controversy at the supreme court. and the clock is ticking on a desperate search for five people trapped on board a sub after crews detected underwater noises. then, money, power, and politics, why you need to pay attention to a new florida law on car sales, as the 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. house republicans have moved to punish one of donald trump s most prominent critics. earlier this evening, the house voted along party lines to censure california democrat adam smith for past comments about trump, and for his role in investigate the former president. schiff s fellow democrats erupted in protest when the vote was announced. when this vote, the yays are 213, and the nays are 209, with six answering president, the resolution of adopted, without objection, the motion to consider our laid on the table. [crowd chanting] shame, shame, shame! the house will be an order. schiff, who is now running
justice caught accepting lavish gifts from a from the billionaire. my view is, he broke the law. you have to be held accountable. tonight, the incredible story of sam alito, the giant salmon, the private plane, the billionaire with business before the court. and toledo scrambling attempt to knock down the story. that, mueller investigation revealed that russia interfered in the 2016 when trump s special counsel goes under oath again you can hold yourself out as an objective justice official, or as a partisan hat. the more that you chart try to spin the facts and not answer my questions, you sound like the letter. kevin mccarthy loses the like the letafter republicans ce former chair of the intelligence committee. and how pennsylvania managed to finish a collapse interstate in less than two weeks. this is what it looks like when the ingenuity of delco meets the grit of philly and we work together to get it done. but all in, starts right. now. good eve
welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. we are tracking several stories tonight, including another supreme court ethics scandal, tying gop appointee samuel alito to another billionaire on a fishing trip. we ll get into that later. it s a big story. but our news program begins tonight with not only the criminal trial of donald trump, now slated to begin on august 14th buck the broader ongoing threat of right wing individual lantyism and authoritarianism. tonight we begin with a special report on that very challenge, and trump s efforts to hijack the criminal justice system that now is trying to potentially hold him accountable. we re talking about a range of actions that has prompted already fear of violence over the violent rhetoric and whether that could turn to action. we re about one week out from the federal arraignment that trump did try to prevent. we remember he was forced to sit silently in that miami courtroom. outside cameras showed a very small crowd. the scene was
see the wreckage of the titanic. this hour the supply of oxygen is rapidly running out. we ll show you what conditions are like inside the small, cramped sub that left with five people on board. china is now lashing out at the united states after president joe biden referred to chinese leader xi jinping as a dictator. this as cnn is getting an exclusive look at military drills preparing for a potential chinese invasion of taiwan. welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. you re in the situation room. let s get right to the massive search for the missing submersible. the source of banging sounds in the area remains a mystery at this hour but they are giving rescue crews hope. when you are in the middle of a search and rescue you always have hope. that s why we re doing what we do. reporter: with what could be less than 24 hours of oxygen left onboard titan, hope at this point may rest on banging noises detected by sonar. the coast guard re
and welcome to our viewers in the u.s. and around the world. i m rahel solomon in for christine romans. wee begin with nikki haley, the 2024 presidential contender breaking with former president trump and florida governor ron desantis on a cnn town hall last night. they differentiated herself from her rivals, sometimes, by name, on a number of points including social security and medicare. and january 6. here s haley on ukraine where trump and desantis have avoided clearly backing the country s fight against russian aggression. listen. this is bigger than ukraine. this is a war about freedom. and it s one we have to win. a win for ukraine is a win for all of us. because tyrants tell us exactly what they re going to do. what we heard, china said they were going to take hong kong, they did it. russia said they were going to invade ukraine, we watched that happen. china says taiwan is next, we better believe them. russia says poland and the ballotics are next, if that happens,