to tripledemic illness on th rise. what you need to know, heading into this holida weekend. looking back at thi consequential week, and th focus on fighting for democracy, and freedom, both here, an abroad. our favorite historians, here to put it all i perspective, as a special, extra early addition of th 11th hour is underway, on this friday night. good evenin once again. i am stephanie ruhle. nearly 24 hours after its final report was mad public, tonight, the january 6th committee released a new batch of witness transcripts they are from interviews wit key people in trump administration, including, bil barr, pat cipollone, kayleig mcenany, hope hicks, and his daughter, and senior adviser ivanka trump. we will brea down what we are learning in just a moment, but first, th committee s report is wrapping up its 18 month investigation, and it is very clear about the main reason for the attack o art american democracy. th panel says, the central caus was one man. former presi
congressman james clyburn is co-chair of the south carolina joe biden reelection campaign. my pleasure joining us now is david plouffe, former senior adviser to president barack obama, he also an msnbc politica analyst. david, it s good to see you. i m grateful to congressma clyburn for dividing thing into threes. because for cable tv that really easy, it makes for good graphics i think congressman clybur makes a good argument. but there s something else going on here. there is a joe biden stuck at low approval rating. there is a donald trump, quite possibly, who seems ready to pick off all of his opponent in the primary and there is a lot of things that this administration has done that you and i are goin to talk about in ten years o 15 years as really meaningful, including this chips act including holding russia at ba in the ukraine war - but how does this play out for 2024 well, we are in a period of american history where prett much every presidentia
again. my sound off panel is here t discuss that, joining me now april ryan, msnbc contributor, and senior white house correspondent for thegrio, and michael steele, msnbc politica analyst former rnc chairman an host of the michael steele podcast. this is going to be good. look, i understand thes numbers where it says 70% thin that president biden shouldn t run for president, but i a sick of that question. i m just going to pointed ou there. i am sick of the question. the man is president of th united states, why do democrat always do this, april? i don t know, you know, a the end of the day, it is no about the man. it is about the message. let s look at that, right? when people are upset, sayin he should or should not run, why should he run? the message is there why should he run? i m not sure about the message biden, i have said this, and i even said this before, wha
law. let s discuss this with jill wine-banks, former assistant watergate special producer, an msnbc legal analyst. matthew dowd, former chief strategist for the - bush cheney 2004 presidentia campaign he s also a msnbc politica analyst, and david corn, washington chief your chief fo mother jones he s an msnbc politica contributor. it s great to have you with us jill, will start with you and get your action to thi lawsuit. how unusual is this kind o legal action, and can yo explain what bragg is asking the court to actually do here it is unusual. but that because the actio that is precipitating is unusual. frankly, even if bragg were th u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york, or eve if he was the attorney general he could not be called to talk about a pending case before an congressional committee or anyone else that s the law o our land
a potential 2024 matchup wit the former president desantis continues pushing policies that fire up the base but remain unpopular wit everyone else. this week, he signed a law allowing people to carry loade guns without a permit. and is expected to sign an extreme six-week abortion ba that is heading to his desk. desantis signed that gun laws, despite polling last month showing 77% of floridian opposed. as for the abortion ban he s about to sign, pollings show 3 to 4 voters are against such a ban with no exceptions and then, there is the trump and his indictment in new york city despite, it polling shows trum is more popular than desantis, and a potential 2024 showdown. joining me now, msnbc politica analyst and former florida congressman, david jolly congressman, jolly, this would have been huge news on any other week, there was just s much news this week, i worry that this got buried, and wanna make sure you and i go to talk about it which is, you have this week where a lot of the nat