stephanie ruhle starts now. tonight, the chaotic start to this new congress. republicans ran on inflation, immigration, and crime but they are focused on fights, internal vaccinations, and stunts. today removing the presented of a lot and when mark from a committee assignment. then the former president feeling the pressure. a potential new charges for his already jailed money man. and the gun country. the fresh push for more people to legally carry just as we get results of the first federal gun crimes reported in decades. as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. house republicans have set off a new fire storm on capitol hill today. minnesota democrat, elon omar, has been officially removed from the foreign affairs committee after a party line vote. republican cited her past eight months criticizing israel, with some democrats saying, it is just political revenge for the removal of marjorie taylor greene and paul
house republicans have set off a new fire storm on capitol hill today. minnesota democrat, elon omar, has been officially removed from the foreign affairs committee after a party line vote. republican cited her past eight months criticizing israel, with some democrats saying, it is just political revenge for the removal of marjorie taylor greene and paul gosar from their committees during the less conference. nbc s ryan nobles has more. tonight, democratic congresswoman ilhan omar divided. my leadership and boys will be diminished. if i am not on this committee for one term. after republicans took the dramatic step, but to remove her from the foreign affairs committee. how speaker, kevin mccarthy, says it is in response omar s past comments. with both republicans and democrats of condemns antisemitic. including support for israel was all about the benjamins. and that israel has hypnotized the world. comments omar has apologized for. when it comes to foreign affairs, e
rights advocates are taking to city streets. a live look at chicago. demonstrations are well underway. the demonstrations are title ban off our bodies. they come after a draft opinion to abandon roe versus wade. justice clarence fondness broaching the subject in a public forum, says the leak undermines trust among justices. if someone said that one line of one opinion would be leaked by anyone, and you would say, that s impossible. no one would ever do that. and look where we are, where now that trust, or that belief is gone forever. we never had that before. we actually trusted. we may be a dysfunctional family, but we were a family. and we loved. we trusted each other. you left. together you went to lunch together every day. well chief justice john roberts has ordered an investigation to the source of that leak. developing story on many fronts. antonia hilton from washington d.c., and jesse courage from chicago. welcome to you both. i ll begin with you antonia, where
this. we have to warn here that it is hard to watch. [speaking in a global language] joining me now our correspondents who is live in israel. nbc s foreign correspondent, molly, hunter is with us as. well and the nbc security analyst. i want to start with you, rough. what casten what you re seen. yeah,, katie and just the last hour, israel security cabinet has formally declared a state of war in response to what tickles the murderous terrorist attack of gaza. they are talking about scenes like the one behind me. this is all that s left of what was an israeli police station at the heart of the city. it is overrun by gunmen. katie, everywhere here, you can see debris from the ferocious gun battle that follows. if my camera operator turns the camera here, you can see this is the remains of a jacket here. we don t know this belong to one of the hamas militants, or to an israeli soldier. everywhere, katie, i m not going to zoom in on, but in that tree there is still a body of
Republicans can use politically to show their base they re going after these folks, short of impeaching them. but i m not sure it s going to get off the ground either. it just shows you, again, the energy behind the investigations and sort of the political fights as opposed to some of the very big legislative things that have to get done in the next work period, like funding the military or excuse me, authorizing the military and the ndaa and eventually funding the government before the end of september, which comes quicker than you realize when congress takes the entire month of august off. the house gets back to washington tomorrow. they re back in session. there s 12 days before the recess, right, what s on the agenda? the annual military authorization that s passed every year for 60 years running. both measures passed their respective committees in the house and senate. there are tons of amendments, hundreds of amendments that have been offered on this, including