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The 11th hour with Stephanie Ruhle starts now. Tonight, Michael Cohen back on the stand. The former president s defense team grows him on a 2016 phone call and paints him as a liar. How todays heated testimony could impact the jury. Plus, a new trump entourage outside the courtroom. How republican antics in new york are risking gop control in washington. Then, new reporting on why some wall street donors may be warming. As The 11th Hour gets underway on this thursday night. Good evening once aga...

Donald Trump issued a nearly five-minute-long video regarding his position on abortion rights and a national abortion ban on Monday morning.

With the bizarre qanon text messages ginni thomas exchanged with mark meadows she encouraged him to overturn the 2020 election. this comes after the committee today scored a significant victory in court against trump lawyer and insurrection memo author john eastman who tried and failed to weasel out of a subpoena for documents. more explosive however, the judge in the case said trump probably committed a felony when he tried to stop congress from certifying the vote for biden in a sweeping and h...

The tool box of what is available and what can be used for the goal of desegregating. >> alicia: she talked about federal mandating. do you think folks will notice that little distinction there? >> i think that this is definitely an issue that brings a lot of emotions with it. you do have to be careful. but the reason that she made such a stunning showing at the debate and raised $2 million within 24 hours of that debate is she connected with people and did it again on a personal level. she talk...

What i thought was interesting about what cohen had to say, there is only one small slither of a way and white house tried to pull this off of suggesting we knew it was wrong. the only way the president could weasel out is to say i knew it was wrong but i didnt know it was illegal. and cohen could say he knew it was illegal and wrong. so the president is surrounded by people more than capable of telling him he was breaking the law and he directed them to break the law anyway, if you believe mich...

Continuous ability to lie. >> i think that is well said. let me ask you, jason. because what i like about cohens testimony there -- actually conversations with george stephanopoulos who got him to talk. i thought it was interesting, we know it is about the election and a campaign expenditure and the $130 and the $150 to pay for the womens silence was a campaign event and an expenditure because it occurred after the "access hollywood" ta -- tape and when he was in doo doo and he says these things...

Well, we dont really know. >> give you the answer and then weasel out. it certainly looks that way. if you look at how the president is conducting himself, nias right, hes speaking to fear. he cant play a song in the key of hope, he only knows the key of fear. and he should be -- you know, im old enough to remember, i was in college. ronald reagan steamrolled my party, 49 states. he wasnt running around saying scary, fear -- you know, he said, its morning in america, things are great -- >> a com...

Owns the house. then it loses a billion dollars. i dont know a lot of successful business people who just use that failure, losing a billion dollars to then avoid paying federal income taxes. he said it makes him smart. all it does is it means hes not doing what all of us as citizens should be doing, which is giving back to our troops, and our veterans and our roads and our schools and making sure that america continues to be the the greatest nation on earth. thats part of citizen shship n tryin...

Bill: stunning pictures in iran with kids taking over that embassy. should not happen that day. dale smith got a big hug from michelle parkers mother today after a decision in court. why was that? martha: the supercommittee, not so super, they failed on any deal to cut the nations $15 trillion in debt. the military has to face huge automatic cuts. one democratic member of that committee says republicans are trying to weasel out. bill: a warning from tpropb congress to their own leadership, do no...