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0 tonights last word is -- the 11th hour stephanie ruhle starts now. >> tonight, russias lead battleship some. ukraine says it fired a missile responsible in a potentially major blow to putins war. then, he argued trump made him do it, but the jury did not buy it. a new verdict for the january 6th case and what the judge said tonight about the former president and future of our democracy. and whats in the worlds elon musks endgame in his bids by twin or as the 11th hour gets underway on this thu...

Presidents of poland, lithuania, latvia and estonia meeting with ukrainian president zelenskyy. these leaders, all from countries formerly occupied by the russians. could ukraine soon join that list? john avlon with a reality check. >> any illusions that vladimir putin is a master strategist suffered another blow yesterday. when the leader of sweden and finland announced theyre moving toward joining nato after more than 70 years of neutrality. thats right. it seems that putin has succeeded in cr...

Enormous concerns every step along the way of russia and escalation which is, to your previous point about the nuclear saberrattling that you hear from russians, you know, thats one of the major deterrents that they have left for the united states and nato is threatening nuclear escalation. thats why you hear it. they dont have a lot of efforts to defer the united states. >> i like the testing the ice metaphor. were sending howitzers, helicopters, anti-armor weapons into ukraine. have they irrev...

Were engaged in it, and also more sanctions on russias largest bank, the saber bank, and perhaps alpha bank as well. this is part of a gradual ratcheting up of tensions in accordance with allies. it is not the strongest option, the one jim was discussing with one of our guests in the last hour, the full sanctions on russian energy exports. thats how you would, in one fell swoop, really have a substantial impact. and nobody is under any illusions, i think, that in the immediate term this is going...

Overnight that grounded flights and triggered delays nationwide. Good morning to our viewers here in the United States and around the world, its tuesday, june 15th. On the eve of this historic summit with Vladimir Putin, President Biden stands on The World Stage this morning with americas closest eu allies. He started out this morning by meeting with the president and Prime Minister of belgium. This gathering with eu nations follows nato talks and for the first time china is a big focus. The 30 ...

A court in russia has ordered the shutdown of the memorial human rights centre which is part of the broader memorial rights group that russias supreme court also shut down this week. the european court of human rights has urged russia to suspend the closure while it examines the case. russian state prosecutors have accused memorial international of breaking a law requiring groups to register as foreign agents. people have since been gathering in protest outside the court, shouting "shame". this ...

To register as foreign agents. people have since been gathering in protest outside the court, shouting "shame". this year has seen an unprecented crackdown on dissent in russia. founded in 1989, memorial is russias most prominent rights organisation, and became a symbol of the country opening up to the world. it has chronicled purges under the soviet leaderjosef stalin, and now campaigns for the rights of political prisoners and other marginalised groups. memorial says the charges against it are...

Staying with russia, and a court there has ordered the shutdown of the memorial human rights centre, which is part of the broader memorial rights group that russias supreme court also shut down this week. both organisations campaign and chronicle rights abuses in russia. state prosecutors have accused them of breaking a law requiring groups to register as foreign agents. chanting. people have since been gathering in protest outside the court, shouting �*shame. this year has seen unprecented cr...

Yourself. read rubios report. stop humiliating yourself. read rubios report, read the mueller report, okay. stop playing to the lowest common denominator. when a democrat does this, im going to tell you to be tough on them, too. >> okay, the new piece for "the atlantic" is entitled "it wasnt a hoax, people with scant illusions about trump are volunteering to help him execute one of his big lies". david fromm, thank you. up next, the terrifying future of the american right, columnist david broo...

So ukrainians need to defend themselves. i support the biden administrations efforts to help them defend themselves. with respect to this reporting, i have only read it. i dont know if its true. but we should help them defend themselves to the utmost so that it makes it costly for the intervention. that said, lets have no illusions. the good news is that the russian -- the ukrainian military is a lot better today than it was in 2014 because of training and new weapons. but the bad news is the ru...