Here tonight. Thanks for being here. Its gonna do it for me for now. But now its time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. But evening, lawrence. With evening, rachel. After we get through Andrew Weissmann and neal katyal talking about the case against donald trump, where it stands tonight. We are gonna get to the United Nations, which we dont do often enough here, to speak with our United Nations ambassador, because the United States becomes the head of the Security Council tomorrow. It is our term for the ambassadors term, i should say Linda Thomasgreenfield, u. N. Ambassador, fantastic. I was just talking about the u. S. Having this confounding, sort of dilemma, or decisionmaker, deciding whether or not its gonna keep its word on being really mad at uganda for their killed against law while simultaneously planning to go ahead with this hundreds of millions of dollars in funding that would we give them for anti age this year. With Linda Thomasgreenfield, which were gonna talk ab
legal bills. and the historic court case that could have major impacts on school gun safety. then, the hidden crisis in our education system, kids skipping school, is statistic that has doubled since the pandemic. the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. good evening once again, i am stephanie ruhle, live from msnbc headquarters, right here in new york city. the president, joe biden, is focusing on a crucial swing state as he gears up to take on likely challenger, donald trump. to reelection biden narrowly won the state back in 2020 by just 104,000 votes. as nbc s dave guterres reports, union members there will help him win the white house. just days after clinching a coveted endorsement from the united auto workers, president biden is back in michigan tonight. we now have, in large part because of you an organized labor, the strongest economy in the whole world! carpentry union worker, tracey, credits biden for bringing infrastructure jobs here. joe bi
battleground, michigan, his efforts to shore up the autoworker roads. plus, donald trump s cash crunch as he faces mounting legal bills. and the historic court case that could have major impacts on school gun safety. then, the hidden crisis in our education system, kids skipping school, is statistic that has doubled since the pandemic. the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. good evening once again, i am stephanie ruhle, live from msnbc headquarters, right here in new york city. the president, joe biden, is focusing on a crucial swing state as he gears up to take on likely challenger, donald trump. today, in michigan, which could be one of the biggest battlegrounds on his path to reelection. now, he has won the state in 2020 by just 154,000 votes. as nbc s dave guterres reports, union members there will help him win the white house. just days after clinching a coveted endorsement from the united auto workers, president biden is back in michigan tonight. we n
its closing arguments in donald trump s civil fraud trial after a dramatic scene in which the former president himself addressed the court. the judge had only allowed trump to speak on the condition that he focus on the facts but the president quickly veered into other territory claiming he is an innocent man being persecuted d the judge telling defense counsel please control your client. th former president has already been found liable for inflating properties to get loan deals. the judge will attempt to issue his ruling by the end of the month. yasmin vossoughian is reporting for us outside the courtroom in new york. vaughn hillyard is urbandale, iowa, also with us, renato, former federal prosecutor. somebody might argue at least in terms of drama donald trump s a tough act to follow. reporter: yeah, i think that person would likely win that argument. nonetheless, i think lee tee james has a lot in store. she is not likely to offer closing arguments to other attorneys.
times. we are grateful. the beat with ari melber starts rights now. hi, ari. thanks so much. i m ari melber, and yes, this is another busy news night. we have one of the special reports we have been working on this is brand new, and i m going to share with you tonight. it is about how donald trump as a client has been likened to a mob boss by his own lawyers. how the lawyers who have gotten in trouble have been the biggest assistants, factual, evidentiary and otherwise to the prosecutors pursuing trump, and how there s a lawyer we ve heardless about but i m going to get into details tonight, who can be a key, a lynch pin in any federal indictment. as we come on the air as well as the news we brought you tonight. we brought you a reporter who broke it last night, and now it s everywhere, not being disputed that the doj formally targeted donald trump for indictment. i ll walk you through what that means. number one, it s the clearest signal that charges at this time are p