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
all right. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, i m christine romans. this is early start. we begin with ukrainian forces struggling to hold on in the eastern city of bakhmut, as russian troops close in from three sides. ukrainian officials say the situation in bakhmut has grown much tougher. they say their forces may need to retreat to avoid being trapped by encircling russians. cnn s scott mclean is tracking this story for us from london. and, scott, what are the chances the ukrainians will be able to turn this around? and if they can t, does that mean russia is back on the offensive. so, christine, good morning. it really depends on who you ask. because last week there were plenty of indications that the ukrainians may in fact be forced to withdraw from that area. a drone reconnaissance university has been ordered to retreat from the area. you also had a key bridge by the russians kiting off the ukrainians final supply routes in and out. a
Dont yet know what the fate of Mark Meadows Motion to remove to Federal Court will be. Its very easy to look at this through a vacuum but remember, theres already a moment now to say can i get some of these cases into Federal Court. This is all considering and assuming thats not going to happen because without mark meadows or others it would be, you know, not 19 people. But this is going to be a very interesting hearing to get the room, the temperature of whats happening there. And also what is the preparation like right now for fani willis. Is she really ready to go . And are those Defense Counsels who asked for an earlier trial date, were they calling a bluff or will their bluff now be called . And we will find out fairly soon. Sara, its interesting because we know that as all of this is unfolding right now a federal judge could rule at any moment now whether to allow the former white house Chief Of Staff mark meadows to move his case from a state court in georgia to a federal trial.
With drug addiction, alcohol abuse, and in and out of rehab, which he wrote about openly in his book. Hunter biden, his legal team, and really the whole white house had hoped this would be in the Rearview Mirror by now, but his plea deal collapsed over the summer in stunning fashion. Now tonight his legal team is vowing to fight these new charges. This charge brought today violates the agreement the government made with hunter biden. That was a standalone agreement different than this plea. Second, the constitutionality of these charges are very much in doubt. And third, if it got past those two and we dont think it would if there were ever a trial on the facts, we dont think the facts are as your experts thinks them to be. Hunter owned an unloaded gun for 11 days. There will never have been a charge like this brought in the United States. Well see how those arguments end up and if it works out in court. But what all of this means is that we could be in a pretty remarkable place, where