letting us into your homes. we are grateful. the beat with ari melber starts now. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. in just a few moments we are going to get into what became a heated and sometimes significant day in the fraud trial of donald trump s organization. in fact, two of his adult children, executives, testified. you see don junior going in there. that s new today, and we have the update on what is a significant set of what is testimony that seems to hurt the trump org in that quarter million dollars fraud trial. when there s news off the middle east war we ll bring you that. we have updates off gaza. earlier the skyline filled with explosions and flares, signs of what we can make sense of, what seems to be the widening escalation that was discussed, and we have news on what the new york times is reporting israel is doing at this hour. the military there according to the new york times says they have encircled gaza city and they re fighting, quote, fac
the best decision that they can with the information that we have and the problems that we have to solve. i believe and i trust president biden completely, that he is doing the best that he can to deliver for our communities and our families and sometimes the decisions that have to be made at one hour does not preclude us from losing sight from our big picture goals and what we are trying to accomplish for our communities. and i try to never lose sight of that. you know, i signed up for the big picture. i signed up for the hard work. i signed up for the disagreement because i believe that as a whole we are doing everything we can to move our country forward and so i really try to stay focused on that. yeah. i agree. i think that really looking at what are ways that we can continue to improve our communities and how do we really hone in on i think the impact that we are having when we look at things like the child tax credit and the opportunity to
he was more or less alone. he wasn t being heard anyway, so i don t know if he was looking for the exit, but he certainly wasn t having an impact. and then the syria decision, which of course was later reversed, made it very easy for him because if there s anything that jim mattis believes, it s in sticking with your friends and fighting your enemies to the conclusion of the fight. a conclusion that leads to american victory. so when donald trump all of a sudden told him we re pulling all american troops out of the fight in syria against isis, that made it very, very easy for him to walk. jeffrey, one of the things i don t know and have never met general mattis, but i know donald trump well, good and bad experiences. but i get the impression that mattis is really committed to something and believes in something bigger than himself, basically committed to the country. did you get a sense in your conversations with him that he felt that donald trump really had no big picture goals,