Thank you so much for letting us into your homes during this extraordinary times. We are grateful. The beat with Ari Melber starts right now. Hi, ari. Hi, nicolle. Welcome to The Beat. Join us on this first full day of 2024 with both tickets set. Kamala harriss Running Mate Tim Walz. A very different picture than a couple weeks ago. Today democrats campaigned together in wisconsin and continue to draw larger crowds than democrats drew erlter this Year Pap time lapse were showing you of the line to get into todays event. Sometimes the crowds are larger than trump in the same arenas and trump knows the power of the visuals. Power of this many people excitedly waiting in line, going in for this kind of energy. Tell me what Democracy Look likes. All this is what Democracy Looks like tell me what Democracy Looks like. This is what Democracy Looks bike. Harris and walz hitting michigan another midwestern blue state. Traditionally most years been blue. Democrats, of course, lost it in the Tru
Anybody at the White House our Intelligence Agencies seemed to think would happen. Meantime, lets look at this individual. He was a Gitmo Prisoner that was freed. One of the five. You remember this story. In exchange for Bowe Bergdahl. There was a lot of discussion in 2014 under President Obama about whether or not this deal would put americans in danger. Would these individuals return to the battlefield after they were set free from Guantanamo Bay. Heres the answer. There he is on the left in moscow. He was sitting there with americans and our main negotiator as they negotiated the final terms of The American draw down in afghanistan. That was just before the taliban retook the entire country and established it as an islamic state. Hes very much a way from gitmo and now back on the battlefield. You remember this ceremony, right . Lets go back there from 2014 when Bowe Bergdahls parents were given their son. Sergeant bergdahl has missed holidays and birthdays. Id like to say to bowe wh
the inception of the band was an assembly of the best musicians i could find in the city of chicago. we actually discussed about making the best band we could possibly make, that the band would be a musical democracy. i said when you give me your hand, that ll be the contract. the only way you get out of it is to ask out or you die. i ve always thought of chicago in terms of a family rather than eras. you know, in the span of 40 or 50 years, there are going to be changes. i don t care if it is a family or a band. there are going to be changes. the realization becomes, man, we re all replaceable. we re all replaceable. our first pictures were in a foundation of a building. and we had suits. you know, we picked up shovels. we were leaning on shovels and stuff. i enjoyed playing music. i enjoyed playing in all the groups that i had played in up till then, which were three to four different combinations. but i really enjoyed playing with these guys. you know, it was a who
numbers soaring and think the race is over. how about the year 2000. fighting for the nomination texas governor george w. bush. out of nowhere maverick senator john mccain. people were surprised when the bush coronation turned into a cage match. if you don t take care of social security, my friend, that s all hat and no cattle. that s cute. they are always cutest when they are true. it s not true. brian: bush would get the nomination and face al gore. it was not a tough battle. bradley would not win a primary. so much for the so-called experts. who could forget 2004. howard dean led john edwards, richard gephardt and john kerry in the polls. people would love howard dean but he finished almost as fast as he rose with the dean scream in california. we are going back to washington, d.c. to take back the white house. brian: former new york mayor rudy giuliani was leading in those polls. governor mike huckabee stole into prominence from behind. remember tv start fred thom