Good to be with you. Im katy tur. This is a monumental day, the Federal Reserve cut Interest Rates for the first time in four years. This was an aggressive 50 Basis Point Cut or half a Percentage Point that will move markets and Mortgage Rates. It might also move the tide of the election. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell followed the announcement with a speech of his own, appearing to signal more aggressive cuts to come, indicating that inflation is finally under control, all of this, just 48 days before the president ial election. Big day. Joining us now, nbc News Business and data reporter, brian cheung, national Affairs Correspondent with the nation John Nichols, and director of polling at the Harvard Kennedy Institute of politics and msnbc political contributor, John Della volpe. Nbc Business Correspondent Christine romans will be here in just a second. Brian, i shall begin with you, explain what We Saw, and also tell me what he said in his news conference. Yeah, and its stil
resistance effort. that s tomorrow at 10 pm eastern here on msnbc and streaming on peacock. peacock is tonight s last word. the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts now. tonight. bombshell testimony from a murder suspect. taking the stand in his own defense, telling the jury he lied and stole, but he didn t kill his wife and son. will they buy? it then the tucker tapes. congressman jamie raskin is here to respond to speaker mccarthy s move to put forward the thousand hours of january 6th footage into the hands of one fox news host. and disgraced crypto king sam bankman-fried with four new criminal charges, some related to political donations. as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. we begin this evening with more moving testimony from a defendant and a double murder case making national headlines. alex murdaugh, the former well to do south carolina lawyer accused of killing his wife and son took to stand in his o
[laughter] somebody brought licking as well, and licking s really hard to control. pete: so they say. will: what are you doing? are you questioning my ability to discipline dogs? pete: rachel, you should chime in,you re a pet parent, are you doomed to have undisciplined kids when you re a real parent? if. will: is skippy undisciplined? rachel: no, it s not. i have disciplined kids, i have a very unkiss palined dog undisciplined dog. pete, when i have a lot of kids and you re working hard, i just don t have time to do the dog. [laughter] he kind of just does his thing. pete: we moved to tennessee with two cats, and we only have one now. the tennessee wilderness got ahold of stormy. it was either a coyote, a hawk, a snake, a raccoon or a fox. so rest in peace, stormy hegset- [laughter] will: i grew up living in the rachel: ray did you name your cat after stormy daniels? pete: no, but it works nicely like that. we were going through a star wars they were very brave in ne
toss-up race in the rematch for governor is leaning red. john: congenial affair, don t you think? can the the democrats send senator warnock back to washington, we ll find out. and a george-based political reporter is on the ground tracking the mood in the closing hours. sandra: america reports rolls into a second hour here on a friday afternoon. i m sandra smith in new york. john: good to be with you another 60 minutes. counting down to election day, one last weekend to campaign and get out the vote. sandra: democrats in new hampshire trying to hold on to a seat they cannot afford to lose there. john: hassan bringing in back-up, as her republican challenger don bolduc picks up steam, and one person absent from the granite state, president biden. sandra: ari fleischer standing by, and daron shaw. john: hillary vaughn is in durham, new hampshire. who is on the guest list? elizabeth warren was just here at the university of new hampshire rallying college stude
in the senate. they re statewide candidate quality having to do with the l come. that s pretty remarkable to hear from the republican senate leader. not exactly exerting a lot of confidence. let s talk a little bit about those gop candidates, almost all of whom were handpicked by donald trump, and almost all of more floundering. there is, of course, arizona republican oblique masters who was endorsed by trump and he has pushed great replacement conspiracies and claimed that black people are to blame for america s gun violence problem. supery cyst believes, i might add. no surprise that masters is running eight points behind kelly with his opponent pushing racist views, he might be on the path to the smooth reelection. and then there s republican herschel walker down in georgia. herschel walker could barely string a sentence together most times. he has refused to debate democratic senator raphael warnock, and you can understand why when you see his long list of gaps, which