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descending into poverty. the most advanced continental and the planet, the birthplace of western civilization is getting much poorer, moving backwards at a high speed. just a year ago, europe was in a modern place. the overwhelming majority of europeans filled their homes with natural gas, as modern people do. in germany, the world's richest country, only about 6% of households heated their homes with -- and you can expect that given that germany is a modern, industrialized country, with central heating, indoor plumbing, the trappings of a modern society that has -- last year, only 6...

letting us into your homes during these truly extraordinary times. we are grateful. "the beat" with ari melber starts right now. hi, ari. happy friday. >> happy friday. thanks, nicole. welcome to "the beat." i'm ari melber. i'm joining you on this friday, june 28th, a day that marks a major shift in this presidential race. it's something you can basically feel and that many felt in their core. the emotion hitting probably before the logic or any intellectual observations, even as president biden first walked out to the stage. at this debate which his campaign pushed for. earlier than...

Over what happened during the 2020 elections that is driving a lot of these laws in the states but it's also nationally, as you know, donald trump is feeding a beast. i'll just note one other data point from this poll which i think gets at it which is couple weeks ago there was fantasy talk of donald trump being reinstated in august. people were dismissive of it. we polled voter perceptions about whether something like that would happen. many, many voters thought not. 29% of republicans, 3 out of every 10 republicans, believe that donald trump is likely to be reinstated in august. it's alarmin...

Choices. and more important than the list of positions on the party platform is going to be who the nominee is. and whether that nominee taken together with his or her positions, but that nominee himself or herself is seen as someone who can take on donald trump. and is somebody who can beat donald trump. that's -- that was the problem in frankly in 2016. there was a democratic nominee with historically high unfavorables, fairly or not. was very unpopular and ended up losing that election and i think the choice of the nominee is going to be the crucial thing. >> it's worth remembering too, if ...

>> when republicans controlled state offices they used the argument to go to the legislators and tell them, make up a myth. it's fantasy talk, ed. totally fantasy talk. for example, rick scott in florida was put to the test, said rick scott, mr. governor, come show us where this fraud has taken place. he couldn't show it because it doesn't exist. but nevertheless, it creates this visceral scare and legislators have something to hang their hat on and they have the right to take away people's rights to vote. the real problem here, though, ed, i keep coming back to you, is this isn't just a legis...