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starts right now hi, ari. >> hi, nicole. so nice to see you welcome to "the beat" everyone i'm ari melber we are running and gunning i have a lot for you tonight i have the secret tapes of ted cruz about how he tried to steal the election and we have ted cruz's response. he responded directly to that beat report from last night and we have something else a a new excerpt from the cruz tapes and tucker carlson's firings and new details and new implications that go well beyond media. we begin in washington, and we have jen psaki with me on set in person so she's going to be the person e...

have ever faced charges in connection to the payments to daniels, even though trumps was implicated in the case by the federal government. back in 2018 in a sentencing memo for michael cohen, federal prosecutors said that trump, quote, acted in coordination with and at the direction of individual one. individual win is none other than the ex-president himself. the meeting today is also taking place at a time when discussions of the criminal culpability is being royaled by allegations of the veteran prosecutor mark pom rans who said the question of criminal culpability over hush money...

what was going on, what the response was going to be. and, look, china's one of our biggest adversaries, so to see this, you know, when people look up in the sky and i was driving around earlier, people were pulled over on the side of the road, they were pulling out their camera phones. a lot of intrigue about this. you know, this is an interesting, you know, interesting time, but a lot of people have questions about this. and for me, i'm incredibly concerned about where, you know, where this was headed and why it took so long to address. mike: a sense of relief as a south carolina c...

general keane, i'm not sure if you can see this, but we have a live shot now of this balloon going down. this balloon has been taken dow- >> oh, that's great. arthel: it is now i falling from the sky there over surfside beach, south carolina. so your reaction to this, sir. >> i'm watching it. well, first of all, well done. congrats to the military for being able to do that. arthel: very dramatic, indeed. lucas tomlinson is live at the white house with the very latest. lucas. >> reporter: we've just learned from this background call with pentagon officials that it was an f-22 fighter ...

investigators find a link between bryon kohberger and one of his victims. he sent a series of direct messages on instagram two weeks before the slayings. >> bill: meanwhile more breaking news. a drip, drip, drip on the classified document story. peter doze doocy reporting from the white house. the d.o.j. went to the residence in wilmington, delaware where documents were found in the garage and personal library to retrieve and take possession. they did not go to the office on capitol hill but based on that reporting so far they did go to delaware to retrieve the document, doj official...