hour gets underway on this monday night. good evening, once again, i m stephanie ruhle, live as msnbc headquarters right here in new york city. it is exactly one week until the caucuses. the first major nominating contest of the 2024 campaign. it will be a critical test for the twice impeached, four times indicted former president donald j trump and his fight to go for our republican front runner to the official nominee. over the next several days, he will bring his campaign to the courthouse. tomorrow, he will be a hearing on his claim of presidential immunity and on thursday, closing arguments in a civil fraud trial. meanwhile, president joe biden s super charging his attacks against donald trump, trying to fire up the democratic base. today, president biden focused on shoring up support among black voters. he gave a speech from the pulpit of charleston, south carolina. a church there were a right precipices shot and killed nine people back in 2015. the president drew a dir
you should stay there and watch it. if you see bags of crap coming into the voting areas, you have to stop it. the legal path just took trump back to the truth, that i d won the election and he was a loser. we re going to win for the third time. i just don t want the results of the second. for me and kamala, our campaign is about america, about you. first, they say, sir, how do you do it? how do you wake up in the morning and put on your pants? look at the authoritarian leaders and dictators trump says he admired. president xi of china, strong, smart, tough. putin liked me. i got along. i got along withhussein. i will say, he hung that sucker and he spit in their face. you know, tough guy. when he visited the cemetery called dead soldiers suckers and losers. john mccain for some reason couldn t get his arm that. he goes after all we ve been through in our history, independence to civil war. the civil war was fascinating, so horrible. i was reading some
democratic candidate for the united states senate in arizona gets tonight s last word. the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts now. tonight, we are officially one week from the iowa caucuses. president biden, making the case against donald trump. as a republican front runner continues to push lies about the last election. then, looking ahead to the former presidents busy legal calendar as he chooses to spend another day in court. wayne lapierre appears to opening statements in the nra s civil corruption trial. the impact this case could have on the group s political strength as the 11th hour gets underway on this monday night. good evening, once again, i m stephanie ruhle, live as msnbc headquarters right here in new york city. it is exactly one week until the caucuses. the first major nominating contest of the 2024 campaign. it will be a critical test for the twice impeached, four times indicted former president donald j trump and his fight to go for our republican front
house, only one seat to flip the senate and all eyes are on key battleground states. brooke singman has the latest, brooke: good morning, it is 5:00 a.m. and election day has officially begun, 34 million ballots have been cast by mail or in person at early voting centers according to the associated press. republicans are looking to flip both chambers of congress, 35 seats up for grabs and 435 house seats are up for election and all eyes on the battleground as republicans hope today is reverend up on failing democratic policies and could come down to pennsylvania, georgia, nevada and arizona, just four states. senate candidates speaking at rallies yesterday in one final effort to garner support. too many extreme positions in washington, too much out there pulling us away from where the real answers lie. i will bring balance to washington, but john fetterman will bring more extreme. dr. oz will still be a fraud, i need every one of you to get out to vote. so i can get to
our hearts leslie. thank you for the laughs and for the light, for the love, and your incredible warmth. you will truly be missed. and on that beautiful and very sad note, i wish you all the best. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thank you for staying up late with us. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. tomorrow so, here s how it worked in 2020. two years ago, almost exactly in october 2020, we reported here on this show on something that we first learned about from one of the great historic gigantic radio stations and the united states, that the michigan behemoth that is wwj radio in detroit, michigan. wwj has been on the air for more than 100 years. they re just a huge deal in american broadcasting history. they are still on the air today. they are still a big deal today. and just about exactly two years ago, on october, 2020, we learned about a story that was broken by a reporter at wwj, named sandra mcneill. sandra mcneill had gotten a tip fr