A special Labor Day edition. Enjoy the 5 00 p. M. Hour, ari. I was going to say, nicolle, it doesnt feel right being here 5 00 to 6 00. Doesnt feel right. But at least i got to see you. Yeah, have a great show. Its a great time. I was happy to come in early. Youre now here early. Its great to get to see more of you. Absolutely. And have a great rest of the Labor Day with you and yours. Welcome to the beat, everyone. Im ari melber. It is Labor Day but theres a lot going on in the world, on the campaign. The news doesnt stop. I can tell you Vice President harris is on the campaign trail. You see here the preparation with President Biden. Theyll be campaigning on this Labor Day holiday. We can also show you them arriving. This was moments ago. So were going to bring this event to you here in this 5 00 p. M. Eastern hour. As i mentioned, theres kamala i should say with the president. But i mentioned with my colleague Nicolle Wallace were here in the 5 00 p. M. Hour. Were going to bring you
comment on this scandal. now, the first tactic, it s no big deal. this whistleblower s saying that the irs wanted actually tougher charges for hunter biden. it s not unusual for investigators and prosecutors to have disagreements before they, you know, as you go through these cases. how many times do they have disagreements along the way? all the time. all the time. yeah. all the time. this is part of the process. this is the way that it works. and it s what we want. laura: this is what we want. well, that s the only honest thing said in that exchange. that of course refuses to acknowledge the most incredible claim of all that joe was in the room where it happened when hunter was demanding money for his family from a chinese businessman, all ccp a provshgsd of course. here s how they covered that. the we have not verified it. it s based on a what s app, we don t know the verification on that, we don t know if huntr was exaggerating talking to someone if it
really for the next decade. when the 2020 election was called for a by then, you might remember democrats got very cocky very quickly. and then they got sloppy. giving into the craziest demand of the far left now, two short years later, look at the mess they ve created. they stoked inflation, they hav sabotaged our energy independence and they wrecked our foreign policy. i was thinking about this tonight i can t think of a single issue that biden and the democrats have gotten right and overwhelmingly, americans do no think that democracy is at risk if the democrats lose control o congress, just like they don t think our country is systemically recessed or define by the events of january 6. it turns out that it is their candidates, the democrat candidates who stink, not ours. have you seen that poor katie ops in arizona. not been put to sleep by charli crist or maggie hansen in order that cortez master character. i would like to meet the person who really really thinks that h
cubic meters of gas into the baltic sea. there s a toxic bubble field more than half a mile wide. you can only guess how many marine animals are being killed right now, countless. but the lasting damage may be to the atmosphere. it s 90% methane. methane, as biden has told us, is the key driver of global warming, which is an existential threat to humanity in planet. so if you re worried about climate change, what just happened to the pipelines is its close of the apocalypse as you can imagine. it wasn t an accident. the same ten leaks were det detected, there were two undersea explosions, each of which was equivalent to hundreds of pounds of tnt. nothing on nature can account for that. leaks were in three separate places. only one explanation. this was an act of industrial terrorism. that was obvious to the prime minister of poland and he wasted no time saying so. today, we are also dealing with an act of sabotage. we do not know the details of what happened yet. but we can
also tonight. prices are still rising at their fastest rate for a0 years, with the cost of food a prime factor. tomorrow s rail strike will go ahead, after talks between the rmt union and railway employers broke down. and a new tribute to the thousands who arrived from caribbean countries from the 19405 and made a huge contribution to british life. and coming up on the bbc news channel. britain s harriet dart is hitting form a week before wimbledon, reaching the last eight at eastbourne. welcome to the bbc news at ten. a devastating earthquake in afghanistan has claimed the lives of more than 1,000 people and left many more injured. the country, which is governed by the militant islamist taliban, is already in the grip of a humanitarian disaster, with millions facing famine. the taliban have asked for international aid, and britain says it s ready to provide assistance. the earthquake struck near the south eastern city of khost, in paktika province. afghanistan is particularl