liable for everything he did while he was in office. didn t get away with anything yet. we have a criminal justice system in this country. we have civil litigation. and former presidents are not immune from being accountable by either one. even mitch mcconnell knew back in 2021 that trump can face criminal charges. well, now, trump s lawyer is making the absurd argument that a president can commit all kinds of heinous crimes and remain immune from prosecution forever. unless he s impeached and convicted. also tonight, trump s rhetoric is having dangerous consequences. as both special counsel jack smith and judge tanya chutkan are targets of swatting. and trump s big hope for 2024, he says he hopes the u.s. economy crashes some time soon. which of course, would leave huge numbers of his maga supporters jobless and broke. but we begin tonight with a hypothetical question. could a sitting president sell pardons or military secrets or order the navy seals to assassinate a
forward. plus, it s called a substantial proposal, to bring to detained americans home from russia, and the battle to take back and major port city in ukraine, as the 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. we re learning more tonight about the justice department s criminal ingrained to january 6th. we found out earlier today that federal prosecutors obtained a warrant to search the cell phone of trump lawyer john eastman, back on july 12th. you remember, he was the guy behind the plan to get mike pence to overturn joe biden s victory, by rejecting electors from certain states. eastman, if you recall, took the fifth 100 times during his deposition with a house select committee. meanwhile, there are new reports that former white house aide cassidy hutchinson is now cooperating with the justice department s investigation. hutchinson testified at one of the january 6th committee s public hearings last month. today, senator
good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. we re learning more tonight about the justice department s criminal ingrained to january 6th. we found out earlier today that federal prosecutors obtained a warrant to search the cell phone of trump lawyer john eastman, back on july 12th. you remember, he was the guy behind the plan to get mike pence to overturn joe biden s victory, by rejecting electors from certain states. eastman, if you recall, took the fifth 100 times during his deposition with a house select committee. meanwhile, there are new reports that former white house aide cassidy hutchinson is now cooperating with the justice department s investigation. hutchinson testified at one of the january 6th committee s public hearings last month. today, senators were asked about the doj leading up to january 6th, and here s what they said. the mounting evidence in the investigation is well warranted, and they re all to be serious consideration. because the walls are cl
down, we are still at roughly 55,000 new cases a day and more than a thousand deaths. what s more troubling hot spots have begun to pop up in places like michigan, minnesota and right here in new york city. also today, brand new homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas. he ll have to explain how the administration is coping with the massive, at the border. he said don t do it. i can say quite clearly, don t come over and the process of getting set up and it s not going to take a whole long time is to be able to apply for asylum in place so don t leave your town or city or community. more on all of that in just a minutes, but we have got to start our morning with a string of deadly shootings down in georgia. i want to go straight to my colleague blaine alexander. blaine, what is going? stephanie, right now there are a lot of moving pieces in this and a lot of questions we still have. here s what we do know. we re talking about three different shootings and three di
about. that she is on the side of more and more guns in the streets. she s on the same side is trump on most of these issues. but what is supposed to be her unique selling proposition? that s the saying about people like nikki haley and haley. i would put in people like kellyanne conway. they think it s a communications problem. they think that s a marketing issue here. it s like a restaurant who is poisoning people and they said i think the problem is we need to change the color of the menu and really range the tables. that s what they think the problem is. when the problem is your poisoning people. in this case you re hurting people. it s this idea that somehow marketing or words will fix a fundamental problem which is taking away a freedom for over half the population of the country. the thing i have heard from some people, though, is that donald trump is such a danger to democracy that they would take and nikki haley just because she would be terrible on policy. should be terri