Thank you so much for letting us into your homes. We are grateful. The beat with ari melber starts now. Hi, nicolle. Thank you. The developing news that has been coalescing around the possible replacement for Kevin Mccarthy to be Speaker Of The House. It is developing because the people you see on your screen, one of them is the former speaker. The other may or may not become the republicans pick. Hes had more vote than anyone else, but maybe not enough votes. That is a big deal for the United States, for the congress at times like these, so we are going to bring you an update on that story later in our newscast. The news out of israel right now is bleak. There is escalation. There are reports that now 22 americans have been killed in this unfolding israelhamas war. Youre seeing gaza pitch dark because gaza is under a blackout. 17 of those are still unaccounted for and feared held hostage in gaza. The shelling tonight there intensifying. Vaez says it has fighter jets that have hit over
colorful photo opps basically whether it s with a taco bowl or an african-american celebrity as evidence that he s not racist in spite of the completely bigoted things that he says and the policies that he pursues. let me say something more about the kind of television he s doing now. like he s doing 60 minutes tomorrow, and he s been doing more of his own sort of theater out of the white house, less press briefings. and the reason why is he feels like and there is a reality that he s got a lot more good news to tell. he s like less about the mueller investigation. he s got his two-page sheet of things that he s accomplished now, and he wants to talk about it. so i mean in terms of where he is psych lodgically in his presidency, i think he s in a place that i think he s in a better place than he s been in two years really. in terms of feeling good about where he is. think about it. he ll call almost any news organization, even 60 minutes, whatever he can get on, right? not that