On this wednesday night. Good evening once again i am stephanie ruhle. We are now 251 days away from the election. Major news from the Supreme Court. Donald trump has officially succeeded in at least i laying another one of his criminal cases. The Supreme Court will hear his appeal over president ial immunity in the federal Election Interference case in april. Earlier this month, a panel of Circuit Court judges ruled against trump, then given the chance to ask the Supreme Court to take t the case. Here is my colleague laura jarrett. Tonight the u. S. Supreme court deciding to weigh in on a critical issue that could make or break the special counsels former President Trump, agreeing to decide whether mr. Trump must be shielded from prosecution by claiming president ial immunity for the acts He Tech Leading up to january six. Those acts, the basis for the criminal Election Interference case he is now facing in federal court. The move further delayed any trial in the case, flikely for mon
happy holidays we re here at msnbc headquarters in new york city, thank you for spending time with us on this monday the death toll from the once in a lifetime multi-state winter storm over the weekend continues to rise today. up by about 20 from this hour yesterday. we now have at least 55 people dead across 12 states with western new york especially hard-hit nearly half of those fatalities are in new york s erie county alone. the freezing temperatures and wind gusts also knocking out power for tens of thousands. in the latest update today, new york governor kathy hochul told drivers to stay off the roads and what first responders are discovering as they conduct rescue operations. going into homes, going into vehicles, and too many tragic times finding people who have not survived the experience. they re grieving inside, as we all are, for the families who are getting horrible heart-breaking news that their loved ones succumbed to the storm over the last day or two, and ou
[ chanting ] all of east germany, angry crowds lashed out on the streets. that night in dresden, they found a target. the local kgb headquarters. a mob surrounded the building, as the hour grew later, the crowd grew larger. inside, peering through the curtains was a young kgb lieutenant colonel named vladimir putin. he was terrified they were going to storm the building. putin was a junior officer, but the boss was away. he was in charge. the berlin wall had come down, police weren t going to help. he called for instruction. desperate for help, putin dialed kgb headquarters in moscow, over and over again. finally, one official told him simply, moscow is silent. i think it felt like a deep betrayal to him. vladimir putin was on his own. he went down into the bowels of the building and fired up the furnace. he finds himself in the basement, at a furnace shoveling documents, as he hears protests on the street. they were filing so many documents, that the furnace was
general, how your view is that ukraine is on their heels military and at any moment, things can get quite worse for them if you can, throw into the pot here, what we were just hearing, where vladimir putin is saying to, on public television, during an interview, that he s open to negotiations, that s one thing, number two, you brought up the iranians, potentially providing assistance to russia, and then we have the reports over the weekend, north korea, sending rockets to a russian military company, not the first time, we understand from what you ve told us, but still, you put all of those three things together, one might think that russia might be needing some help at the moment, but that s not true? oh, no, i think that is quite true, i think look, depending upon the iranians and north koreans for military support where china is sort of sitting it out, where the global community of 50 nations and the contract group that puts you
former gymnast. putin denies all of it. his private life is never talked about on public television. there s no critical news about putin on the air waves, none, not one word. the propagation, isolation, bizarre behavior, all worries those who watch him closely. he s backed into a corner. mikhail was a critic and ended up in years. when he was not greeted with flowers, it drove him literally insane. more scary, he has initiative to show the whole world he s great. irrattic, obsessed, enraged. is he now that cornered rat he oncen countered?