Welcome to the beat, I'm Ari Melber.

It is great to be back.

I also want to take a quick second and thank Katie Fang

and Jen Saki for anchoring here.

I took some time off.

It was busy times in the world, but we all need time off sometimes.

I enjoyed it, but I'm also thrilled to

return to the news and to be here with you during a transformed period in this

presidential election and tonight we lead off with some very special guests, James Carville and Francisco Chambers,

both of whom know these issues well. Carville has been around as long as the current president.

That's a fact.

Francesca's been covering Kamala Harris for five years

and is a political expert in her own right.

I'll see you both in a second.

We begin with this big news.

The vice president is out on the trail she was with the largest

teachers union in the nation discussing what is now her key opponent the other

presumptive nominee in the race now just recently became of course the

Republican's official nominee and

she lashed out at him Donald Trump

and he intends to end the Affordable Care Act

now think about that to take us back to a time when insurance companies had the

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