unprovoked invasion of ukraine. we ll hear from three of the brave women reporting from the war zone, as the 11th hour gets underway on this friday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. we ve got a lot to cover tonight, so let s get smarter. there are several competing headlines on this friday night, involving the january six investigation and 100 days of war in ukraine. but this nation is also still reeling from a string of devastating massacres carried out with guns. and on this national gun violence awareness day, many of us are wearing orange, including the white house, to honor gun victims and survivors. over the last few weeks, mask shootings have taken dozens of lives, and injured so many others. the demand for new legislation grew even louder this week. do something! do something! do something! do something! we will. we will. don t have all of these on locked back doors. let s have an assault weapons ban. mental illness. mitch mcconn
we ve got a lot to cover tonight, so let s get smarter. there are several competing headlines on this friday night, involving the january six investigation and 100 days of war in ukraine. but this nation is also still reeling from a string of devastating massacres carried out with guns. and on this national gun violence awareness day, many of us are wearing orange, including the white house, to honor gun victims and survivors. over the last few weeks, mask shootings have taken dozens of lives, and injured so many others. the demand for new legislation grew even louder this week. do something! do something! do something! do something! we will. we will. don t have all of these on locked back doors. let s have an assault weapons ban. mental illness mitch mcconnell, it s time for you to use the word, gun. they won t make schools safer. that is a lie. that is not true. it will save lives. your ideas have been shown to get people killed. do not tell me that th
i wanted to tell the stories of people who have been through difficult times and through struggles. as somebody who is from iraq and who has family there and actually, i agree with my two colleagues there. as women, we can end up in situations where we are able to tell those human stories incredibly effectively. i remember a colleague, many years ago, saying to me that doing refugee stories are doing stories refugee stories from refugee camps, those are the soft stories. and others are the hard stories. they referred to, specifically they said, oh, i don t mind, you people with less experience doing the soft stories. they are not soft stories. these are hard, painful, harrowing stories that need to be told. and as journalists, a lot of the reasons why we do this is that we can tell those stories. and the way that that has
difficult times and through struggles. as somebody who is from iraq and who has family there and actually, i agree with my two colleagues there. as women, we can end up in situations where we are able to tell those human stories incredibly effectively. i remember a colleague, many years ago, saying to me that doing refugee stories are doing stories refugee stories from refugee camps, those are the soft stories. and others are the hard stories. they said, oh, i don t mind, you people with less experience doing the soft stories. they are not soft stories. these are hard, painful, harrowing stories that need to be told. and as journalists, a lot of the reasons why we do this is that we can tell those stories. and the way that that has changed now, we are right we