unprovoked invasion of ukraine. we ll hear from three of the brave women reporting from the war zone, as the 11th hour gets underway on this friday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. we ve got a lot to cover tonight, so let s get smarter. there are several competing headlines on this friday night, involving the january six investigation and 100 days of war in ukraine. but this nation is also still reeling from a string of devastating massacres carried out with guns. and on this national gun violence awareness day, many of us are wearing orange, including the white house, to honor gun victims and survivors. over the last few weeks, mask shootings have taken dozens of lives, and injured so many others. the demand for new legislation grew even louder this week. do something! do something! do something! do something! we will. we will. don t have all of these on locked back doors. let s have an assault weapons ban. mental illness. mitch mcconn
we ve got a lot to cover tonight, so let s get smarter. there are several competing headlines on this friday night, involving the january six investigation and 100 days of war in ukraine. but this nation is also still reeling from a string of devastating massacres carried out with guns. and on this national gun violence awareness day, many of us are wearing orange, including the white house, to honor gun victims and survivors. over the last few weeks, mask shootings have taken dozens of lives, and injured so many others. the demand for new legislation grew even louder this week. do something! do something! do something! do something! we will. we will. don t have all of these on locked back doors. let s have an assault weapons ban. mental illness mitch mcconnell, it s time for you to use the word, gun. they won t make schools safer. that is a lie. that is not true. it will save lives. your ideas have been shown to get people killed. do not tell me that th
your gop dakota ring. but i need to make an exception, and i want you to hear his reaction to navarro s indictment today. watch this. if you are a republican, you can t even lie to congress, or lie to an fbi agent, or if they re coming after you, they re gonna bury you, they re gonna put you in the d. c. jail and terrorize and torture you. okay. that is a u.s. congressman, complaining, complaining because republicans can t lie to the fbi. they can t because that s a felony. what in the world is he saying? [laughs] i was leaning in, stephanie, because i was like, wait, he said what? we are not allowed to lie to congress! what? [laughs] not only not allowed to lie to the fbi, but if he do, he goes to jail. yeah, louis, that s what happens. you break the law, you get
that it will back up congress when it needs help. but only when there s this flagrant sort of disavowal of obligation to comply with a subpoena. and so, what would ultimately save meadows, i think, if we read into the statement that doj has made, saying that they looked at each case, based on its individual circumstances. and so, you have meadows who provided thousands of documents to the committee, didn t go as far as they wanted, but did give obviously some very powerful information to them. and doj declined to get involved there. i think the big unanswered question is whether or not the doj has a larger investigation, and whether mark meadows is part of that investigation. did he engage in some conduct that he s still at risk for? or are he and dan scavino out of the woods with this announcement, they won t be prosecuted for contempt to congress. jonathan, i hope you brought
packs and rich liberals want to get involved, need to run aggressive ads, and there needs to be serious efforts to put as much pressure on these republicans to do common sense stuff like that, as the republicans are getting from their own base from fox and from the nra. that s the safe thing to do. those suburban moms are willing to buy a six pack of white gloss for their 18 year olds. but they certainly wouldn t buy them an ar-15. it just makes absolutely no sense. joyce, let s turn to the generous january 6th investigation. what s up with the doj, not charging mark meadows and dan scavino, if they arrest peter navarro? how does that work? so, really, the bigger news here is that doj has agreed to prosecute the two cases, bannon and navarro, because traditionally, doj has been very hesitant to intervene in these issues between congress and its witnesses. we ve talked a lot, stephanie, about how imperfect this mechanism congress has support and forcing its subpoenas, which is doj h