Welcome to The Beat. I'm Ari Melbur. We encourage you to keep it locked on MS now, obviously for this program.

You're here with me already. Why not? Just keep it going. But also for our coverage tonight that Nicole was just talking about.

It really is something extraordinary. We also have several things planned for you tonight.

A report coming up on what you need to know about AI, about the tech billionaires cozying up to Trump.

And what we can do about it,

I've got some great guests here, including Jolani Cobb, on the rules for the big tech. As for looking

at the sky, well, as you heard, Artemis II will splash down tonight, and that will make history,

history that as Nicole was just saying, we can share together.

That's the good news.

We also have to face what's happening on this earth, which remains divided and at war in the Middle East,

because of choices made by President Donald Trump without consulting the Congress of the American public and a war that he increasingly is trying to wind down or get out of.

The United States is preparing for new ceasefire talks here this weekend in Pakistan.

Vice President Danes will lead a delegation.

He is on a kind of a maga tightrope.

He's been voicing opposition to the war for weeks, according to leaks in the New York Times and other outlets that make you wonder

in that tight, usually national security protected circle, who is it that keeps wanting

everyone to know that if this war doesn't work out so well or is already unpopular, J.D. Vance

was against it. Well, the Times doesn't reveal its sources. You'd have to just be an expert

at politics to ask the question quibono.

But there are people clearly pushing the message that J.D. Vance will help get us peace and didn't like this war to begin with.

Some articles say it's the highest stakes assignment of his career.

And you saw he was just boarding there.

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