how do you opponent gets tonight s last word, the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts now. 11t hour with stephani e tonight, an unprecedented move from the january 6th committee. subpoenas issued to five of their own, including the house as top republican. it is all too little too late. and escalating threats from the kremlin, what it all could mean for the war in ukraine. plus, the inside story of last years gamestop surge. we created the new msnbc documentary on how real life players took on wall street as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. good evening once again, i am stephanie ruhle. 180 days from the midterm elections. and just hours ago, the january six committee did something never before done. less than a month before public hearings on the investigation, the committee today issued subpoenas to their own house colleagues, requesting that they come and testify about the insurrection. the five subpoenaed republicans include caucus leader kevin mcca
what was it about this story? that s the thing. my background was in tech, tech journalism. so, looking at red it was sort of a happy place for me. that s weird! yeah, admitted lead, it is. i noticed in april 2020, about nine months before the short squeeze, that wallstreetbets, the subreddit, was really gaining steam. stimulus checks had just come out, retail traders were on the rise. and this group, where people were betting that they would drink their own p that they would lose the value of their 401(k) s or that they would like a toilet seat if tesla stock ran up, it was suddenly going viral. i was looking at this group of people and thinking, despite outward appearances, i think this group of people may one day move the market. and one day, they did! they did, but they didn t win. right? people came in thinking this is david versus goliath. but they didn t. so, in the end, did they win?
together. it was months before any of us were even thinking about gamestop. the only time gamestop was in my mind when i had to by gift card for an eight year old birthday party. yeah. you have been tracking many of these traders and people for months. why? what was it about this story? that s the thing. my background was in tech, tech journalism. so, looking in right it was sort of a happy place for me. that s weird! yeah, admittedly, it is. i noticed in april 2020, about nine months before the short squeeze, that wallstreetbets, the subreddit, was really gaining steam. stimulus checks had just come out, retail traders were on the rise. and this group, where people were betting that they would drink their own urine if they lost the value of there 401(k) s or that they would like lick a toilet seat if tesla stock went up, it was suddenly going