cut off cash to ukraine as russia imposes martial law on stolen property. plus, we ll time stock trades by government officials just as covid came to america. the new reporting to go along with our repeated question, whatever happened to that congressional stock trading ban? as the 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. tonight, the legal pressure is only intensifying for one donald j trump. while he awaits that subpoena from the january 6th committee, a federal judge has issued a new ruling that could be devastating for the ex president. just hours ago, judge david carter revealed that emails showed trump signed legal documents describing election fraud claims that he absolutely knew were false. and yet, he promoted them anyway. those emails were between trump and attorney john eastman, said between november 3rd, 2020, and january 20th, 2021. today, judge carter ordered eastman to turn them over to the january six
false. nine, the republican threat to cut off cash to ukraine as russia imposes martial law on stolen property. plus, we ll time stock trades by government officials just as covid came to america. the new reporting to go along with our repeated question, whatever happened to that congressional stock trading ban? as the 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. tonight, the legal pressure is only intensifying for one donald j trump. while he awaits that subpoena from the january 6th committee, a federal judge has issued a new ruling that could be devastating for the ex president. just hours ago, judge david carter revealed that emails showed trump signed legal documents describing election fraud claims that he absolutely knew were false. and yet, he promoted them anyway. those emails were between trump and attorney john eastman, said between november 3rd, 2020, and january 20th, 2021. today, judge carter ordered eastma
alabama law professor. peter baker joins us now, chief white house correspondent new york times. he spent years as the moscow bureau chief for the washington post, closely watching the rise of putin. and our friend michael mcfaul, former u.s. ambassador to russia and an msnbc international affairs analysis. his latest book, titled from cold war to hot piece: an ambassador in putin s russia. joyce, i turn to you first. i want to dig into this email ruling. i don t want to say is this a smoking gun against trump? because we have said that too many times before. but man, it seems like he is pointing to something pretty illegal here. this is a very dangerous ruling for the former president. judge carter, who s considering the subpoena issued by the january 6th committee to one of trump s lawyers, john eastman, is looking into whether some of these communications that eastman has been trying to protect from the committee since january of this year, whether they have to be turned
how much the republican party has a vault or change under an era of trump, right. this is a party that has made, obviously to russia and russian aggression, its signature issue for generations, right. mike pence is giving voice to the same sentiments you would ve heard presumably from ronald reagan and george h. w. bush and other republicans for many many decades. and what he is doing is fighting against this rising tide within the republican party of trumpian style, you know, if not deference to russia, at least a lack of commitment to fighting russia with all that it takes. but kevin mccarthy has said, the idea of a no blank check, is keeping with what former president trump said. which is that he would not have supported some of the large aid packages that have so far gone through bipartisan votes. that s because former president trump as been a strategic genius for his pressure campaign and eventual invasion of ukraine. and that is of course anathema
false. nine, the republican threat to cut off cash to ukraine as russia imposes martial law on stolen property. plus, we ll time stock trades by government officials just as covid came to america. the new reporting to go along with our repeated question, whatever happened to that congressional stock trading ban? as the 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. tonight, the legal pressure is only intensifying for one donald j trump. while he awaits that subpoena from the january 6th committee, a federal judge has issued a new ruling that could be devastating for the ex president. just hours ago, judge david carter revealed that emails showed trump signed legal documents describing election fraud claims that he absolutely knew were false.