welcome to our viewer in the united states and around the world. i m omar jimenez. it is wednesday, november 8. and it is a great day for democrats. they may still be celebrating victories that they notched in elections across the country. in ohio a decisive vote in favor of enshrinie ing the right to abortion in the state s constitution. this has been a proven winner for democrats since the supreme court overturned roe v. wade. there was no choice. we had to win. we had to end the ban. winning was our only option and we did it together. abortion was also a major factor in virginia where cnn projects democrats will now control both houses of the state legislature. in the governor s race in deep red kentucky, andy beshear fended off his republican challenger daniel cameron. this wasn t my win. this was our victory. it was a victory that sends a loud clear message, a message that candidates should run for something and not against someone. so with all of that good news
half an hour and they have been taking breaks? that is true. they have been brief breaks, but as we have seen in the past week, they have been taking a length of a break between 11:00 and 11:30, but we don t know the motivation of this break yet. over to kaitlan collins on the courthouse steps. kaitlan? i think that this is going as poorly as it could potentially go. no one thought that it would go well with donald trump on the stand, but the fact that they have taken a break, and they are less than an hour into the testimony and the judge has repeatedly admonished trump and just threatened to remove him from the witness stand and said that he would draw every negative inference that he could, that is not good. that is essentially trump not appearing or taking the fifth, because the judge s discretion here is quite high in making the determination, and the highest actually in making the determination of what these damages are going to look like, because at the heart of
tonight, donald trump jr. takes the stand, in new york civil fraud case against the former president. wait under earth about his family s business. then, house speaker mike johnson looking to tie aid for israel to cuts to the irs. a move that would add billions to the deficit and hookup rich tax evaders. and i go one-on-one with the funds himself, henry winkler breaks down the impact of his iconic character. you do not want to miss this as the 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening once again, i am stephanie ruhle, live at nbc headquarters here at the rockefeller center. donald trump s eldest son goes under oath in the 250 million dollar civil fraud trial against the former president and his family business. donald trump junior took the stand late today in a new york courtroom, before he testified managed to do what he loves to do most. crack a joke. i should ve won make of. today prosecutors focused on his job running the trump family business
conspiracy theories claiming the election was stolen in six states that joe biden won. trump distributed those memos to every republican in congress and 147 of them later voted to decertify the results. navorro was also among the dye hard trump loyalists who discussed plans to overturn the election on the meeting on the eve of the insurrection. that is according to one attendee who said it included don and eric, michael flynn, the my pillow guy mike linden, rudy giuliani and cory lewandowski. in other words, navorro is one of the biggest proponent of trump s big lie. they were happy to em praise his unconstitutional ideas. let s not forget this is the guy who claimed after the insurrection that the impeachment was tantamount to violence. the democratic party did violence to this country by attacking a president who i
trump s own lawyers seem to be bracing for part of the company is indicted within the next two weeks? i d like to say it makes a huge difference, ari, but i am not sure it does. we ve seen the examples of trump university, trump foundation, all of the scandals and just disgusting behavior. we ve seen so many reports of malfeasance in the trump organization. i don t know that it is going to change the minds. people who voted for him five years ago or even a year ago because he s a good businessman, we re not paying very close attention. what i do think, though, is it puts a lot of pressure on the people around him, puts a lot of pressure on his children. you know, i don t just think about him or weisselberg and weisselberg s children but ivanka, jared, don and eric, i don t know about tiffany, but there s a lot of people who have