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tonight, carroll e. jean carroll speaking out after last weeks verdict. a decision in trumps civil fraud case could be days away. then, president biden vowing to respond after a drone attack killed three american troops. the battle over the bipartisan bill, how politics is threatening to block legislation. as the dog "the 11th hour" gets underway on this monday night. ♪ ♪ ♪ greetings, everyone. i am symone sanders-townsend in for stephanie ruhle. tonight, we heard from writ...

greetings, everyone. i am symone sanders-townsend in for stephanie ruhle. tonight, we heard from writer e. jean carroll just days after a new york jury found that trump must pay her more than $83 million for defaming her. carroll and her attorneys spoke to rachael maddow tonight, admitting she was nervous about physically facing trump in court. but one moment, that changed. >> amazingly, i looked out and he was nothing, he was nothing. he was a phantom. there was some people around h...

former president. donald trump revealed the news last night saying fbi agents were at the mar-a-lago residence earlier in the day and cracked the safe. the fbi did not dispute it carried out a search warrant at the resort. the justice department and the fbi field offices declined to comment. a source familiar with the matter tells nbc the search was tied to allegedly classified information he took with him from the white house and trump said the search was politically motivate jd the f...

For trump both in getting to run for office again and having a strong support around him. >> what are they seeing, mark? >> preparing for donald trump to run for quite sometime and seeing a remash president shlt race in a while. if you talk to advisers and democrats who know what they are talking about on the national level they say that joe bidens best potential opponent is donald trump so if both men want to run against each other this is a win-win for them. not sure the country wins in this w...

People could i on the border against russia. >> david, the president has several witnesses that said implicit implicitly and explicitly f he held that money and used that as a way to say to president zelensky and ukraine, youve got to publicly announce an investigation on my potential opponent, is that not an abuse of power? is that not bribery or extortion? >> absolutely, it is abuse of power and i think it is bribery. the constitution envisioned this bribery kind of charge. so i think what com...

The partial transcript, is acknowledged, that those facts have now been supported in great detail by many of these witnesses, that that is not an impeachable offense, that its not illegal, and impeachment doesnt have to be illegal, its not a criminal test, its a political test, but that it is not an impeachable offense? >> number one, i think it is illegal. i think it constitutes a bribe. if you just said, mr. president of ukraine, i need a favor, well, if that favor was to start conducting thei...

And you other republicans that the president is not only being questioned about this by his inspector general, but that now hes come out and asked china and others, foreign governments to investigate and in effect, interfere with the electoral policies of this country by investigating his opponent? >> well, reverend, first of all, biden doesnt have a chance in this primary. >> so what does that have to do with interfering with the politics? >> its not the presidents opponent, so hes not asking t...

And i think -- and biden drives him nuts and he knows that hes sort of a tough potential opponent. and i think that theres something about the president where we know hes not able to rise to the moment. but theres nobody who can help him rise to the moment either. i mean, other presidents, they have people around them who can, you know, sort of help them to guide them to navigate. he doesnt take any of that. >> and this would be where you would need a strong chief of staff. whatever your politic...

Bush a warmonger. that from 2000 2001 2002, they were all talking about saddams weapons of mass destruction. so i think there is a real ambiguity here. and i think maybe jeb didnt hear megans question correctly. im certainly not apologizing for this guy. if he does claire guyrify and say hed go into iraq know knowing what he knows in 2015 instead of all we were allowed to thoughknow in 2003 then thats a problem. but he went back and -- >> there a political angel here. he was focused on saying i ...

Comfortable and why? >> well i think we have to acknowledge what the islamic state wants us to acknowledge. they are very clear that their goal is to return the world to a middle-age state. they are very clear that a radical interpretation of islam is at the heart of their political philosophy. they are very clear that they are perhaps misinterpreting portions of islam but from their point of view they have the right interpretation of islam and they are willing to slaughter muslims, christians a...