legal bills. and the historic court case that could have major impacts on school gun safety. then, the hidden crisis in our education system, kids skipping school, is statistic that has doubled since the pandemic. the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. good evening once again, i am stephanie ruhle, live from msnbc headquarters, right here in new york city. the president, joe biden, is focusing on a crucial swing state as he gears up to take on likely challenger, donald trump. to reelection biden narrowly won the state back in 2020 by just 104,000 votes. as nbc s dave guterres reports, union members there will help him win the white house. just days after clinching a coveted endorsement from the united auto workers, president biden is back in michigan tonight. we now have, in large part because of you an organized labor, the strongest economy in the whole world! carpentry union worker, tracey, credits biden for bringing infrastructure jobs here. joe bi
demean the holder of the office of the president or the presidency. david jolly, the right, the christian right, more like the cricket right on this subject. they don t seem to have a broad public problem with the president broadening his language publicly. does that give him in effect a permission slip? sure. and, brian, i ll never understand it. an evangelical community that puts their souls in the hands of god have trusted their souls to the hands of donald trump. and it s one of the great curiosities of this modern era. look, the reason presidents, if you put a historical lens on this, can unify the country in critical moments, reagan after the space shuttle challenger, bush after 9/11, obama after sandy hook and mother emmanuel a.m.e., is because of the narrative they try to set for the country from the very beginning.
sandy hook and mother emmanuel a.m.e., is because of the narrative they try to set for the country from the very beginning. reagan morning in america. bush 41, thousand points of light. clinton felt your pain. bush was the compassionate conservative. obama was hope and change. donald trump was american carnage. he told us we were a terrible nation, we were divided, that we had no future. and so that is the tone he has set from the very beginning. and the one silver lining to all of this that i believe is true is every single one of these democratic candidates, whoever the nominee is, they will no longer give permission to this rhetoric from national leaders or from the constituency. they will put an end to this. if you are somebody concerned about the tone and rhetoric, your mission tonight is to beat donald trump. donna edwards, going back i believe to your time in the house, didn t republicans make a big rule change regarding benghazi that they re now living with the consequences o
this, can unify the country in critical moments, reagan after the space shuttle challenger, bush after 9/11, obama after sandy hook and mother emmanuel a.m.e., is because of the narrative they try to set for the country from the very beginning. reagan morning in america. bush 41, thousand points of light. clinton felt your pain. bush was the compassionate conservative. obama was hope and change. donald trump was american carnage. he told us we were a terrible nation, we were divided, that we had no future. and so that is the tone he has set from the very beginning. and the one silver lining to all of this that i believe is true is every single one of these democratic candidates, whoever the nominee is, they will no longer give permission to this rhetoric from national leaders or from the constituency. they will put an end to this. if you are somebody concerned about the tone and rhetoric, your mission tonight is to beat donald trump. donna edwards, going back i believe to your time i
mother emmanuel a.m.e., the shooting there, and it took the you know, there was a time for mourning and for people to absorb the story, and then the president came down but not so soon. do you think that this president should visit pittsburgh? do you think it will comfort the community at this moment? well, you know, i want to say this. i thank god that president barack obama was the president during the time that this horrific thing happened in charleston because he is such a man of compassion and grace. and to have president trump go to pittsburgh with such divis e divisiveness, such the language that he used, i don t think that the people of pittsburgh deserve that. they deserve someone with compassion and kindness who is