cnn, which once defined cable news, is now under fire after this week s trump debacle. underilities new ownership, it s now just one more outlet for the libertarian billionaire point of view. also tonight, the unserious caucus, jim jordan continues to carry trump s water, pursuing a pointless investigation of manhattan d.a. alvin bragg. as james comer more or less admits he s got nothing on the bidens, but he s going to keep pretending he does anyway. and we begin with the continued clean-up on aisle five at cnn in the wake of widespread criticism over its decision to air a town hall with the twice impeached civilly liable for sexual abuse former president donald trump on wednesday night that played out more like a pep rally or a maga version of the jerry springer show. on thursday, cnn ceo chris lict mounted a defense of the town hall during the network s morning editorial call. insisting the spectacle served the public well despite the widespread condemnation even fro
i think if we had a policy which was firm, which armed ukraine with defensive and offensive weapons so they could defend themselves i think putin would make different calculations so i think oballa s policy of weakness is actually making a larger conflict more likely that was less than eight years ago, but now, desantis wants to appease putin, calling the brutal invasion of ukraine nothing more than a territorial dispute. the latest sign the party of desantis, trump, and tucker is seriously out of touch with the views of most americans. also tonight, how the failure of silicon valley bank is exposing the myths of regulation and the hypocrisy of libertarians who seem real pro government when it comes to federal assistance for them. and donald trump rolls out the melania defense with his lawyer claiming the payment made to the porn actress whom he was allegedly cheating with were made to protect melania. not to help him get elected president. but we begin the reidout
from politics to netflix s potential tactic to crack down on past words. we are going to break down the biggest news of the week as the 11th hour gets underway right now. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle i can t even get my name out. maybe because i m excited to share the fantastic jobs report that we heard about this morning the u.s. economy added more than half 1 million jobs in the month of january, bringing the unemployment rate down to its lowest point since 1969. and taking a whole lot of experts by complete surprise. numbers will be coming out shortly, we re expecting one 88 to 200,000. wow, wow! whoever took over, congratulations. 500 in 17,000. 517,000. non farmed pay roles, a blast off of a number it came as no surprise that president biden pointed to the jobs report as evidence that his economic strategy is working. president then took that energy to philadelphia where he and vice president harris spent the day talking about their administration s acc
a giveaway. quickset supreme court is looking giveaway to people who own. giveaway is your term not my term. they have college debt we are going to give them money. were going to forgive them. [laughter] okay. when you talk about giveaways you have major corporations in this country that makes billions in profit don t pay a tickling nickel and taxes for the truth is you go to regeneration everything being equal the younger generation have the lowest standard of living than their parents. right now these young people are leaving school deeply in debt. they re struggling economically, they deserve a break. cooked all begin with you because they deserve a break. a problem here and this is a dishonest narrative and argument the senator is making here. 51% of these loans go to those who pursue graduate degrees but those are people become doctors, lawyers, and economists. they re the type people who can pay back the loan do not need the hand apricots what do you think uni
fight for the speakers dpafbl house speaker kevin mccarthy put that hard fought victory to work and announced a piece of legislation that is at the heart of the republican platform. standing in front of the portrait of george washington the speaker described rights. so many parents were attacked, call terrorists because they simply wanted to go to a school board meeting to be heard on what s going on. one thing going on in this country is education is a great equalizer and we want parents to be empowered, and that s what we re doing today, that you have a say in your kids education, not government, and not telling you what to do. the irony here is almost too obvious to explain. here s a bill introduced by the speaker of the house changing the way parents children are taught in school. mccarthy is literally the government telling them what to do, and he s not alone. in the past several months there s been a wave of republican led bills attacking schools and attacking educa