Thank you so much for letting us into your homes during these extraordinary times. Were grateful. Please stay safe. The beat with Ari Melber starts right now. Hi, ari. Hi nicolle. Welcome to The Beat. Warning against maga disinformation. Both candidates have been speaking out. We have more on the intersection of this humanitarian damager and the campaigns later this hour. While the latest reports indicate this volatile category 3 will double in size and make landfall in florida within hours. Experts caution it could end up being the worst such Weather Event in possibly a generation. I can give you a couple of factoids before we bring in our experts. Sustained Wind Speeds up to 130 miles per hour, projected 15foot Storm Surges in the worse spots, a foot and a half of rain in the densely populated Tampa Area is expected. And you can see fort myers, sarasota, tampa, all in the path, as it will barrel across the West Coast. You see that on your screen with the map of florida. Authorities h
whirlwind of action on capitol hill this wednesday morning. you could say it s a congressional hearing palooza on a slate of urgent topics from the origin of covid, the safety of air travel, the u.s. evacuation of afghanistan, and threats from around the world. that last topic is the focus of a hearing set to begin any second with the senate intelligence committee. we ll hear testimony from the nation s top intel chiefs including dni avril haines, cia director bill burns and fbi director chris wray. we can expect them to dive into a number of topics including new threats from china, questions about mishandling classified documents and concerns over domestic extremism. our team is monitoring this closely. meanwhile, in a different senate hearing, acting administrator of the faa is just moments away from testifying after weeks of disturbing headlines from the not so friendly skies, including a united passenger recently caught on camera attacking a flight attendant and threate
inside an open air drug market to expose what is ravaging our cities and how front line workers are fighting it. sandra: that s all new as america reports heads into a second hour. sandra smith in new york, great to be with you, john. john: good to be with you as well, and it s friday eve. john roberts in washington, begin with the fox news alert. people need to be conscious of the rules regarding classified information and appropriate handling of the, the rules are there for a reason. sandra: that was the fbi director sounding off as classified documents contestants add up in washington. the president facing growing backlash over his mishandling of records. he is expected to take to the podium in virginia a short time from now, to tout the economy. one of the wealthyest counties, by the way, he will be speaking in. john: we expect a lot of the speech will attack republicans economic agenda. no surprise there. sandra: the president s speech will focus on partisa
to an audience and they let chris wall let and leland bleep wreck it too much. a disservice to viewers, yes, but barbara is talking about what ultimately will force fox news to change. is this it? well, we can only hope, lindsey. it s all there. now people know the truth. i mean, these people are telling you what they re doing. they re purposely concealing the truth, promoting lies. why? because they think it s what s going to get them more ratings, more followers on social media, and ultimately more money in their pockets. i mean, they re saying it, we re building this audience. it doesn t matter that they re building the audience on a lie, right? it doesn t matter that they re tricking the american people and intoxicating american society with these lies. what matters to them is their ratings, and hopefully there will be enough public pressure, hopefully there might even be fox news viewers who say we re being tricked. we re being lied to. this has to change. but at the end of the
good jobs, lower costs, better pay, the promise from the president. he may overstate in the speech how strong the economy is. new gdp numbers show the economy is growing but at a slower rate than the previous quarter. gas prices are on the rise once again and tens of thousands of tech workers have been laid off in the first month of the year. still, the white house insists the economy is in good shape, and says it s republicans who will, in the president s words, wreck it. does the administration view calling out republicans as an effective tool? we are willing and the president is willing to work with congress in a bipartisan way. he s also going to call out republicans in particular in the house who are saying they want to cut social security, who have said clearly they want to cut medicare. but house speaker kevin mccarthy has made clear cuts to those programs are not on the