washington, d.c. i m in for nicolle wallace. we begin with the one thing that has consistently haunted the disgraced, twice impeached, four times indicted vice president, something that has time and again kneecaped donald j. trump, in the way his adversaries, even the legal system has struggled to do. we re talking about donald trump s own words. today we re reminded that words do, in fact, matter, particularly when they are uttered during a deposition under oath. it s part of the $370 million civil fraud suit brought by new york attorney general letitia james. as viewers of this show know well, that trial has not been short on fireworks between trump grandstanding outside court or grandstanding inside the court. time and again, trump has turned this trial into a cross between a maga rally and a wwe wrestling match. whether he s sparring with the judge or delivering last week s blistering six-minute soliloquy in open court, or final day of proceedings. this is not the first t
right now in texas, the manhunt is intensifying for the suspect police say fatally shot five of his neighbors execution style. what we know about the victims including one who was just 9 years old. flood waters are still rising in parts of iowa as residents are using boats to salvage what they can from their underwater homes. we ll take you live to davenport. and on this international workers day, as many as 1 million demonstrators are taking to the streets of france amid president macron s decision to raise the nation s retirement age. we ll take you live to paris. and we begin with breaking news on the state of the u.s. banking system. overnight, federal regulators moved to close down first republic bank and sell its assets to jpmorgan chase. this morning first republic s 84 branches in eight states reopened as branches of jpmorgan chase. this is the third and actually the biggest u.s. bank to fail this year. it s also the second largest bank by assets to fail in u.s.
thank you so much for letting us in your homes during these extraordinary times. the beat with ari melber starts right now. happy monday. happy monday, thanks, nicole. welcome to the beat. i am ari melber. the civil case against donald trump over defamation and battery, nicole was discussing that earlier. we have that later in the hour here on the beat. our top story tonight is a topic that could be the top national story on most nights by many metrics. america s gun epidemic and the ongoing threat and reality of a highly armed nation with easy access to some of the most dangerous guns in the world and a gun-related death toll that exceeds every other country per capita in the world. that can look like this. [gun shots] that was the harrowing scene at a recent little league baseball game in south carolina. you can imagine and feel how all the kids and parents felt and that is the kind of story that may not even make what we call national news, that you may not have
250 officers involved and a reward totaling $80,000 for tips that bring him in. they say the man they re looking for is armed and dangerous and could be literally anywhere. i pretty much can guarantee he s contacted some of his friends. we just don t know what friends they are. that s what we need in the public, is any type of information. right now we re just running into dead ends. do you all believe that the suspect is still in the area? we do not know. like i said, right now we have zero leads. that attack happened on friday night. since then ten more mass shootings have taken place across the u.s. including eight yesterday. among them, a shooting at a house party in mississippi that left a 16-year-old and 18-year-old dead and a 19-year-old under arrest. at almost the exact same time gunfire broke out at a house party in massachusetts killing an 18-year-old and wounding five others. in south carolina, nine people shot, most teenagers after gathering in a park arou
man hunt. another incident of a mass shooting over a neighborhood dispute. the search is on in texas for a suspect who allegedly murdered five of his neighbors friday including a 9-year-old boy using an ar 15 style rifle after a neighbor asked the suspect to stop shooting his gun outside because of it was keeping their baby awake. texas governor greg abbott facing criticism for calling the mass shooting victims illegal immigrants and president biden confronting the age issue head on at the white house correspondents dinner. they say i m over the hill. don lemon would say that s a mine in his prime. good day. federal regulators have stepped in to rescue first republic bank. it has been sold to jpmorgan chase after losing nearly $100 billion of its deposit this is year. the takeover insuring customers have access to their uninsured deposits. the third major bank to go under this year. this comes after the federal reserve in a scathing report on friday took much of the bla