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Team trump to delay and dismiss multiple cases. And the race for the gavel in washington. The house still without a leader, and a potential visitor that could push the chaos even. Further than, the power of young voices and speaking out. Two activists when you live to discuss the importance of participating in our democracy at any age. The 11th hour, just getting underway on this thursday night. Good evening. Once again im stephanie ruhle, live at msnbc headquarters, here in new york city. We begin this evening with new reporting about former President Trump and the way he dealt with Sensitive Information shortly after he left office. The New York Times has new reporting that trump share apparently classified information about American Nuclear submarines with an australian businessman who happened to be at my maralago. Thats according to people familiar with the matter. It comes after the former president s legal team asked the judge in a classified documents case to postpone that trial until after the election. Trumps lawyers are scrambling to delay or throw out completely at least three other cases against him. If legal team is filed motions to dismiss the new york hush money case and the washington d. C. Election interference case. The cover page for the d. C. Motion says the former president is arguing for president ial immunity. But for facts sake, and at this Point A Night to get 1 every time i see that, i would be really rich. President s of the United States do not get immunity for trying to overturn an election. Trumps lawyers know. That you know who else does . Mitch mcconnell. He basically said so after trumps second impeachment. Watch this. President trump is still liable for everything he did while he was in office. As an ordinary citizen. Unless the statute of limitations is run, still liable for everything he did while he was in office. Didnt get away with anything, yet. Yet. We have a criminal Justice System in this country. We have civil litigation. And former president s are not immune from being accountable by either one. Meanwhile, it was day four of Donald Trumps new york civil fraud trial, the Trump Organization executive testified under oath in the donald trump himself had the final sign off on financial documents, one statement in evidence included a handwritten note that said, quote, the j t to get final review. That is donald john trump. Trumps legal team is expected to file for a stay pending appeal in that case tomorrow morning. And finally, the judge in georgias rico case has declined to dismiss the charges against sydney powell. This is d. A. Fani willis is seeking the testimony for six out of State Witnesses in the upcoming Trial Of Powell and ganges bro. You know, every time we think about this, case i always think about how big and sprawling it is and what it means here. I think there are good aspects and bad cases aspects, as everything including out of State Conduct is described everyone. Two months especially even these witnesses who will talk about arizona and pennsylvania as well as georgia, she wants that. Did you follow all that . In short, he is trying to throw a delay or cancel everything against him and the d. A. s are basically just saying, id like more witnesses, and more witnesses, and more witnesses. And their judges havent given him anything that he wants, yet, and without lets get smarter with our lead off panel, can baker here, chief White House Correspondent for the New York Times, luke broadwater, pulitzer prizewinning congressional reporter, also the time, and former new york prosecutor and civil rights attorney charles coleman, joins me here at 30 rock. Peter, i turn to you first, because its a rare paper at the New York Times, with this new reporting on Trump Sharing apparently classified information about nuclear submarines. Tell us what we need to know. Right, thats exactly. Right so anthony plaza, australian businessman who joined maralago, i think in 2017, cultivated President Trump like a lot of people did in that area that join maralago in the reporting we have, my colleagues, have is that at some point soon after he left, soon after President Trump left office, then former President Trump of course, shared some information, we dont exactly what, about with this australian businessman and he is listed among 80 different possible witnesses, we are told, the jack smith, Special Counsel could call as part of his classified documents case. These are not necessarily really directly to the documents that he took but it would show an inclination on the part of the former president to feel cavalierly with the nations secrets and i dont know if he will be called in trial but i think its though it goes to a pattern of conduct by donald trump even after he left office. Charles, the times is also reporting that jack smiths team learned about Trump Sharing the secrets. As a gun impact when hes . Doing right now i dont think its gonna have a major impact. The reason for that is, speaking as a former prosecutor, what youre talking about here is one, person if the reporting is what we know it to be right now, who overheard or had a conversation with donald trump where he allegedly said something to him about nuclear secrets, and the problem with that is that its not necessarily a tremendously strong case without any other physical evidence. Remember, donald trump also was allegedly waving around confidential information in front of pentagon officials as well as other reporters, and jack smith doesnt do anything about that. From a legal perspective, unless hes going to charge him with relaying confidential secrets thats the only charge that i could even see this being admissible, most of everything that we are hearing wouldnt even be admissible because of hearsay and the hearsay rule and how Trial Evidence works and so you have a narrow lane with respect to the charge that can be brought, which is relaying, and even to establish that you only have one witness and i dont necessarily mean absent any other tangible or physical evidence jack smith is gonna go forward. Take us to the hill, look. With all the chaos unfolding in congress right now, is donald trump going to get the big Public Defense he normally gets from congressional republicans, or do they have other business to attend to . Yeah, they are mired in their own eternal chaos and fighting right now. That said, i am sure that they will rush to defend donald trump at any turning if asked, and if pressed to do so. In other cases, where prosecutors have taken actions against donald trump, jim jordan, judiciary chair sent letters to those prosecutors has, demanded documents. And he has done the same with merrick garland, with jack smith, you can see him potentially taking some more actions against in the future, trying to intervene on behalf of donald trump, when hes got his own matter at hand, with the speaker himself. It also gets harder and harder to make that argument, well, donald trump is really just sentimental, he likes to keep these things for mementos, hes not. If you follow the last 77 years of his, life he is a transactional guy. And when you find something of value he holds on to it and tries to extract that value and a later date. That is his jam. His other jam, charles, is running the clock. That is his go to. And he is successfully doing so. He is. But now he is moving to delay or dismiss for cases against him, i mean four cases, are you kidding me . No. And i said early on, we are going to get, and we are getting when i predicted, which was an up close front row of view of how the legal system can work, and regional exhaust every legal move or removed or they can to slow things down. With respect to the civil trial in new york, the timing of this new motion is an interesting one, primarily because youre in the middle of a trial in its not unusual for someone who loses Summary Judgment to appeal that judgment. I understand that the defense team was looking to do, some of the argument that theyre likely going to make is the bike carrying this out, by canceling Business Licenses by granting the relief that the Court Ordered is part of the Summary Judgment decision, these things are irreversible or doing irreparable harm with extreme prejudice to donald trump. But secretly what they would like to do is delay the trial. Thats also going to be the subtext to what the motion says, and to anticipate they will file tomorrow. I dont believe this is going to be successful, but, again, its an interesting maneuver, and were going to continue to see different maneuvers and motions to dismiss as we go along, for any reason or for any little thing, unless or until the attorneys who are following these motions begin to get sanctioned more and more by the judges who theyre filing in front. Of lets talk about a different maneuver, peter, because donald trump has been trying to rely on president ial immunity. Hes been saying it for years. It is not going to fly in court and he knows that. Is he doing it for the court of Public Opinion . Because the average person might think, yeah, maybe a president allowed to do that because in many instances president s have different rules than you and me. Yeah. Look, charles would know this, pedal better i think the legal term is throw these beget against the wall, or throw everything a every possible, sand in the gears we possibly can, every possible motion you can think, Of Disqualify the judge, delay the trial, find some way to move from one core to another, find a different venue, this missed it on the basis of anything they can argue theyre gonna try to argue, in part because it does delay the ultimate reckoning. But there is a question here that hasnt really been fully answered by the courts, which is, what is the extent of president ial immunity . The Justice Department has said a couple of different men memos, one during the clinton administration, when theyre in Office President s cannot be charged with a crime. They do not proposed to say that they can be charged with a crime after they leave office. But theres obviously an understanding, at least on a civil society, you cant sue a president for their official actions. What hes trying to say here is the trying to overturn an election he lost, and that he had been told that he had lost, and hold on to power, even though he had lost, constitutes an official action, and thats a really different way of looking at things so well see what the courts say about it. Im not a legal expert, but it does begin to draw lines that will be important, even beyond donald trump, to say what are the rules when it comes to a president and former trans president , where can they be held accountable, and where do they have, in fact, some sort of immunity from prosecution or civil liability . All right, charles, lets go back town to day four of Donald Trumps civil fraud trial. How bad was it for him that theres a handwritten note on a financial document that says lets get final sign off from donald john trump, jt. How can you possibly claim ignorance when theyre all going, we have to talk to the boss . A company with, what, 20 people . This wasnt a giant corporation. The says he has to get final say. On a scale of manageable to not that bad, its terrible. I say that because it undercuts the entire legal theory that his defense team has been trying to advance. He didnt know, the accountants did it the notion of ignorance, particularly because youre in front of a of judge, this is a bench trial. Were not talking about jurors who can in some cases been manipulated by a lawyer who they like, the flash shouldve known better. Theyre not familiar with these. Things youre talking to a judge and the judge is going to not employee the law but also common sense. When youre talking about what this note says in the fact that it required on trumps approval, he no longer has the ground to say i didnt know what was going on in plead ignorance, even though that is not a real viable defense under the law. Luke, the republican front runner is a defendant in multiple cases. Republicans in congress are tearing themselves apart and have no speaker. The staffers you talked to every day on the hill, whats the vibe right now . Really, depressed. People are beside themselves. A band of a few farright republicans cause compete chaos in the house. They think their Party Looks Like it cant govern. Moderate voters are going to leave them in droves, and meanwhile the party is talking about putting donald trump in a speaker and changing the rules so they can allow people charged with felonies to become speaker and all kinds of crazy things. So yeah, theres a lot of the staffers really depressed right now. They feel like the party has gone off the tracks. Theyre trying to get it back on track. Its very tough time for a lot of the staffers on the hill, thats for sure. All right, peter, new topic. Recentlling finds the democrats handling of immigrationis at an alltime low. But heres the thing. Immigration and what is happening border as been a problem for a long long time. Is this just a situation where congress does nothing, so whatever president is in the oval office is going to get blamed for whats happening at the border . Well, look, youre right, it has been a problem for a long time and it has been leveled multiple president s going back years and years. It does seem that there are numbers coming out of the border right now that are particularly bad and the look particularly bad for President Biden. He saw him today doing something that none of us might have expected just a little while ago, which is to say were gonna continue to build some of the wall that president trp nts to build. He says he doesnt want to do, that he doesnt think its effective, because congress appropriated the money and because it wouldnt redirect the money that he has no choices president but to continue to build a wall, but thats gonna raise all sorts of questions and all sorts of conversations. We already hear republicans saying biden is admitting he should build a wall, which is not what he is saying, but in the end hes gonna end up accomplishing some of what President Trump tried to do in office but couldnt, which is to actually extend the barriers on the border that had been basically halted or suspended or stalled under the former president. Thats kind of an irony or paradox that nobody might have expected a few weeks ago. But look, On What Grounds can republicans in Congress Attack President Biden for what is happening at the border . They are doing nothing. Congress has done nothing on comprehensive Immigration Reform for years and years. And they are the actual lawmakers. So how can they honestly put all of the blame on the president when theyve got to look in the mirror and say, yo, what have i done . Congress has been at a complete standstill on trying to get real immigration bill. We have seen partisan bills come out of the house, which have no chance of passing the senate, and the senate has nothing moving at all. And there has really been no serious discussions at all between republican and democrats and how to fix the problems of immigration, no real negotiations or compromise. Really a lot of compromising and messaging bills. So you raise a good point, which is, if you havent had a series attempt between the two parties in congress to fix the problems of immigration, then how can you criticize the administration . Just saying. Peter baker, luke broadwater, charles coleman, thank you all for starting us off this. Evening i want to give you a quick update from the state of florida where democratic congressman Jared Moskowitz has a very simple answer to Donald Trumps claims about the value of his Maralago Club in palm beach. Moskowitz sent a Letteto The County property appraiser, pointing out of the county value the property between 18 and 28 million bucks, which is a whole lot different than Donald Trumps claim that it is worth well over a billion dollars. So the congressmans official reques to the county, shouldnt we hikers taxes to reflect what donald trump swears maralago is worth . Its a very good question by the congressman. We cant wait to hear the response. When we come back, donald trump is looming large. The speaker battle on the hill, Jason Johnson and Mark Mckinnon are here to break down who could replace mccarthy and how long the chaos can last. And later, you must be out for this. Talk about inspiration, the power of youth. We want our two Young Leaders about the power of stepping up and speaking out in the massive difference that they are making. The 11th hour, just getting underway on a thursday night. If you are your teenagers playing video game, make sure they watch this instead. 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Back with me tonight, Jason Johnson politics and Journalism Professor Morgan State University and Mark Mckinnon, former adviser to george w. Bush and john mccain, one of the cohosts of the circus on showtime, which as its Season Premiere sunday night. You better be harm. Mark, is jordan trying to position himself as the most maga candidate for speaker, and if so, is that the right move, given how thin the margins are for republicans . Well, he is the most maga candidate by far. Even before the Freedom Caucus described him as a bomb thrower. Is that really where the Republican Caucus needs at this point to interact sort of votes they need and to have any sort of republican success . And in the question is not just two but what. What are gonna be the terms of any speaker, and the problem we know from Kevin Mccarthys tenure is that they introduced a motion to vacate. Its like chekhovs gun. If you show a gun in the first act, theyre gonna use it before the play is over. And they used. They shot mccarthy. So i talked to ken, back is one of the republicans who deposed mccarthy is a member of the Freedom Caucus. I doubt him last night. He said really right now it comes down to scalise and jordan. But he says that scalise had problems because Kevin Mccarthy doesnt like scalise. So mccarthys going to whip his people against police, and jordans got his own problems. So if those guys have two problems going in, is it appears that they do, they had more problems than Kevin Mccarthy had going, in and we know mccarthy took 15 votes to get there. So i think were looking at a long train wreck ahead. But jason, mark is forgetting that the great unifier may be making his way to capitol hill during this process next week. Donald trump. Who is that going to benefit . Theyre the president s gonna benefit is the democrats. I am sorry, but in a functional democracy the guy who was responsible for an attempted violent coup should never be confident enough to return to the scene of the crime. Its kind of ridiculous the donald trump is walking free at all. But the fact that he would feel comfortable to come back to washington d. C. With just two years ago he led a mob of people to try to murder almost everybody in that room, its galling to me. But jason, but by that measure, it would be absurd for someone who did that to be running for president of the United States, and thats exactly what hes doing. Yes. Thats the larger problem. If we had a more swift and more aggressive Justice System, he wouldnt be in a position to do that. Thats the larger problem that we have here. Its flaunting the law and flaunting how he really attacked the sovereignty of this nation. So that being said, it would be great for democrats to point that out, its not gonna do anything for the Republican Party. They have a choice between two terrible candidates. Jim jordan, quite frankly considered a cook even among conservatives. Also not very good at Raising Money. And whoever becomes the speaker, at this point, is gonna be responsible for Raising Money and protecting republicans who are trying to protect their seats in 2024. So i would say steve scalise, but he has health issues. Scalise has problems with his own personality. Scalise has his own bad background. So you dont have particular good choices. If i was forced, i would simply say, look, i would just vote for haKeem Jeffries. And the one hand you have jim jordan who tried to help with the coup, and someone else who doesnt seem competent for the job. I cant stop laughing, jason. He has problems with his own personality. Thats stephanie ruhle, she has problems with own personality. And all seriousness, though, mark, do you see any solution here . Do you see there he Keem Jeffries 80, utterly dant raised at the other night, power sharing, not jeffrey specifically, but do you see any solution . I think it would be a long way to get to something remotely like that. But the problem that is pretty clear here is that you have 18 republicans who were elected in biden districts. So youve got to have their votes. If you have trump dancing in their, theyre not going to want to endorse anyone that trump is endorsing. And theyre not likely to be supporting jim jordan. Scalise has the problems that we indicated. You could see how this could unfold, with many chapters. Interesting fever dreams. I like the Lease Cheney Fever Dream where she got enough republicans or democrats about her, but how about cheney for speaker. Im down with that. I want to highlight part of a political report and the relationship between Kevin Mccarthy and the biden white house, where political says, quote, mccarthy marked bidens age and mental acuity in public or privately telling allies that he found the president sharp in substantive in their conversations. That is a stark contradiction that left a deep impression on the white house. What does this tell you about Kevin Mccarthy and the current state of things in washington, jason . This is why he was terrible at his job. I wasnt a fan of john boehner, but one thing that john boehner talked about a lot after you left office as speaker, he will go back to his own caucus and say hey guys, i dont agree with them at all, but obamas mana bad guy. I can argue and debate with him. And boehner was really Strong Enough to argue with people that like hey were not dealing with an idiot here. Mccarthy couldnt be trusted by anybody. He was a weasel. He was the worst person to have a new telephone game, because you ask for a sandwich and he says you asked for crackle cain. You couldnt trust the man, within his party, within negotiations, and thats why he doesnt have his job. Thats why the republicans in general are in trouble, because they dont have anybody. They have people who are qanon people like jim jordan, or you have spines people like mccarthy, who dont know how to make real commitments and negotiate. And if you cant come up with a functional leader, you cant operate as a Political Organization or even a Diamond Store front for a terrorist organization, which i said the gop has done for years. Crazy makes noise, it makes headlines, and functional moxie is what we need. Do people realize and appreciate that. Mark mckinnon, Jason Johnson, dont forget to watch mark zona. Unite our countrys youth is watching. They may not be old enough to vote now, but guess what . 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Hes not old enough to cast a ballot, but he had that warning for ected officials in his state, young people are watching and not just in North Carolina where the Republican Controlled Legislature is still the process of drawing a new congressional maps. Young activists often go up to be Young Leaders. You might remember this viral moment from 2011, when the 19yearold zack walz stood up to defend families like his own legislation that was targeting them. Were not so different from any of your children. My family really isnt so different from yours. After all, your family doesnt derive its sense of worth from being told by the state, youre married, congratulations. Or the next two hours im sure were gonna hear plenty of testimony about how damaging having gay parents is on kids. But my 19 years not once have i ever been confronted by an individual who realized independently that i was raised by a gay couple. And you know why . Because the Sexual Orientation of my parents has had zero effect on the content of my character. Thank you very much. That legislation did pass in the iowa house, but was blocked in the senate and, same sex marriage stayed legal in the state. As for zach walsh, he went on to serve in the iowa state senate. Both of these remarkable young men join us now. Eric, you amaze me. You are a senior in high school. What made you decide to address the General Assembly . I mean, its fog, time for Friday Night Lights and pepper rallies. Thats right. And you know, thats exactly what i told the General Assembly. I should be with my friends. I shouldnt have to be here and defend my generations writes with for a ballot affair representation. But why was i there . I was there to prove the young people like me, we are listening i mean we dont always hear it all the time but we are listening and we are angry and we are fed up. Zach, talk to us about how you went from being just a young man but who chose to stand up publicly to defend your family who is basically under attack and then moving to full activism and full office where you are right now. Well, stephanie, i really appreciate the opportunity to be with you and eric, acuna congratulations, thank you for standing up and delivering such an impassioned speech. The thing i would say to you is that you have this Incredible Opportunity to take this moment and turn it into something much bigger. Thats what those of us who had that opportunity, stephanie, i would say, have the responsibility to do. My generation, the generation of people like eric, we are incredibly frustrated, and its exciting lead to see young activists take the lead on issues like partisan gerrymandering, climate change, for lgbtq people who are always been targeted. What eric speech shows is defending democracy is not an insider in the weeds issue. Its easy to see the voters dont really care about democracy issues, but i think erics speech shows that it connects with a lot of people, especially young people. But a lot of people dont think about partisan gerrymandering until its too late. Eric, i said, it youre only 17 years old. Are you an outlier among your friends and classmates, or are they engaged as well . When it comes to issues like redistricting, im very aware, because its a very non sexy issue. Its a very nerdy thing that i happen to be interested in. But young people are really interested in areas like reproductive rights, voting rights, things like that, that they care about because they know it affects their duty today. When youre able to relate those issues to Something Like me district sting, it affects all those issues, it has an impact. Zach, people constantly saying have broke and divided the country. Is congresss chaos, not functioning. But when you think about your own path over the last ten years, when you look at eric, a 17 year old, speaking up for what he believes in, how energized and inspire do you feel about the power of our country, about the power of democracy . I think it makes me really excited and i think if i had to think of a through line from erics speech in mine, its about the importance of speaking truth to power and how that resonates with people who are watching in this meeting. I think that all across the country there is this understanding that we are going through something that is really challenging for our country right now, whether its the rise of authoritarianism within the Republican Party, attempts by that party, like they are in North Carolina, which by rigging elections, we know that there are incredible challenges in front of us. It brings me a lot of excitement and inspiration to see people like eric in North Carolina stepping up, here in iowa we saw teenaged in High School Students organize walkouts against bans an lgbt books here in our state. And so it has been inspiring for me to see young people stepping up. I would still consider myself a young person by political standards. Its really important for our generation to get involved, whether its joining a local organization, running for office with the good folks that run for something, or just finding a candidate who you really believe in and going to work for them. We cannot make a difference if we do our part. Eric, your remarks, obviously, went viral. Thats how we found you. Their inspirational. But what happened after he spoke . Whats going on down there . A lot of great people reached out. A lot of great people were able to elevate the platform to spread this issue even more. Im very grateful for those opportunities because this cant just be a 15 seconds of fame. This has to be something that keeps on going. So what are you doing next . Well, i think my family and people and i are going to deliver republicans a message in 2024. That message is that my generation, generation see, its gonna be the generation the right to the history books. And if you just right now today to push us to the margins of our political systems, to the sidelines of our government, were gonna be the ones to read you into the margins of history. If you decide now that we are not mature enough, to lead, we will be the ones to decide that you will not be the ones to represent our great country. Down, eric, youre not even gonna have to write a college application. Theyre just going to be sending a car for. You zak, what message do you have for young people today . I think the most important thing is not to lose hope. 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It is out this week. Can we just talk through this because social Media Influencers killed traditional advertising. We no longer were flipping through a magazine looking at a model claiming that she loved this blender. Now actually chefs are in their kitchens saying man, we love this great stuff, this is what i use. Fast forward, now they get paid so much money they are just pushing product all day long. Are people go to eventually catch on to this into them out . Not even remotely, unfortunately. Actually Goldman Sachs just came out with a Report Saying that the Influencer Industry is skyrocketing. Over half a trillion Dollar Industry by 2027. Okay, but lot of these influencers are pushing products that they might not even use. Your own paper has a report out that the Food Industry is paying Influencer Dietitians and they are not even saying that they are paid posts. Arent the rules about that . Unfortunately, i actually wrote about this in my book, ftc has failed about this to crack down. They dont have a handle on the problem. When they try to crack down in 2017 they ended up making sponsor content aspirational. Now you see spate fake sponsor content, which people pretending they have brand deals with Luxury Brands are aspirational brands because its seen as a Status Symbol to have a brandnew deal. And if they do that maybe another brand will want to catch on . Exactly. This is gross. Its all of this going to be a race for all humans to get sponsored . The big trend is watching your own products. More Interest Influencers are not interested in doing and deals because why would you have ad deals when youve developed a product you can sell to your audience yourself . Chamberlain cough, really developing their own product lines, and theyre becoming huge businesses. The real housewives. Its what all of them have done. If it looks good, and i have my own product. But a lot of these influencers are kids. Are there no regulations around them . Absolutely not. Villanova illinois passed the first legislation to protect child employers, but its an enforceable because the state legislation. The u. S. Government has not been tracking this. Its a huge new type of work thats been a merging in the past 15, years and statistics its not even tracking them. We dont even have a handle on it. So none of this is slowing down. This is the tip of the iceberg. We are at the beginning of this radical shift in media and it has been happening for the last 25 years, which my book reports on, but its definitely not slowing down. At some point, though, how does everyone become an influencer . How does everyone become a brand . Theres not very many brands to care about . Definitely not everyones gonna have to become an influencer, but were all connected more and more these days. We all have a public profile. Were living on the internet, whether or not we put ourselves there. I can google anyone, especially kids. You have an online reputation. Youre known for things. Its increasingly, i mean, kids are increasingly able to cash. And look at whats happening with college sports. I want to know why you wrote this book, and in your opinion, whats the most important takeaway . I want to write a book that told the rise of social media through the user side. Weve seen a social Network Version of social media. Lot of focus on big tech founders, great for that side, but weve got the user side, and again, its half a trillion Dollar Industry that is completely unregulated, with no oversight. Its wild. Its mostly a child labor industry. And no one had really talked about the rise of that industry and how it emerged, and kind of lead that charge. Whats your biggest fear . Or you have none . You think this is a beautiful wide west . Pretty dystopian. As we talk about my book, we are all pressured to come out of fire selves, our lives in our relationships in increasingly invasive ways. I think its dark. Theres a lot of laboratory aspect. I have my whole career, because i get popular online, like a popular on the internet and im in media. And i wrote a. Book it could be amazing for people and it can also be dark. There is huge Mental Health implications for content makers because theyre always online. All these influencers, trusting what they have, what they use. Now theyre just pushing product. Come on now. Taylor lorenz, congratulations on your book, glad to be you. When we come back, you have to see this story. If youre feeling tired, i need to stay out for another five minutes, because this woman ditched her walker, literally, to jump out of a plane, and she just broke the record books. If this woman isnt gonna make you get a better tomorrow, nothing else well. Stick around. The 11th hour isnt open yet. Th hour isnt open yet start your day with nature made. The 1 pharmacist recommended vitamin and supplement brand. The last thing before we go tonight, it just sounded like fun. That is what dorothy haffner thought about the idea of going skydiver. But dorothy, heres something might i guess, shes 104 years old. A return is coming up in december. That means this sky dive might make her the new Guinness World record holder for the oldest person to sky dive. This was a 13,500 foot tandem leap just outside chicago, illinois, and dorothy said she had an absolute blast. About five feet from the plane and a big gust of wind, and it was a piece of wind. It turned us over. If you did a somersault. I thought that was so much fun. When you feel good, you can do these things. Sometimes you have a little fear or scare of doing it, but if you feel good, do it. My god, i love this woman. Dorothy told the maritime she was not nervous at all ahead no idea about the Guinness World record. She of course, no surprise, was met with a massive round of applause when she landed, which, she did actually understand. It was wonderful. I enjoyed it. I couldnt understand why those people were there. But, as i say, all i did was get old. Older. Im not old, im older. Older, wiser, and more fabulous every day. We want to send our congratulations to dear dorothy. Shes back in her chicago Retirement Home and says she hopes to take it easy next summer, with maybe a hot air balloon ride. And on that note, i hope you all feel a little inspire tomorrow, and have a good night tonight. From all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late with me. Ill see you at the end of tomorrow. Tomorrow the Republican Party has two problems, a party descending