mueller mcmorris gets tonight s last word. the law of the hour with stephanie ruhle starts now. step hanie ruhl tonight, the pressn to avoid a default on our nation s debt. president biden met with speaker mccarthy today. what happened during the high stakes negotiation. then, donald trump s mounting legal woes, including e. jean carroll, seeking more damages from the former president. and debunking a story pushed by the right-wing, involving migrants and homeless veterans. we ll get to the truth, as the 11th hour gets underway on this monday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. it is crunch time for the president and the speaker the
it. they did releasee a letter, by from the police chief tom manger that said that there was no evidence that loudermilk is giving a tour of the capitolb building itself. but it didn t necessarily t absolve him of any wrongdoing. my is there now the aforementioned congressman barry loudermilk. congressman, first of all, your reaction to the developments tonight and you re cleared, but cnn says, oh , , not so fast. oh , , not so fast. me on and thanks for actually covering this . you know, just a three or four weeks ago i find out about these accusations not from a letter that the committee sent to me. po no,rt they sent it to the pressn as i m going to the airport and then i m seeing o my picture on the television screens of all these passengers o o that are seeing that i m some kind of strange conspiracy or evilco conspirator here and it sns just ridiculous that the way t that they re handling this committee and they keephe c moving the goalpost, youha knowv the original charge was
didn t change course or offer a new solution. instead doubled down on masks and mandates and restrictions calling them unpopular but effective. watch. i know mask requirements are not popular for many. not popular for those who are anxious to get them. my administration isn t to control your life, but to save your life and the lives of others that will save thousands of american so you re watching this. and the obvious question is, if joe biden s policies are so effective, why are we in the middle of another massive surge here s another question, we re almost two years into this pand why are we still experiencing a severe shortage of covid 19 tes three weeks ago reporters in th press corps were begging the pressn secretary for a plan to
conversations with the mexican president and the australian prime minister to be made public within 24 hours. it looks like he has no control. no question. donald trump has a legitimate beef about that. but that is the agencies, that is not the press.ef the press is just publishing bill: that is what i said. it is a two-pronged swamp. there are creatures of all stripes in the swamp. the press and some intel people are after the president. unquestionably. but here is where the press is vulnerable. the press has brought so much of this on themselves, bill. you know, the gallup poll came out in september that said the american peoples trust in the press to tell the news accurately and fairly, which is their job, is at an historical all-time low. bill: it should be. the press is in really big trouble because only 14% of republicans have faith in the press, only 30% of independents, and only 51% of democrats.s. so to the degree that the pressn becomes increasingly oppositional t
about the economy going back to last april. let s look at that. what you are starting to see is glimmers of hope across the economy. that s why we re turning this economy around. i m convinced that we can see a light at the end of the tunnel. this month s jobs numbers are a sign that we have begun to put the brakes on this ressn. the worst may be behind us. herehe is what the website fm the white house tauted earlier in the summer. it was recovery summer as it was billed by the white house in campaign across the country as administration kicked off events across the country. here s the economic record which is still quite bleak. 9.6% unemployment. 16 months of straight 9% or higher unemploymebsnt. 54,000 jobs lost in august. 14.9 million unemployed. 6.2 million of which are long-term unemployed. and just today in the new york times a reminder of the real cost of this.