tonight, the battle over abortion pill access back in court. what happened at the appeals ruling today, as more states pass restrictive legislation? and, house democrats make moves to spell congressman george santos, while republicans are sidestepping an actual vote. and both sides sounded more optimistic on a possible debt limit deal. we ll break down where things stand in the negotiations as the 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. today, a federal court heard arguments for and against access to the most commonly used abortion pill. it is the biggest legal battle over abortion since roe v. wade was overturned by the supreme court last summer. nbc s laura jarrett has the details on today s hearing. a federal appeals court appearing deeply skeptical today of arguments from the biden administration and manufacture, as they try to keep mifepristone available. i don t understand the steam. the fda can do no
migrants crossing the border. and the looming debt ceiling deadline. president biden s meeting with congressional leaders now postponed. why some see this delay as a positive sign. and a lesson from the nyu journalism professor on how the media should handle the twice impeached former president who has no problem constantly lying. as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. we are now less than one hour away from a major change in this country s immigration policy. it could lead to a large influx of migrants into the united states. at 11:59 pm eastern, just a few minutes from now, the policy known as title expires. it was used during the covid pandemic to quickly expel migrants, even if they requested asylum. tonight there are growing concerns about what could happen once title 42 ends. nbc s tom giannis is on the board border with more. title 42 set to expire. fears of a crush of the border leading to changes, begi
andrew weissmann joins us to. he would have been great on that stage. it is not his normal form, but, it needed a courtroom approach. a more persei s, targeted question, then many of the questions we got. so, we will try to see, and we might have some suggestions. i would like to see andrew weissmann versus trump, but i would like to see it in a courtroom. that is another matter, for another day. i will be watching, lawrence. i think cnn did the best they could, it using conventional tools, and we kind of knew ahead of time that conventional tools don t work. i only hope that they are, honestly, privately, i m not asking them to admit any mistakes, publicly, but just privately, watch the game film, try to figure out what you did right, because you did two things right, and try to do time. trump is coming back to cnn. he has found a new home, he will be back. let s just hope that cnn is watching the game, film trying to figure out how to do it better. here s to fingers c
tonight. can you believe it? i get to talk to someone, i m, you know through a whole lifetime and never meet someone who files a discharge position, because it s so rare. and the circumstances of the filing district petition were, like, the plot of a mission implausible. it is a cape, or if you will, lawrence, one that has yet to be resolved because we don t know how the drama is going to and, in the end. but it is certainly, he is the person of the hour as it concerns the financial stability of the american colin economy. it s going to be, at the end of the, are because we have a lot of other stuff to get through with neal katyal and others, and it s one of those things where you just have to have just a little bit of belief in miracles for it to happen. we will. see i always believe in miracles, lawrence. i m here, aren t? i thank, you. have a good night. i get the joke. thanks alex, thank you. well, if you re tuning into this program in the hope that for the
with lawrence o donnell. good evening lawrence. good evening, alex, i was listening to your coverage about the possibility of donald trump testifying to the january six committee, even after he gets a subpoena. and of course, he will fight it all the way. and we ll pretend though at the same time, through strategic legs, oh yeah, he s thinking about it, maybe he ll do it. like he did with the mueller investigation for so long. there is no chance he was ever going to testify. it s all a routine. it s all a hoax! don t believe it! i mean, the idea that he d been cooperative at the same time while he s throwing every bit of sand he can into the works is like, you know, come on, we know fully once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. we all know how the story ends. you know who s going to testify? his mascot, lindsey graham has been ordered by the federal appeals court to testify to the georgia grand jury that is investigating among other things lindsey graham s phone cal