the beat with ari melber starts right now. hi, nicolle. thank you so much. our top story is about this push that we need in america, the push for accountability as we face political lies and violence. so let me start here tonight. do you remember where you were when joe biden beat donald trump? do you remember how that entire race came down to that official call on the weekend? there was rejoicing. there was spontaneous crowds gathered in the nation. people making their own signs, walking around. it was kind of a big moment. it was unlike as a reaction, any recent president losing an election. do you remember the road to that call? because the election actually took several days to be formally resolved, but the key to that resolution i m about to show you, when the writing was on the wall, was when trump lost a state that he almost certainly needed for any hope of victory. it was arizona. among insiders, people on the campaign, people who follow this closely, steve kornac
stories this morning. first in nashville. new details about the shooter who killed six people at a christian elementary school. and we ve determined that audrey about seven firearms. from five different local gun stores here legally. ah they were legally purchased. three of those weapons were used yesterday, but parents felt that she should not own weapons. they were under the impression that was when she sold the one weapon that she did not own any more. i said thursday. of course it s wednesday. the parents of audrey hill hill also gave critical insight into hail state of mind will be live in nashville with details just ahead. plus an unprecedented ruling and a new setback for trump s legal team. a judge has ordered former president vice president mike pence to testify. federal grand jury is now getting a chance to ask pence about his conversations with the former president. in the days leading up to january, 6th. we begin this morning, though, in nashville, where cnn s car
incredibly important for policymakers and for washington. look, we ve got consumer confidence numbers tomorrow, i mean, they could be really rotten. we know that people feel terrible about where the economy is going, a lot of people feel like they are already in a recession already. terrible consumer confidence. we will get those numbers. on wednesday we have a federal reserve interest rate hike expected, we are expecting another 75 basis points. that s big. we saw that in june, 75 basis points that was the biggest move since 1994, we re expecting that again. why? because the fed is trying to tamp town on inflation. that s going to be incredibly important to watch. we will get the first reading on second quarter gdp that comes thursday and that s expected to be negative again and that would mean as you guys just said two quarters in a row of negative growth. that s a big slowdown from where we saw at the end of last year 6.9%. but gdp alone is not the only gauge of whether we
in this country, a new debt ceiling compromise seems to be getting traction in washington. six senators, three republicans, and three democrats are offering a plan to cut the nation s debt by about $3.7 trillion over the next decade. it includes spending cuts and about a trillion dollars in new tax revenue. republicans have insisted on deep cuts and no tax increases before they ll agree to raise the country s borrowing limit. that debt ceiling deds line is now just 13 days away. minnesota s three-week government shutdown is over. democratic governor park dayton signed a budget bill today. he and republican lawmakers finally agreed to use accounting gimmicks to close the state s $5 billion shortfall. republicans refused to raise taxes. the shutdown left 22,000 state workers without a paycheck. and memphis public schools may not open august 8th as scheduled because of a budget fight. the school board says no classes till the city pace $55 million. the board says the city ow
bare bones bargain. if not, payments to critters, bill payments, you name it, there is not enough income to cover all that. every month we come up $125 billion short. if we cannot borrow to bridge the cap, 40% of the monthly obligations could not be paid, and that could include social security checks due to go out on august 3rd. the stakes we just laid out are monumental, so both sides have to give ground and risk their jobs for the good of the country. what is so hard about that, right? joining me with their insights on conflict resolution are cnn contributor, pete dominic, and family law attorney, mrs. winestein. what does it take for two entrenched parties to agree on a deal that both need? well, you know, the obvious is that you take the emotion out of the room and you try to deal with the practical. what we deal with is the practical and not the legal when we re trying to negotiate this. they re trying to take the politics out of the room and get to a solution that can