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Your homes during these extraordinary times. we re grateful. the beat with ari melber starts right now. hi, nicolle. i have to ask, i love what you just ran, and also shout out to yamiche, who we have worked with before and get to welcome back, which is great. but i love what you just played. how do you look at that when you say you have worked in a white house, there s healthy tension with the press. there s other times where you look at a reporter, and i bet even if it runs against some of what your political goal for the week was, you say, hey, they re doing their job, or they re good at this. do you ever look at it that way? because she is so clear and objective and strong in what she does. i mean, look, even the president i worked for would say that people have a hard time confronting a president. even staff walks in and they think, i m going to give him a piece of my mind, and they walk in and it s even more so for a reporter covering the president of any party. it is str ....
Anti-immigration. anti-gun control. that s it. maybe now there s a fifth thing, which is anti-vaccine, which is also helpful to know nothing celebriies because you don t have to know about science. the media goes along with a lot of the this. i saw representative dan crenshaw did a book tore saying unvaccinated people really don t hurt anybody but themselves. this isn t true. but journalists do not want to look like partisan hacks and attack him over it, and this is a luxury they will not give to say, elizabeth warren, who decides to say something that is very much against the preseps of basic science. i think you make several important and interrelated points and talk also about how the media reflects that and that affects what the democrats may perceive as their weaknesses. i have some dylan for you. the media okay. the media, they all went along for the ride. hurricane. and they may go along for the ride in a way here that makes ....
The fact that a standard investigative practice of mr. meadows is not green, the fact that standard practice up sets him is a kind of tell. as for the committee, they re not playing. today, their response is a warning, if he doesn t show up for what was the scheduled deposition tomorrow, they will be left no choice but to advance the contempt proceedings and recommend mr. meadows refer him for criminal prosecution. basically asking the executive branch to turn on another one of their veterans. i m joined by jill wine banks and michelle goldberg from the new york times. jill, i never like to start in the weeds. we try to keep it clear. but i thought that mr. meadows appears to be somewhat candid in a way that s revealing, so i want to walk through it. what does it say to you, what does the significance of him saying that he didn t like that after turning over some stuff, the investigation also was getting stuff from other sources? well, i liked how you laid it out, ari. it is absolu ....
Republican base does not much care or need very much in the way of policy. they just need to be entertained and to have their white grievance spoken to, which is exactly what donald trump did. he did those rallies. he sort of spoke to that grievance, talking about immigration in particular. also about gun rights. those were kind of core issues for the gop base. and he did so in an entertaining way, which is something that he learned from being a hollywood celebrity all those years. he learned to entertain. i think that is a key asset that really goes to why republicans embrace celebrity. there s also maybe a message point that you can bring in to this. that celebrities kind of re-enforce the gop message that you, too, can be a capitalist success story like donald trump, like arnold schwarzenegger, like ronald reagan. that is another aspect of this and also why democrats stay away from celebrities because there is a sense that celebrities undercut our message of being for working people ....
Head around what nunes was up to here. but i think the bloomberg reporting here about, you know, what essentially could be a billion dollar grift with this new social media company that seems to have no social media technology whatsoever and seems to just be a vehicle to bring in undisclosed money, is really prepping for what i think he sees as a bigger win, which is setting up trump as a middle eastern or eastern european style strongman. it s it s tough talk the way you put it, and if you said it in 2015, you know, people would call you a reactionary liberal, michael. i don t know how you feel about that. put it on me. when you say it today when you say it today, after our viewers i think follow the news, they understand what happened with the lead-up to the insurrection, the violence on part of the american right, and the fusion of these grifting ....