break it down. as the 11th hour gets underway on this monday night. good evening once again i m stephanie ruhle. donald j trump is now hours away from his first court appearance as a federal criminal defendant. earlier today he traveled from new jersey to south florida ahead of his scheduled arraignment tomorrow on charges of mishandling classified documents and blocking efforts to get them back. the government s hearing 49 -page indictment lays out more than three dozen counts against the former president including what prosecutors say is evidence of where trump kept america s most sensitive national security secrets in a bathroom, a ballroom the storms in mar-a-lago. trump was asked about his upcoming court hearings in a radio interview earlier tonight. the judge is going to ask you tomorrow how you plead are you going to see anything beyond not guilty? are you going to make a statement in court tomorrow? i did nothing wrong, presidential records act it s not even a cri
i feel so emotionally ill prepared for the a i future, and even the conversation about the a.i.. it really makes me feel like a luddite in the original sense of that term, which was, like a bunch of people that went with sledgehammers to factories and started breaking them. we were like, over our dead bodies we you or places and recognize us. yeah, a horse and buggy just got passed by a ferrari on the highway. anyway, welcome to our lives. my friend, have a good weekend. have a good show. thank you at-home for joining us this hour. this is the video that former trump attorney rudy giuliani called the smoking gun in the 2020 election. mr. giuliani claimed these georgia election workers in fulton county were stuffing ballots into suitcases, and passing around usb ports like they were sneaking, quote, vials of heroin or cocaine. mr. giuliani said this illegal activity was obvious to anyone. it turned out that was all a lie. the workers in this video we re putting ballo
in japan. we are live on capitol hill with a look at where the talks stand right now. plus, let it go. for governor ron desantis cost his state a billion dollar project and thousands of jobs all because he is fighting a losing war with disney. how that disney drama and defending diversity will impact his presidential bid with desantis just days away from making it official. and later, tourist trap. america s gun crisis stretching far beyond its borders, a 700 advisories seven countries issue advisories on visiting the united states. what it means for america s seven trillion dollar tourist industry. and a good saturday morning to you all. i am katie phang. we begin overseas in japan at the g7 summit where russia s 15 month war in ukraine takes center stage. just hours ago, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy touchdown and hiroshima to meet with president biden and leaders of some of the world s most powerful democracies. zelenskyy s arrival comes just a day after bide
it s 4:00 in washington d.c. a hail mary move by the disgraced ex-president that serves as an indication that special counsel jack smith may well be close to making a decision on whether or not to indict donald trump. we re at donald trump s dear attorney general, the special counsel is being mean to me phase. make no mistake we have been here before. late yesterday lawyers for the ex-president asked for a meeting with merrick garland. the letter itself was brief, filled with the usual trump rhetoric about being persecuted despite the fact that the ex-president is the one who has resisted handing over some of the nation s most sensitive intelligence secrets. documents he kept just one lock, one door away from hundreds of people at his pay for membership club to the government who rightfully owned the documents and asked for them back. the new york times says the letter asserts that trump is treated unfairly in the investigations led by jack smith. the washington post is r
us this hour. this is the video that former trump attorney rudy giuliani called the smoking gun of the 2020 election. mr. giuliani claimed the georgia election workers in fulton county were stuffing ballots into suitcases and passing around usb ports like they were speaking, quote, vials of heroin or cocaine. mr. giuliani said this illegal activity was obvious to anyone. turned out it was all a lie. the workers in this video we re putting ballots in secure lock boxes because they were wrapping up for the night and need to keep them secure until the next day. what giuliani told his legions of followers were usb ports filled with nefarious information, that was actually election workers passing out mintz, ginger mintz. and as wild as giuliani s claims were these were real people and so his lies had a profound impact on their lives. here s ruby freeman, and her daughter, shaye moss, two of the people giuliani publicly named, telling the january six committee how giuliani s words