microphone. she s standing in the lawn, social distance, being sneered at and attacked. and lots of people do it. we get to showcase the best journalists covering our politics at the most extraordinary moment and we get to lift up all that incredible journalism, and she s one of that class that really emerged as fearless. it s really, really even harder than it looked, and i know from being on the other side, and even as you said, when they challenge the politicians they work for, you re still sort of in awe of their ability to do it. yeah t is difficult. i guess that s the old saying, some people do make it look easier. i think it s difficult in interviewing, especially as you say, when you re in that format. i love that you ran that, and good to see you, as always. thank you, my friend. have a good show. thank you, nicolle. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber, and we begin with breaking news out of the insurrection probe. tonight, the criminal trial set for steve ba
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 despera
yes, we can! yes, we can! yes, we can! yes, we can! [womoman] demococratic presidenential candidate bill clinton is denying allegations he carried on an extramarital affair with a former nightclub singer. you re under attack, labeled a draft dodger, a womanizer. somebody offered her a lot of money and.and she took it. your presidential campaign is collapsing, dreams of the white house receding. who can you trust? your friends? family? strategists? when you re on the edge of the political abyss. not a good night! .how do you fight back? [bush] i am pleased to announce that at midnight tonight all united states and coalition forces will suspend offensive combat operations. this war is now behind us. [crowds cheer] american forces arrive home, victorious from the gulf war, after evicting saddam hussein from kuwait. george h. w. bush is now the most popular president in modern history. [buchanan] i looked down on constitution avenue when the army of desert storm marched up
I think the answer is really two-fold. the first is, democrats are really uncomfortable with the idea of being the party of hollywood. something that democrats really don t admit, i mean, we do use celebrities to fund-raise. we use them to give ourselves more attention, to crowd build for rallies. et cetera. but there is a lot of grumbling off and on to the washington post about how the democratic party is too associated with celebrities. that we should be a party of labor unions, not of hollywood celebrities. the recent example was that at aoc at the met gala, and how much criticism she received not just from conservatives but by democrats and liberals. and celebrities have a lower barrier of entry into the gop because they don t need to know anything. the gop is a post-policy party, that s very much true. there s only four core things in the gop you have to believe. tax cuts for the rich, conservative, pro-life judges,
We invited several different people. i found out that someone had went to my mother and they were looking for someone outside of the store to sing the national anthem. and she is like why are you looking for someone outside of the store have you someone in the store? [laughter] and they were like who? she told the man you know sabrina sings. yes, i forgot. she asked me if i would sing. steve: sabrina, as the story goes, you hadn t really sung in public since middle school, right? no, i sung in public i just haven t sung that particular song. i sung the national anthem talent show in middle school. brian: set the scene, how many people are around we see this small sliver on someone s iphone. did the crowd build as you sang? it did. i really can t even tell you how many. it was a lot. it was shocking when i did open my eyes actually and saw how many it was.