russia resorts to pictures of rubble to convince the public to get behind the war. the treasury department warning it has $39 billion left in cash as of tonight. yellen moves the dead ceiling deadline. an update to a story we told you about. $2 million and jail time after a chinese comedian made a comment about the communist party. wait until you see tonight. let s go out front. good evening. an aggressive strike. new video tshowing thick smoke what is believed to be a steel plant in mariupol. ukraine hit the city with two missiles. this is tactical but hugely symbolic in terms of a strike. this is where ukrainian troops were in the deadly standoff for russian forces for weeks last year. mariupol is even important staging ground for russian forces in southern ukraine. it s crucial. there s a flow of russian military convoys. a ukrainian strike changes the game. in russia, staid imte media is something new. i want to show you the drone video. this is from bakhmut. it is
struggle. the annual military parade noticeably scaled down. victory day celebrates the soviet union s triumph over nazi germany and russia usually flexes its military might. this year it was only one tank from world war ii and no flyovers of fighter jets, bombers in his speech, accuse the west of unleashi war agains the russian mother land. it comes days after a mysterious drone attack on the kremlin hours before putin s speech russia launched cruise missiles at ukraine s capital. let s bring in matthew chance to start us out. as someone who covered all things putin and moscow so closely, what was your take? well, i think you re right, poppy. definitely much smaller than we have seen in years past. i think 8,000 troops this year. 12,000 last year, for instance. there was no military flyover. usually that s a spectacular highlight of this kind of victory day parade. there was an intercontinental ballistic missile as the centerpiece of the parade. russia underlining it is
good evening once again. i am stephanie ruhle. donald j trump, the current front runner for the 2024 republican nomination as now been found liable for sexually abusing writer e. jean carroll. the jury of six men and three women announced the verdict late this afternoon after a civil trial that lasted two weeks. nbc s laura jarrett has the details. can we have a statement please? a resoundingly win for e. jean carroll. finding former resident trump sexually abused her and then defamed her by calling her story a lie, awarding her $5 million. the jury swiftly returning their unanimous verdict after fewer than three hours of deliberations. in a statement tonight, carroll saying, this vector is not just for me but for every woman who has ever because she was not believed. over the course of two weeks, they heard flip carroll tearful dressing room at bergdorf goodman. two friends she told at need time, along with two other women who accused mr. trump of making unwanted adv
word in this program tonight. the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts nowtephanie ruhle starts now tonight, the $5 million of the verdict. former president donald trump find liable for sex abuse and defamation. we will break down the legal and political fallout. then, congressman george santos now facing federal charges. what we know as calls for his resignation continue for both sides of the aisle. and, with the clock ticking on the debt ceiling, president biden met with congressional leaders. what went down and is congress any closer to a deal? as the 11th hour gets underway on this tuesday night. good evening once again i m stephanie ruhle. donald j trump, the current front runner for the 2024 republican nomination as now been found liable for sexually abusing writer e. jean carroll. the jury of six men and three women announced the verdict late this afternoon after a civil trial that lasted two weeks. and the s laura jarrett has the details. can we have statement? ple
we re not looking for a new cold war. and i make no apologies, and we will compete. and we ll responsibly manage that competition so that it doesn t veer into conflict. paul: let s bring in seth jones, senior vice president of the center for strategic and international studies and author of the book, three dangerous men: russia, china, iran and the rise of irregular warfare. seth, welcome. good to the see you again. so what lessons do you draw froa balloon episode, and should americans be reassured by the way it was handled? paul, i brought two major lessons from the balloon incident. one ises the only it is the only one of the few visible examples we ve seen of a much broader effort by china which views the united states as its major competitor to collect information including within the u.s. homeland. there has been extensive activity, and there continues to this day to collect information through the confucius institutes as part of the thousand talents program, as part