thank you so much for letting us into your homes for another week of shows. we are so grateful. the beat with ari melber on a friday night starts right now. thanks, nicolle. appreciate it. welcome to the beat. we begin with what some democrats are tout as the best day for domestic news within the biden presidency. not only the best days for the economy in this choppy covid era with all the upheavals but we re going to go through the numbers for you, the single best day for economic numbers in literally 50 years. the unemployment rate has not been this low, in other words, the unemployment rate has not been this high since americans were seeing things like this. hi, this is dick clark and it s time now one small step for man, one giant leap for man kind. as we chart our goals we shall be lifted by our dreams. i like your show, and i like your style shouldn t you brand be true today? kid, the next time i say go someplace like bolivia, let s go someplace l
about racism in this country and race relations more broadly. after the fatal police beating of tyre nichols, the 29-year-old unarmed black man. there s been conversations about race, about policing, and about power and it s abuse for years. complicate of course by the fact that the five officers charged in his death are also black. that is what many feel so passionate about how we teach about the legacy of race and racism in this country. it is why it is become, frankly, so controversial. especially in places like florida where the republican governor ron desantis has been slamming a new ap african american studies course. tonight, the college board is out with changes to that curriculum, raising questions about why they choose and why they chose to remove certain topics. leyla santiago has the very latest. look at this traffic. for 42 years, he was killed right here. from that moment, it was never the same. the man was arthur mcduffie, a black father beaten to death by
you know, we ve been talking a lot about racism in this country and race relations more broadly. after the fatal police beating of tyre nichols, an unarmed black man, there s been conversations about race, policing and about power and its abuse for years. complicated, of course, by the fact that the five officers charged in nichols death are also black. that s about how we teach about the legacy of race and racism in this country. and why it s become, frankly, so controversial. especially in places like florida, where the republican governor, ron desantis, have been slamming a new a.p. african-american studies course. tonight, the college board is out with changing to the curriculum, raising questions about why they chose to remove certain topics. look at this traffic. for 42 years, not knowing this man was killed right here, from that moment, was never the same. reporter: the man was arthur mcduffie, a black father, beaten to death by white police officers in 1979. the o
the invesco qqq legacy classic is back on tnt. that was fun! if you re wondering why we re tired this morning oh, wait, are we on the air? yep! how are you guys doing? it was an awesome game. i feel energized by stuff like that. you were the last holdout. in alabama, there s a whole thing in the fourth quarter, everyone holes their fours up, because you don t leave the game in the fourth quarter. he does not live when he fans leave the game. i cannot leave early. it s like in my soul. and you were the first to go. i was like, we ve got to go. so much fun. thanks, boss, for going to the game. we had fun last night. thanks for joining us. good morning, everybody. that was a knicks/lakers game. we ll talk a little bit more about that. but now we have to get to the news, because there is a lot going on. today, tyre nichols life will be celebrated in memphis as the city prepares for his funeral. authorities also say that even more videos are set to be re
weekend, my friend. thanks to all of you at home. one of the biggest news stories of the century with the january 6th attack on our and capitol the congressional investigation that followed. there were ten public hearings in which the committee presented damning evidence showing that former president trump not only riled up the crowd, within sat back and watched as a violent crowd try to steal an election. it was dramatic. and it was reveler tory. and it was hugely compelling. but we now know, thanks to polling conducted by monmouth university, that those january 6th hearings did not shift public opinion at all. about the same number of people would call it a riot. about the same number of people would call it legitimate protest. in every way, the monmouth poll, the members were basically the same, before and after the january 6th hearings. now there are a lot of reasons why that might be the case. but a huge one a reason that cannot be ignored is this one. fox news did