thanks so much. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. a we begin with this ongoing and conservative hunt for some kind of evidence or damning narrative about political opponents and how this keeps coming up empty in revealing ways. this is one a those stories that s crested this week because we had the trump era investigation end. i have new material on that, including how it s playing on the right and why that matters. at the same time, house republicans are struggling with their own investigations into the biden family. but it is telling to watch how people are dealing with the evidence this week, especially evident that was channelled but none other than a trump/barr hand picked prosecutor. part of this is playing out on a platform that s been recently discredited. i m talk about fox news, which was caught lying to their own audience and lying so badly and blatantly they were worried they broke illegal lies and they broke history the bad way work a $787 million settleme
anything else. we re not going to sleep tonight, right? have a great show. thank you, nicolle. we are excited about the upcoming news. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. but the big news today is huge, and here it is the criminal trial of defendant donald trump continuing today. you are looking at new images, and i ll explain exactly what it is. you may recall that first court hearing set a lot of rules down. now you re looking at the first one since then, since trump was arraigned, which was a precedent busting moment for america. it was actually just seven weeks ago. at that hearing, the judge warning him about his conduct and scheduling another hearing, which brings us what you have here today. we ll show you what we have. we don t have a million shots. isolated on the left, defendant donald trump sitting right there. this was a hearing on evidence and rules for a protective order. trump had to legally appear in this hearing, which is another step towards his cri
to get to it. you can tell me in the hall later. as mentioned tom hanks is our special guest tonight. the oscar winner who campaigned for biden and obama is here tonight. he has a new book. we re going to get into a lot more. that s tonight. we begin right now with this. you know the sound. new election votes in america. voters just went to the polls in four states and some results have some of the republicans shook again, and we all remember the fizzle of the 2022 midterms. now democrats won in several more key states, including ousting republican mayor in a conservative city in florida. last night florida democrats scored their biggest election victory in years. a stunner in jacksonville, florida, the most populous city. a democrat has flipped the mayor s office. this is really important a democrat won the mayoral seat in jacksonville, florida. it s all new. they re calling that republican loss there in the largest city in florida a stunner because the desant
c confirmed could happen as soon as june 1. manu raju has the latest. reporter: speaker kevin mccarthy has been pessimistic as talks have occurred on the staff level the past week to try to avoid the nation s first ever debt default. the white house has resisted calling for the national debt limit which is more than $31 trillion to be raised without any conditions whatsoever to avoid the prospects of the u.s. not being able to pay its bills. the house did pass a bill that included a host of priorities that democrats say is dead on arrival. so there is not much time left. in order to get a deal by that june 1 potential deadline to avoid the default, default could occur in the first couple weeks of june according to the treasury department or as soon as june 1. but he spoke to reporters on monday, and mccarthy made clear there is a long way to go. the way the president has ignored it for 100 days and he still hasn t taken it serious. reporter: even if they would to get a
stephanie ruhle. speaker kevin mccarthy may hav won the battle to pass raising the debt limit, but now he i on a collision course with the urged president biden to make deal to give the u.s. from default, and economic disaster now the president can n longer put this economy in jeopardy, we - we have sent it to the senate. the majority of american overwhelmingly want us to si down and negotiate it is up to them now this afternoon, biden again insisted negotiations were out of the question. i m happy to meet with, mccarthy but not on whether or not the debt limit get extended that is not negotiable the clock is ticking, washington has until early jun to act mccarthy s bill now heads to the senate, but according to senate majority leader chuck schumer, the thing is dead o arrival. we are also following the civi rape trial involving forme president donald trump today e. jean carroll wh accused trump of sexual assaul gave explosive testimony i federal court. and we see t