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The 11th Hour With Stephanie Ruhle

or democrat does not matter. >> no one was hurt, but solomon peña, a republican, is a dumb trump supporter and, like the former president, an election denier. >> we are also keeping an eye on another big story tonight. on thursday, the united states will hit the debt ceiling. treasury secretary janet yellen has warned, if nothing is done, the u.s. could go into default by early june. meanwhile, republicans are demanding spending cuts in order to raise the limit. but for facts sake, i will say it again, the debt limit has absolutely nothing to do with future spending. it is about paying for what you have already agreed to. i want to make it really simple. it is like charging up a storm on your credit card all month, and then when the bill comes, you decide you are not going to pay it and you tell everybody it is because you are being fiscally responsible. news flash, you are just being a deadbeat. with, that let's get smarter with the help of our lead off panel tonight -- luke broadwater is here, pulitzer prize-winning congressional reporter from the new york times. and tara palmeri, senior

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The 11th Hour With Stephanie Ruhle

>> that was the most terrifying thing. i kept thinking, this is through our front door and you could see where it went out my back door and i literally -- had been there with my granddaughter just two hours before. >> and other officials home, one bullet landed in her daughter's bedroom wall, so close to the sleeping ten-year-olds that sheetrock dust was blown onto the sleeping girls face, according to loony released arrest documents. the suspect, solomon pena -- so to be charged with orchestrating a string of attacks, accused of paying for men too -- over the past month in what authorities described as an orchestrated plot. >> an attack on an elected official is an attack on democracy. whether or not is a republican or democrat does not matter. >> no one was hurt, but solomon peña, a republican, is it donald trump supporter and like the former president, an election denier. >> we are also keeping an eye on another big story tonight. on thursday, the united states will hit the debt ceiling.

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NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt

wall, disaster costs for 2022 easily exceed $165 billion. >> climate change is warming the whole planet and that includes the atmosphere and the ocean. what that means for us is that the atmosphere is able to hold more moisture, so these storms can be bigger. >> reporter: tonight our changing planet as our new normal becomes even more extreme. miguel almaguer, nbc news, los angeles. >> let's turn to our other big story tonight. president biden facing criticism over his handling of classified documents following the white house disclosure that they were discovered in a private office he used after he was vice president. kristen welker has late details. >> reporter: tonight president biden at a mexico summit defending his handling of classified documents after that stunning white house admission they were found inside mr. biden's private office space at his washington think tank. >> people know i take classified

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The 11th Hour With Stephanie Ruhle

outside of the former president are going to be. >> peter, turning to our other big story tonight, you have reported from russia, it has been years covering putin, the kremlin. why was it so important, so personal for putin to secure the release of viktor bout? >> for him, this is a smollett of good news in an otherwise patch of nothing but dismal news right? they have been suffering badly on the battlefield in ukraine. ukraine's even will last few days has managed to use drones to strike military bases inside russian territory. and instead of focusing on that, he would like russians to focus on the idea that he has brought home this russian patriot's strongman, this hero as far as they are concerned. who has been persecuted by the west for all of these years. he faces down, if you will, the american president by getting this bigger of sort of epic proportions in exchange for a relatively minor drug king. and i think you will see on russian television a lot of pumping up of this border as an example of putin's continued

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The 11th Hour With Stephanie Ruhle

possible to move forward with potential prosecution and indictments. but it seems like it is still pretty much a toss-up on who those individuals exactly outside of the former president are going to be. >> peter, turning to our other big story tonight, you have reported from russia, it has been years covering putin, the kremlin. why was it so important, so personal for putin to secure the release of viktor bout? >> for him, this is a smollett of good news in an otherwise patch of nothing but dismal news right? they have been suffering badly on the battlefield in ukraine. ukraine's even will last few days has managed to use drones to strike military bases inside russian territory. and instead of focusing on that, he would like russians to focus on the idea that he has brought home this russian patriot's

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MSNBC Prime

allowed him to stay in his position. so when biden came in, he could have replaced pretty much anyone that he wanted in the executive branch. but i think going along with trying to restore some of the norms, he allowed the fbi director to stay in his position, even though trump had appointed him and he allowed commissioner to stay in at the irsz, his team is scheduled to expire toward the end of this year in the fall. so biden could have replaced him but allowed him to stay. >> michael, thank you very much for excellent reporting. michael schmidt a reporter with "the new york times," we appreciate you joining us on short notice tonight after the story was published. turning now to the other big story tonight, the one we were going to start with, i want to start with a meeting in the oval office. there's a lot of yelling in this meeting, it was a friday night, december 18th, 2020, about a month after the presidential election had been called for joe

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Jose Diaz-Balart Reports

economic message that would be more popular in the general election. >> candy woodall, thanks for being with us. joining us now at the big board, steve kornacki. great to see you again. hey, so what are you looking at, what are the races that we should be keeping our eyes on? >> obviously pennsylvania as you say is the big story tonight, that senate republican primary, you got a three-way race there. also the gubernatorial primary, it looks like doug mastriano is well positioned in, there is a question of whether mastriano, if he does win that republican gubernatorial primary big, there is a question of whether he lifts kathy barnette in the stat race because they have endorsed each other. and there is general election considerations there, implications if both of those republican candidates win, a lot of democrats who want both of those republican candidates to win because they believe that it would give them their best

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The 11th Hour-20211230-07:16:00

leader to leader, and what they described as a moment of crisis. so this is certainly biden's biggest foreign policy challenge headed into 2022. he did quite a few this year with the withdrawal of afghanistan and other issues. nfc spokesman said that this call would cover a range of topics including upcoming diplomatic engagement. they are really looking for russia to show signs of de-escalation before any sort of diplomatic and game. and this of course comes before the u.s. and russia delegations are expected to sit down for security talks on january 10th. >> and barbara, i want to ask you about another big story tonight, you have an article in the daily beast. fantastic article by the way. i recommended to everyone. you begin with this line, when

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Don Lemon Tonight-20210804-02:18:00

so here's our big story tonight. the pressure is mounting on new york governor andrew cuomo to step down following a damning report from the state's attorney general detailing sexual harassment allegations against the governor. president joe biden saying the governor needs to resign, and other powerful democrats including house speaker nancy pelosi and both of new york's senators are also saying that he has lost their support. i want to bring in now cnn's chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins and cnn's senior analyst laura coates. good evening to both of you, kaitlan, i must say you pressed the president today -- you pressed him on the governor and his response was unequivocal that the governor needs to resign. it's a crushing blow for the governor because the two have been long time allies and friends.

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Don Lemon Tonight-20210804-06:16:00

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