a hamas leader linked to the october 7th massacre. all of this escalating as the conflict could become a regional war. also, with less than two weeks before the iowa caucuses, the race for the white house kicks into gear with top trump challengers. and president biden returning from vacation to face new challenges, as he plans to hit the road with a retooled re-election message. and i ll be joined by the premium ambassador to the united states, after a new year began there with a barrage of deadly strikes against kyiv and kharkiv, and no agreement with continued u.s. military aid. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. tensions are growing throughout the wider middle east today, stoking international fears that the israel hamas war is now spilling far beyond gaza s borders. more than 100 people, including children, are dead after two explosions in iran ripped through crowds commemorating general souleymane. he was the prominent ahead of the revolutionary
thank you so much for once again letting us into your homes during these extraordinary times. we are grateful. the beat with ari melber starts rite now. thanks so much. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber, and we are tracking several stories for you tonight, including potentially remarks from president biden. but we begin right now with a mystery. consider that nobody really publicly has said they know exactly what secret deals were cut to make kevin mccarthy speaker. mccarthy isn t making it public even though there s been dribs and drabs in reports. house republicans actually say they are in the dark about what s been reported as a shod doe document, that there s a secret three-page addendum that includes mccarthy s most controversial conseeings to those so-called rebels. now controversial is one of those words that could mean different things to different people in politics, but that s reporting a lot of people in d.c. or people around mccarthy think it s controversi
hi, there, everyone. it s 4:00 in the east. it took years and one court ruling after another, appeal upon appeal and even a trip to the united states supreme court, but today the american public finally has its hands on something donald trump has so doggedly sought to conceal his tax returns, six years worth. an unprecedented window into his financial picture. this public release, which among other things shows that donald trump paid very relatively in taxes in the years before and during his presidency, is the end product of an effort undertaken by the house ways and means committee. after securing the returns which cover the years 2015 through 2020, that panel voted along party lines to hand redacted versions of the returns over to the public. before we get into what these thousands of pages reveal, in a way, those of us who are not account tantants can understands worth note hough the committee got its hands on these returns in the first place. it s the end result of an
electorate. we saw from the mueller report where the american people, say, okay, now what? tell me what you found. if they don t meet or exceed those expectations, it might be counter productive. the spinning of it by ag barr of the actual findings of the mueller report. when i was a kid, this was way before your time thank you. i m much younger than you, so much. i like the hair toss. i remember my grandmother and my mom and dad watching the water gate hearings. i remember the president leaving the white house on a helicopter. it was unbelievable but back then, we only had three channels. now that we have so much, we have social kbmedia, hundreds o channels and the attention span of american public not what it was. are you still upset that you were the buone that had to chan the button, the little knob. we were fancy. we had the remote. you had to attach it to the tv. it had volume, up and down for the button and on and off and that was it. thank you, laura. th
Most senior member of hams. and he helped establish the west bank. they re urging in the west bank to practice maximum strength as they demand retaliation. nbc news correspondent matt bradley is back in tel aviv and joins us. matt, to sort this out, this is all very speculative. the connection between the attacks in iran and lebanon, certainly. but it s very clearly, certainly, from the nondenial from mark regev yesterday and what we have learned from u.s. officials as well that it was israel responsible for that attack? reporter: that s right, you know, it is speculative. but there s some reason to speculate here, because the fact is that we re seeing the head of hezbollah speaking right now, talking about qassem sulimani. he s addressing his adoring