i don t think anyone is counting hours anymore. brian williams used to call it tonnage. there you have it. thanks to nicolle. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. amidst this unprecedented news week, which is why there are so many hours being slotted around, let me start with a quick question is there anything more to learn or say about the federal case against defendant donald trump? our team of journalists on the beat says the answer tonight is yes. we have been working on something special, a new road map gleaned from jack smith s case, which we now can see for the first time against donald trump. so later tonight we re actually going to show thank you time line from the first clues about the missing documents to trump s historic arrest, that whole road. it is new legal reporting and i can tell you you ll only see it here. that s coming up on this edition of the beat. our top story right now stems from the rapid developments on the defense and legal side of don
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Follow-up, it follows necessarily from his other votes. how can you explain that? vote to raise the debt ceiling and then we know we ve got to deal with this debt crisis. isn t that the better way to go? well, usually the criticism that comes upon congress, which i think is accurate, is that congress doesn t deal with these things. we continue to punt these things 6 or 12 months down the road. usually the excuse is hey, it s an election. it s always an election year. so there are those of us who want to deal with it now. i wish the deadline wasn t coming up, but don t take this opportunity and use it as another excuse to say, well, we ll deal with that later. because that s why we got ourselves into this problem. congressman, i m all for dealing with it, making the hard choices. you and i have made that conversation, you know you and i may disagree, but i m all for making tough choices and facing up to it. but the one time you don t play and light the fuse of economic cataclysm bec