scrapping a billion dollar development in florida. the impact it could have on his upcoming presidential run. a major settlement between deutsche bank and jeffrey epstein s victims. we will break down what it all means and who could be paying, next, as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. good evening, once again, i m stephanie ruhle. partisan fireworks erupted on capitol hill earlier today, in a hearing for the so-called weaponization of government committee, which of course is led by ohio republican jim jordan. the witnesses were three self-described fbi whistleblowers who jordan and his fellow republicans said would show that the fbi was biased against the right. and we see reports that, yesterday, the fbi warned jordan in a letter that two of these three witnesses, quote, lost their security clearances because of their conduct in january 6th cases brought into question their allegiance to the united states. that didn t stop jim jordan. the hearing went on e
tonight, clashes on capitol hill. at the so-called weaponization hearing, republicans spent the day questioning questionable witnesses. democrats called it a clearinghouse for testing conspiracy theories for donald trump. then, disney raising the stakes in the feud with ron desantis, scrapping a billion dollar development in florida. the impact it could have on his upcoming presidential run. a major settlement between deutsche bank and jeffrey epstein s victims. we will break down what it all means and who could be paying, next, as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. good evening, once again, i m stephanie ruhle. partisan fireworks erupted on capitol hill earlier today, in a hearing for the so-called weaponization of government committee, which of course is led by ohio republican jim jordan. the witnesses were three self-described fbi whistleblowers who jordan and his fellow republicans said would show that the fbi was biased against the right. and we see re
when they need to expand or hire someone. that last person on the staff who might lose their job. i think that kind of stuff is implicated here. i m happy the two sides are talking, even though it was this washington standard you couldn t negotiate anything around the time of the debt ceiling. it s not practical. not just access to credit for businesses, we are a country that lives on credit cards, all of that will get exponentially more expensive. connor, i want to ask you about the 14th amendment. more democrats, including john fetterman of pennsylvania, who has the seat you wanted, are calling on president biden to use the 14th amendment. this has never been done before. it is extreme. if you were in that seat, if you were senator lamb, what would you be doing? i think i d be very skeptical of that theory, not because i want us to cave on the debt ceiling. i think we should wipe out the debt ceiling as an issue. if you had to meet the coin, or whatever, that s fine.
right political thing to show your hand or not. it s hard to say. i do think this issue is so delicate for our economy, that it is appropriate to show your hand a little bit to give hope to the markets. you see the air coming out of the balloon a bit now. people seem a little bit less worried than they were before. we can t ever forget that real peoples well-being is on the line with things like that. they re not just numbers. you know? the availability of small businesses to get credit, for example, at the decisive moment when they need to expand or hire someone. that last person on the staff who might lose their job. i think that kind of stuff is implicated here. i m happy the two sides are talking, even though it was this washington standard you couldn t negotiate anything around the time of the debt ceiling. it s not practical. not just access to credit for businesses, we are a country that lives on credit cards, all of that will get exponentially more expensive. connor, i want t