thanks for being with u tonight. it is very, very good to hav you here so, it was labor day weekend 1936 it was hot it was around 90 degrees and 100,000 people turned ou to see him he himself said from the stage from the podium at the front o the crowd that the crowd was about 80, 000, but the polic actually said it was bigger. the police said it was 100,000 people and, again, this was in 1936 so, if you want to adjust that for inflation, like it was $ amount, if you want to adjus that to account for how big th whole population of the countr was at the time compared to now, 100,000 people then compared t the overall size of the country, that will translate today to a crowd of, like, 250, 260,000 people which is a really big crowd, particularly since the perso that they were all there to se was just some guy with a radio show have you ever heard of a politician named william lemke it s okay if you haven t william lemke was a candidate for president, a third party candidate i
thanks for being with us tonight. it is very, very good to have you here so, it was labor day weekend, 1936, it was hot, it was around 90 degrees and 100,000 people turned out to see him. he himself said from the stage from the podium at the front of the crowd that the crowd was about 80,000 but the police actually said it was bigger. the police said it was 100,000 people, and, again, this was in 1936 so if you want to adjust that for inflation like it was a dollar amount, if you want to adjust that to account for how big the whole population of the country was at the time compared to now 100,000 people then compared to the overall size of the country that would translate today to a crowd of like 250,000, 260,000 people. which is a really big crowd, particularly since the person they were all there to see was just some guy with a radio show. have you ever heard of a politician named william lemke it s okay if you haven t he was a congressman, a candidate for president. a thir
and then, a show of unity on the world stage. president biden and members of nato pledging their support for ukraine at a crucial time in the war. and the splintering of the republican party. it looks like everyone is focused on one florida man and not the guy at mar-a-lago. as the 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. we begin tonight with a big developments on two separate investigations into donald trump. the new york times reporting that special counsel jack smith has subpoena ivanka trump and her husband jared kushner to testify before a grand jury, according to two people briefed on the manner. donald trump s daughter and son-in-law both served as white house officials in the trump administration, and they both gave interviews to the january 6th committee. earlier today, committee member zoloft greene reacted to the subpoena news. both of them appeared before our committee. some of it was useful. but i wil
i m stephanie ruhle. we begin tonight with a big developments on two separate investigations into donald trump. the new york times reporting that special counsel jack smith has subpoena ivanka trump and her husband jared kushner to testify before a grand jury, according to two people briefed on the manner. donald trump s daughter and son-in-law both served as white house officials in the trump administration, and they both gave interviews to the january 6th committee. earlier today, committee member zoe lofgren reacted to the subpoena news. both of them appeared before our committee. some of it was useful. but i will say there was a vagueness, especially with mr. kushner, but also ivanka, where it was just hard to believe they could not remember some of the things they claimed not to remember. i believe that a grand jury appearance might shake the recollections in some cases. it might, the committee did get a vaunted to talk about whether she believed her father s electi
speeches and what they revealed about his views on the constitution. the national constitution center in philadelphia is the host of this event. and now it is such a pleasure to introduce our extremely distinguished panel of americas leading lincoln scholars to discuss lincoln s speeches and the american idea. michael burlingham holds the chancellor naomi b lynn, distinguished chair and lincoln studies of the university of illinois springfield. he s the author of several books of lincoln, including lincoln observed, the inner world of abraham lincoln and the two volume american law around lincoln s life as well as his new book, which he will be discussing tonight, the black man s president, abraham lincoln, african americans, and the pursuit of racial equality. noah feldman is the felix frankfurter professor of law, chair of the society of fellows, and founding director of the julis-rabinowitz program on jewish and israeli law at harvard university. he s the author of nine