white house and republicans in congress, finally reached a deal late last night, hopefully to keep america from defaulting on its debt. we are digging and how each side had to compromise to get to this point, and there has been a lot of talk about the 2024 presidential race but not much has been said about the setting. democrats hold a razor-thin majority, they re what races are they focusing on to keep their majority? or even expanded? now the number of senators or retiring or seeking other offices. plus, republican attorney general, ken paxton of texas impeached. temporarily thrown out of office by a lone star state lawmakers, many of them from his own party. the question now stands will the state senate make the ouster permanent. i m simone sanders tones, and i have something to say. you can always get what you want. i know you all may think it s a song, it s with the leaders on both sides of the aisle are telling their voters this afternoon. late last night, congressi
we are grateful. the beat with ari melber starts right now. i m ari melber. the top story rocking conservative politics and fox news tonight is a huge new leak about this moment in 2020 when fox news accurately reported biden won arizona, which stoked a maga backlash which upended the network, fed the series of journalists that fox now is facing potential accountability for, potentially over a billion dollars in lawsuit fines. it s also now led to the absolute blockbuster leak to the new york times. if you re think, or i heard about other leaks, this one is different and new and narrates a secret meeting between fox execs and hosts about that arizona call. an internal freakout where viewers were mad and bailing on fox because they reported in that instance, one, undeniable fact about the election. and the executives and anchors, great bare and mar that mccollum, on this call they discuss they were losing viewers because they correctly called arizona for biden. and the
richard louis, with today s other top new stores. hey, richard. hey, simone, gonna start with an election call in turkey for you first. turkey s supreme election council declaring president erdogan winning the reelection. this extends the authoritarian s 20 year rule, the election, which required a runoff, was the tightest challenge to date for him. a top ukraine official says it entered a new phase in the war. preparations strike back at the kremlin s forces. ukraine s deputy defense minister also said russia s it attacked decreased in bakhmut, that city, as you know, has seen some of the heaviest fighting. brand new video just in of a killer whale attack in the atlantic, another one. at least four votes have been stuck in recent weeks, and similar counters with workers. researchers say these kinds of interactions have had increasing since 2020. the reason possibly whales are mimicking each other s behavior. no deaths have been reported. more someone for you, right after the break
fact about the election. and the executives and anchors, great bare and mar that mccollum, on this call they discuss they were losing viewers because they correctly called arizona for biden. and then they discuss whether the company should reverse that call, as a kind of lie to appease angry trump viewer or change their entire election coverage going forward, basically saying, telling the truth in this instance has reverberated so poorly, maybe we should stop telling the truth. this is absolutely damning and incriminating stuff. keep in mind before we go further, and i m going to show you the receipts news outlet do not autocracy off reporting to the highest audience. they don t state knowing falsehoods only for ratings. of all the valid critique for media, and there are many, this type of thing, just canceling an election call or reversing it, this doesn t even come up. no legitimate news organization
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