miles per hour. those winds caused storm surges. a major hazard for this low-lying region. at this hour, more than 1.2 million people across florida remain without electricity. as of late yesterday, parts of the county, where i am now, where it made landfall, they did not have access to clean drinking water. many people have no running water whatsoever. it is hard to know exactly how many people are displaced right now. officials estimate that it is in the tens of thousands. at least 34 people have been confirmed dead so far. 12 of them right here in lee county. after barreling through florida, you can regain strength over the atlantic ocean. it then made a second landfall as a category one hurricane in south carolina yesterday afternoon. the damage there is a fraction of the devastation that ian brought through southwest florida. you can see the aftermath. what you can see in the images are the broken lives. these are people on the margins whose homes, jobs, bodies, and he
voters minds with six days to go. and republicans ramping up their panic based messaging, how to fight fear with facts. then, elon musk finding out owning twitter is not as easy as owning the lives, as the 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. just six days left until election day, president biden is speaking directly to the nation about what s on the line, the future of democracy in america. the warning to not take democracy for granted came during his speech from washington, d.c. earlier tonight he laid out the risk from election deniers, political violence, and voter intimidation. we re facing a defining moment, a inflection point, we must with one overwhelming unified voice speak as a country. and say there is no place, no place, for voter intimidation and political violence in america. whether it is directed at democrats or republicans. no place, period. no place ever. i know there s a lot at stake in these midte
political landscape. a landscape in which the former president has developed a cold like following that was willing to storm the u.s. capitol in order to demonstrate its loyalty. one in which a major political party, the gop, is still reluctant to condemn that following it despite the clear risk it poses to our democracy. there have been few times that a president or presidential candidate has been bold enough to outright condemn a segment of the electorate. obama in 2008 call that some republican working class voters for voting against their own self interests and it s the clinging to quote guns and religion, and of course that was a private event. still, those comments, as you may recall, prompted immediate backlash. hillary clinton in 2016 said half of trump s followers belonged in a quote basket of the portals. her comments were really against her for the rest of her presidential campaign. and now, joe biden 2022 says trump and his supporters of maga republicans threaten
where these mainstream republicans, and can they get organized to help the president from the other side. through this minister bravest of these team normal republicans joined me later in the show with those answers and more. velshi starts now. good morning, essentially some of the, third happy labor day weekend, i m ali velshi, and this morning we are left with more questions than answers just today after a federal judge until they highly detailed inventory after items that were seized from mar-a-lago early next month. the court filing revealed that the fbi found folders with classified markings on them inside the former president s office in storage area inside the 40 golf club. government feels also wondering if the u.s. government has actually recovered the full scope of important documents from donald trump, and whether many of them remain missing posing a further threat to national security. all of this as we await a decision from a judge as to whether she will requ
i m stephanie ruhle. it is a critical question, as important today as it was 50 years ago. what did the president know, and when did he know it? today, and its second public hearing, the january six committee tried to answer that very question. the panel laid out how donald trump embraced election lies, and ignored his own top aides, as they repeatedly debunked his false claims in the days, weeks and even months leading up to the attack. after the election, as of november 7th, in your judgment, what were the chances of president trump winning the election? after that point? yes. none. what they were proposing, that was not. the theory was also completely nuts. if he really believes this stuff, he has lost contact with he s become detached by the hour. when i went into this, and would, you know, tell him how crazy some of these allegations were. there was never an indication of interesting interest with the actual facts. my opinion then in my opinion now is that