is officially the chief tweet. elon musk s twitter takeover now in effect. then, the midterms closing message. democrats making the case that they are the best party for the economy. 12 days from the elections. and, thankful with the big lie, a deep dive into the corporate leaders donating millions to election denier, as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. good evening once again, i am stephanie ruhle. we are going to get to the political news and a few minutes but we want to begin this evening s broadcast with breaking news. elon musk now officially in charge of twitter the takeover is complete. with us tonight to discuss, elizabeth dwoskin, the silicon valley correspondent for the washington post. she broke the story tonight. and cara swisher, all things on elon musk. my friend kara, it is official, musk is in, top executives are out on the far-right is rejoicing. what are we in for? that kind of says it all, i think it is going to be very difficult. he ha
trump s feud a statement congratulating elon musk on twitter. he said his account will be back on monday. that does it for, as we will see you again tomorrow, now it is time for the last word with lawrence o donnell, good evening lawrence. good evening alex, it is candidly night here at the last word. we have senator mark kelly from arizona, katie hobbs running for governor of arizona, governor kathy hochul of new york running in new york, beto o rourke running for governor in texas. they all have one thing in common. one very important thing in common. every one of them is running against an election denier. the republican candidate for governor in new york voted to overturn the presidential election as a republican member of the house representatives. that is how pervasive this is on the republican party. you cannot escape it. greg abbott, kari lake, these are important names to remember as you talk to the candidates that he will have tonight. lawrence, that is a great
pledged to cut off funds and have now given to many many candidates. toyota is another one. we could spend your whole program, stephanie, but i m trying to give people a flavor of what s going on. 9 billion dollars. that s how much money has been spent in these midterm elections. that is more than the annual chicago school budget for the year. given how much lawmakers on both sides of the aisle need to raise in order to win these elections, is there any reason we should believe there is going to be any kind man campaign finance regulations? it s on both sides of the aisle, and you re right. it s very unlikely in the next congress, as we get into this next congress, there were going to see any changes on campaign finance reform. there have been attempts at this over the years, and there has not been any big movement there. i want to take one step back to something we ve been talking about.
remember, democracy is on the ballot everywhere. that is tonight s last word. the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts now. s tephanie tonight, breaking news, he
documents. there is something that involves when you produce documents and whether that can somehow violate your privileges. so this entire operation is opaque but it does signal the doj is moving ahead and not taking any time of year. they are not taking time off, and it seems like day in and day out trump gets bad news from a judge. he s losing in the headlines. by the end of the day, is he winning just by running out the clock? last i checked, we still haven t even seen this guy s taxes. that s always his strategy, stephanie. i think it s easy for all of us to question whether the criminal justice system is up to the challenge of holding someone accountable who is consistently defiant, who refuses, like everyone in public life to acknowledge this durable warned reads that they have to obey. that has never been trump s style. what s happening now is, we are seeing the difference between