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thank you so much for letting us into your homes during these truly extraordinary times. we are grateful "the beat" with ari melber starts right now. >> welcome to "the beat." we begin with what many are saying is the revelation of something we knew but continue to see in more depth, a kind of staggering weakness of speaker mccarthy. as you see him giving out rewards to the very people who broke with him and tortured him before finally relenting this that historically chaotic beginning...

close up shop over the holidays, you are practically inundated with releases a material. there was the committees final report which clocked in at over 800 pages. then there were just thousands of deposition peaches and transcripts, court documents and exhibits -- from the committees. hearings dozens of videos. it is hard to believe that there was anything the committee did not release. and yet today, we learned there was something. today the washington post published this draft memo. ...

good morning. s its 10:00 a.m. eastern. 7:00 a.m. pacific. im ryan nobles. after years of broken promises and legal battles, some of former president trumps tax returns are now public. a short time ago, the house ways and means committee release trumps tax returns from 2013 through 2020 and returns from some of his businesses. it comes more than six years after the former president made this pledge to release the returns. >> ill release them when the audit is completed. i have had audi...

wonderful. like you im dax in the hallways and he was one of the people that we met him i would say to him that he was in network news and he would hire me. a wonderful wonderful man and i miss him terribly. >> and he would love that made it on air so thank you for that if hes at the justice department is going to indict him. or distract from the scene tonight. witness testimonies containing damning evidence of donald trumps conduct. as soon as the january six committee. could be relea...

after a once this a lifetime blizzard pummelled the city. well take you live to buffalo, where the thashl guard is stepping in to help. the severe weather ignite ing a southwest airline meltdown leaving passengers stranded in airport terminals. the chaos stretching into another day with thousands of flights cab selled so far. well bring you a live report from the busiest airport in the country. also this hour, fresh fallout surrounding george santos, who admitted to fabricating his...

made its way to our doorstep right here in aalbuquerque, new mexico. fundamentally at the end of the day this was about a right-wing radical, an election denier who was arrested today, and someone who did the worst imaginable thing you can do when you have a political disagreement, which is turn that to violence. >> wow. saddest of all perhaps is that such incidents of dangerous domestic extremism are starting to feel routine in our country. amid a sharp rise to threats of public offic...

>> ive been in the room when difficult decisions are being made. i dont want the federal government involved in that at all. i want to put the best ideas forward to states can decide for themselves. >> yes, ladies, you your doctor and maybe your town council person can all come to a consensus on your uterus. just an example how republicans are struggling to avoid saying what they really plan to do about abortion. and extreme voices in the republican party. chief of staff mark meadows...

texas decided to deposit migrant asylum seekers, some o them children, on a freezing cold sidewalk north to go. three buses filled with more than 100 migrants arrived in d.c., late saturday night, where they were unceremoniousl dropped off outside the vice presidents official residence. they were sent there by th republican governor sent texas greg abbott, to make a political point of what happening at the souther border the buses were filled with families, with children, man of them w...

off of the gulf coast there. were not going to get a sense of it until tomorrow. but yes, it looks pretty path down in. >> and well be talking about this later in the hour. thanks, chris. and thank you for joining us. hurricane ian continues to create a swath of -- in made landfall just after 3:00 this afternoon in southwestern florida, near k oconnor, a island off of the coast of fort myers. ian came ashore as a category four hurricane with 150 mile per hour winds. just a few miles pe...

the day. were going to take you live to pa so. and unfolding this morning at airports nationwide, frustrated and confused passengers still stranded with southwest airlines in the midst of that meltdown. transportation secretary pete buttigieg is calling for accountability. it comes as thousands are trying to recover from that once in a lifetime blizzard that left more than 60 people dead. well take you live to buffalo for the latest. also this morning, were keeping a close eye on the...