the list of high-profile witnesses and dominion s fox news lawsuit may get longer. as rupert murdoch could be forced to testify. and students across the countr walked out today, demandin more to stop gun violence. some say they don t want fea in their school? as the 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. there is a brand-new legal threat for donald j trump. and it comes about 24 hour after his arrest on felony charges here in new york former vice president mike pence will not fight a judge order to testify before special counsel, jack smith, and his grand jury that panel is looking into the former presidents attempt to overturn the 2020 election just a few months ago, pence said this about resisting th special counsel subpoena i will to fight the biden doj subpoena to appear for the grandchildren. the idea of subpoenaing former vice president to testify in court against the president with whom they served i believe it
unprecedented. i believe it s also unconstitutional well, this is all unprecedented. meanwhile, fresh off his arraignment in new york, the former president is doing th one thing we have seen him d consistently, attack, attack attack today he called on republica lawmakers to defund the doj an fbi, until they, quote, come t their senses trump s legal team is no staying silent either. here is his defense attorney earlier today. after seeing that indictment, and knowing what the law i regarding federal election campaigns, i don t think we re getting close to a - on this case it s going to fall on it merits, on legal challenge well before we get to jury trump s allies in the house are also keeping the pressur on manhattan da alvin bragg. after we ve seen all that yesterday, i think people thin it s even more politically tha we thought this case never should hav been brought, and what shoul happen, now it get dismissed we re not going to stop o this nothing changed. we
it it may only be 30% of th country, but that 30% of the country will never vote with you no matter what you do with their social security. no matter what you do with their paychecks. no matter what you do for thei family they are single issue voters and the problem with our people, putting myself in the we are multi issue people. i don t know, bob, with every additional schoo shooting and with women reproductive rights being take away, there is a hail of a lot of women and their children wh are saying that i can t live like this anymore. matt, let s talk about tennessee. because what we are actually seeing there republicans are trying t expel three democratic members for joining the students and the peaceful protest, we wil listen to this thousands of people came to the capitol, mostly children and teenagers who are asking for the representatives in the state has to do something. they came to the capital for u to do something. to pass common sense legislation. to stop the epide
awful position in this what is seeming to be popula with 30% of the country is exceedingly unpopular with 70% of the country and so what they have done i it has made them very at a high-level amongst the bas voters, it has caused election and we will probably talk abou this like what happened last night in wisconsin at what happened in 2022 and wha happened in 2020 and wha happened in 2018 it has put them in a position, if there is any competitiv races at all, republicans ar completely at a disadvantage so on the one hand they di this crazy stuff that appeal to 25 to 30% of the country. and and the rest of th country s young voters are expressing react to absolutely negatively to everything the are doing. it is guns, it is abortion it is the environment. it is anything you could name. they are doing things that are alienating a vast majority o the country. so, bob, what is th republican strategy for th youth vote whether it is abortion, guns
the grace of god, and you have no right to keep having th term after term after term trade stations do not hav fcc licenses, that is no networking, that is a cabl stations he has both these are big questions we will get answers. bob, thank you to see you. matthew dowd, great great to see you. i wish you were here in person when we come back, there is on story that needs to be spoke about. an american journalist has now been in russian custody for total of seven days. the question how is the u.s. government going to get this guy home when the 11th hour continues weeds. they have you surrounded. you re just gonna stand there? or are ya gonna take your lawn back.