to get to it. you can tell me in the hall later. as mentioned tom hanks is our special guest tonight. the oscar winner who campaigned for biden and obama is here tonight. he has a new book. we re going to get into a lot more. that s tonight. we begin right now with this. you know the sound. new election votes in america. voters just went to the polls in four states and some results have some of the republicans shook again, and we all remember the fizzle of the 2022 midterms. now democrats won in several more key states, including ousting republican mayor in a conservative city in florida. last night florida democrats scored their biggest election victory in years. a stunner in jacksonville, florida, the most populous city. a democrat has flipped the mayor s office. this is really important a democrat won the mayoral seat in jacksonville, florida. it s all new. they re calling that republican loss there in the largest city in florida a stunner because the desant
another week of shows. we re so grateful. the beat with ari melber starts right now. hi, nicolle. welcome to the booet. joe biden just sat down for an msnbc exclusive. they just if he in the tapes. what you re seeing just happened. and you will only hear this exclusive on msnbc tonight, including starting this hour when stephanie joins us live with the first excerpt. there is no bigger inview in american government or politics. and we and stephanie have you covered with that coming up. i also have more on the expanding scandals, swirling around clarence thomas and his controversial activist wife. new evidence about her secret payments provided from a republican kecked insider. so we re going to get into that and what has become basically a pile of questions for not only clarence thomas but his colleagues on the court. what are they going to do about it. we ll get into that later tonight. it is one of those very newsy fridays. from the supreme court all the way over to the
to pay stamp duty. i found that out this morning. that s good. it s a trickle down budget. sometime in the future, we may see a benefit, if all goes well. but the poor need help right now. in nother news, four russian occupied areas of ukraine are staging referendums on whether to become part of russia. western governments call them a sham. the first woman to win the booker prize twice, the celebrated author dame hilary mantel, has died at the age of 70. hello. in a massive shake up of the uk s finances, the chancellor kwasi kwarteng has outlined a series of tax cuts and spending commitments that will cost £45 billion by 2027. the independent institute for fiscal studies has described the announcements as the biggest tax cutting budget in 50 years. the government says its policies will help boost economic growth yesterday the bank of england warned the uk may already be in recession. but critics say funding the tax cuts will lead to unsustainable borrowing. the chancellor an
Speaker all the way back to boehner. Is that about him or the exhaustion . Thats something well learn about tonight, but the Nomination Speech Backing him and the way the democrats responded tore into the politics that hangs all over there. The federal government has been illegally weaponized again we the people. House republicans have put their names behind someone called the most important architect of the Electoral College objections. Mike johnson has received 220 votes. I want to thank Leader Jeffries. I do look forward to working with you on behalf of the american people. Thats some of how it played out today. If youre looking at your screen going, who is mike johnson . Well, youre probably like a lot of americans. Thats not a criticism of him. It might have been an attribute, but he is little known. He is a more Junior Member than you usually see take on such a big position in government, and certainly in house leadership, where people like scalise were trying to come up through
Gillian slovo, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Gillian, you have been writing for many decades, but your recent work, particularly your plays, have focused not so much on your own authorial voice, your imagination, they focused on real peoples real stories. I just wonder if youre getting sick of making things up. Im not, actually, because, you know, theres part of me that wants to go back to my desk to be on my own, to make stuff up, but ive really got a lot from working in the theatre and from the collaboration that comes, not only from the crew and the directors and the actors, but actually the collaboration that comes from the people ive interviewed. And finding a way to magnify their voice onstage has been actually really a wonderful piece of work for me. Ive really learnt a lot about it, and it also teaches you about dialogue when you want to go back to drama, to writing fiction. I mean, your most recent play, which has been on in the uk and indeed on in new york as well, is all a