Were looking at a critical week ahead for donald trump. The republican president ial candidates and american democracy. Former president Donald Trumps 18 codefendants are required to surrender to a Fulton County jail to face charges of attempting to overturn the 2020 election in georgia. Nbc news reports that the former president will not appear before thursday, Fulton County District Attorney fani willis, who gave the defendants a deadline of noon on friday august 25th. But they could turn themselves in at any time before them. So they also tell nbc news that trump is officially skipping the republican president ial primary debate on wednesday, and instead hes apparently seeking an interview with tucker carlson. Eight other candidates will take the stage without him, but inevitably that trump name will come up often. It remains to be seen how many of them will continue to defend the former president , and who will condemn his actions and stand up for democracy. This is the fourth crim
push to oust secretary mayorkas. how they got to the brink of impeachment, and what it means for the senate s border bill. then, donald trump lashing out after a court appointed monitor found more deficiencies in his company s finances. and president biden s next move in response to the attack that killed three american soldiers. a remembrance of their surface and sacrifice, as the 11th hour gets underway on this tuesday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. good to be back here at msnbc headquarters in new york city. right now, house republicans are moving forward with their push to impeach a sitting member of president biden s cabinet. their target, homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas, who they say has failed to secure the southern border. as republicans accuse him of refusing to enforce federal immigration laws and blocking oversight of vhs. keep in mind, this is happening even as many of those same republicans are openly opposing a bipartisan b
that are spreading like crazy. this is ridiculous. we have one of the hottest summers on record, yet we have republicans, specifically vac, but others as well, who are fighting against what we re seeing before our very eyes. and i think this is very demonstrative of what the republican party stands for, being anti-science up to literally watching americans die and sea level rise continue to tank homes across this country. watching a power grid system fail across the state of texas, and many other places that are extremely challenged. this isn t presidential rhetoric, this isn t policy that should be something that we actually even give any credence to you in a nation where we re consistently seeing that climate change is not only real, but lives are at stake. finn ramaswamy says that his lack of political experience will be a strength on the debate stage. congressman, do you share that belief? sometimes, but charles, not with him. it says so much about my former political party tha
with kids in schools and all ofl what we re dealing with , with the economy and with jobs and with wages and with local crime. and it just sarah , i ll give you the last word on this. when it comes to how how do wewa we ve got to stop this ating at some point. maybe it s about endingow t the funding for what it is they re doing at the border and instituting a different kind of law framework via action in the house. solute i will.lyan absolutely. absolutely. bu tt evenhaan more than that ae just going to make this quicktht look, and i always agreeim with greg on mostly everything this time. e i m going to just have to disagree on this, because that border, they know, is widen open. we have children beingot poisond in our country. they are not addicts. they are being poisoned by counterfeit pills that are al n thl over our streets. we ve lost over one hundred and seven thousand americans that chinese are our adversaries. the chinese communist party is moving precursor chemicals into mexi
deliberately. they know what s going on at the border. i mean, even katie hobbs is saying, hey, we have a border problem. there are obviously democrats who live on the border and experience the direct result of what s going on . plus, we ve seen them now have to face them in places like, god forbid, martha s vineyard and in chicago. so they know what s going on . and if there is proof that they know how bad things are and they re still leaving the borders wide open, is thatoe not a high crime? people are dying because of what s going on in i our border. our nation is dying because of what s going on at our borders. right now. si o i don t knowm just. i m not the legal scholar here. i m just a pretty face tmy.o busat if i had to say, well, something is a high crime.r yeah.bo ifrd you rere leaving our bordet wide open on purpose and you res watching americans succumb to the crime and violence and drug epidemi jusc and it s t waltzing across the border, that sounds like a high crime t