challenger takes s new slogan to a key state. then the largest bank failures since 2008. s v b, silicon valley bank imploding in just 30 hours. how did it happen and what are the consequences? and our friday night cap is here talking all about the biggest stories of the week and some you may have missed. the 11th hour getting underway right now. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. it is finally friday and you know what that means! means we are closing out the week with a friday night cap and you do not want to miss a minute. so get comfortable and settle in because that is coming right up. but first, the twice impeached ex president, he s getting ready to spend his weekend huddling with lawyers in florida to figure out a strategy for dealing with an escalating legal threat. we told you last night donald trump has been invited to appear before a manhattan grand jury investigating the 2016 hush money payment to former porn star stormy daniels. trump s lawyers tell nbc
Starts now good evening. Welcome to our continuing special coverage of the trump new york Hush Money Trial. I was privileged which to watch some of day 11 inside the courtroom. Today was both fascinating was fascinating to see up close. Hope hicks, once a top advisor to former president , testifying for the prosecution recounting first the access Hollywood Tape coming out, then the Stormy Daniels and Karen Mcdougal revelations finishing her direct testimony with a potentially damaging account of what the former president s said in retrospect when the daniel story finally broken 2018, then moments later, hope hicks started crying. Hicks in that final answer saying, quote, it was mr. Trumps opinion that it was better to be dealing with it now and that it would have been bad to have that story come out before the flexion, which could bolster the prosecution case that the former president was motivated by campaign and not necessarily Family Concerns and suppressing both that and the Karen
-for the second time in nasa s history, a space shuttle has been lost along with its entire crew. once again, we are asking ourselves, how could this have happened? -do you have any idea how big that piece of foam was that came off? -we d heard some reports that during launch there had been some concerns that some debris hit the wing. is that true and is that any cause of concern and that could have caused today s problems? -it is true. it was judged that, erm , that event did not represent a safety concern. -this happened under my watch, but i didn t have the answers. in every public forum i m gonna have to be in, how am i gonna explain this to anybody? at this time, we have no indication that the mishap was caused by anything or anyone on the ground. -nasa never wants to look stupid. nasa wants to be the agency with the answers. -my thoughts are on what we missed, what i missed to allow this to happen. -but if you overlook something, it will come to bite you one day or anot
no one was gonna go public and say, we know what didn t happen. -you get that shot right there? that s a nasa official. he s holding a piece of foam, which he is now saying could not have had enough impact cause it s too light to have damaged those tiles that we ve been talking about. -i knew ron. i had respect for ron. ron was linda ham s boss and a good manager. but what s always the first step in grief? denial. -i called ron and i said, ron, let me just remind you, ok? we had a clear understanding that we are not gonna eliminate anything until the data has come in to definitively eliminate it. -to bring that out and dismiss it, you know, pre-emptively, i think speaks volumes. at the very least they had to acknowledge it. but it was acknowledging their own mistakes
Theres got to be another reason. Well, how can he say that . Where is he getting that from . What a big denial. To be certain it was foam is nonsense, right . But to be certain it wasnt foam is equally nonsense. Right . And thats what they were saying. Its not foam. Well, how do you know . I know from the Accident Investigation teams perspective, No One was Gonna Go Public and say, we know what didnt happen. You get that shot right there . Thats a nasa official. Hes holding a piece of foam, which he is now saying could not have had enough impact cause its too light to have damaged those tiles that weve been talking about. I knew ron. I had respect for ron. Ron was Linda Hams Boss and a good manager. But whats always the first step in grief . Denial. I called ron and i said,