stephanie ruhle starts now. tonight, the chaotic start to this new congress. republicans ran on inflation, immigration, and crime but they are focused on fights, internal vaccinations, and stunts. today removing the presented of a lot and when mark from a committee assignment. then the former president feeling the pressure. a potential new charges for his already jailed money man. and the gun country. the fresh push for more people to legally carry just as we get results of the first federal gun crimes reported in decades. as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. house republicans have set off a new fire storm on capitol hill today. minnesota democrat, elon omar, has been officially removed from the foreign affairs committee after a party line vote. republican cited her past eight months criticizing israel, with some democrats saying, it is just political revenge for the removal of marjorie taylor greene and paul
house republicans have set off a new fire storm on capitol hill today. minnesota democrat, elon omar, has been officially removed from the foreign affairs committee after a party line vote. republican cited her past eight months criticizing israel, with some democrats saying, it is just political revenge for the removal of marjorie taylor greene and paul gosar from their committees during the less conference. nbc s ryan nobles has more. tonight, democratic congresswoman ilhan omar divided. my leadership and boys will be diminished. if i am not on this committee for one term. after republicans took the dramatic step, but to remove her from the foreign affairs committee. how speaker, kevin mccarthy, says it is in response omar s past comments. with both republicans and democrats of condemns antisemitic. including support for israel was all about the benjamins. and that israel has hypnotized the world. comments omar has apologized for. when it comes to foreign affairs, e
saying. well, we now think is a different and more serious one. and it may do sue to have more jail time. safest don t just know the bodies are buried, they keep the shovels and their garage. you said right there. this guy 75 years old, he hasn t turned on trump, yet instead, he d rather spend the last portion of his life on earth sitting in one of the worst jails in this country. weiner is the prosecutors, think oh, maybe he will see the light now? he has shown no sign of that. he s obviously staying over on the dark side. but i think to be two things that prosecutors might be thinking about here. one, is that in the past, trump has had more power. he was the president at one point when this investigation is going on. then, even afterwards, it looked like he had more political muscle then, frankly has right now. that s one thing that might be in their mind. which is weisselberg can t bank on trump protecting once he s out of jail, in the same way. and the second thing is, now, wei
hasn t turned on trump, yet instead, he d rather spend the last portion of his life on earth sitting in one of the worst jails in this country. weiner is the prosecutors, think oh, maybe he will see the light now? he has shown no sign of that. he s obviously staying over on the dark side. but i think to be two things that prosecutors might be thinking about here. one, is that in the past, trump has had more power. he was the president at one point when this investigation is going on. then, even afterwards, it looked like he had more political muscle then, frankly has right now. that s one thing that might be in their mind. which is weisselberg can t bank on trump protecting once he s out of jail, in the same way. and the second thing is, now, weisselberg s been in jail. it s one thing to stick up your old boss before you ve actually had to spend the real time in prison, but some other thing to continue to do so when you ve actually been stuck in rikers.
political muscle then, frankly has right now. that s one thing that might be in their mind. which is weisselberg can t bank on trump protecting once he s out of jail, in the same way. and the second thing is, now, weisselberg s been in jail. it s one thing to stick up your old boss before you ve actually had to spend the real time in prison, but some other thing to continue to do so when you ve actually been stuck in rikers. and it s been telling to see whether or not to extend this day to protect against a guy like donald trump. rikers, not one of those prisons with tennis courts. new topic, we saw possible sign today that special counsel jack smith is moving full steam ahead with his investigation into donald trump. today, conservative activists and longtime trump confidant, thompson. he was spotted outside a d. c. courthouse where the grand jury s meeting. we also noticed at least one