thank you so much for letting us into your homes on this tuesday. we are grateful. the beat starts right now with ari melber. thank you so much. welcome to the beat. and this is one of those days we re tracking lots of stories right here in america. including the problems that extreme candidates are posing for mitch mcconnell. james carrvill joins me live on that midterm challenge. plus i ll get his take on the easter meltdown at fox news. later we have an update on how and marjorie taylor greene is going under oath. a lot of heat on hr. she faces all kinds of problems with being on the ballot in the first place. there s also new clues about whether president biden will run for reelection. so we dpet to all that pont. but our top story right now is