pose. as the 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday nights. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. we begin with stunning new revelations about a month long battle between federal prosecutors and fbi agents over the search of donald trump s florida club for classified documents. the washington post reports the showdown started when the doj lawyers were ready to search mar-a-lago back last spring. some fbi officials resisted and some field agents even push to end the investigation altogether. our friend, kara leonnig, as one of the reporters who probe that story. earlier today she explained how the clash went on for many months. the fbi agents who are responsible for investigating crimes, and the prosecutors who are responsible for deciding whether to charge the former president with a crime we re really duking it out. ever since, basically, april and may of last year. the fbi agents basically said we are not interested in rating or doing a surprise unannounced sea
The latest Political Developments of the day and interviews with top newsmakers are featured. Hes an msnbc and msnbc National Affairs analyst. Im like madonna at this point. I gave you one name. Some day youll thank me. Well talk about that later. Daily beast politics editor sam stein is here and my friend steve schmidt. Were going to boil you down to one name, too. Take us through the significance of this sort of i think its just a side show. People have told me that from emmet flood to don mcgahn to Rudy Giuliani to everyone who is now departed the president s team, no one thinks the president can survive an interview with the special counsel. The president cant survive twitter. Thats right, special counsel is now looking at his tweets. Every tweet has a misstatement or a lie, so theyre absolutely right to be concerned that if the president were to go into an interview with incredibly well prepared prosecutors who have not just the president s tweets and his own statements, as Rudy G
they are gentle people. waving american flags, like the country. 70% of republicans do not believe that this election was free, fair and for good reason. having people vote in massive numbers to absolutely fraudulently creating ballots that exist. only voting for biden. abortion politics is a total fixation of democratic donors. it s the main thing that they care about. why is that by the way? it s a religion, a child sacrifice called. none, none of what you just heard right there is rational. none of what you heard is true. what conspiracy theories like those are everywhere these days. and according to our next guest, our national obsession with conspiracies like qanon, is only getting worse. daily beast politics reporter joins me. he is the author of the terrifying new book trust the plan. we will rise of qanon and the conspiracy that unhinged america. well, i know that you went in
despite the president s suggestion to the contrary, his regression that be captured on tape over the course of the last month. there s a great appetite and i mean a very strong appetite for background checks and i think we can bring up background checks like we ve never had before. on background checks, we have tremendous support for really common sense, sensible, important background checks. people don t realize, we have very strong background checks right now. you go into buy a gun, you have to sign up. there are a lot of background checks that have been approved over the years. a lot of the people that put me where i am are strong believers in the second amendment and i am also. and we have to be very careful about that. they call it the slippery slope. and all of a sudden, everything gets taken away. we re not going to let that happen. joining me, daily beast
welcome back to hardball. tonight, as i said, president trump is holding a rally in cincinnati, a state he won in ohio of course by eight points in 2016. it s the state his campaign sees as crucial to getting reelected. the rally follows this week s debate of the democrats who want to replace him in the white house. for more i m joined by sam stein, daily beast politics editor and joel pine, democratic strategist. do either of you know whether this is the end of the line for trump, that he is not going to go any further on this racial fever betting thing? is he going to say okay, i went too far by pulling out these four women by saying they should go back to the countries they came from, which is the united states in most cases, going after a very popular statesman from maryland, elijah cummings. is he going to say you know what? this is going to kill me among whites in the suburb. you can t be overly racist.