good to see you. appreciate it. welcome, everyone, to the beat. i am ari melber. answered that question honestly. it s all i could do. top story is very important. major news coming out of the justice department which has been under sustained pressure to be more aggressive and the probe into the insurrection. to see why this news is significant, it is worth remembering something right off the top here, how a lot of credible people from legal experts to the house investigators themselves have said it s imperative that the doj bear down on any law breaking of subpoena defying by people linked to the events of january 6th. will the department of justice be quick and aggressive? how much pressure is gallen going to be under then from liberals, from democrats? he s going to be under a lot of pressure. this committee is doing its job. the department of justice needs to do theirs. what s the holdup at the department of justice? the department of justice has a duty
breaking news. israel is unleashing intense new air strikes on gaza tonight as it is expanding its ground operations there as well. the war against hamas heating up. nearly three full weeks after the surprise hamas terror attack on israel. phone lines and other communications have been cut off. civilians caught in the cr crossfire. the united states says it is in talks with israel about a humanitarian pause to try to allow the potential release of more hostages held by hamas. white house insisting negotiations aimed at freeing more captives is ongoing. breaking in the united states, divers join the search for the mass shooting in maine. sources tell cnn the gun apparently used was bought just days before. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer in the situation room . we are witnessing here in the middle east, we are witnessing a clear escalation in the is israel/hamas war. the israeli military declaring it is operating forceful
deficit spending and options to pay for their infrastructure bill they re working on now. progressives are advocating for a wealth tax. the white house is reportedly focused on increasing the corporate tax rate, raising income taxes for those making more than $400,000 a year and other tax hikes that would impact the rich. biden president biden seems to realize that republicans are not going to get on board for this. i ll get the democratic votes for a tax increase. if we took the tax raise back when bush was president, 6%, that would raise $230 billion. because republicans have lined up against it, there s new pressure for democrats to strap the filibuster. moderates like joe manchin oppose nuking filibuster. president biden indicated he s open to the idea. republicans are calling it a power grab and they re warning democrats could use the change for immigration reform. they re prepare to steam roll the senate into a body like the house because they get in the way of
Particularly after january 6th, where he delivered a series of major speeches at the u.s. capitol. he did so in arizona at the mccain institute, at independence hall in pennsylvania. and a few days later, he ll head to south carolina, now the first state in the democratic calendar. he ll be there on monday, the site of that racist shooting massacre of some years ago and he ll tie these things together and say, they re all born of the same extremism, the same hate that has been unleashed by his predecessor. and he ll tell me, this is what this next election is going to be about. it of course will be about the economy. it s going to be about inflation. it is going to be about crime and the border and two hot foreign wars. and it s certainly going to be
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