{"podcast":{"title":"The Beat with Ari Melber","slug":"the-beat-with-ari-melber-743451","podcast_index_feed_id":743451,"rss_url":"https://podcastfeeds.nbcnews.com/the-beat-with-ari-melber","website_url":"https://www.ms.now/","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/bac1b529-5924-47d7-a26e-2bb1c59c1103/74d0c257-fe33-4fb8-958a-b992b3d3dfc5/3000x3000/ms-20now-20rebrand-tb-3000x3000.jpg?aid=rss_feed","author":"Ari Melber, MS NOW","episode_count":1146,"summary":"Ari Melber delivers the biggest political and news stories of the day, with interviews and original reporting from around the nation. An Emmy-winning journalist, attorney and former Senate staffer, Melber cuts through the spin and the noise to tell you what's really happening. Real news, every night.","last_synced_at":"2026-08-01T10:20:46.746896+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-beat-with-ari-melber-743451"},"episode":{"title":"Cost of Trump Projects Hit Voters as Midterms Loom","slug":"cost-of-trump-projects-hit-voters-as-midterms-loom","published_at":"2026-06-16T23:30:01+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-beat-with-ari-melber-743451/cost-of-trump-projects-hit-voters-as-midterms-loom","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-beat-with-ari-melber-743451","url":"https://www.ms.now/","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/injector.simplecastaudio.com/d41147e2-9082-47cd-909a-165d88b1e209/episodes/3a2d42c0-3f6d-46b1-8d2e-26e8a40bc133/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=d41147e2-9082-47cd-909a-165d88b1e209&awEpisodeId=3a2d42c0-3f6d-46b1-8d2e-26e8a40bc133&feed=TA5rXVG0","summary":"President Trump's ballroom, which he claimed would be paid for by private donations, has already cost taxpayers roughly $300 million. MS NOW's Ari Melber reports on the bombshell report from The Washington Post and is joined by political analyst Michelle Goldberg and Dean of the Columbia Journalism School Jelani Cobb.","meta_description":"President Trump's ballroom, which he claimed would be paid for by private donations, has already cost taxpayers roughly $300 million. MS NOW's Ari Melber…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2491,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-beat-with-ari-melber-743451/episodes/cost-of-trump-projects-hit-voters-as-midterms-loom/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-beat-with-ari-melber-743451/cost-of-trump-projects-hit-voters-as-midterms-loom.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}