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we are grateful. the beat with ari melber starts right now. i m ari melber. the top story rocking conservative politics and fox news tonight is a huge new leak about this moment in 2020 when fox news accurately reported biden won arizona, which stoked a maga backlash which upended the network, fed the series of journalists that fox now is facing potential accountability for, potentially over a billion dollars in lawsuit fines. it s also now led to the absolute blockbuster leak to the new york times. if you re think, or i heard about other leaks, this one is different and new and narrates a secret meeting between fox execs and hosts about that arizona call. an internal freakout where viewers were mad and bailing on fox because they reported in that instance, one, undeniable fact about the election. and the executives and anchors, great bare and mar that mccollum, on this call they discuss they were losing viewers because they correctly called arizona for biden. a ....
please, call now, or you can go to lovesshriners.org. thank you so much for lets us into your homes during these truly extraordinary times. the beat starts right now. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. you know what time it is. we re inside one week to the mid terms. the record-breaking turnout is happens. the latest numbers show more than 29 million americans have already voted, competing those trump mid terms of 2018. we re in full gear, and it s a tense backdrop for the races. there are active federal warnings about threats and attacks on poll workers and the voting process itself. we have seen records of these self-appointed poll watchers showing up in tactical gear, like that shot out of arizona. and election deniers are running for office, it s not normal. threats to lawmakers have increased tenfold over the several years over the trump era. more campaigns will turn on the question of whether candidates will honor democracy itself. these are truly unusua ....
Desantis speaking at reagan public library, another sign he is actively edging closer to running against trump for the nomination. in florida, state republicans are pushing the agenda in a new legislative session tomorrow, with a wish list that includes allowing concealed guns without a permit, which is just an odd safety stance. banning diversity programs at public collegesing a story we ve covered here, and trying to lower the threshold to have the state execute people, allowing for potential death sentences without a jury. there s also raising college tuition of children of immigrants and the thing we ve told you about trying to target free speech and journalists. the last two items do something pretty important they highlight how very different the branding and the tone and the superficial references to reagan is and, well, what reagan ....
Comfort, because it means that this audience is very powerful and potentially very scary, and fox news is willing to do their bidding. and i think it gets really interesting now, you know, they ve kind of become, you know, anti-trump sort of maybe, right conditionally. conditionally. he hasn t been on their air since november. there s maybe this war. they weren t at cpac. does this, you know, mean there s going to be a crackup coming? i don t know. but it sort of it all feels like kind of unhinged, a little terrifying. we re going over on time. you both make great points. when you wake up and it s a real tiger it s not funny anymore. not comedy. thanks to both of you. coming up, ron desantis trying to go reagan. we have a fact check. jon stewart confronting gop hypocrisy. we are joined by michelle ....
How much history is being accused in our politics, in this case by someone who is trying to curtail the teaching of accurate history. now to the magical kingdom. as desantis embraces reagan, he also keeps attacking disney in florida and punishing it for what some call the don t say gay law and advocating for equal rights of all people who work at the parks, which again is the free speech right of that entity. reagan didn t have those fights with disney. he was much cozier. there he was in 85 in disney world. first lady and nancy reagan, mini and mickey house, and again, he sounded pretty different from ron desantis. they say that one man of vision can change the world. maybe walt disney didn t order the globe, but made one section of it a friendlier and civiler ....