So I want to welcome everyone to the beat. I am Ari Melbert. Tonight, we will hear Speaker Pelosi's

new interview with MSNBC. It's making waves. We have that as she speaks out on some of that

dramatic material from the final January 6th hearing. We will also speak with a man making waves for

demanding jail time for coup plotters. Billy Porter is my Maverick's guest. That's by the end of the hour.

Our top story right now is the clash in this midterm home stretch. It's Tuesday. Happy Tuesday night.

Election Day is on a Tuesday exactly three weeks from now. As Republicans, I, what they see as an

edge with Americans very concerned about economic turmoil.

Democrats see benefits in confronting the GOP on a series of positions that are objectively unpopular.

This is a strategy of using the right-wing competition that came up through all those Republican primaries

and offering it as evidence.

Right now in this home stretch, the Democrats say Republicans are really out of touch with

the voters for general elections on everything from abortion to democracy.

Take Ohio, key swing state, Democrat, Tim Ryan, hammering J.E. Vance for supporting,

something we've covered right here on the beat,

the so-called Great Replacement Theory, a racist conspiracy theory. It was initially pushed by

French hate mongers, but migrated all the way to America, laundered by Fox's Tucker Carlson.

And you may have noticed lately a lot of people in America have been debating

rising hate, racism, anti-Semitism, how to deal with it, how to confront it. Well, this is a theory

that a secret group of Jews are conspiring with racial minorities to deploy a kind of international

immigration plot that takes decades in the making, I told you, it's a conspiracy theory,

all to eventually replace white voters.

This great replacement theory was the motivator for the shooting in Buffalo, where that shooter

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