thank you so much for letting us into your homes for another week of shows. we re grateful. the beat with ari melber starts right now. hi, ari. hi, nicole. thank you. welcome to the beat. i am ari melber. right now this is a busy friday for news after a week that began with the abrupt firing of tucker carlson and the sedition case against the proud boys for january 6th reaching a jury and then just last night we reported that mike pence went under oath for the first time about the coup to the doj. each of those are distinct developments. each stem from the ongoing if tardy accountability for the insurrection. fox news reeling from a record payout for insurrection and election lies which tucker carlson doubled down on which compounded his problems and the transfer of power we should note that this week the current president formally announced he is running for re-election in a video that discusses and shows what he says are the stakes. usually when the incumbent president an
Importantly, towards denuclearization. On the subject of the three american detainees in north korea, these officials, and the secretary of state pompeo himself were asked about this on the plane. He said that they have been asking for the return of these americans for 17 months. At this point, he says they dont have a Firm Commitment from north korea that they will be returned. But they are going to be bringing it up again and talking about it. And he is hoping for a positive outcome there. The big question of this trip, was this going to be him coming home jubilantly with the return of these three americans . So we still dont know the answer to that yet. But what they are hoping to get at the very least from this trip is a real outline and a real schedule what have the summit will look like between trump and kim. That means the location, the date, and the time, wolf. The president shaking the announcement that mike pompeo is just outside pyongyang. For all we know he may have arrived
School. We must start with the breaking news. The stock market taking a huge hit today and it is all part of this idea that there is this monumental warning that a recession could be coming. You and i were arguing before the show. Yesterday when the president announced a delay in the tariffs. The mark loet loved it. It is a temporary one. It is a sugar high and thats when the president have given the markets. There is some who are absorbing today. Two things that are important to the present. The trade war and the stock market. The president has quickly said you know what, i am going to sideline the trade war to make sure i am propping up the market. He was not bidding against china. Wilbur ross admitted this morning it was not the president showed his hands and showing us that he does not know how tariffs work. Or hes lying. Could be one of the other. Enough people explained to him that americans are paying for the tariffs. When he keeps on saying americans are paying or the chinese a
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