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♪ >> reporter: jeanne moos, cnn, new york. ♪ >> time for this rat pack to pack it in. thanks very much for joining me this evening. im jim acosta. well be back tomorrow night. good night. ♪ your way round the hill. and now the party bosses want a meeting. they have a proposition. they want you to take a shot at the white house... not eventually, but now. - think about it, will you? narrator: well, first youll have to get past her, the senator with decades of experience and friend...

thank you so much for letting us into your homes for another week of shows. we are so grateful. the beat with ari melber on a friday night starts right now. >> thanks, nicolle. appreciate it. welcome to "the beat." we begin with what some democrats are tout as the best day for domestic news within the biden presidency. not only the best days for the economy in this choppy covid era with all the upheavals but were going to go through the numbers for you, the single best day for economic...

side of the screen, a motorcade escort of the indicted twice impeached ex-president donald trump. he is on route from his airport which landed at laguardia to manhattan to his apartment in trump tower. he will reportedly stay the night there ahead of his history making arrangement in the alleged hush money scheme. tomorrow there are a lot of open questions, a lot of vital considerations being made. even at this late hour first, security. as you might well imagine, the nypd is well awar...

florida and texas where two controversial incumbents are leading in the polls. great britain has a new prime minister again. after boris johnson failed to meet the threshold to run for a comeback. despite rushing back from the caribbean vacation. ill talk to brittney griners russian lawyer on the eve of greiners appeal of her nine-year prison sentence. good day. our poll reveals democrats are fired up, but republicans are even more enthusiastic about their efforts to take over the ...

senator chris murphy and ben orourke, the current candidate for texas governor. we have a lot to ask both of them, but first. one revelation that we got yesterday about donald trumps attempt to overturn the 2020 election did not come from the big public hearing yesterday about the january 6th investigation. rather, it came from mother jones magazine, which contained leaked audio of this guy, steve bannon, former white house advisor, and double layered buttoned down shirt aficionados. t...

one revelation that we got yesterday about donald trumps attempt to overturn the 2020 election did not come from the big public hearing yesterday about the january 6th investigation. rather, it came from mother jones magazine, which contained leaked audio of this guy, steve bannon, former trump white house advisor, and double layered buttoned down shirt aficionados. the leaked audio is from a few days before the 2020 presidential election. rewind a little bit, and remember with me. a c...

Good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in new york alongside Chris Jansing for what could be the end of testimony in Donald Trumps criminal trial. Michael cohen is on the stand for a second day of crossexamination. Katy tur will join us in a moment. Trumps attorney, todd blanche, is pressing the president s onetime loyal ally turned adversary. The defense highlighting the many times cohen admits he lied under oath. Is he lying now . The only person who can counter much of what cohen is testifyin...

believe that it would have a happy ending. now syria is a much, much different picture. tonight, ill take a close look at where the arab spring went wrong as the threat of outright war hangs over a region, that at least for a moment thought change was coming. more in just a moment. but, first, a look at the other stories that were covering tonight. mitt romney made it official. hes running for president but with sarah palins bus tour in new hampshire, will anybody notice? and today the...