house republicans struggling to find that leader after assistant kevin mccarthy with no clear successor in sight. then, disgraced crypto case sandbag man s trial is getting underway. what his parents are now saying about the case and new reporting on why they re looking for their own escape routes, as the 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening, once again, i m stephanie ruhle live at msnbc headquarters here in new york city. donald trump also in new york city today, back in the courtroom for his third day of the civil fraud trial. he left court midway through the proceedings and was visibly on his way out. we are going to play some of what he said, even if it is filled with slender or lies or absurdity. we are going to play it because this is the front runner for throughout the presidential nomination, and what he says matters. watch this. i m here, stop here, and i can t i would rather be right now in iowa. on rather be in new hampshire, south caro
had every right in the world to think he had seen it all, until today. nobody seen it all, apparently, with this house republican conference. unusual is one word for it, my friend. one word for it. thank you alex. have a great show. thank you. matt gaetz, the 42-year-old republican congressman who overthrew the speaker of the house today, had not been born yet when republican ronald reagan began running against government. ronald reagan was the first republican president to be rhetorically and only rhetorically anti government. the last republican president, elected before reagan, richard knutson, was a very conservative republican. but he believed in the government s capacity to solve problems. nixon willingly signed the legislation creating the environmental protection agency. richard nixon pushed a health care bill in congress that was structurally similar to the bill president nixon would try to an act, and president obama would finally and act. the republican
permanent level of that seat left vacant by the late senator diane feinstein. we ll see what happens next. abby, always a pleasure. thanks to everyone for watching, our coverage does continue. right now, for viewers who might be joining us, we re talking about a day unlike any in washington since 1910, the last time that has members tried to throw out their speaker then. 113 years later, for the very first time, members tried to throw at their speaker but this time, this time, anderson and caitlin, they succeeded. yeah, jake and edison, kevin mccarthy only serving for 269 days, his speakership undone by eight republicans led by congressman matt gaetz of florida, using that rule to force him out that mccarthy himself agreed to, of course, as a condition to get the job as house speaker, now a vote in the election is expected next week, a week for now from tomorrow night. the jockeying at the position is already underway tonight. cnn s melanie zanona is covering it all at
across the board. we can never stop. let s all do our part to make sure that hopeful prediction comes true. on that note, i wish you all a very good and a very safe and healthy night. from all of our colleagues across the networks that nbc news, stacey thanks for staying up late. i ll see you again tomorrow. orrow. thanks for joining us at this hour, it s good to have you. the year was 2015, he was 90 years old. and the interviewer asked him if there were things that were still on his to do list. things he still wanted to get done during his lifetime that at the age of 90 he had not yet managed to finish. and again, at this, point he s 90 years old. but he considers the question and he has this answer really ready. he says, declarative, lee and very simply, yes, there are two things that he intended to get done during his lifetime. two things that were on his to do this that he hasn t quite been able to finish yet that he would like to finish before he dies. he said the f
tonight straight from the source, breaking news as republican hardliner matt gaetz has made good on his threat to oust house speaker kevin mccarthy from his job, filing the papers tonight to at least try to for the first time in more than a century. plus new reporting tonight, why a seething donald trump chose to show up in court today to face the judge who found him libel for fraud and the attorney general who brought that case against him, raging at both of them on day one of his trial. and a 9-year-old tonight who vanished on a camping trip has just been found alive after 400 rescue workers were out looking for her. a suspect is now in custody, and we have the latest. i m kaitlan collins, and this is the source. tonight a showdown is underway on capitol hill over whether house speaker kevin mccarthy can keep his job. matt gaetz of florida, one of the right s most defiant hard liners and one of mccarthy s biggest detractors, has just followed through with his thre