all lived through and covered, things like the las vegas shooting, and hearing just the simplicity of his questions has been the most instructive. i remember him asking someone who was still afraid and still hiding how are you? i can t even tell the story without crying, but it just cracked her open and she gave all of us the benefit of knowing the horror that she and so many people were going through. it was just this simple question and then his singular ability to listen. yeah. i appreciate that. i do. really well put and it s what we re thinking about. as you mentioned, we ll be watching later tonight. good to see you, nicolle. welcome to the beat. i am ari melber. we begin with break news as trump faces two legal setbacks. donald trump now facing a formal legal demand to go under oath in this big investigation that new york attorney general letitia james has been leading. she has subpoenaed him to testify. the goal to get him to sit down for a deposition and answer
i d like to punch him in the face, i ll tell you. usa! a radical transformation. this is our house! decades in the making. but the roots are old and deep. then there were the rabid fears of the john birch society. these italians are infecting the youth of america. now the crazy conspiracies of qanon. joe biden is the biggest pedophile. god wins! brother, i pray for him. exploiting god for votes began a long time ago. this war is for the soul of america. 2 corinthians 3:17, that s the whole ball game. voter suppression. i don t want everybody to vote. cheating democracy. massive voter roll purges. millions upon millions removed from the voter rolls. the ugly history of racism. if you were a black republican, you would suddenly feel that this party didn t want you there anymore. a party in deep trouble. the so-called trump base is a shrinking base. this isn t working. it s not working for america. it s not working for republicans. it
telephone, is it? empty shelves are all you ll find here at tower records. it s now out of business. three, two, one! this is a very special moment. the first performance at the mtv studios in the new millennium. please welcome no doubt! that s great it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes and aeroplanes lenny bruce is not afraid i ll always remember new year s eve 1999 going into y2k seeing no doubt on mtv playing it s the end of the world as we know it by r.e.m. it s the end of the world as we know it it s the end of the world as we know it i feel fine it was a very appropriately apocalyptic song for what turned out to be a very apocalyptic decade. happy new year! so we wake up, it s 2000, we re all alive, and we re still in the middle of teen pop mania. don t want to hear you ain t nothing but a heartache boy bands were selling so many albums. every little thing i do never seems enough for you this is the b
the fraught transition to the biden administration. let s dive right into the moment. bob woodward and political reporter for the washington post robert costa join us now. their new book peripet kwtsz is out today. there s some pieces of the book that have come out, but what was most striking to you that perhaps hasn t been released yet to the public? wow, i guess the overall that this it was a national security crisis that trump brought because countries like china, russia, iran, looked a at what was occurring in the united states. if you go back and look at what trump said before the election, it was scary to people abroad. then after the january 6th insurrection, it was frightening and china particularly ignited on this and the chairman of the joint chiefs had these calls with the leader of the chinese military and made it very clear we re going to stabilize things. let s not have a war. and in a period of miscommunication and high tension, that s when you have an i
now on bbc news, dateline london. hello, welcome to the programme which brings together leading uk commentators with the international correspondents who write, blog and broadcast to audiences at home from the dateline london. this week, the business of people smuggling to europe, russia s gas powered foreign policy, and is being a british mp a full time job? to discuss that, we are joined byjeffrey kofman, who has been a news anchor and foreign correspondent for broadcasters in his native canada and in the united states, marc roche, who writes for the french political and news weekly le point, and british political commentator steve richards, who is here in the studio. welcome to all of you. it s lovely to see you again. brexit allowed the uk to take back control of, among other things, its borders. but this government has proved no more successful than its predecessors in stopping illegal migration. the problem may even be getting worse. on a single day last week, 1185 peop