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Us into your homes. Were grateful. The beat with Ari Melber starts right now. Hi, ari. Thanks, nicolle. Welcome to The Beat. Let me tell you what we are tracking and multiple stories including this deadly horrific School Shooting in georgia. In have an update on that during tonights newscast. Theres also very serious revelations about the ongoing scandal surrounding the supreme Court And Clarence thomas and his wife. We have that. And in the middle of the program im going to share with you my re...

than $725 billion for lawsuits and without its biggest, brightest star, tucker carlson "the new york times" reports that his departure is made more stun big the fact that the network did nothing after carlson pushed the envelope over and over, pedaling inflammatory information. quote, the network stuck by him after carlson claimed that immigration had made america, quote, poor and dirty. he seemed to shrug off a racist conspiracy theory known as the great replacement, along with the fa...

>> dahlia, senator whitehouse leading a committee on ethics is something i would buy a ticket and popcorn to watch i dont accept that this is unchangeable i think theres a bottom there has to be a bottom in john roberts mind. i think about 20% of people have high esteem for the court. approval ratings have plunged faster than congress, the media, just about any institution in american civic life. theyre leaking more than most campaigns, certainly more than fox news this is a reputational crisis....

Election results. this is according to a dress rehearsal that we overheard here on the capitol complex. and two additional sources confirming to me and my colleagues in just the last few minutes their intention to move forward with these criminal referrals against john eastman to the department of justice. the same caveats apply here as to the referrals that weve reported on for former president donald trump which is to say theyll be unveiled here in front of the committee today and that they do...

Because its the first time that were going to see a congress committee refer a former president on criminal referral charges. youre right, though, that these dont carry any legal weight. but what we also learn is that in regards to the republican congressman who defied the subpoenas issued to them by this january 6th committee, theyre going to be referring four of them to the house ethics committee. there were five republican lawmakers who were given subpoenas. so one appears to be left off thes...

Would be, run as far away from the ethics program that we currently have as you can. because what weve learned is that it doesnt work. and the problem is this idea of going back to the way trump was suggests that trump was just an aberration and the systems were strong enough to stand up against someone like him. the problem is, they didnt stand up to someone like him. and the conditions that everybody wants to go back to when they say, lets go back to the way it was, were the conditions that go...

The ethics front. >> kelly: martin, rick brings up a valid point. on the other side of the coin, the republicans have not been without their own problems as well in terms of ethics violations and so, what do you say about the republicans and their charge against rangel as well and maxine waters using that when of course its one of the questions that raises the issue, should republicans be going down this path? >> well, theyre going to go down the path no hart what we say and i would remind you t...

Along bing, bing, bing, bing. he will be admonished to work on those. i think pete stark, who is stepping in now to be the chairman of the ways and means committee, will be there for a while. >> bret: kirsten, is this the beginning of a narrative of a culture of corruption? you have back in 2006 house speaker nancy pelosi talking about her efforts on the ethics front. and then she was asked about charlie rangel specifics just this past weekend. >> we will make this the most honest, ethical, and ...

So, when they are going to come along bing, bing, bing, bing. he will be admonished to work on those. i think pete stark, who is stepping in now to be the chairman of the ways and means committee, will be there for a while. >> bret: kirsten, is this the beginning of a narrative of a culture of corruption? you have back in 2006 house speaker nancy pelosi talking about her efforts on the ethics front. and then she was asked about charlie rangel specifics just this past weekend. >> we will make thi...