as an artist, i needed to do something different and challenge myself. reporter: braugher s costars remembering him. terry cruz writing you showed me what a life well lived looks like. braugher with 61 years old and leaves behind his wife of over 30 years, actress amy rapson and three sons. in a 2020 variety interview, he said that fatherhood was his most important role. i wanted to be there through the course of their life because i know how important fathers are. chloe melas, nbc news, new york. thank you for the laughs, andre. you will be missed. and on that very sad note, i wish you a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc, thanks for staying up late. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. , donald trump, the one that was most likely to be completed before the 2024 election, the special counsel jack smith s federal election interference case today, it effectively came to a standstill. it was frozen, or in legal terminology, its d
guaranteed of this progress so we are moving carefully. that s tonight s last. where the 11th hour stephanie ruhle begins now. r stephani tonight, republicans in the house vote for a formal impeachment inquiry into president joe biden in the final days of the year. but here s the question. do they have any evidence? then, federal election interference case put on pause as trump s legal team accuses jack smith of trying to steal their christmas. then, the showdown over the abortion pill, now headed to the supreme court while reproductive rights hang in the balance, as the 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle at msnbc headquarters here in new york city. today president joe biden officially became the subject of a formal impeachment inquiry. late today, in a party line vote, or the gop-controlled house voted to 21 to 2:12, officially approving an investigation that has been underway for months. house republicans ha
for six years i have been a target of the unrelenting trump attack machine shouting where s hunter? well, here s my answer, i am here. all this just hours before the house is set to vote on launching a formal impeachment inquiry into president biden. meanwhile, for first time today, at the white house, the president is meeting in person with the families of american hostages taken on october 7th as israel wages its war against hamas. and breaking from the supreme court, it will hear a major case over a widely used abortion pill, we ll break down what is at stake. and millions of teslas under a software recall as the company warns of a defect in its auto pilot technology. we begin with breaking news involving president biden and his family. the president s son hunter apparently defying a subpoena to appear before the house oversight committee for a closed door deposition, but did appear on capitol hill this morning to repeat his demand for a public hearing and to blast