betrayal. he essentially called yevgeny prigozhin a traitor. the kremlin said that yevgeny prigozhin was going to have to go to exile into belarus. now we re learning that prigozhin was inside the kremlin with 35 other commanders just a couple days after that mutiny took place and the kremlin, jake, gave some details as to what was spoken about. they said that vladimir putin listened to what these commanders had to say. apparently they pledged allegiance to vladimir putin. there was one thinat caught our attention. i want to read you what was said. quote, the president gave an assessment of the actions of the campaign at the front during the military operations, essentially how the war was going, as well as events of june 24th, the mutiny orchestrated by yevgeny prigozhin. putin listened to the explanations provided by the commander and offered them options for deployment. there are some that believe that means the wagner military company could make a comeback to the battlefi
he is now running against his former boss for the republican nomination. i have to say, mike pence has always struck me as a somewhat ridiculous figure. he always sounds like he is doing a bad impersonation of a politician. but his biggest obstacle in the republican primary is that voters do not seem to like him very much. despite his real advantage on name recognition, just 7% of republican primary voters say they would vote for pence if the primary election were held today. and this is even more damning. 37% have a negative opinion of the former vice president compared with 33% of primary voters who view him positively according to that same nbc news poll. that s what we call in, in the business, underwater on favor abilities. it s very clear reason for that. donald trump is still quite popular front runner for the republican nomination, blames mike pence. on january 6th and over and over and over again in the two and a half years since then, trump has told his followers th
indictments he s facing. plus, actor marcus scribner is in our simone spotlight. once a star of the tv company black-ish, now in the final season of grown-ish. what s next in his career and role and climate change activism? i m simone sanders-townsend, and i have something to. so it s been just over a week since the six conservative justices on the united states supreme court upended decades of precedent, banning the consideration of race in the polyp college admissions process. now americans are beginning to evaluate this new terrain, with some launching new efforts in the fight for racial equity in education. others working overtime to shut out students of color. this week, a group called lawyers forced civil rights or lcr fall to complete against harvard university. one of the respondents on the supreme court s admissions case is on behalf of three civil rights organizations based in boston. they re asking the federal government to intervene and abolish a system call
legal bills. and the historic court case that could have major impacts on school gun safety. then, the hidden crisis in our education system, kids skipping school, is statistic that has doubled since the pandemic. the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. good evening once again, i am stephanie ruhle, live from msnbc headquarters, right here in new york city. the president, joe biden, is focusing on a crucial swing state as he gears up to take on likely challenger, donald trump. to reelection biden narrowly won the state back in 2020 by just 104,000 votes. as nbc s dave guterres reports, union members there will help him win the white house. just days after clinching a coveted endorsement from the united auto workers, president biden is back in michigan tonight. we now have, in large part because of you an organized labor, the strongest economy in the whole world! carpentry union worker, tracey, credits biden for bringing infrastructure jobs here. joe bi
his mountain of legal troubles. new reporting from the new york times revealed the ex president has spent a staggering $50 million of donor money on his legal bills and he has a lot of legal bills to pay. he faces 91 felony counts in four cases. a lawsuit that threatens to take down his family business. not to mention the millions he owes e. jean carroll after losing two lawsuits. from that new york times reporting, quote, mr. trump has used funds in his political action committee known as save america to underwrite his legal bills. the account was originally flooded with donations that were collected during the period immediately after the 2020 election. he was making widespread and false claim of voter fraud. with save america s coffers nearly drained last year, mr. trump sought to refill them through a highly unusual transaction. he asked for a refund of $60 million that he had initially transferred to a different group. a pro trump superpac to support his 2024 campaig