well, it s been one of those weekends where we kind of need for hours to talk about everything that has happened. we will do our best to fit it all into one. on friday night, there is a much anticipated round of retaliatory airstrikes against iranian- backed militias. serious as there are more on the way. there is nobody better to talk to the national security advisor jake sullivan. he will join me in just a few minutes. there is also a big development this weekend, jack smith s election interference case as it slid off of the calendar. in large part, we still don t have a decision on trump s should we be freaking out? should we not be freaking out? everybody s favorite cocktail is going to tell us how we should be feeling. and later this hour, we will shocking level of hypocrisy for republicans in the house this week. congressman dan goldman has certainly not held back in calling it out. i m looking forward to breaking it all down with him. and later, president biden won
ago, actually, we got a pretty good window into how trump s legal team plans to make their arguments. and let me tell you, this brief, i read it today, it includes a fair number of arguments from an alternate universe. for starters, trump s lawyers claim that the former president is not in fact and officer of the united states, which is who the 14th amendment covers. now, this is not a new or surprising argument necessarily being made by the trump team. but let s be real. it kind of defies logic. i mean, how could it be that the president of the united states is not an officer of the united states with an obligation, by the way, to abide by the constitution. it s kind of what the founders had in mind. but then, there s the other, perhaps even more startling piece, at least to me, of revisionist history that is included in this brief, that donald trump did not engage in an insurrection. in fact, according to the argument here, it was not an insurrection at all. the brief actua
tonight, the battle over the border dominating capitol hill. house republicans push the mayorkas impeachment to a vote, while senate republicans threaten to block the border security bill. and its primary week in nevada, with both republican primary and caucus. we will get into what it means in the race for the nomination. then, the growing crisis of shrinking newsrooms. the importance of investing in local journalism. but was gonna put up the money. as the 11th hour gets underway on this monday night. good evening once again. i am stephanie ruhle. we are 274 days away from election day. and immigration is setting up to be one of the biggest issues in the race. the border would be the focus on capitol hill this week, with the house set to vote on impeachment of homeland security secretary, alejandro mayorkas. that takes place tomorrow. today, the rules committee met to advance it to the full house. then on wednesday, the senate is voting on its long aw
the election. and this is been an absolutely huge newsday. in nevada, votes are being counted in the states primaries. in washington, speaker mike johnson led an embarrassing supply of setbacks will not one, but two failed votes. and in michigan, we got a groundbreaking verdict tied to mass shootings in this country. but first, the biggest story of them all. a panel of federal judges, excuse me, a panel of federal appeals court judges ruled donald trump is not immune from prosecution for trying to overturn the 2020 election. my colleague laura jarrett has all the details. reporter: former president donald trump today dubbed citizen trump by a three judge panel in washington, ruling mr. trump is not immune from prosecution. the court saying we cannot accept that the office of the presidency places its former occupants above the law for all- time thereafter. the trump campaign saying he will appeal the decision. trump himself by morning the ruling, saying a president of the
because tracy chapman is standing next to me. i absolutely loved it, so i thank them both for bringing us that special, special song to take us off the air tonight. and on that note, i wish you a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late with me. i ll see you again at the end of tomorrow. at the end of tomorrow. really happy to have you here. happy monday. so in september, you might remember that there was a big strike. united auto workers went on strike, they called it a stand up strike, which means they didn t strike every single factory, every single facility all at once, they strategically picked individual plants to strike and pick it. and it was so they could basically keep up the pressure on the companies but also be nimble about it while their negotiations were going on. a strike is about what leverage you can use against the companies. this was a strategy that was about fine-tuning their le