the beat with ari melber starts right now. hi, ari. hi, nicolle. i m going to pull a minilawrence. i was trying to give you your seconds back. we have a full breakdown of all these jury questions tonight, which is so interesting. that s what we re going to do. i can t wait. i m going to get upstairs fast enough so i don t miss anything. have a great show. thank you. thank you to nicolle. and welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. today for the first time ever, donald trump s fate in this criminal trial is now in the hands of a jury of his peers. the presides judge giving the standard and detailed instructions to these 12 jurors in a case that s anything but standard. we know that. and tonight we can report several brand-new developments from the jury s first day of deliberations, which lasted over four hours. we have now gleaned new clues about what they re discussing, what they re considering, what exact evidence and testimony they are focused on today, and presu
Administrations staff. Let me be very clear. Im 100 confident that no one on the Vice President staff was involved in this anonymous editorial. I know my people, margaret. You asked them . You know, honestly i dont have to ask them. Because i know them. I know their character. So will the real anonymous senior white house official please stand up some might be saying. More than two dozen Administration Officials have denied and are denying authoring that oped, President Trump saying the Justice Department should launch an investigation into who wrote it. The president saying its a National Security matter. Joining us now, sociegloria mar, and michael waldman. Host of woke a. M. On sirius xm. Should the Vice President
question his staff directly . He said he understand who they are and everything should be okay. If he wants to have confidence in their actual answers and their truthfulness, then he should ask them the question unless hes fearful of the answer. The emperor has no clothes
question his staff directly? he said he understand who they are and everything should be okay. if he wants to have confidence in their actual answers and their truthfulness, then he should ask them the question unless he s fearful of the answer. the emperor has no clothes. the people within the administration say they re fully clothed. we the american people need to know. we need to know is what you re saying. i have to ask you this, michael. since you re the master of words on this group here. we ll all put our hands up to that and defer to you here. who wrote that? who do you think wrote that? one question of course is how senior was the person. that s right. journalists will sometimes call someone senior who the rest of us might not think is so senior. but the bigger question is it came right after the leak of the bob woodward book which has dozens of senior people saying the exact same thing. the question to me at least is not so much who wrote it and it s a fun parlor ga
will this stick? because donald trump continues to maintain a lead in the polls, although it s narrowing, how much narrower will it get. how will donald trump react if he ends up in second place, he can say i m no longer number 1 in the polls. it s a fascinating development to see this happen. a couple interesting polls, this is from wmur. they ve pitted trump against possible democratic rivals. not against his republican rivals. obviously he would win the nam nation. here clinton wins in that matchup 50 to 42. the next is against bernie sanders, he wins, and then the next one ist hypothetical as joe biden gets into the race, he wins. jackie, do any of these mean anything or are these a fun parlor game to look at right now? i think this is a parlor game. ly say, you see trump s numbers
that s right. who wins and who loses in fight for control of the republican party is totally irrelevant. sure, it s a fun parlor game to look at who is up and who is down and the ted cruz and rand paul showdown. wait, no, it s not. it s a terrible parlor game. what is a parlor game? any way if you care about the future of this country, the republican party imagines are of no consequence. look at this graph. unprecedented gap between the voting preferences of young voters and everyone else. mill lineals may not be excited but whatever they call themselves they are liberal and much more to vote democratic than older generations. republicans do you know why in five of the last six presidential elections you ve lost the popular vote some it s because every year the electorate is becoming brownen and more influenced by the mill lineals who is liberal and sorry, gop, they are staying that way. to paraphrase sally field in her