humanitarian and disaster relief mission. reading up to the job, volunteers put up donation boxes, sorting through donations, and gruesome the u.s. partner companies put together pallets of supplies to help decorate them with messages from the holidays. finally, aircrews look at the palace on to the plains and dropped more than 200 packages and supplies and toys to over 40,000 people, living on 58 different islands. the operation took six days to complete and covered 1.8 million square miles. now, that is what i call spreading christmas cheer. and on that no, i wish you all, a very good night. from all of ourolagues across the networks of nbc news, thank you for staying up late with me. i ll see you at the end of tomorrow. end of tomorrow in the year 2000, george w. bush became the first president in more than 100 years to win the presidency and lose the popular vote. in 2016, donald trump became the second. now, what made both the two responsible at the expense of the popula
11th hour stephanie ruhle starts now. t tonight, the people who have a major impact on the 2020 election. the supreme court s decision on whether to weigh in on donald trump s immunity claims. and the upcoming appeal on colorado s ballot disqualification. meanwhile the former president is doubling down on his comments about immigration. yet only a handful of republicans are even pushing back. then more scrutiny over a i and facial recognition after rite aid was accused of misusing the technology, as the 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. live at msnbc headquarters here in new york city. we get some news tonight. the nation s highest court appears to be on a fast track to play a pivotal role in next year s presidential election. supreme court has been asked to weigh in on legal battles and evolving republican front runner donald j trump. special counsel jack smith wants the justices to issue a speedy ruling on t
all out attack on ilhan omar is anyone surprised that i am being targeted tonight the unbelievable spectacle of the monica circus and how democrats are pushing back i had a member of the republican caucus threaten my life, and you all rewarded himand you al another state moves to criminalize american history, and takes authors like ta-nehisi coates out of classrooms. author, ta-nehisi coates, joins me to respond. far-right politics, driving a scary cycle of violence and unrest in the west bank what the u.s. was doing about it all in, starting right now. good moving in new york, i m chris hayes the new kevin mccarthy slash marjorie taylor greene monger congress, off to a historically floundering first month. it s surprising to everyone who s watching how laser focus the republican conferences on the issues that matter most of the american people. issues such as, why can t my tv get the right wing newsmax channel anymore? not joking, the fringe trump channel currently embro
matter most of the american people. issues such as, why can t my tv get the right wing newsmax channel anymore? not joking, the fringe trump channel currently embroiled in a financial dispute with the satellite television carrier, direct tv, which shows it drop newsmax tuesday when the channel demanded more money to be clear, direct tv then replaced it with a new, we are, the far-right channel called the first, featuring conservative media has been like below riley you with me so far do you care of course you don t but republicans are ready to hold hearings. your colleagues took to the floor they had special orders on the deplatforming of newsmax, and i want to ask you sir, if the house would contemplate hearings i think america should have a choice. in the news that they get, in the choice of being able to see it i would hate to see that someone is being kicked off, simply, because they re providing something conservative and i think that s a place we should look at. if
four p.m. on thursday. the group reentereded the building. accounts vary as to what exactly happened next , but it seems clear that colbert s employees werees let inside by an ally within the building that would be a freshmanou member of congress from massachusetts called jake auchinclosssja. once on federal property, colbert completed what they came to do, which was disruptpts the business of congress and apparently we re not subtle about doing itng, poundeder on doors and yelled whatever they did, it got people s attention. it takes an awful lot force a police force controlledo by nancy pelosi to arrestup a group of leftwingte entertainmentrt figures. but that s exactly what happened next . capitol hill police arrestedpith stephen colbert employees and brought them to jail allt seven of them were chargedde with unlawful entry. now that s the identical chargee that hundreds of january six defendants have been prosecuted for. but unlike january six defendants, cobus employees