battleground, michigan, his efforts to shore up the autoworker roads. plus, donald trump s cash crunch as he faces mounting legal bills. and the historic court case that could have major impacts on school gun safety. then, the hidden crisis in our education system, kids skipping school, is statistic that has doubled since the pandemic. the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. good evening once again, i am stephanie ruhle, live from msnbc headquarters, right here in new york city. the president, joe biden, is focusing on a crucial swing state as he gears up to take on likely challenger, donald trump. today, in michigan, which could be one of the biggest battlegrounds on his path to reelection. now, he has won the state in 2020 by just 154,000 votes. as nbc s dave guterres reports, union members there will help him win the white house. just days after clinching a coveted endorsement from the united auto workers, president biden is back in michigan tonight. we n
now. welcome to the beat, our top story is new developments right now in what s shaping up to be the case of the decade for trying to hold liars accountable with real swift justice. fox news on defense, facing over a billion dollars for punishment and lies, it served up and fed the insurrection. as you see here, top fox hosts have clearly been on team trump in public for a long time. we know that. we know sean hannity broke all journalistic rules of pretense by endorsing and publicly campaigning for trump. there s no court punishment for breaking that kind of rule. there just isn t. but there can be penalties for malicious lying, for defamation if you can prove the defendant acting knowingly, maliciously, intentionally. that s hard to prove and that difficult standard is deliberate, which is why this case has to turn on hard evidence, not asking whether hannity is biassed for trump, he is. but asking whether hannity knowingly and maliciously pushed lies that caused immeas
but so far there are none. appreciate your time today and all week on inside politics. hope to see you on monday. have a nice weekend. abby fphillip picks up our coverage right now. a very good friday to you. i m abby phillip in washington. thank you for joining us. an fbi search, a subpoena for former vice president mike pence. right now the feds are searching pence s indiana home for any additional classified documents that may still be there. the move was expected as pence s team has pledged full cooperation with the investigation, and we are also learning that a second location may be searched, as well. pence has also been hit with a subpoena in the criminal investigation of former president trump s role in the capitol insurrection. pence was a key eyewitness and a key victim of the events on and around january 6th. and the special counsel wants to hear all about his interactions with his former boss during that time. cnn is tracking both of these stories. what are we
all of you for getting up way too early with us on this tuesday morning. we re one week from the midterms. morning joe starts now. it s sad to see we are in a point in history where people belief it s okay to express their political sentiments through violence, and so i think it really demonstrates that we have to calm things down. we have to decide that we are going to be more respectful as an american society, that it s okay to disagree. san francisco s district attorney makes a plea for decency and discourse following the politically motivated attack on nancy pelosi s husband, and now we are learning more about what the suspect had planned for the speaker of the house. also this morning, president biden is hitting the campaign trail again as we are now one week away from election day. we ll tell you where he s headed today, and why. meanwhile a member of the group who tried to overturn the elections expresses remorse for his actions. and we ll have the latest from
as we begin day 202 of russia s war of choice, ukrainians are pushing on with their two front counter offensive which has retaken russian occupied territory at a blistering pace. in parts, ukrainian officials claim their forces are just miles from the russian border. in liberated towns and villages, there is evidence everywhere of a hasty russian retreat. tanks and other weapons left abandoned. for weeks, ukraine has been publicly hinting at a counteroffensive at the south. plans for their independence day last month or thereabouts. but it appears the russians might have been duped by abeyance which. with this major push in the northeast. numbers are hard to verify, but in less than two weeks, russia might have suffered one of its biggest losses of the war so far. here is the ukrainian president. since the start of september, our soldiers have already liberated 6000 square kilometers of ukrainian territory in the east and south. we are moving further. the russian ground r