hard parts of the job, one of the easy ones is when i get to sneak nicole wallace in as the first guest on "the beat". >> you're so generous. thank you, you, too. >> thanks, nicole. welcome, everybody, to "the beat." we're tracking several developing stories on a very busy friday capping an extraordinary week for america by the standards of 2020. late breaking news now on the presidential race. donald trump announcing a campaign rally in florida and a white house event tomorrow on the very balcony where he of course returned from the hospital monday. all of this a political reinforcement of donald trump's, yes, failed governing model on the virus breaking his own administration's cdc guidelines, featuring a medically contagious person addressing a crowd that reinforcing the largest problem facing trump's reelection. 59% of voters disapprove straight up how he handles covid. this is a substantive tsunami.