please, call now, or you can go to lovesshriners.org. thank you so much for lets us into your homes during these truly extraordinary times. the beat starts right now. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. you know what time it is. we re inside one week to the mid terms. the record-breaking turnout is happens. the latest numbers show more than 29 million americans have already voted, competing those trump mid terms of 2018. we re in full gear, and it s a tense backdrop for the races. there are active federal warnings about threats and attacks on poll workers and the voting process itself. we have seen records of these self-appointed poll watchers showing up in tactical gear, like that shot out of arizona. and election deniers are running for office, it s not normal. threats to lawmakers have increased tenfold over the several years over the trump era. more campaigns will turn on the question of whether candidates will honor democracy itself. these are truly unusual stak
President Joe Bidens son, Hunter Biden. Hell be in Court Today in delaware facing Gun Charges. Its the first time the child of a sitting president has faced a Felony Trial and is being closely watched ahead of the 2024 election. This morning, we want to hear your thoughts on the v. Robert. Phone lines are split. Republicans, 2027488001. Democrats, 2027488000. Independents, 2027488002. You can also send us a text. That number, 2027488003. If you do, please include your name and where youre from. Otherwise, catch up with us on social media at x, on facebook. Another week, another Highprofile Trial to draw our attention. This is the headline from reuters, Hunter Biden criminal trial begins in the aftermath of the trump conviction. Tom hols is a reporter on that story, and hes in Delaware Today to cover that trial, joining us via phone. Tom hals, good morning to you. Tom hals, you with us this morning . Well work on getting Tom Hals on the phone with you, but were hearing from you, our vie
democracy. meanwhile, obama s closing argument went back to some issues that haven t dominated the biden discussion social security, medicare, protecting them. some in the gop are running on that vow, even if it sounds unpopular. to also be fair and precise, other republicans say that will not be their immediate priority if they win back congress, but in politics, as in relationships, one of the best predictors of long-term behavior is long-term behavior. reforming or capping social execute benefits is a long-circulating request on the right, gordon nordquist has been shaping the gop s shift from skepticism into this current era of a militantly committed, strongly enforced anti-tax club,
the sort of conspiracy theory about ukraine hacking the democratic server and not russia. right. it can get confusing. in the beginning, i didn t want people to get confused. right, first of all, contradicts trump saying there s no quid pro quo, a statement he made that encompassed more than the biden discussion. advancing that spear theory, getting ukraine to advance it, is to his political advantage in 2020 because it takes certain questions off the table about 2016. it s still a very bad thing. now we re in this hall of mirror, mick mulvaney comes out layer in the day saying we misconstrued him. you played the clip twice. thank you for doing that. there s no misconstruing here. mick mulvaney just kind of owned what happened and bought, i guess, that was the page the white house was moving toward him, no, it s not, now he has this ridiculous statement out. we re living in this hall of mirrors. how told the truth. yes. and said get over it. so, that was, those were the dr
contradicts trump saying there s no quid pro quo, a statement he made that encompassed more than the biden discussion. advancing that spear theory, getting ukraine to advance it, is to his political advantage in 2020 because it takes certain questions off the table about 2016. it s still a very bad thing. now we re in this hall of mir r mirror, mick mulvaney comes out layer in the day saying we misconstrued him. you played the clip twice. thank you for doing that. there s no misconstruing here. mick mulvaney just kind of owned what happened and bought, i guess, that was the page the white house was moving toward him, no, it s not, now he has this ridiculous statement out. we re living in this hall of mirrors. how told the truth. yes. and said get over it. so, that was, those were the driving factors. did he also mention to me in past the corruption related to the dnc server? absolutely. no question about that. but that s it. and that s why we held up the money.