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>> welcome to "the beat." im ari melber. we have new tapes. in a "beat" exclusive we have new audio tapes of congressman george santos, arraigned today for that indictment. they are the santos tapes and theyre coming up shortly. later i want to tell you we also have my special report on clarence thomas problem with law and precedent. well get to that breakdown and these tapes. our top story right now is the santos indictment itself. this is the most controversial new lawmaker in congre...

Now to gas prices that were below the level before the start of russias war on ukraine. i think thats significant. just to be clear, inflation is the rate of increase of prices. it doesnt mean prices are falling. it means that the rate of increase is falling and intend thats happening. many economists think weve gotten to what we call peak inflation. unfortunately, its coming down relatively slowly. we got some better than expected inflation reports from october hoping, again, for more in novemb...

economy overall. dont even get us started on europe or the tax cuts set to expire and spending cuts due to kick in a few short months from now watching it all is fed chairman ben bernanke who is trying to explain to congress -- live pictures right now -- what if anything he plans to do about it without saying too much. felicia taylor is watching from the new york city. felicia, what have we heard and learned so far? >> reporter: its a careful dance because obviously the federal reserve...

Development, right? >>guest: well, it would be. i tend to think that florida will go to romney before either virginia or ohio. you know, again, we dont want to put too much emphasis on 2008 but obama did best in virginia, of those three big swing states, he did the best in virginia. he did second best in ohio, 51.3 percent. and he did the worst in florida where he got 50.9 percent. if there is any state that would tilt back to florida, to the republicans of those three, it would be florida. >>ne...

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