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thank you so much for once again letting us into your homes during these extraordinary times. we are grateful. "the beat" with ari melber starts rite now. >> thanks so much. welcome to "the beat." i'm ari melber, and we are tracking several stories for you tonight, including potentially remarks from president biden. but we begin right now with a mystery. consider that nobody really publicly has said they know exactly what secret deals were cut to make kevin mccarthy speaker. mccarthy isn't making it public even though there's been dribs and drabs in reports. house republicans actuall...

and the humiliation that's come with that here in front of the whole nation. tonight we begin with how we got here, because everyone's been absorbing the days of chaos, headlines about the failure of the republican majority to get its work start in the its new congress. a story that really goes beyond politics and it's reaching people who don't always follow the swearing in or the speaker's race. if you approach this with fresh eyes as many americans have, saying what's going on over there? you may wonder why the big chaotic fight continues with rolling losses for republicans. why is...

This compromise bill. So as you mention the politics are fascinating. You have the president and Vice President calling rank and file democrats asking them to vote in favor of the package. You had nancy pelosi and Elizabeth Warren on the other side saying stand up and fight. Bottom line it got through. There were conservative defections because some of them wanted to vote to fight the immigration executive order. It now appears that that will happen in february when funding for Homeland Security is due to expire, sean. Mike, thank you. Joining us mow from the white house is foxs own ed henry. ...

2013. basically mitch mcconnell decided to humor ted cruz for a little while to do this whole defund obamacare thing that we all knew was never going to work in the first place, maybe more than we knew this was never going to work, and he humored him for 16 days and basically at the end of the whole thing he said we can't do it anymore, we be gave it a shot, the base, we tried, that's how this ends right now. if the rank-and-file republicans, if mitch mcconnell and republicans decide this will hurt them politically down the line or they have just drawn out the string too much and no chance of ...

Republicans, house republicans particularly start to lose their patience but how long the shutdown goes on, if they're hearing from their federal worker constituents back home about their furloughs and missing paychecks and if that changes the calculus at all. besides that, adds something extraneous, whether it was trying to defund obamacare in 2013 or trying to add dreamer protections earlier this year on the part of democrats. that's the side that usually loses a shutdown. but we'll have to wait and see. >> we shall. the politics of it, the blame ga game, there are 800,000 federal employees ...