about the ongoing effort to overthrow the last one, well, this is news you want to know about. politico reports there are tapes, video recordings of republicans meeting with grass roots activists to do something that cuts against how elections are supposed to work here. they re supposed to be nonpartisan at the machinery side. the plan, however, is to install these partisan and party trained volunteers who can challenge voters at places where democrats tend to vote, what they call democratic majority polling places and connect those workers to lawyers, and have a network of party friendly district attorneys. now, if you take them at their word, those attorneys are supposed to be nonpartisan prosecutors who decide who s arrested or goes to jail. they shouldn t be involved in something that s quarterbacked bipartisan operatives. now, we don t know yet which d.a. s would actually get involved in this. it s important journalistically and otherwise to understand what is leaking ou
Of the coast guard, the first woman to lead any branch of the united states armed forces, and it s about time. that was president biden earlier today presiding over the change of command ceremony for the united states coast guard, and as he said, marking a historic first for our country, admiral linda fagan became the head of the coast guard, the first woman commandant of any armed branch. congratulations, admiral fagan, richly deserved. thank you all for being with us on this wednesday. we are grateful for your time. the beat with ari melber starts right now. aloha. good to see you, sir. i want to welcome everyone to the beat, i m ari melber, and we have new details on what the republican operatives are doing in the midterms and beyond. reports that they re recruiting an army to target precinct by precinct how elections work in this country, when you think
we re not interested in assertions or rumors or anything else. i don t want to speculate eith either, so i m going to move you past that. people are throwing out this phrase, insider trading. these are just allegations. but could this, based upon what you know, might this lead to might this be akin to insider trading? well, it could be. spends on the specifics of the facts. what is a greater concern is different categories of investors. we need to be assured that every investor gets treated the same. everybody s money is just as good as everybody else s. people should not be treated as second class investors. here s what morgan stanley is saying. they re saying it follows the same procedures for the facebook offering that it follows for all ipos. so to your point here, faith in the market, assuring every investor. what is your assurance? right now here on national tv to all investors? all clients here on the market. the only way you can get assurance is by facts. we
away the southern vote from president obama. the president this morning struggling and refocusing. security scramble. new information this morning on that u.s. airways plane diverted. you would be surprised how often f-16s are sent up to follow passenger planes. nancy reagan now 90 resting after breaking a number of ribs in a fall. the former first lady recovering. newsroom begins right now. good morning. i m carol costello. high profile investors may have got an insider view of facebook s future before the social network s stock went public. if you didn t have big bucks, you were probably left in the dark. if that is true, it reinforces some of the worst stereotypes about wall street as time magazine put it, it means the entire game is a casino rigged for the house with a sucker played by the average investor. that s the controversy surrounding a name we all know. morgan stanley which served as facebook s lead underwriter and now investigators reportedly want to kn