Thank you so much for letting us into your homes during this extraordinary times. We are grateful. The beat with Ari Melber starts right now. Hi, ari. Hi, nicolle. Welcome to The Beat. Join us on this first full day of 2024 with both tickets set. Kamala harriss Running Mate Tim Walz. A very different picture than a couple weeks ago. Today democrats campaigned together in wisconsin and continue to draw larger crowds than democrats drew erlter this Year Pap time lapse were showing you of the line to get into todays event. Sometimes the crowds are larger than trump in the same arenas and trump knows the power of the visuals. Power of this many people excitedly waiting in line, going in for this kind of energy. Tell me what Democracy Look likes. All this is what Democracy Looks like tell me what Democracy Looks like. This is what Democracy Looks bike. Harris and walz hitting michigan another midwestern blue state. Traditionally most years been blue. Democrats, of course, lost it in the Tru
Anybody at the White House our Intelligence Agencies seemed to think would happen. Meantime, lets look at this individual. He was a Gitmo Prisoner that was freed. One of the five. You remember this story. In exchange for Bowe Bergdahl. There was a lot of discussion in 2014 under President Obama about whether or not this deal would put americans in danger. Would these individuals return to the battlefield after they were set free from Guantanamo Bay. Heres the answer. There he is on the left in moscow. He was sitting there with americans and our main negotiator as they negotiated the final terms of The American draw down in afghanistan. That was just before the taliban retook the entire country and established it as an islamic state. Hes very much a way from gitmo and now back on the battlefield. You remember this ceremony, right . Lets go back there from 2014 when Bowe Bergdahls parents were given their son. Sergeant bergdahl has missed holidays and birthdays. Id like to say to bowe wh
Releasing restriction as highly contagious variants are spreading could cost the u. S. , and im quoting her now, the hardearned ground we have gained in the fight against the virus. Also tonight, fresh fallout for the gop after the former president Donald Trumps first speech since leaving the white house in which he repeated lies about the election being rigged and stolen. He also called out, by name, an enemies list of republicans who voted against him in his second impeachment. All that, coming up. First, lets get more welcomed news right now on the vaccine, coming amid growing concern, thoerks at the same time about those coronavirus variants that are more easily spread. Our National Correspondent nick watt has the very latest for us. Hes join ing us from los angeles. Nick, demand still far outweighs supply. But starting tomorrow, there will be more Vaccines Available to more americans. There sure will, wolf. It was 11 weeks ago today that the First American got a dose of vaccine. N
good to be with you. i m katy tur. new numbers today confirming, no, it s not just you, everything is more expensive than it was a year ago. across the board prices rose by 7% in 2021, the fastest increase we ve seen since reagan was in office. it costs more to eat. bread, meat, fish and eggs are all up a whopping 12.5%. a pound of bacon just over $5 last year. $6.50 today. it costs more to sleep. rent and mortgage is up 4%. that means if you were paying $2,000 in rent every month, you might be looking at an $80 increase going forward. almost $1,000 more for the entire year. it costs more to get around as well. used cars are up 37%, a $20,000 car is now more than $27,000. and it costs a lot more to drive it as well. gas prices are up 50%, despite a dip in those costs at the end of last year. all of this, as you well know, adds up, especially when salaries are not keeping up. take all of this inflation into account, and the average earnings by the hour, hourly earnings, actual
explain the message behind president biden s striking words on january 6th. and comparing our former president who actively spread misinformation about a global pandemic and our current one as he takes on an omicron surge nearly two years later. i m ayman mohyeldin. let s get started. so on this day one year ago, january 8th, donald trump was permanently banned from twitter. the social media site at the time said trump s personal account was suspended, quote, due to the risk of further incitement of violence because two days earlier on january 6th, 2021, the former president s supporters stormed the united states capitol. but for many of those supporters that wasn t the first stop of the day. just hours before rioters breached the capitol then-president trump held a save america rally near the white house, desperate to hang on to power, he publicly urged members of congress and vice president mike pence to reject the results of the 2020 election. this was only part of the