inflation to a. i. and the impact on the economy. and bidenomics. we will break it all down as if he 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening once again. i am stephanie ruhle. a very big breakthrough for special counsel jack smith s investigation into the plot to keep joe biden out of the white house. smith prosecutors have now met with trump s former lawyer and dear, dear friend rudy giuliani. as of the 2020 election, of course, giuliani led the effort to push voter fraud conspiracy to state legislatures in an attempt to get them to send false electors to congress. here is what he told georgia lawmakers back in december of 2020. you are the final arbiter of who the elector should be, and whether the process is fair or not. and the other way to look at it is your responsibility if a false and fraudulent count is submitted to the united states government. today, giuliani s political advisor described the interview with jack smith s team as, quo
hi everyone. happy friday. it has been building all week long, you can feel it, the drip, drip, drip of disclosures about the strength and the specificity of special counsel jack smith evidence in the mar-a-lago documents investigation. and today the new york times is naming names. new york times today reveals the workers who removed boxes caring white house documents ahead of a meeting between don trump s legal team and doj at mar-a-lago. the times reports that the two employees were a maintenance worker and trump s valet and that they, quote, moved the boxes into the room before a search of a storage room that same day when evan corcoran, a lawyer for trump, who was in discussions with mr. brat of the fbi. he set up a meeting the next. day prosecutors have been trying to determine whether trump had documents moved around mar-a-lago or sought to conceal some of them after the subpoena. part of their interest is in trying to determine whether documents removed before corker
good to be with you. i m katy tur do not travel to russia. that is the message today from the state department and the white house reiterating that it is not safe right now for americans in that country. the white house says it is still trying to establish consular contact with evan gershkovich. he was arrested overnight. the 31-year-old reporter for the wall street journal said he was not spying, denying guilt in a court proceeding this morning. gershkovich is the first american journalist arrested on claims of spying since the cold war. matt bodner who was recently based is here to explain who gershkovich says they caught him doing red handed, and a former member of the biden inner circle to walk us through what the white house is likely doing behind the scenes as this marks what is considered a new low in the already ice cold relationship between moscow and washington joining me now from london for the reporting, nbc news reporter, matt bodner and mike memoli joins us as
hi, everyone we start with the fireworks in washington, d.c., today. emanating from the committee set up by the housegop. it took republicans 15 votes now in the days and months that fod followed, the house gop has done nothing except projecting the rest of their colleagues and us to the grievance of lies and conspiracies that animate life over on earth 2 where they live. today a hearing by the so-called weaponization commit presumably focused on censorship on social media and a lawsuit brought by the then-republican attorney general of missouri, he has to be an attorney from missouri, pushing back against efforts by social media to fight disinformation schmidt was one of two witnesses brought forward by republicans, but republican majority on this committee who testified and was dismissed, sent away before democrats could ask one single question so much for a functioning committee in which the free exchange of ideas and sharing of witnesses prevails democrats were justifiabl
roe v. wade was overturned the justice department says the high court needs to weigh in again to iron out the details of its decisions to give the issue back to the state. doj has filed an emergency application asking the justices to strike down a texas ruling that essentially band the abortion pill mifepristone nationwide we re going to explain what doj is arguing and how soon the court might decide on hearing the case and what happens if it does not decide immediately. we ll also get into what happened overnight in florida. governor ron desantis signed a bill making abortion illegal after just six weeks well before many women, as you know, have any idea they are pregnant desantis s new ban did not come with fanfare, no news conference, no on camera pats on the back the only announcement was this photo right here, posted to social media at 11:04 p.m. the politics of abortion have not been a winner for the gop, and polling suggests it will be an albatross around governor desa