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>> thanks. good afternoon, everybody. i'm bret baier in for martha maccallum. welcome to a special edition of "the story." breaking reports of a new attack on a container ship in the red sea after the u.s. retaliates against iran-backed hezbollah strikes on american troops in iraq injuring three of our service members. one of them critically. the attacks against u.s. forces in the region piling up. we're at more than 100 since the start of the war. u.s. officials for weeks now have been warning the situation could spiral in to escalation. congressman michael waltz says our response h...

during these extraordinary times. we are grateful. "the beat" with ari melber starts right now hi, ari. >> thanks, nicolle welcome to "the beat." i'm ari melber we are tracking several stories, including maya wylie we begin with the escalating heat on defendant donald trump the nation watched as he came to new york for the first criminal arraignment of his life, a legal requirement, not a choice. trump had to sit in court for this unusually long i rainment which included a rare rebuke by the judge for threats he had been making. those threats part of a second civil case also filed th...

the country in traffic accidents from freezing to death in the elements or from a range of other causes as a direct result of this storm. multiday snowfall totals have been titanic, up to 43 inches in hard hit buffalo. governor hochul requesting a federal disaster declaration due to the historic winter storm. >> it is devastating. it is going to a warzone and the vehicles along the sides of the roads are shocking. it is not just small vehicles, it is literally snowplows, it is major size recovery vehicles and utility vehicles and tow trucks. so we have a real challenge right now are ...

until we finish this hearing and the investigation, the justice department is now doing its own inquiry. >> but i do think there's near overwhelming evidence that prosecution is important to send it in a message, a deterrent message, and also insisting on accountability. remember that the company paid comparatively very little in terms of criminal counter in connection with that deferred prosecution and the families of people who perished in those two plane crashes, 346 people lost their lives. still feel that justice has not been served and that feeling pretty understandable. so i t...

Ratification by the states, it is very hard to see why democrats -- why republicans would say, yeah, let's do that. but over the course of the last several years, it has been a growing cry because of the disparity of the representation. the gap has been increasing over the course of the u.s. history in a state like california and a state like wyoming effectively have, you know, the same power when it comes to senate representation. and the same power when it comes to, you know, electoral college votes are just disproportionately benefit the smaller population state which is are disproportionat...