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The Beat with Ari Melber

New protests against Donald Trump's government cuts

The Beat with Ari Melber

MSNBC

Government, Daily News, Politics, News

4.64.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

MSNBC’s Ari Melber hosts "The Beat" on Monday, February 17, and reports on the Toronto plane crash, massive nationwide anti-Trump protests, and SNL's 50th Anniversary Special. James Carville, Ali Velshi, and John Cox join.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the beat, everyone. I'm Ari Melbert, joining you on this President's Day, and our live

0:04.5

coverage will actually cover quite a bit. It is a holiday for many, including the federal

0:09.1

workforce, but we are seeing nationwide protests today against President Trump, against his

0:17.2

governing plans, in multiple cities, and also, in a sign of how fast things are moving

0:23.2

protests that call out a single billionaire in a way we haven't seen in terms of concern about

0:31.3

the ruling elite or the business class or whatever you want to call it. We haven't seen that a lot,

0:36.3

not since Occupy Wall Street,

0:40.2

certainly not in this last several years, but some of the signs and some of the locations were tracking show people concern. You can see in the upper right. We didn't elect Musk.

0:44.7

We're going to get into all of this and what could be the signs of a resurgence with Democratic

0:49.7

strategist James Carville. So that's happening right now. We're going to get to that. Well, we begin with the crash landing there in Toronto, Canada, where a Delta Airlines plane basically crashed

1:02.6

and turned flipping upside down on the runway. We know the flight came from Minneapolis,

1:10.2

and around 2.45 p.m. Eastern,

1:14.4

you got what the airport says was a time where all passengers and crews have been accounted

1:20.1

for. There have been over a dozen injuries. Passengers were seen exiting the footage.

1:24.6

80 total people were on board, and we have no reported deaths, but the scene is

1:28.2

drawing attention for the images like this. We've shown you several here. I was going to tell

1:33.3

you this one, courtesy of John Nelson is one of the most harrowing. You can see people getting out

1:37.4

to safety and them trying to control the situation and make sure there's no further fire or other

1:42.1

danger, but the plane completely upside out, and that's how

1:45.4

people were forced to exit. Their FAA also says that the Transportation Safety Board of Canada

1:51.5

will be investigating this crash and their ongoing safety concerns given some recent incidents

1:56.9

that people know about. The mid-air collision in Washington, that was about three weeks ago and was

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