good evening once again. i am stephanie ruhle. we begin this evening with increasingly alarming messaging from criminal defendant and gop current front-runner donald j trump, about what he wants to do if he wins a second term. reports describe a potential second trump administration focused on mass deportations, immigration raids, and a u.s. government filled with trump loyalists ready to carry out his extreme policies. trump s 2024 campaign responded to those reports, calling them, quote, purely speculative and theoretical. but this past veterans day, when millions of americans honor those who sacrificed for our country, this is what we heard from the former president. we pled stick to you that we will root out the communists, marxists, fascists, and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country. the real threat is not from the radical right. the real threat is from the radical left, and it is growing every day, every single day. t
the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts now. e starts now tonight, donald trump s ramped up rhetoric, setting the tone for his 2024 campaign. plus, trump jr. is back on the stand in new york s fraud trial. we will break down what happened in court today. and with a potential government shutdown just days away, house speaker mike johnson faces his first major test. then, a message of unity amid an ongoing war. to peace activists joining us with a mission to stand together, as the 11th hour gets underway on this monday night. good evening once again. i am stephanie ruhle. we begin this evening with increasingly alarming messaging from criminal defendant and gop current front-runner donald j trump, about what he wants to do if he wins a second term. reports describe a potential second trump administration focused on mass deportations, immigration raids, and a u.s. government filled with trump loyalists ready to carry out his extreme policies. trump s 2024 campa
welcome to prime time weekend, let s get right to the week s top stories. 22 witnesses, 21 days of court, 80 hours of witness testimony later, the first-ever criminal trial of an american ex-president is coming to a close. the fate of the ex-president could be in the hands of 12 every day new yorkers from all walks of life. the prosecution has one last chance to hammer home it s case against trump and closing arguments, that happens tuesday, given that the defense put up just to witnesses, their eight hour cross-examination of michael cohen lasting four times longer than their entire presentation, only the manhattan da is wrestling with the challenge of reminding the jury about all of the testimony presented. all of the documentary evidence, bombshell after bombshell, after bombshell. here s just some of what the jury heard as told by the press covering it. jurors listening intently today as the former publisher of the inquire testified about the confidential arrangement
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shootings and as well as about the victims here. reporter: right are here in cherokee county, authorities have released the names of the people who died as well as one survivor of the shooting in cherokee county. here is one of the families of a victim that one of our affiliates talked to, this is a woman named delana yan. this is so heartbreaking. he took a mother, a wife, a daughter and a sister for no reason. this family is broken because of this man. it is so hard on everybody today because this man has taken this innocent angel from us. he took an ad ad an angel from who would do anything for anybody. and according to the gofundme page that her family has set up, the family says that she was actually there for a couples 3 massage and that her husband made it out safely from the shooting but she did not. let s take a look at the four people who were killed at that location, that includes yan whom we ve mentioned. paul andre michaels, age 54. and tan and feng. and on