that is tonight s last word. the 11th hour, starting right now. tonight, a convicted capitol rioter, calling for the execution of mike pence, and members of congress. trump, comforts her with a hug. new abortion restrictions, actually, failing and red states. our conservative lawmakers waking up to what voters want? plus, russia launches its largest missile strike in nearly two months. ukraine gears up for a much anticipated counteroffensive. the 11th hour gets underway, on this friday night. good evening, i am ali velshi, and for my friend stephanie ruhle. during a campaign stop in a new hampshire diner, the former president praised, and hugged a woman who served prison time for her actions during the capitol attack. and we see news reports of trump told her to, quote, just hang in there. then he added this. what they re saying is so sad. what they ve done to january 6th. so bad. patriots. i mean, here the woman, she s a terrific woman. a terrific woman. told nbc
i would have to do an optimistic story. and then what. thanks, my. friend as always. thanks to you at home for being here this evening. it was four days before the 2016 election, when the wall street journal published this report national enquirer shielded donald trump from playboy model s affair allegation. the journal was the first to report that the national enquirer paid a woman named karen mcdougal $150,000 in august of 2016, and what is known as a catch and kill. basically, the enquirer bought macdougalls story, about a romantic relationship with donald trump in 2006, and then the acquirer killed it. it never went to press. in any other news cycle, this story would ve been a bombshell. in the last week, of a wild campaign, the mcdougal story got very little attention. first of all, the country was still reeling from the release of trump s access hollywood tape, which had happened a month earlier. just days before, fbi director james comey had announced the fbi was
good morning to you on saturda april the 8th, i m velshi. it is been a short week in american politics. former president donald trum appeared for arraignment i manhattan, criminal cour political tensions are on th front. his extremist ideology wil carry on whether or not he succeeds in getting back to th white house. on tuesday, we saw trump i unfamiliar territory inside courtroom waiting for the judg to give him the criminal charges division filed against him. former president already twice impeached and still currentl facing eleni of other criminal and civil complaints, he pleaded not guilty to the 34 felony accounts of falsifyin business records in relation t the hush money payments made t stormy daniels with whom h allegedly had an affair. trump continues to lie those allegations. he s also reported to making dozens of social media pos criticizing the manhatta district attorney, alvin brang the judge assigned to his case and even their family member who have nothing to do
from coast-to-coast our schools are toast. is time once again for. our education system sucks. it s funny, because it spelled incorrectly. have you heard about equitable grading? i haven t because i m not allowed within 100 feet of a school. they still refuse to believe i drive an ice cream truck. but school districts around the country are buying into this even though many teachers aren t , they think it s as shady as a gynecologist who works out of his garage. what is equitable grading really ? the grading scale begins at 50 percent, instead of zero, that means you do deserve a de- commit that extra leg up makes it a b or se. picture joy behar, i m sorry, but she stepping on the scale, right? where zero is actually 150 pounds. voilà, she only weighs 160 instead of 310. that is equity. meanwhile, homework is played down and kids are given multipl chances to complete the same assignment and the same test because if it first you don t succeed, you re probably a dumba dumb
fighting in that country we have the very latest on the deadly conflict and what could be next for thousands of americans who are still over there. plus, we ve got new polling on the 2024 presidential election how voters are feeling about president joe biden s re-election campaign as well as donald trump s mounting legal issues. and also ahead, what we can expect on capitol hill this week as the house is expected to vote on speaker kevin mccarthy s plan to raise the debt ceiling. good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, april 24th i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day and week with us and we ll begin this morning with the developing news out of northeast africa the united states has evacuated and temporarily closed its embassy in sudan as conflict grows in that country. fighting between warring military factions in the capital has killed hundreds and thousands of citizens are still there. they re still remaining in the country. nbc news