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that is tonights last word. the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts now. tonight the historic supreme court decision on donald trumps immunity claim. the high court raising the bar for prosecuting the former president. how its going to impact of the federal election case. then, whats next after last weeks debate. the biden campaign touting big fundraising numbers when they fend off calls for biden to drop out of the race as the 11th hour gets underway on this monday night. good...

Candidates, nominees from president republican president s have learned a lot about how to deal with the hearings. When you heard kavanaugh say as he did, talking about the parties to the case that theyre Flesh And Blood Human Beings and we need to have empathy for them and real world consequences of the court are very important. As a political matter, great stuff. A legal matter, its nonsense. Were youre an Appellate Judge and an issue comes before you, the issue is not the parties. Youre to re...

I mean, i covered the iowa caucuses. we after several hours in, we got laughing. we didnt know -- we had no numbers. the night before we had talked to the people running the caucus, we have this amazing computer system. theyll be sent to everyone on their phones. is it a good idea? >> yes. for the democratic party, the iowa caucus was a debacle. id say number 2, south carolina has been pivotal for the democrats. look at obama versus clinton, clinton versus bernie sanders and look at biden. on ea...

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If youre a winner you get a lot of out of that. if youre a loser, that can hurt your campaign nationally, too. so that is the question in iowa what comes out of it. but take a look here. past iowa races, where did they stand at this same point? last time around about 40 days out before iowa, remember two way race basically the clinton versus bernie sanders. clinton was at 51% and she got just about 50%, so that was pretty stable. you look in 2007, november 2007 was about 40 days before the caucu...

Philip bump, and michael dantonio. good to have all three of you. philip, in terms of what today was, no surprise, but what does it tell us about what is likely to be true every step of the way? >> yeah. i mean it tells us exactly what you pointed out, which is that the democrats and republicans are at loggerheads. we saw absolutely no real discussion this afternoon, this evening of what the articles should contain. there was no sort of nuanced discussion of i think this point isnt made as effec...

Of this presidency is historically we dont mess with the military. nancy pelosi was going there to give aid to the troops and also going to receive classified security briefings. she has now taken over the third most important job in our government and she has the right to receive briefings. and this president obstructed that. that should not be forgotten here. but ultimately as we would say in the hood, its so petty. this is truly a petty move and a direct response to her letter saying no, you ...

Generalized assertion of impeachment. theres more particularized assertion of privilege particularly when national security variety would have ruled differently. in paula jones the only reason the court went forward they said it was a small case and not a big deal. if it was otherwise the case can be stayed. you know perfectly well since you read those opinions that oc drew a lot of comfort from the fact that in three leading supreme court cases, the cases against nixon and clinton versus paula ...

Its real important. that was a proposal to be considered. it was not a constitutional position. i did not take any constitutional position on the issues youre raising. i want to underscore that. if a constitutional question came to me, i would have an open mind and decide that. on your point -- >> but there isnt any clear text in the constitution that speaks to the question. so instead, these are your own recommendations based on your own views and experience. would that be a fair characterizati...

>> that was a proposal to be considered. it was not a constitutional position. i did not take any constitutional position on the issues youre raising. i want to underscore that. if a constitutional question came to me, i would have an open mind -- >> theres no clear text in the constitution that speaks to the question. so these are your own recommendations based on your own views and experience. would that be a fair -- >> theres two different things going on. the one is about special counsel inv...