we hope you are doing well. from all of our colleagues across the network of nbc news, thank you for staying up late, icu at the end of tomorrow. of today, i saw down with former secretary of state presidential candidate hillary clinton and we covered a lot of ground. we talked about conflicts overseas in the middle east and in ukraine. we talked about donald trump s legal jeopardy and the utter chaos and the republican party. chaos that, by the way, it s in full display tonight. with the senate now scrambling to find a path forward after republicans killed their own bipartisan border legislation in order to appease donald trump. for weeks, republicans have insisted that they would not pass aid for israel in taiwan, as well as urgently needed funding for ukraine unless democrats agreed to have new border policies. just to put this all into perspective for, ukraine is facing some of its biggest challenges since this war began. russia has ramped up missile strikes across the co
blues, as the 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening once. again i m stephanie ruhle, and lucky me live from washington d.c. and we re now 272 days away from election day. and in 11 hours from now the supreme court will hear arguments in a case that could upend the presidential race as we know it. in december the colorado supreme court sided with the egg with donald trump cannot be on the 2024 ballot, citing the 14th amendment. part of that amendment says that if, as a sworn officer of the u.s. government, you engaged in insurrection, you cannot hold federal office again. attorneys for colorado plaintiffs say this is an easy call. donald trump is disqualified today. he was disqualified on january six, 2021, when he engaged in that he. disqualified himself under our constitution. it s not our plaintiffs who are seeking to do that. trump of course appealed the colorado decision, sending it to the supreme court. trump himself is not expected to attend