right now, "the beat" with ali velshi, in for ari melber, starts right now. >> that was remarkable, thanks for that, i appreciate it. good to see you, my friend. welcome to "the beat," i'm ari velshi, in for ari melber. vladimir putin has ordered russian troops into separatist areas of ukraine, as a peacekeeping force. these are the regions in the eastern part of ukraine, in orange. biden quickly responded, saying the united states will impose sanctions on the two regions, although it didn't hit russia itself with any new penalties. nato also condemned putin's move. the concern, experts say putin, and the peacekeeping troops he's now sending, claims he needs to protection the areas and their russian-speaking populations. that appears to be a pretext for invading ukraine. putin also accused ukraine of being a puppet for the united states. saying it never had a consistent tradition of being a true nation. i can tell you about some ukrainians who would take exception to that. all of this, says the u.s. administration, is more proof that a russian invasion of ukraine is imminent. >> every indi

january 6th committee and the subpoenaing of peter navarro who was on our air a month or so ago with ari melberle bit of that for folks. >> we had over a hundred congressmen and senators on capitol hill ready to implement the sweep. we were going to challenge the results of the election and basically these were the places railroad were sent back to those battleground states and looked at again that there would be enough concern amongst legislatures that most or all of those states with decertify the election, it would throw the election to the house of representatives. >> as many of us were watching this interview back then, a lot of us were shaking our heads, we were led to believe as of what. the what are they looking to learn from navarro here in this testimony? >> yeah, yasmin. just like you said, they are looking to learn what evidence they had who else he was working with and what the form are president knew p knew, which is perhaps the most important question of the january but his meeting with ari melber and the fact he wro about this stuff in a book leads the committee to say you have

the beat with ari melber starts now. >> nicolle, welcome back. tosses aren't the same, even though i love the guest hosts as well. how are you feeling? >> you know, this thing is still out there, still a live wire. i did something i hadn't done in two years, i ate inside and got covid. i have no wisdom, no lessons. just glad i was vaccinated. >> yeah, i hear that and appreciate you sharing it. i think everyone, myself included, is happy to have you back. >> thank you, friend. >> absolutely. nice to see you. nice to have nicolle back. welcome to the beat. i am ari melber. we begin with interesting new developments. we all know rudy giuliani, the trump ally who had such a controversial approach to his election litigation, he's reportedly in talks with the riot committee. "new york times" reporting that the extent of any potential cooperation or assistance is unclear. that's a big caveat. we'll get into why this is interesting and matters. negotiations could fall apart. but if talking leads to cooperating, it is viewed as a, quote, major break throu

i'm ari melber. we begin with the power struggle inside the republican party. it's about more than politics. it's about whether we have a democracy many this country and what people stand for, if anything. that bombshells that have been breaking are forcing many to choose sides. it's about the january 6th riot, about donald trump and whether people will stand up to anything including the violence against the very capitol where they work. consider over the last 13 months, mcconnell and mccarthy have largely tried to evade those divisions. you may know about them. it may look like an obvious set of dodges. in life, in government, in politics, dodges tell you something. it tells you a little bit about where they want to be and where they don't want to be pinned down for the future. now, on policy, that meant fighting any inquiry into the riot. in rhetoric it meant often trying to have it both ways. that game is, in many ways, over thanks to some developments forcing a reckoning. vice president pence whoever one knows is loyal to so many things trump did and wanted

"the beat" with ari melber starts right now. >> was it not jim jones that say we fly high. >> how high? we could touch the sky. >> look at you. never missed a beat. have a good weekend. always good to see our friend jason johnson in for nicolle. welcome everyone into "the beat." the president meeting with allies today to counter the vladimir putin incursion into ukraine. it requires every facet of government to work well together. biden balancing that challenge and a newly scheduled call with putin tomorrow and with biden managing a new booming economy, plus the inflation problems. no outcome is assured on any of this but many say biden is fully staff and coordinated administration is ready and empowered to do all of this which is something that he talked about on the campaign trand and is a contrast to trump, biden as a candidate pledged to end that. and talked about it as well when he began his new administration. blasting how incompetence had become the norm. >> he's been incompetent, donald trump was dangerously incompetent and in capable of world leadership. >> we have never, ever

"the beat with ari melber" tarts right now. >> thank you for the toss. i'm ari melber and we're reporting on a big development out of the new york criminal case against the trump organization, both under investigation, i'm going to get to that with legal experts. but we begin with the escalating tensions between the russia and ukraine. the pentagon said that russia has all abilities to launch a full-scale invasion, that is what the president spoke about and warned about yesterday. the president now announcing new sanctions on the company that builds that nord stream 2 gas pipeline and the ceo. those come amid reports of new cyberattacks targeting ukraine bank and government websites. they are declaring a 30 day state of emergency and shelling intensified in the eastern region. rich engle is on the ground and local troops came up and were under what was suspected to be an artillery attack. >> this village has been hit hard over the last four or five days and about half of the people have moved out already. >> that is just some of what was captured. we cou

"the beat" with ari melber starts rights now. hi, ari. >> hey, jason. thank you.r navarro is here, now, for his first exclusive tv appearance since facing that new subpoena from the january 6th committee. and this is how we got here. >> white house trade and senior economic adviser peter navarro. assistant to the president and director of trade and manufacturing policy. >> former white house trade guy, peter navarro. >> peter navarro is our guest tonight. >> we had over 100 gresmen and senators on capitol hill ready to implement the sweep. >> this guy did an interview with ari melber on msnbc last night. they have this plan to hype these gossamer fantastical claims of supposed fraud. >> he said the quiet part out loud. >> navarro explained what the coup plot had in common with the football play was teamwork and obviously brain damage. >> congratulations, peter navarro. i think you earned

my friend ari melber starts right now. hi, ari. >> thank you, and welcome to "the beat." we're tracking mitch mcconnell breaking with the rnc. that's an unusual headline. it's also coming up. >>> and a deep dive later on what courage actually means. >>> first we begin with a top story, an economic boom. >> we're seeing the beginnings of an american manufacturing comeback, this is not hyperbole, this is real. the bottom line is the united states is in a position to out outcompete the world once again. >> president biden touting those record-breaking numbers, and record-breaking is not a term of hyperbole. it's the highest job point of any president ever. the job growth actually triples those of the most recent president, if you remember that one. it is growing by measures and some of that is a result of the pandemic, which there is an argument that any president right now would inherit it. but then there is the rest of the picture. biden's aides have said quite convincingly that the basic way that we're seeing omicron and delta recede is partly by policies, including polic

our special coverage continues right now on "the beat" with my colleague, ari melber. hi, ari. >> hi, nicolle. appreciate your coverage and thank you. i want to welcome everyone to "the beat." ynl ari mallber and the world is responding and reacting right now to vladimir putin's new war in ukraine. the scene right now in kyiv, the capital, we have a city under curfew now amidst the ongoing attack ordered bide vladimir putin. senior defense officials tell nbc the goal is to capture kyiv and topple the formal ukrainian government. meanwhile, according to a ukrainian defense official, today russia is now in control of chernobyl, the infamous site of the 1986 nuclear disaster. ukrainian health minister says 57 people have already died, 169 injuries have been formally tabulated. we're also seeing pictures of the aftermath of those first attacks last night. radar and military equipment destroyed. the aftermath of the shelling in kharkiv where an apartment building was hit. today, the president announced more sanctions as threatened and intended on russian banks, on elites clo

television over and over again and now kind of being more tight lipped, especially in an interview with ari melber last night. what's his strategy? >> well, in is a war as far as they're concerned. this is a war to try to get president trump another term and they are going to use democrats on capitol hill and the january 6 committee as their opponents and use republicans like mitch mcconnell to show that trump is under siege, that he is being once again persecuted by these illegitimate committees and investigations. this is russia, this is ukraine. it's a continuation of the same type of playbook that we've seen from these people all along. as i get into in my book, this is very much donald trump's party, has been since before the days that donald trump was a republican and was still registered as a democrat because culturally the sense that these folks are losing their country or want their country back is very palpable. and that's what former president trump has given them. he's given them a battling to wage on his behalf. now, the question is whether or not they continue to be loyal foot soldie

he's pushing facts and logic, "the beat" with ari melber starts right now. ht we are tracking an escalation from the january 6th committee. this was breaking late today. it involves trump white house vet peter navarro, who is so vocal about trying to overthrow the election that many legal experts say he opened himself up

he's pushing facts and logic, "the beat" with ari melber starts right now. hi, ari. >> pushing facts, always pushing facts. hi, jason. i want to welcome you to "the beat" but we begin with breaking news. tonight we are tracking an escalation from the january 6th committee. this was breaking late today. it involves trump white house vet peter navarro, who is so vocal about trying to overthrow the election that many legal experts say he opened himself up to a potential formal subpoena. though he recently told us he had not at that time got one. >> here they are poised to probably subpoena jordan perry navarro. >> congratulations peter navarro, i think you just earned yourself a subpoena. >> will his be the next subpoena to drop? >> has the house probe requested your cooperation? >> no. >> no. and that no came about two weeks ago. navarro's admissions about trying to overthrow the election came about four weeks ago right here on t beat. the news tonight is the january 6 committee just subpoenaed navarro, pressing him to go under oath about his confessed plot. th

"the beat with ari melber" tarts right now. >> thank you for the toss.g to get to that with legal experts. but we begin with the escalating tensions between the russia and ukraine. the pentagon said that russia has all abilities to launch

"the beat" with ari melber starts right now. hi, ari. >> hi, nicolle. thank you. welcome to "the beat." we begin with breaking news on a new and major trump legal loss. a new york judge has just ordered donald trump late today to testify, in fact, what we have here is not something you see every day for former presidents. it is a major ruling, it just came down. and it means donald trump has lost again. this time, losing a bid to try to duck questioning under oath in the open new york trump org money proep. so what does it mean? number one, this is an order that donald trump and his children, donald trump jr. and ivanka trump, must testify. they must comply with these open subpoenas from the new york attorney general's office and the family members have just three weeks until they go under oath until this is appeals or blocked. two weeks, and that's not all, you know, you would be forgiven for saying, well, ari, i have heard about thesis kind of cases before and losses before. but i have to tell you, reading this late today, it is a different kind of rebuke. scath

green bay sweep, he wrote about it in a book he authored and also talked about it on msnbc with ari melber. let's play some of that. >> we had over 100 congressmen and senators on capitol hill ready to implement the sweep, and we were going to challenge the results of the elections in six battleground states, and most or all of those states would decertify the election and that would throw the election to the house of representatives. >> do you realize you are describing a coup? >> no. >> he laid out a plan, not calling it a coup, and that's what the january 6th committee wants to hear, who he planned this with and how involved the former president was, and they say you talked about it and just come and talk to us about it. we will see if he shows up. he has been subpoenaed. some of his information is out there and the committee wants more details, katy. >> leigh ann caldwell, pete williams, josh dossy and mr. gibbs, thank you for starting us off. >>> former white house adviser, peter navarro will be speaking to ari once again on the beat tonight. catch that right here on msnbc. >>> new nu

he has given numerous interviews, including more than a one with my colleague ari melber right here onhas been downright proud of the plan that he says he was pushing to overturn the election results. but tonight, mr.

he has given numerous interviews, including more than a one with my colleague ari melber right here on this network. ari's face says it all in this interview. in all of these forums, he has been downright proud of the plan that he says he was pushing to overturn the election results. but tonight, mr. navarro seems suddenly reticent when it comes to talking about the january 6th investigation. he says he cannot possibly speak to them, without donald trump's permission, and so they need to go talk to trump's lawyers. that is not how a subpoena works. but okay. we will be keeping an eye on that. also tonight, remember that story that we brought you earlier this week about the national archives discovering that donald trump took 15 boxes of white house records to his golf club when he left office. and how the archives had to get those boxes back? because donald trump was not allowed to take them in the first place. well now the archives have asked the justice department to get involved, after reportedly finding what it believed to be classified material inside those boxes. we are going to

he's spoken with this extensively with ari melber as you just played, several times.y were trying these -- this outside legal effort was trying to work from the bottom up to get this done and to block the electoral certification. >> sam, the best resource would be if the committee -- to stay tuned to msnbc. nava navarro already said he would not cooperate with the committee. how might this set up some of the bigger names. navarro seems willing to talk about a lot of things in public, but yet is saying he's not going to be talking to the committee? >> navarro is an interesting character here. he likes to go out and, what he calls flood the zone which is sort of a steve bannon phrase, to essentially get their narrative out to confuse larger narratives. the idea he would be a cooperative witness is far fetched. it's probably not going to happen. the kind of million-dollar question here, the thing that looms over everything is what is the justice department going to do with a lack of -- with these recent revelations that trump either flushed records down the toilet, by th

i'm ari melber. we begin with the power struggle inside the r

"the beat" with ari melber starts right now. >> thank you so much.ur coverage continues as we track two major stories. president biden making history today and breaking a barrier as he nominates the first black woman ever to the supreme court. it is a momentous development, and we have special guests live with their first reaction right here on "the beat" in just a few minutes. before we hear from them, we have a quick update on the other story, the big one, destabilizing much of europe right now. the russian military attacking ukraine's capital kyiv and putting ukrainian forces on defense while their resistance may be initially stronger than what putin first planned on -- that's according to one u.s. official. you can see some of the movements here. the ukrainian president holding on strong, saying he will stay and defend his country. that's amidst reports that he is understandably one of russia's top targets inside you crane right now. in another development president biden picking up on that roiling debate yesterday to now formally indicate the u.

"the beat" with ari melber starts now. >> hi, welcome to "the beat." we begin with breaking news. the january 6th committee subpoenaed six people into the trump campaign fraudulent elector plot, coordinated strategy to reclaim their authority by sending an alternate state of electors. you may have heard that from some people explaining what they were up to. fraudulent and fake is another. whether it is illegal is under criminal investigation. committee is seeking documents and depositions by mid march, a fast timeline, and subpoenaing someone in the thick of this and midterms, the chair of the arizona republican party, kelly ward. she has been trying to hide phone records from the committee and the committee says she has been acting as a, quote, purported electoral college elector, dating back to december, 2020. the committee has many reasons to suspect this, one of them involves something that happens a lot these days, people are not only caught on camera, sometimes seem to be telling on themselves. this was filmed and posted online on twitter by none other than the arizona repub

. >> hello, friend, welcome to "the beat," i am ari melber and we begin with breaking news. president biden saying just within the past hour, vladimir putin, according to the united states has decided to invade ukraine and this could. within days. >> as of this moment i'm convinced he's made the decision. we have reason to believe that. we have reason to believe the russian forcesre intend to atta ukraine in the coming week. in the coming days.om >> reporter: to be clear, you are convinced that, you are convinced that president putin is going to invade ukraine, is that what you just said a few moments ago? >> yes, i did. yes. >> reporter: what reason do you have to believe he's considering that option at all? >> we have significant intelligence capabilities. >> this is a decisive escalation in the rhetoric and conclusions from the united states. you could see that intense press room there, and the president given thehe opportunity, reconfirming this view based on his sources on u.s. intelligence, some of it shared, some of it private, u.s. intelligence does state half of the

an entire book about it and given numerous interviews including more than one with my colleague ari melberight on this network. his face says it

his role in planning to overturn the election several times, including with our friend, msnbc's ari melber. take a look. >> we were going to challenge the results of the election, in six battleground states. we believe that if the votes were sent back to those battleground states, and looked at again, that there would be enough concern amongst the legislators that most or all of those states would decertify the election. >> do you realize you are describing a coup? >> no. i totally reject many of your premises there. >> you say, quote, pence refused to take my repeated phone calls about election irregularities despite a direct request from president trump to do so. what was your vision that you would get pence to do that which trump couldn't get him to do? >> i simply wanted to brief mike on what i had found. i had what we called the receipts, and that's all the conversation -- >> was it wrong to try to overturn the election to keep trump in office? >> no, not legally, everything i did was clearly between the lines. >> joining us now, political reporter for axios and friend of the show, sa

. >> this guy did an interview with ari melber on msnbc last night. they have this plan to hype these gossamer fantastical claims of supposed fraud. >> he said the quiet part out loud. >> navarro explained what the coup plot had in common with the football play was teamwork and obviously brain damage. >> congratulations, peter navarro. i think you earned yourself a subpoena. >> former white house trade adviser peter navarro. >> members of the committee subpoenaed peter navarro wednesday. >> the committee wants more details. >> the house committee there subpoenaing navarro late yesterday, demanding his testimony on many of those topics around the election and post-election period. as mentioned, peter navarro is here live tonight to answer the questions. welcome to "the beat," sir. >> ari, great to be with you. >> great to have you. we have learned a lot over the last few weeks even about these different efforts to keep president trump in power. one of the sets of reports has been about other alternate or fraudulent electors. when did you become aware o

he has given numerous interviews, including more than a one with my colleague ari melber right

our special coverage continues right now on "the beat" with my colleague, ari melber. coverage and thank you. i want to welcome everyone to "the beat." ynl ari mallber and the world is responding and reacting right now to vladimir putin's new war in ukraine. the scene right now in kyiv, the capital, we have a city under curfew now amidst the ongoing attack ordered bide vladimir putin. senior defense officials tell nbc the goal is to capture kyiv and topple the formal ukrainian government. meanwhile, according to a ukrainian defense official,

"the beat" with ari melber starts right now. hi, ari. >> hi, nicolle. thank you.a new york judge has just ordered donald trump late today to testify, in fact, what we have here is not something you see every day for former presidents. it is a major ruling, it just came down. and it means donald trump has lost again. this time, losing a bid to try to duck questioning under oath in the open new york trump org money

my friend ari melber starts right now. hi, ari. >> thank you, and welcome to "the beat.". >>> and a deep dive later on what courage actually means. >>> first we begin with a top story, an economic boom. >> we're seeing the beginnings of an american manufacturing comeback, this is not hyperbole, this is real. the bottom line is the united states is in a position to out outcompete the world once again. >> president biden touting those record-breaking numbers, and record-breaking is not a term

right now, "the beat" with ali velshi, in for ari melber, starts right now. >> that was remarkable, thanks

the beat with ari melber starts now. >> nicolle, welcome back. tosses aren't the ,

. >> hello, friend, welcome to "the beat," i am ari melber and we begin with breaking news. putin, according to the united states has decided to invade ukraine and this could. within days. >> as of this moment i'm convinced he's made the decision. we have reason to believe that. we have reason to believe the russian forcesre intend to atta ukraine in the coming week. in the coming days.om >> reporter: to be clear, you are convinced that, you are convinced that president putin is going to invade ukraine, is that what you just said a few moments ago? >> yes, i did.

"the beat" with ari melber starts right now. >> was it not jim jones that say we fly high. >> how high everyone into "the beat." the president meeting with allies today to counter the vladimir putin incursion into ukraine. it requires every

"the beat" with ari melber starts right now. >> thank you so much.esident biden making history today and breaking a barrier as he nominates the first black woman ever to the supreme court. it is a momentous development, and we have special guests live with their first reaction right

"the beat" with ari melber starts now. >> hi, welcome to "the beat." we begin with breaking news.elector plot, coordinated strategy to reclaim their authority by sending an alternate state of electors. you may have heard that from some people explaining what they were up to. fraudulent and fake is another. whether it

discussed his role in planning to overturn the election several times including recently with msnbc's ari melber. >> we were going to challenge the result of the election in the six battleground states. we believed that if the votes were sent back to those ballot ground states and looked at again that there would be enough concern amongst the legislators that most or all of those states would decertify the election. >> do you realize you are describing a coup? >> no. i totally reject many of your premises there. >> you say, quote, pence refused to take my repeated phone calls about election irregularities despite a direct request from president trump to do so. what was your vision, that you would get pence to do that which trump couldn't get him to do? >> i simply wanted to brief mike on what i had found. i had what we called the receipts and that's all the conversation needed to be. >> why wouldn't he -- was it wrong to try to overturn the election to keep trump in office? >> no, not legally. everything i did was clearly between the lines. >> those were two separate interviews with ari back in