from washington. tonight, the flimflam gang. the that s the focus of tonight s angle. all right. the talking point this year for globalists is that conservatives skeptical about the mcconnell schumer border servativ deal don t really wanta to solve the crisis. they re just bowing down to donalhuck schd, who opposes it s not surprising, i guess, but it s it s i mean, it s deeply. people are dying and people s lot you know, there are a lot of people s lives are in the balance here. i think that s a fundamental problem with trumpism. right. if i think is about nihilism, ie burn it down caucus. r they right. d they don t want to legislate n is solvingproblems problems. right? they don t want the government to wort thk similar flimsy thing coming from conservative stalwart mitt romney, another of trumpthin loathing pro-amnesy republicans like thom tillis. it is immoral for me to say you look the other way because . you think this is the linchpin for president trump to
with judge jeanine pirro, harold ford jrwith, jesse wattes and greg gutfeld. it s 5:00 in new york city. this, is the five dramatic showdown over security at the r reaching a breaking point. right now, texas is telling the biden administrations tellio to come and take it. today is the deadline the white house gave the governor,e greg, on allowing federal agents access to shelby park in eagle so they can remove the razor wire there. th to let the feds in and hasitio a coalition of 25 red state governors on its side. ofg could now be headed back to court, and texas is confident it will win. t but the white house says abbot is breaking the law by playingot gameuse as as. shy we will not shy away from n calling out what we seepoli. as political games from as political games from safe. it does not protect our communities. and that s who he cares about. and that s who he cares about. that st,e people of texas.t,e people of what we re seeing from governor abbott, you heardtexase s
we are grateful. the the beat starts right now. you and everyone else in america is getting a law degree, one i paid for. but we are going to expend all that legal knowledge. thank you. and welcome to the the beat. i m katie phang in for ari melber. we have a lot to get to tonight. later, i will talk live to the lawyer for ruby freeman and shaye moss, the defamed election workers who won a $148 million verdict against rudy giuliani. now they are suing him again. plus, we ve got historian ruth who is here to talk about trump s threat to democracy and his gop enablers. we start the show with donald trump s desperation as legal deadlines pound him from the start, trump has tried to sow confusion, disgusting attacks on judges and witnesses, and above all, to delay his legal reckoning. the news tonight, special counsel jack smith is pressing forward with new moves designed to pressure trump and to stay on track. monday night jack smith forging ahead in the d.c. coup ca
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it is 5:00 a.m. and with daylight will come more of a sense of damage and countless homes have been destroyed. but in the middle of all that devastation, we re often seeing inspiring scenes like this, a local reporter saving ae iing ad nurse who was pleading for help. he had to carry theoryher to sa his back. pawleys island, the storm washed parts of the pier away. authorities are still assessings damage and working to restore power. and brian todd is in naples, florida with a closer look at the damage there. nothing left. zero. the full extent of hurricane ian s destruction now coming fully into view. aerial damage assessments showing coastal florida neighborhoods with roofing tore off, homes flattened, house either flooded or wiped out. some buildings with nothing left but the concrete slab. remote lotions locations cut of the mainland. these images showing how hard sanibel was hit. only way to access that is either by sea or by air. reporter: so far more than 700