infighting nearly thanked a tax cut deal. how republicans are playing politics with both as the 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle live from msnbc headquarters here in new york city. and timing is everything, especially when it comes to donald trump s legal dramas and his campaign to retake the white house. it has just been over three weeks since an appeals court heard arguments over trump s claim of absolute immunity from prosecution in the 2020 election interference case. so far, there has been no decision. it looks like that case will begin well past the scheduled more fourth start date. in florida for a closed-door meeting with judge aileen cannon about trump s classified documents case which is set to begin in may. there are questions about whether that will push back as well. and as political points, out each day that trump s criminal cases are delayed, raises the possibility that the opening days of his trial
the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts now. tonight, donald trump s legal delays and the impacts they may have on november as you tries to kill back the union vote for president biden. then, tense moments at a public apology during a senate hearing with tech ceos about child safety online. but will anything meaningful come out of it? and the border deal hangs in the balance while gop infighting nearly thanked a tax cut deal. how republicans are playing wednesday night. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle live from msnbc headquarters here in new york city. and timing is everything, especially when it comes to donald trump s legal dramas and his campaign to retake the white house. it has just been over three weeks since an appeals court heard arguments over trump s claim of absolute immunity from prosecution in the 2020 election interference case. so far, there has been no decision. it looks like that case will begin well past the scheduled more fourth start dat
so trump has some things he needs to do with the establishment types. it remains to be seen how the grassroots will hold on to mccormick, but that s where we were going, and we will be soon enough. reporter: thank you so much. national political reporter for new york times, charlie dent, former publican congressman from pennsylvania and executive director and vice president of the congressional program at the aspen institute. coming, up nikki haley has a big endorsement this morning, donald trump has been collecting endorsements from top political figures of haley s own home state, and is parading around new hampshire with them. politics is hard, watching nikki haley get trust in two states at once by a guy who was once impeached twice, criminally indicted, and lost the last election is a sign that we should all turn our attention to the real two person race that is about to emerge, and they have nothing to do with the primaries. the one between joe biden and donald trump.
all in person. you have a great, weekend it s a busy week so i m sure we ll be talking during the week. see you, guys. velshi, starts now. good morning. it s sunday, january the 21st. i m ali velshi. we re two days away from the very first primary of the season. and perhaps, two days away from donald trump so in up the republican nomination in record time. the former president, who s been twice impeached and currently faces 91 criminal charges, appears headed for another easy victory and tuesday s primary. with all the legal troubles he still has a head of him this year, he is looking to shut down the primaries as soon as possible. new hampshire is nikki haley s hail mary moment. she has been gaining ground on trump in recent weeks, it appears to be too little, too late. while polls out of new hampshire have been historically volatile, no signs have emerged that haley will get the surge of support that she truly needs to boost her chances. even if she did pull off a miracle
what exactly do we expect to hear from him? reporter: yeah, that s right, bianna. president biden is going to be tackling head on what has become a political liability for democrats less than three weeks away from these midterm elections and that s the price of gas in the united states, which is now 20 cents higher than it was a month ago. we have seen those prices come down some over the last week, but there are still a lot of concerns, especially given the cut in production announced by opec plus earlier this month, the conflict that is still ongoing in ukraine and so president biden today trying to do something to tackle the rising price of oil and in accordance with that the rising price of gas. 15 million barrels of oil is what president biden is directing the administration to release from the strategic petroleum reserve and that is going to be the last of the 180 million barrels of oil that president biden announced last spring that the administration would release t