Is also poised to go on trial. Many advisers to President Biden say what were seeing tonight in these duelling stories is verification, a validation of his view that the government and the congress can do more than one thing. Now President Biden is talking up this new relief plan. It passed this key vote in the senate. It passed in the house. It is on its way. Take a look. If i have to choose between getting help right now to americans who are hurting so badly and getting bogged down in a lengthy negotiation or compromising on a bill thats up to the crisis, thats an easy choice. Im going to act fast. Act fast. And the major breakthrough here came with an assist from the person you see right there, an allnight Senate Debate followed by Vice President Harris Casting her first ever tiebreaking vote. This occurred after 5 30 a. M. This morning. The Vice President votes in the affirmative and the concurrent resolution as amended is adopted. Heres what you need to know. This is the blueprint
Walter reed, there was nowhere else to go. This is a conversation that i have had with myself or anyone unable to address their depression. They start to have dark conversations about selfharm. Things continue to tick off the list. I kind of hit the Emergency Brake further. I cant be a blueprint for my children. I cannot let them be left alone or to not understand why he wouldve done that. Earlier in the year two friends of mine, one had a stroke and the other had a bad heart attack. They both had Young Children and took their lives. It was very devastating. Not because they were weaker or i was strong, i got lucky. I knew that i needed help. I didnt know what that looked like. It was presented. I reluctantly was like i dont need to go in there. I figured out this is the right choice and that is where i ended up. I know this is so hard to talk about. Just to be clear, you are saying that you had thoughts of harming yourself . Yeah. Ive said that publicly. At first i didnt. I thought at
spending part of your monday with us. we are grateful for that. the beat with ari melber starts right now. hi, friend. i, ali. thank you so much. welcome to the beat , everyone. and i m ari melber. i m just gonna start like this. if you go back to 2015, which is a different time in american politics, there was major interest in finding some sort of alternative to the burgeoning trump maga onslaught. one conservative wrote a whole book about what he cast at the time as potentially informed conservative alternative to what he called the reprehensible donald trump. a book which advances his own profile so much that you saw an opening to run for office. and then, as you see in the images on your screen, this individual lived out the very trumpism, that reprehensible dogma, that he spent all his time documenting and fighting against which is what he wrote about. but he figured out that after doing all of that and doing the book, that trump could help him win what he, want a s
contin good afternoon, i m lindsey reiser, in for yasmin vossoughian. president biden says he s not giving up. i believe the court s decision to strike down my student debt relief program was a mistake, was wrong. i m not going to stop fighting to deliver borrowers what they need, particularly those at the bottom end of the economic scale. so, we need to find a new way. we re moving as fast as we can. we ll use every tool of our disposal to get you the student debt relief you need and reach your dreams. it s good for the economy it s good for the country, it s going to be good for you. not president unveiling a new plan to help ease student loan debt after the supreme court knocks down one of his signature policies it s just one of a trio of rulings from the conservative court facing backlash today. we are going to be looking into the major decisions of affirmative action lgbtq rights, plus, donald trump on the campaign trail, right now, amid his growing legal woes
carolina senator jesse helms was pulling behind his black democratic challenger. so helms called in the political consultants who in turn helped the helms campaign to fight back. this is what theygn came up wit this ad. you needed that job because you were the best qualified, but they had to give it to a minority because of a racial quota. is that really fair? harvey gains says it is. your vote on this issue, for racial quota, harvey gain, against racial quotas, jesse helms. you were a better candidate than the minority guy that they went with. can you feel the injustice of it all? that ad was exactly what senator jesse helms needed. he won re-election to a fourth term in the senate 54 to 46%. that strategy worked, it worked well, making gant the face of affirmative action, a racial quota system that kept whites at a disadvantage ipfavor of less qualified minorities, it was potent stuff. the race baiting and the zero-sum politics, it moved people because it angered them a