gets tonight s last word. the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts right now. tonight, pulling back the curtain on a potential second trump term. and his plans for day one of his administration. plus, his 2024 opponents facing off on that debate stage. that state of the race less than six weeks out from the iowa caucus. kevin mccarthy officially stepping down. what his departure means amid chaos on capitol hill. then, pop megastar taylor swift named time magazine s person of the year. her global impact far beyond the charts, as the 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle at headquarters here in new york city. tonight, some of the republicans running for president held for fourth and final debate before the iowa caucuses, now less than six weeks away. ron desantis, nikki haley, vivek ramaswamy, and chris christie came out swinging, facing off at tuscaloosa, alabama at a trump free event. trump free, why? beca
good evening once again. i am stephanie. we are 146 days away from the election, get your calendar out, mark it with a sharpie, one more day down. after a brief stop in wilmington following his son, hunter office criminal conviction, president biden landed in italy for the g-7 summit where the ukraine war will be a main focus. though biden is off the campaign trail the 2024 election is front and center with allies worried about what a second trump term could mean for that war effort. gabe gutierrez has more. reporter: president biden landed in italy for high stakes summit, a critical focus, the war in ukraine. a russian missile strike in president zelenskyy s hometown killed nine, injuring 21, including two children. the white house announced president biden will sign a bilateral security agreement with long-term defense cooperation as russian warships arrived off the coast of cuba 90 miles from the u.s. the pentagon has since sent ships and aircraft but say they are no cur
that is tonight s last word. the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts now. tonight, a high-stakes trip. president biden arrives for the g7 at a key point in wars abroad. plus, republicans hold attorney general merrick garland in contempt. as the gop turns up its attacks on the biden it in a station. and back in d.c., trumps message for republicans on capitol hill as the 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday night. a good evening once again, i am stephanie ruhle. we are now 146 days away from the election. get your calendar out, mark it with a sharpie. one more day down. after a brief stop in wilmington following his son, hunters, criminal conviction, president biden landed in italy for the g7 summit. biden is off the campaign trail. the 2024 election is front and center with allies worried about what a second trump term could mean. gabe gutierrez has more. reporter: tonight president biden landing in italy for a high-stakes summit with a focus on the war in ukrai
landmark relief bill. the house gearing up for a vote on the $2 trillion plan. it could get to the president s desk as early as tomorrow morning. that s a big deal. as a matter of calendar, it would beat the sunday deadline for renewing programs for the jobless. biden visited a hardware store that will benefit from this kind of support today, and he contrasted this money and the way he is going to deliver it, the new approach here with discredited trump programs where some of the money went the people who just didn t need it. an awful lot of that went to bigger businesses that in fact weren t supposed to qualify. in the last administration fired its inspector general. so a lot of money went to people who shouldn t have gotten help. we ve got several aspects of this story, but we begin immediately with our experts, former governor of vermont and former presidential candidate and also a doctor howard dean, and washington post reporter libby casey. good to see both of you.
this point, the scariest thing about the donald trump presidential campaign is a weird sense of discipline that we re seeing on the part of this new staff that has that has come out we saw with the policy on abortion that was recently that he recently announced. but again, i go back to that extremist base that s still exists irrespective of what donald trump says on ukraine or on voting without one tempt you for a second. let s go to the next. and by the way, i think it s really interesting here is the second quote it is cold there is no question. it is cold but i d rather be a little cold than sweaty. and really, those are the choices we had max who said that wasn t a senator, mitch mcconnell be house speaker, mike johnson, or c judge, juan merchan asked by a menopausal,