet to officially make ....