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The Beat with Ari Melber

“Trailblazers: An MSNBC Special”

The Beat with Ari Melber

Ari Melber, MS NOW

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

4.64.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

MSNBC’s Ari Melber hosts “The Beat” on Monday, August 12, and delivers “Trailblazers: An MSNBC Special,” featuring Maya Wiley, Lori Lightfoot, Donna Edwards and Dr. Edna Greene Medford. The full discussion is available on YouTube at msnbc.com/ari 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 everyone I'm Ari Melber and we have a special tonight

0:04.8

Kamala Harris has been looking to break this glass ceiling and make history and we are

0:08.9

convening a panel of political trailblazers if you're watching watching MSMBC anytime earlier today, you might have seen the preview,

0:15.6

a little bit of sort of programming note that I have up on the screen, but basically this is an

0:20.6

important moment and we wanted to bring these people together and we have that coming up in just moments.

0:26.0

So I urge you to stick around and join us for that. We've been working on it and we hope it'll be a worthwhile discussion.

0:31.0

Now, we begin though, first with the big campaign news of the day.

0:35.0

Trump insiders now describing what we can only see as the Harris effect, an angry

0:40.8

confused and rattled candidate who is unsettled by his new foe.

0:45.0

Trump has been watching Harris get the kind of coverage and attention that he craves,

0:49.0

including upending the whole political media television cycle.

0:52.0

And yes, we are a part of it but if you

0:53.8

measure it even outside of this channel you would find a lot more news about Harris

0:58.0

and her running mate her momentum her ideas and less about the other guy you can see the

1:02.4

big crowds in Nevada. Her crowds

1:04.3

and enthusiasm alone has become a story unto itself. Or take Time magazine, which

1:09.0

everyone knows for many decades to set a kind of tone in America.

1:12.1

Magazines may not matter quite as much as they did decades. decades to set a kind of tone in America.

1:12.6

Magazines may not matter quite as much as they did decades back,

1:15.6

but this cover is the kind of thing

1:17.9

that people still see in supermarkets or these days online

1:21.4

as it wizzes around and they are calling it a time her moment

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