senate democrats and what comes next. plus, the state of the race after tuesday s elections and last night s gop debate. then, ivanka trump on the stand and the attempts from trump s legal team to end the new york civil fraud trial. and president biden in illinois, celebrating tentative contracts for the auto workers. uaw president shawn fain joins me with his reaction as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. good evening, once again, i m stephanie ruhle live from 30 rockefeller center. and we are talking the 2024 elections tonight, because they just became a whole lot more complicated for the democrats. earlier today, west virginia democratic senator joe manchin announced he would not run for reelection, a decision he called one of the toughest of his life. but this is not goodbye and good luck, manchin says. he s leaving the door open for some sort of future on the political stage. what i will be doing is traveling the country and speaking out to see if ther
georgia s secretary of state brad raffensperger who lost a child to fentanyl poisoning sounded the alarm. i want to really emphasize the seriousness of this. some people like to call fentanyl a drug. but it s actually poison. it will kill you. it will kill you very quickly, very easily, and it is very dangerous. we lost our son five and a half years ago due to fentanyl overdose. we know how deadly this stuff is. it is very, very serious and we take it that way. anyone who holds elected office, anyone who wants to hold elected office coming through post 2024 elections, they re running for high office in this land, they need to contend with this stuff. when someone asked, what do you think about this? if they don t condemn this, they re not worthy of the office they re running for. this is domestic terrorism and it needs to be condemned by anyone who holds elected office and anyone who wants to hold elected office anywhere in america. for our part, we will keep track of who
p pal. when i called sean to congratulate him, he said, the credit goes to all of you, all of you out there and it does. it may be true, but it doesn t hurt to have a leader with a backbone like a ramrod. and that s sean. you know he and the entire uaw proved what i always believed. wall street didn t build america, the middle class built america and unions built the middle class! yeah! tlhat was true in the 20th century and still true today. that s why unions are more popular today than they were in decades. about six weeks ago, i went to bellevue, michigan, to join your brothers and sisters in the picket lines. it brought back a lot of memories, but what i didn t realize, it was the first time a president ever did that. it was second nature. no, i m serious, i didn t know that. it looks good on you! i tell you, i have worn this shirt a lot, man. i have no idea! i ve been involved in the uaw longer than you were alive, man! look, that day in michigan, i said the auto
after months of deliberation and long conversation with my family, i believe in my heart of hearts that i have accomplished what i set out to do for west virginia. i have made one of the toughest decisions of my life, and decided that i will not be running for reelection to the united states senate. but what i will be doing is traveling the country and speaking out to see if there s an interest this creating a movement to mobilize the middle and bring americans together. sure sounds like a presidential announcement. after all, it s the middle that says they re most unhappy with the state of things, the ones who don t like either the republican front runner or democratic incumbent, so what happens now? joining us is nbc news national reporter, sahil kapur, political analyst, cornell belcher, and former republican congressman charlie dent. sahil, did you see this coming? it s been something people have been wondering about. i think a lot of people expected that maybe joe
today on inside politics, four-hour pauses. the white house says israel agreed to stop its attacks on hamas for four hours every day to allow aid to get in and civilians to get out of gaza. plus fighting for second place, five republican candidates make their case to voters on the debate stage. they trained most of their fire on each other rather than the far and away front runner. can anyone breakthrough? and a cnn exclusive, kevin mccarthy is speaking out. his message to aid republicans responsible for removing him as speaker, we ll give you a hint. it s not friendly. i m dana bash. let s g behind the headlines and inside politics. i want to start with a major development? in the israel-hamas war. the white house says iz rattle will begin four-hour daily pauses in gaza. this announcement came minutes before prime minister benjamin netanyahu release d a statement saying there would be no cease-fire without the release of hostages held by hamas. jeremy diamond is li