2024, we send our congratulations, goodness knows you have earned it and so much more. thank you so much for letting us into your homes during these extraordinary times. we are so grateful. the beat with ari melber starts right now. here here, thanks for sharing that. have a good show. appreciate it. welcome to the beat, i am ari melber. steve bannon s path to court, new developments on his case. democrats are on the senate floor demanding action to reform the supreme court. senate republicans trying to block it. we have those stories coming up in the hour. we begin right now with the white house race. the first debate is just two weeks out. it s the earliest presidential campaign ever. the biden campaign pushed the schedule in a bid to galvanize its side. as the general election begins in earnest, we hear from so many people that this is one of the most important elections ever. but, when you ask why it s so important, the answers do vary. there is one thing th
worked with law enforcement agencies including the fbi. i think, look, this is an effort by the trump administration and the president himself to thwart or undermine this investigation. if there s leadership at the top that is trying to undermine them, that leadership can do a lot of damage. obviously, the nominee to be the next director of the fbi is of critical importance. and i think what you re going to see here in the senate is that nominee will probably get the most searching examination that any nominee in this body has ever gotten with the possible exception of supreme court justs. because we will have to make sure that the fbi director is somebody who will independently get to the bottom of this story. and the democrats and republicans need to assure our svls of that. senator tim cane of virginia,
republicans can always invoke the nuclear option, discarding the filibuster and confirming gorsuch with a simple majority. you can send your recriminations or thanks to harry reid. neil: amazing. there s some precedent with supreme court justs. we have carrie here, that worked under clarence thomas that was approved by a 52-48 vote, which is the break down now oddly enough of the senate. how do you think this goes? thomas confirmation that filibusters are a novelty. this isn t something that was ever done historically. this has never been done in the history for a supreme court justice. it wasn t done since 2003 when
chris: margie phelps, not only the daughter of the founder but was the attorney who represented the westboro church in the supreme court and did a very effective job, she said this holds a megaphone to our church and we ll picket more. we wrestled with whether or not to put her on the show. people say why give her airtime but i thought she was so much in the news and it was such an important ruling. we learned some information. we did digging about facts about the church, about her father, about some of the claims against the church that i thought it was important to confront her and people have to watch for themself and see if it was useful. shannon: it s a fascinating interview. she suggested the nine supreme court justs and the president are headed for hell. chris: it s interesting. of course it s life s easier when you set yourself us the