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also tonight we now know why defense secretary lloyd austin has been in the hospital for the last week. president biden himself just learning today that the pentagon chief underwent surgery after being diagnosed with cancer. as we also learned that he was under anesthesia without his deputy being aware. also tonight on the 2024 campaign trail nikki haley now within single digits of donald trump in the first primary state. the question is does this make the case for narrowing the gop fi...

i dont think anyone is counting hours anymore. >> brian williams used to call it tonnage. >> there you have it. thanks to nicolle. welcome to "the beat." im ari melber. amidst this unprecedented news week, which is why there are so many hours being slotted around, let me start with a quick question -- is there anything more to learn or say about the federal case against defendant donald trump? our team of journalists on "the beat" says the answer tonight is yes. we have been working on...

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chris jansing reports starts right now. ♪♪ good day. im chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. theres explosive new evidence out today showing then president donald trump got $7.8 million courtesy of foreign countries, more than half of it from china. the allegations about the money paid to trumps businesses while he was in office coming in a highly detailed new report from house democrats. so whats congress going to do about it? plus, new year, same harrowi...

ballots in maine and colorado during his actions during the january 6th capitol hill riot. im dana perino. bill is off today. good morning, bret. >> bret: im bret baier. the decisions in both states not only threatening the frontrunner for the republican presidential nomination but where these cases could be eventually heading. the u.s. supreme court as you see there. karl rove said last hour the rulings go against our very system of government. >> its anti-democratic and looks like a ...

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to keep donald trump off the ballot in 2024, and overseas israels expanding its ground offensive into refugee camps in central gaza in what it calls, quote, a new battle zone. the government there saying the war against hamas will go on, for, quote, many months. secretary of state tony blinken, and other top biden officials, set to meet with mexicos president in the next couple hours for critical talks about the border crisis happening as a caravan with a reported 8,000 migrants headin...

yo your body, but this is the latest from here. ill send it back to you, jake. >> bill, thank you so much. now to west new york, new jersey, thats the name of the city, west new york. maria, tell us what the air is like where you are. >> reporter: yeah, it has been very, very bad throughout the day. things have improved in the last hour, but like the governor of new jersey said in your show earlier, it gets really bad depending on where you are. i want to show you what it looks like. ...

about this agreement. but his primary audience is actually going to be that undecided swing voter in the middle, and really try to sell it to that voter. >> right, and chris hayes, this is a strange thing for biden. is that the fundamentals of the economy are good, and yet people feel bad. and so hes constantly in this position of trying to sell reality to people who are sort of defying reality with their sort of feel, their sort of feelings about things. >> to lawrences point, i was a...

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