thanks so much. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. a we begin with this ongoing and conservative hunt for some kind of evidence or damning narrative about political opponents and how this keeps coming up empty in revealing ways. this is one a those stories that s crested this week because we had the trump era investigation end. i have new material on that, including how it s playing on the right and why that matters. at the same time, house republicans are struggling with their own investigations into the biden family. but it is telling to watch how people are dealing with the evidence this week, especially evident that was channelled but none other than a trump/barr hand picked prosecutor. part of this is playing out on a platform that s been recently discredited. i m talk about fox news, which was caught lying to their own audience and lying so badly and blatantly they were worried they broke illegal lies and they broke history the bad way work a $787 million settleme
another act of violence targeting a member of congress. two people in virginia, in democrat jerry connolly s district office, are attacked by a man with a metal baseball bat. this is a gentleman with a long history of mental illness. he has been engaged in bizarre behavior in the past, including violent. he decided today for whatever reason to come to us and inflict more of the same. a trump justice department special prosecutor investigating the fbi over the russia investigation for bias issues. his report after four years. not recommending any indictments. i will speak to andrew weismann about the results. mike pence and florida governor ron desantis making big moves ahead of expected announcements to take on donald trump. good day. i m andrea mitchell in washington. this afternoon, the second big showdown between president biden and house speaker mccarthy over the debt ceiling. a critical moment says the treasury secretary, as the president is about to leave for a
11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts right now. tonight, round two of the debt ceiling showdown. this time, ending on a hopeful note. president biden has scrapped part of the major trip abroad over the possible risk of default. then, donald trump and ron desantis go head to head on abortion legislation, while an abortion ban denies north carolina. elon musk s latest trader troubles, how his own line actions having any real life consequences? as the 11th hour gets underway on this tuesday night. good evening once again, i am stephanie ruhle. with just two weeks to go before a possible default, president biden, vice president harris, and the top four congressional leaders met today in the oval office to try and find a way out of the crisis. in a sign of the urgency of the moment, we learned that the president will be cutting his trip to asia short so that he can get back to washington to negotiate. nbc s kelly o donnell has more on the two sides and what they are saying to
southern border after the lifting of title 42. we will have the very latest from the border as the biden administration defends its actions. we have been planning for this moment, for the end of title 42, for more than a year and a half. not only have we ve been planning, we haven t executing those plans. surging resources, personnel, greater facilities capacity, and so much more. a crucial few days ahead of president biden hints that we may be close to a debt ceiling breakthrough that could over a government shutdown. a moment of remembrance this hour. it will be one year since the buffalo super mining shooting. we will have that live. we are watching a crucial election overseas as turkish president arrow on may be on the verge of a historic loss. plus, donald trump may have opened the door for a whole new level of legal trouble. we ll be looking at that a had. we begin with 1000 border with the number of migrants taken into custody by border patrol continues to drop as
a new era at the southern border with title 42, the covid policy that blocked migrants at the border expiring just hours ago, but the legal limbo isn t over. a new ruling overnight injecting new uncertainty into the situation, so what s the plan now? and did officials do enough to prevent chaos? our system has been broken for more than two decades. everyone agrees about that. it s time not to criticize, it s time to act. also breaking this morning, the man accused of killing jordan neely in a new york city subway surrendering to police moments ago. the former marine now facing a manslaughter charge. we ve got a live report outside the courthouse. plus, extreme weather, tornados touching down in oklahoma and elsewhere causing widespread damage. we ll tell you where this system is heading next. let s begin with the breaking news on the southern border where the covid restrictions known as title 42 expired overnight. in the early morning hours, this is yuma port of entry