ruhle starts now. th hour with stephanie ruhle starts now tonight, donald trump s day in court, as his lawyers put forward some shocking arguments to back his sweeping immunity claims. what went down and what happens next. then, count on to iowa. republican candidates making their last-minute pitches while the front-runner is pushing lies on social media. , then a day s dangerous rise in 9-1-1 calls to report fake crimes. the real life consequences for victims as the 11th hour gets underway on this tuesday night. good evening once again i m. stephanie ruhle, live at msnbc headquarters, right here in new york city. today donald trump showed up in person at a d.c. courthouse for the most important hearing so far in his federal election interference case. keep in mind, he did not have to be at the appeals court proceeding, but given he is the front runner for the republican nomination and his legal team s strategy is delay, delay, delay, you get why he might be interested
plus, anthony wink and tony blinken humiliated in beijing. we predicted this, now indicating that taiwan is up for grabs. what does that mean? and later, we ll bring the very latest from the north atlantic, where a desperate search is now under way for a submersible. and that is that went down to actually see the titanic and its five passengers who were on their way to the titanic at the bottom ofon t the ocean floor. but first, let us recap. joe biden s very troubling anotr weekend that began with yet another bizarre reference to lying. dog face, pony soldiers.. take a look. n now, some of you know, i dy usually come down and say hi, dog, or they tel mowl there sin a storm coming in. is that right? is still is that stille the deal? h don that s the truth. now, don t make a lie as that s that scene in the john wayne movie. don t make me a dog lion pony soldier. all right. it just is cringeworthy. every time, without exception. anyway, a short time later seemed to c
all right. i love you, i think.so happy wednesday, everyone. so we ve w see seen the pro-hams protesters out on the streets blocking traffic, provokinovokih police and contributing to climate change with their collective body odor. the but have you ever stoppedl to think who the helarl are theo people? these are working age ca i go in the middlewh of a weekday to aggravate tuallyothers who are thi actually working. how is this possible? wes complain about them as ifb they have better things to do. but what if they don why dot so let s get up close and personal on them, shall. s well, actually, let s not. i instead, let s just look at what s really going on here. earlier this week, we saw nationwide protests that shut down highway s in, the name of hamas. here in nyc, they blocked bridges and tunnels at middas.y causing hours of chaos for people at work or just trying to get homckede. so one guy trying to get home trying tung daughter got ou of his car and confronte
the guns, kit is greater. think about those kids practicing the speeches at home, heartbreaking pleas for change from what is now known as the lockdown generation takes us off the air tonight. and on that note, i wish you all a very good and safe night. for all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thank you for staying up late, see you at the end of tomorrow. the end of tomorrow the united states senate was still in the middle of impeaching the previous president for stoking insurrection. the house impeachment managers, all of them democrats, were making the case that even though trump was no longer president, he had to be impeached because otherwise future presidents would be free to commit any crime or misdemeanor as long as they did so right before leaving office. to rebut that, trump s lawyers offered this counter argument. if my colleague on this side of the chamber actually think that president trump committed a criminal offense, and let s understand
information, corruptly concealing documents nationa, conspiracy to obstruct justice, and alsoracy to 18 u.s.c. 1001e statements. now, let s not pretend here because over the next year, mayb. e more than that, maybeonger, longer, we re going to be seeing a very complicated legal process that will unfold regarding this indictment. ste we re going to cover it every step of the way as it does es unfold. e at dif and i m sure at different points, you re going to see merrick garland, the attorney on the hill, insisting that this prosecutionthe hill all bee by the books without political fear or favor. are going to be filed.motion cross motions are goings to be filed. leaks will happen, but maybe in an unconventional wa hapy. but i want to be veryy clea clear upfront herer . tens of millions of americans believe that donald trump isican being indicted by d fbi because he s a political opponent of the d.c. establishment and joe biden and, of course est he s the most popular rep