president biden kicks off a key endorsement. then, the former president also looking for a showdown in court, where he could testify as early as tomorrow. and what business leaders are thinking as they brace for a potential trump nomination, as the 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening, once again i m stephanie ruhle, live from msnbc headquarters here in new york city. today, donald trump and joe biden are making a serious pivot towards a general election. nikki haley says she is still in the race after trump s double digit win in new hampshire last night. haley is already looking ahead to south carolina s primary, that is one month away. it s haley s home turf, she was born and raised there and served as governor for six years. tonight in charleston, she went after donald trump and challenged him to a good old fashioned debate. bring it donald, show me what you got. the political elites in the state and around the country have said that
important cases. he showed an independent streak on a couple small cases and that s because most of what we ve gotten this term has been small cases. we are waiting on the big cases. i like to judge people by their record. i think brett kavanaugh does not have much of a record on the supreme court, and so have made back in a month and i ll tell you more. shannon: that s true. the end of june, that s when we get the big remaining cases and we were talking about the ones we have to get. you clerked for justice thomas. he has raised some eyebrows over a couple decisions. it happens more than people realize. we had a case justice ginsburg sided with the conservatives recently. big cases it often does split along predictable cases and in many cases it doesn t. we have seen is so far on the bench kavanaugh has been what we
raising the tariffs, meaning putting the tariffs on we ve only taxed 35 to 40% of what they send in. they have another 60% and that will be taxed. talked with china, so white house and mexican officials were able to strike a deal to stop tariffs from hitting our neighbors to the south, key part of the agreement is to keep mexican seeking asylum in mexico while the application process plays out. back in the united states, a chamber of commerce executive criticized president trump. the weaponization of tariffs, the increase of threats on our economy, on our farmers, our manufacturers, our consumers is going to hurt our country. vice president mike pence in an exclusive interview with bret baier responded to overall criticism from the chamber. i agree that president trump is for the country. the interests of the american people. i understand the business
ultra-elite judges. like all of the clerks. almost all the clerks. i think it s nice he did this. i think we remember supreme court justice not for their clerks. i m less interested in who he s hiring and more interested in whether he s going to apply the law fairly to everyone. shannon: i think we agree that should be the way going to assess her justice. above the law.com, writing the headline is i don t give a flying thing how many women law clerks brett kavanaugh harris. she goes on to write it doesn t matter how many women he surrounds himself with. it can t make me forget the testimony of christine blasey ford. i don t know if his clerks don t believe dr. forker don t care but neither makes me happy. there are a lot of women who thought there was a lot of things that didn t add up about christine blasey ford s story. some women clerks were the ones
it s not a political thing to do. it s the right thing to do. the steelers family should be commended for that. jesse: we have a big game tonight. san francisco 49ers and oakland raiders. oakland got rid of a lot of players. i appreciate you plugging it but it s really not that big. jesse: you came onto plug. [laughter] i take it all back. it s a huge game. it might be the biggest game. now that i think about it. greg: i grew up watching you and i always felt that there were more interesting football players in the 70s then there are now. there were scary people. it seems like that is a bygone era. what happened to scary players? i think, i think basically our business community doesn t really want scary players.