eastern. our thanks to you for let us into your home. we are so grateful. the beat with ari melber starts now. thank you. i ll see you tonight. i want to mention to viewers nicolle was just reporting on the new u.s. air strikes in syria. we have more on that later but we begin with the big political news right now in america. so tonight i say welcome to the beat with ari melber, and welcome to the beat with james carville, one of our special leadoff guests as we track what is clearly a political earthquake in america. democrats surging to victories as these results poured a win for conservative ohio that s upending politics across that state and the nation today. it puts pressure on the republicans who are squaring off in tonight s debate as nicolle just mentioned. this was a moment that was supposed to go different little you re looking at live shots where they re supposed to be talking. it was a moment the republicans were hoping to discuss better news. but right no
the shooting that nearly killed gabby giffords. christina taylor green died before her 10th birthday. she was born on 9/11. now her parents tell her story. i was hoping it was a nightmare and i was going to wake up and kept pinching myself hoping it wasn t real. it was that horrendous. it was unbelievable. roxanna and john green. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. i probably wouldn t be doing this job were it not for my guests tonight. he did an astounding 6,000 shows over a quarter of a century and pretty much invented the daytime talk show. he s talked to everybody and tonight i m delighted to say i have the great honor of being the latest person that phil donahue talks to. when i said i was interviewing you, extraordinary reaction. i put it on twitter this morning. you ve done one tweet. is that right? that is you, isn t it? there s a phil donahue twitter site. it has one tweet. that s my secretary s creation. you know, i m afraid i don t twitter. i do tex