fighting to save damar hamlin s life. and a stunning increase, that is how it is described. that is how the white house is describing the rise in a new covid subvariant. the white house joins us to talk about it. this is what we re watching at this hour. e remain day. in a fight not seen in more than a century and that is not perbo. a century. next hour they will be heading back into that chamber for a fourth straight day of voting and in an exercise that, let s be honest, has become groundhog day. kevin mccarthy has failed on 11 ballots and the path ahead very uncertain. the big difference at this hour is a conference call, all getting on the phone to talk about what kevin has and what he s negotiating and what kevin is going to do. mccarthy is fighting to win over more support, making some extreme concessions to get there. but still right now he doesn t have the numbers to win the gavel. all of this comes on the two-year mark of the insurrection on the capitol. we re goin
As jonathan mentioned our special coverage of the white house Correspondents Dinner takes off at 8 00 p. M. Please stick around. We will have extensive coverage. On this hour, we have two pivotal events testing the bedrock of our constitution, threats to First Amendment rights, and to the rule of law. Also tonight from new york to arizona we break down Donald Trumps Head Spinning week of legal drama including outrageous arguments his legal team made to the Supreme Court. Marjorie Taylor Greenes political standing, shifting from maga hero to. Lets do it. This week marked an Inflection Point in our nations history. The United States constitution being tested in new and dangerous ways. On thursday former President Donald Trump and his lawyers went to the u. S. Supreme court to double down on claims that a president possesses sweeping immunity from criminal prosecution. Basically according to the former president s lawyers his immunity is so absolute they argued, that even assassinating a
sherrod brown get tonight s last word. . 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts now. tonight the new filing from jack smith. his request for the supreme court to weigh in on donald trump s claims for immunity. plus we re learning more about the scope of the january six investigation. and what outgoing republican lawmaker says his endorsement will be the kiss of death for any of trump s challengers. while another says he is still willing and ready to serve the president. and this truth matters especially when it comes to the intimates of social media giants. an expert on fighting disinformation joins us as the 11th hour gets underway on this monday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle at msnbc headquarters in new york city and we have got some news tonight. special counsel jack smith makes an aggressive move and goes on offense about donald trump s efforts to delay his election interference trial. smith today asked the supreme court to rule on the former pres
forget paris and forget london and forget everything else, new york city is where it s at. i don t know how close giuliani and trump were personally in the 1980s but i do know they occupied similar spaces. they re out of borough guys. one thing they have inherited from their fathers is a certain kind of awe and resentment of manhattan and those rich people. rudy represented the kind of every guy who came from the boroughs and came to new york and made it big. if you are a person that s looking at a snow globe, if you will, from the outside, even if you end up inside the snow globe, you always feel like an outsider. giuliani didn t come from the upper crust establishment. that may have fueled his ambition. did it also contribute to some deep sense of insecurity that he was an outsider and in that maybe he does identify with trump. joining me now is someone who
knows a lot about that man. dominic carter. he s covered rudy giuliani for decades. good to see you, dominic. going to be here with you is good. this series goes through multiple theories and factors that could have contributed to the rise and dramatic fall of rudy giuliani. what do you think happened with him during the trump years? that s a great question. to understand rudy giuliani of today, and it s so ironic i m here discussing this because he will tell you we had quite the contentious relationship when he was mayor and every day mayor giuliani and i would go at it. to understand the rudy giuliani of today in my opinion, you have to look at the rudy giuliani historically going back, meaning, keep in mind a republican that was successful running for mayor in new york city. a republican in an overwhelmingly democratic city. rudy giuliani is used to