I'm Ari Melber and welcome to the first edition of the beat in this new year.

We know people all around the world have been ringing in 2024 there on Sunday night.

We hope you had a great time and some rest as well over the holidays.

We can show you that right here, look at this in full.

This is what you're seeing right now at this very hour in the Rockefeller Center headquarters. This is

NBC's headquarters as the building on your right, the iconic Christmas tree in

the middle and this is our newsproof to you that well they haven't taken down the

big tree yet. people still enjoying the ice

skating in the holiday season and the new year I can tell you naturally begins with

a presidential race as well as a possible trial of Donald Trump later tonight we

actually have some developments in that

Jack Smith case while our top story of the new year right now is this official home

stretch of the primaries in the 2024 presidential race. President Biden is the presumed Democratic nominee.

There is no big race there, although there are some other announced candidates.

We even heard from Cornell West earlier last year.

But on the Republican side, there could be an open race. Will Republicans

decide between Trump or his remaining opponents? And how soon does that process start?

Well, if you've been busy, you know,

having a little time off or enjoying your holiday food

or your New Year's workout routine

or any of the number of things

that might make you lose track,

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