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The Beat with Ari Melber

Midterm turnout higher than Trump midterms; Oprah endorses Fetterman; Trump blows past subpoena deadline

The Beat with Ari Melber

Ari Melber, MS NOW

Politics, News, Versant Media, Ms Now, Daily News, Versant, Government

4.64.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

MSNBC's Ari Melber hosts "The Beat" on Friday, November 4 and reports on the final days of the midterms as turnout breaks 2018 records, Oprah endorses John Fetterman and Ron Johnson won't commit to accept election results. Plus, Trump blows past the Jan. 6 subpoena deadline to submit evidence. Comedian Neal Brennan joins, along with Sen. Barbara Boxer, David Plouffe. To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the beat. I am Ari Melba, and this is the final Friday. Until the elections,

0:05.0

we had into the weekend campaigning four days out from Election Day, and the campaigns are

0:09.4

bringing out some of the big guns. I said it was up to the citizens of Pennsylvania, and of course,

0:16.2

but I will tell you all this, if I lived in Pennsylvania, I would have already cast my vote

0:20.8

for John

0:21.5

Federman for many reasons.

0:24.4

There it is. That's Oprah pushing Democrats in the key battleground state of Pennsylvania.

0:28.9

We could report that tomorrow there will be rallies there with Biden, Trump, and Obama.

0:35.5

So if you think about it, if there's one thing both parties do seem to agree on right now

0:39.3

on this final Friday heading into the midterms weekend, it is that Pennsylvania is clearly important.

0:45.2

Important because it's close and it could decide control the entire U.S. Senate.

0:50.4

Now, Oprah's appearance is not just about rallying Democrats, although she's been an Obama endorser

0:54.9

for some time.

0:56.3

It also is striking because it is her very direct effort to draw a public line in government

1:01.5

against someone that she famously embraced in media and business.

1:05.3

Dr. Oz's whole career and current prominence really stems from Oprah, elevating the doctor from guest to peer.

1:14.4

I end up doing about 80, about 88 shows with her.

1:18.0

Wow.

1:18.4

88 shows of the course of my career.

1:20.3

You are close.

1:21.6

She's coming out of the show this one.

1:23.1

Dr. Oz, turn around here and look at this wall.

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