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
blues, as the 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening once. again i m stephanie ruhle, and lucky me live from washington d.c. and we re now 272 days away from election day. and in 11 hours from now the supreme court will hear arguments in a case that could upend the presidential race as we know it. in december the colorado supreme court sided with the egg with donald trump cannot be on the 2024 ballot, citing the 14th amendment. part of that amendment says that if, as a sworn officer of the u.s. government, you engaged in insurrection, you cannot hold federal office again. attorneys for colorado plaintiffs say this is an easy call. donald trump is disqualified today. he was disqualified on january six, 2021, when he engaged in that he. disqualified himself under our constitution. it s not our plaintiffs who are seeking to do that. trump of course appealed the colorado decision, sending it to the supreme court. trump himself is not expected to attend
secret service. the most important secret service text messages since the invention of text messaging. they were deliberately erased by the secret service, according to the inspector general. the most important text message in the history of the secret service. we don t know if any of the text messages sent to and from vice president mike pence and secret service detail survived the deliberate erasure by the secret service. those text messages good show attempts by the secret service to move mike pence away from the capital against his well. those text messages to remove mike pence from the capital during the attack on the capitol. so that mike pence would not be able to continue to participate in the certifications of the electoral college vote. the secret service text messages on january 6th are the most important text messages secret service agents have ever sent or received on their phones. the most important ever, and now, they might all be erased. why? who would the s
difficult meeting tomorrow? as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. there are major developments in the january 6th investigation tonight. according to a letter obtained by nbc news, the secret service erased, i m gonna say it again, erased text messages from january 6th, 2021, and from the previous day. the letter to house committees from homeland security watchdog says, those messages were deleted, after being requested as part of an investigation into the capitol riot. that inspector general says he was told, many of the messages have been erased as quote, part of a device replacement program. tonight, the secret service issued a statement, saying this. that insinuation the secret service maliciously deleted text messages following a request is false. in january 2021, before any inspection was opened, the secret service began to reset its mobile phones to factually settings, as part of a preplanned, three