ruhle starts now th stephanie ruhle starts now tonight, the new reporting on jack smith s focus on donald trump s bedminster property as he remains defiant after being caught on tape discussing unclassified documents. then the supreme court s busy week with some major cases. today s ruling that could impact 2024 and beyond. what to look for, next. and, following the money. 200 billion dollars in relief funds meant to help small businesses likely lost to fraud. how did this happen? the 11th hour gets underway on this tuesday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. we ve got brand-new reporting out tonight revealing trump s bedminster new jersey golf club has also been a focus for jack smith s classified documents investigation. that s according to the new york times, which cites two people briefed on the matter. the times writes this. prosecutors working for jack smith has subpoenaed surveillance footage from bedminster and fought a pitched battle with trump s l
including a major meeting with secretary general of nato pushed to tomorrow after the president underwent unexpected dental surgery. and donald trump headed to miami this hour. what do expect inside the courtroom for his historic arraignment, and what to expect outside the federal courthouse with the city ramping up security and shutting down streets. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments, and we begin right there in florida, nearly 24 hours away from the president s arraignment. nbc s gabe gutierrez is in dural where donald trump will be spending the night ahead of his court appearance. what are we expecting tonight? reporter: what we re expecting today in a short time is a small group of supporters that have gathered outside of the doral golf course to greet the former president as he goes in and out of the area. many supporters say they support him completely, that this has been a political witch hunt in their view, and we just spoke with
hi, everyone, it is 4:00 in new york. i m in for nicolle wallace. the potential indictment of donald trump which would be unprecedented for this country is a story that is playing out in both new york where a grand jury could issue an indictment any day now and in washington where republicans are quickly mounting a political defense of the former president, let s begin with the developments in the case itself at this hour. on monday team trump dispatched a last-minute witness to testify before the grand jury investigating hush money payments made to porn star stormy daniels back in 2016. attorney and former confidant to michael cohen robert costello, now after his testimony he previewed a likely defense for donald trump. that this then attorney michael cohen paid the hush money payments on his own terms, take a listen to what he told reporters. michael cohen told us that he was approached by stormy daniels lawyer and stormy daniels had negative information that she wa
a grand jury as we wait to see if there could be an indictment soon for former president donald trump, and today is expected to be a pivotal day in court, and today, a former attorney to michael cohen is expected to testify, and he says that he has handed over a number of documents to back up the story. and we are watching the stock markets after serious banking fury, and the stock market is up, but the banking is down for credit suisse are down 50% after the swiss government had to pick up some risk. and xi jinping is meeting with vladimir putin in moscow, and sending a strong message of support despite the invasion of ukraine. we begin with the latest on the trump hush money investigation. and the legal affairs correspondent paula reid is here with the latest, and lot going on with robert costello testifying, and we have details surrounding this testimony, paula. what is interesting here is that even though prosecutors are running the grand jury, this is witness tha
it s 4:00. we ve got news we have a behind the scenes legal battle with potentially major consequences for the justice department s investigation into the ex-president s handling of classified documents at mar-a-lago the washington post is reporting this quote, a federal judge has at least partially granted a request from u.s. prosecutors to force an attorney for donald trump to testify before a grand jury about the former president s possession of classified documents after leaving office that s according to two people briefed on the decision. evan corcoran had refused to answer investigators questions about his interactions with trump. prosecutors sought to show the chief u.s. guess strict judge beryla.howell of washington that there were grounds of a crime-fraud exception. they spoke anonymously because this is under seal this breaking news is is where we start today with some of our favorite reporters and friends jackie alamany is here her by-line is on that neil is here