week for big tech. plus a pre halloween treat as the us economy returns to growth. but inflation s still a nightmare for president biden with midterm elections looming. we start with the world s richest man: billionaire boss of tesla space entrepreneur and now the new owner of twitter. elon musk has now closed his $41; billion takeover of the social media giant ahead of a 5pm deadline set by a us court. and he has moved quickly to sack the company s senior management. it brings to an end a six month long and often bad tempered takeover battle that has raised some big questions about the future of the company. from san francisco here s our technology correspondent james clayton. when elon musk had an offer to buy a twitter accepted in april, he could barely conceal his excitement. but that initial enthusiasm soon began to wane. tech stocks were plummeting and many wondered whether he d paid too much for twitter. mr musk also claimed that twitter was filled with fake
winfield. one of the ten people killed in a mass shooting of a grocery store on may 15th. yesterday, the president and first lady were down in uvalde, texas where they met for hours with families of the 19 young children and two teachers who were killed in last week s school shooting. which of course came just ten days after buffalo. as biden left the church service in uvalde, he was met by a crowd of people chanting, do something. he responded by telling the crowd, we will. the president sounded a very similar note in the commence speech this weekend at university of delaware, telling graduates that the country can and must do something. let s be clear, evil came to the elementary school classroom in texas, to that grocery store in new york and far too many places where innocents have died. in the face of such forces, we have to stand stronger. we must stand stronger. we cannot outlaw tragedy, i know. but we can make america safer. but let s be honest, optimism is in sho
Breaking tonight, flights delayed, in cities across the nation disrupted as anti israel demonstrators read havoc in the streets demanding a ceasefire in gaza. And the contradiction like no other, president Byron Reaffirming his ironclad commitment to israels security, that is saying is that if israel strikes back, they are on their own. We are live with the protesters who put much of the country on pause. We begin tonight in california were police announced more than two dozen arrests after anti israel Protesters Shutdown of the Golden Gate Bridge for hours today. California Highway Patrol says 26 free Palestine Protesters on the Golden Gate Bridge today were arrested, some of the protesters chained themselves to cars blocking traffic during the peak morning commute. And oakland officers say five other protesters were arrested in which they chained themselves to 55gallon drums filled with concrete. The protesters face a slew of charges including unlawful assembly, unlawfully stopping o
Afoot. Brutal, and violence, and chaotic, they are vicious killers. It was a horrible betrayal. This wasnt supposed to happen ever. It was a chilly december morning, 2020. The high desert outside of los angeles. In there, behind barbed wire and secure blocks of thick concrete, a prisoner was placed in front of a camera. It was a parole hearing, for a life or who was not supposed to be set free. 50 miles away, nervous and worried, the sisters of the mans victim listen to a live broadcast. With her, historic l. A. Homicide detective, now retired. And rick jackson. Powerless to intervene, they waited for the boards decision. And it all came flooded back. As if decades had vanished. And the strange, terrible events had only just occurred. I worked homicide, but by the end of my career what it was 20 years. And you also think that you have seen everything, and this is one of those cases that, that just did not make any sense. No, it did not. Still does not. And maybe never well. It was just
ruhle starts now. tonight, president biden reveals his motivation for running in 2024. plus, the world when day on capitol hill, from military promotions to ukraine funding and the impeachment battle. or break it all down. and jack smith s plan to use donald trump s own or it s against him in the election interference case. then israel expanding its ground offensive in gaza, amid a worsening humanitarian crisis. and what happens next in the house s negotiations, as the 11th hour gets underway on this tuesday night. good evening, once again, i am stephanie ruhle, at msnbc headquarters in new york city. president biden is pulling no punches about why he is running for reelection. today at a campaign event in boston massachusetts. he told supporters, quote, if trump was not running, i am not sure i would be running. and added that he cannot let him win. tonight, in iowa, trump had this response to the president. they don t want me to run. it s very interesting. democrats