His lawyers latest moves and the battle of the Special Counsels request for a Protective Order. While jack smith fires back with his own response. Then ron desantis about face on his biggest 2020 election lies, as he attempts to revamp his 2024 campaign. And a look ahead to tomorrows political special election in ohio. What it could mean for the states constitution and the fight for abortion access. As the 11th hour gets underway on this monday night. Good evening once again. I am stephanie ruhle. We begin this evening in washington, d. C. Where lawyers for former president Donald J Trump have responded to Special Counsel jack smith request for a Protective Order in the 2020 election case. Trumps team countered with a narrower Protective Order that would allow him to publicly discuss some of the evidence collected by the government ahead of the trial. The Special Counsels office came back just hours later urging judge chutkan to forego and additional hearing and sign off on the governm
Felt like, okay, im going to read the article. But do i really have to . Im just gonna find out the name of the rich guy who paid for him. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse is gonna join us with his reactions to the latest turn in the road, so to speak, for Clarence Thomas. The Supreme Court ethics thing, i feel like its a banking your head against the wall, because the more on planetary and consequential the ethical like, literally, financial, ethical Conflict Of Interest issues are exposed, just the clear it gets they dont feel they need to answer anybody, they dont feel constrained by any rules, no matter what you expose, theyre never gonna do anything about it. I feel like Sheldon Whitehouse is the one member of the u. S. Senator was consistent consistently optimistic that something can and should be done. So, im glad youve got him. I will ask him how his head feels. [laughter] very good. Thank you, rachel. Thank you. Well, weve had a flurry of motions filed tonight by Donald Trumps curre
the miss a thing. so much to evidence in these do. right hearings, now, it is time to the last people in his word with lawrence inner circle. critical o donnell. and methodical good evening. testimony at the we have adam schiff second public here with us tonight, hearing of we re going to ask him some follow-up the house committee questions. that is about the testimony from donald georgia investigation, trump s own we have attorney general, william raphael moran, barr, as well as we will get his former top reactions of what he heard today officials of trump s about his state of georgia in the january 6th committee. go lawrence. thank you rachel. on the second day of this historic hearing the most important words spoken in washington today were not in the hearing but at the podium in the justice department when attorney general answered the question that i asked adam schiff after the first hearing last week. i want to ask you whether you had a chance to look at
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
tennessee state representative, the honorable justin j. pearson, gets tonight s last word. the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts now. the 11th h our with stephanie ru tonight defendant donald trump s push for control.