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thank you so much for letting us in your homes during these extraordinary times. the beat with ari melber starts right now. happy monday. happy monday, thanks, nicole. welcome to the beat. i am ari melber. the civil case against donald trump over defamation and battery, nicole was discussing that earlier. we have that later in the hour here on the beat. our top story tonight is a topic that could be the top national story on most nights by many metrics. america s gun epidemic and the ongoing threat and reality of a highly armed nation with easy access to some of the most dangerous guns in the world and a gun-related death toll that exceeds every other country per capita in the world. that can look like this. [gun shots] that was the harrowing scene at a recent little league baseball game in south carolina. you can imagine and feel how all the kids and parents felt and that is the kind of story that may not even make what we call national news, that you may not ....
That s about the extent of it, ari. yeah, raise my hand. do you want gun reform. yeah, okay, i want gun reform, but then what? how do you reconcile that with the fact that i m going to go to the ballot box this november, next november or the november after that and vote for someone who stands in opposition to 87, 81,s 7 p77% of the people on th issues. certainly that s a national scope, but i guarantee you within given communities, those numbers are the same or pretty pretty much close to the same. so while we say on the one hand we want this change and it needs to come and we re tired of watching our jung kids having to go through these types of live experiences on a baseball field or on a basketball court, we re loathe to really do anything about it because we keep in place the people who won t make the change. yeah. i don t care what party you are. ....