the election by putting forward fake electors from seven states that trump lost. also this week an atlanta area district attorney requested a special grand jury to investigate the former president s election interference in georgia, and trump family members are also under the legal spotlight as the january 6th committee is asking ivanka trump to cooperate and has subpoenaed phone records from other trump family members. we re starting, though, with the breaking news, today. the department of justice has just charged a texas man for allegedly making death threats against election workers in georgia. cnn s evan perez joins us now. what can you tell us about the suspect and the charges? well, victor, his name is chad stark, and he was arrested today in texas. he s being charged by prosecutors in atlanta, and according to the prosecutors, what he did was he posted a message on craigslist in january of 2021 seeking to pay someone $10,000 if they would kill specific georgia ele
unusually long portions of court transcripts. sometimes, i do, you know, end up reporting breaking news because the news drags us along. but other times, we will try and do historical back ground for understanding what is important in the news today. i recognize that we do weird stuff on the show and if you have been watching the show for a while you probably know that, too. we mostly do weird stuff on the show because my brain works weird, and i m aware of that. i know the way we heard things can occasionally be a surprise. but even with all the weird things that we have done over the years to cover the news, i have never before done this nor have i ever anticipated that one of the things i i would need do on the air someday to explain the news is break down a new trend in the recent amazon.com reviews for yankee candle. but that day has arrived, and so here we go. review number one, quote, no scent, very disappointed. one star. review number two, no scent, very disappointed
who says he will plead the fifth to avoid answering questions. the clock is ticking for this committee. a potential gop majority after the midterms in 2022 could shut down the panel for good. cnn s ryan nobles is on capitol hill for us. so ryan, it sounds like those thousands of documents that meadows originally turned over will be very helpful to the committee, so do we know what s in those? we re getting some idea of what exactly mark meadows handed over to the january 6th committee. and alisyn, you re right. it is pretty revealing about the role that meadows played in the events leading up to january 6th, specifically the peddling of this false information about the election results in november. this is just part of the letter that they released today, where they expressed concern about meadows lack of cooperation and their willingness to move forward on criminal contempt. it reads, quote, on november 7th, 2020 email discussing the appointment of an alternate slate of e
plan social media company. i am going to talk to one writer who got his hands on a test version, and reports it s about the mess that you d expect. that is coming up. we want to begin, though, with that breaking news out of wilmington, delaware, where president biden has just wrapped up his meeting with west virginia senator joe manchin and senate majority leader chuck schumer. at the heart of it all, reaching an agreement over the president s expansive and social environmental bill. manchin has spent months rebuffing the president s demands for the $3.5 trillion package, no longer that number, as we well know. nbc s mike memoli and washington post white house reporter tyler page are joining us on this. mike memoli, you got some major news for us which is the meeting has now wrapped up. i broke it on your behalf so give us an update. what happened inside? well, yasmin, even the detail of knowing this meeting has ended was more difficult because of the unusual setting for
good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. we begin this broadcast with the rapidly growing legal perils for donald j trump. his codefendants and his closest allies. along with his pending criminal trials, the former president, some of his kids and his business now face a whopping 250 million dollar civil lawsuit from new york attorney general tish james. in new court documents filed earlier, james alleges that donald trump routinely overstated his personal net worth to financial institutions, in one single year, by as much as 2. 2 billion dollars. according to james s lawsuit, the asset inflation went on for ten years in an effort to get better loan agreements. the trial is supposed to begin in early october, ahead of any of trump s criminal cases. meanwhile, a federal judge ruled that former trump lawyer and advisor rudy giuliani defamed georgia election workers, ruby freeman and her daughter, shaye moss. giuliani made repeated false claims about the two of them as he wo