Best selling author louis russert gets tonight last word, The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle starts now. Tonight, my exclusive interview with senator mitt romney. My wing of the party is like a chicken wing. What else he said about the Republican Party, its presumptive nominees, multiple criminal cases, and the biggest threats facing our country right now. Plus, the stage is set for not one but two president ial debates, how both candidates are already taunting one another, and what it could mean for the highstakes 2024 race, as The 11th Hour gets underway on this wednesday night. Good evening once again, i am Stephanie Ruhle, back in New York City and we are now 174 days away from the election. This morning President Biden came out swinging, State Of The Union style. He challenged donald trump to not one, but two president ial debates while also taunting him about his new york criminal trial. From agreed immediately and asked for more debates, our own Peter Alexander has more. Tonight
Just before noon he signed an Executive Order formally withdrawing the us from the tra ns pacific partnership. It was a Campaign Promise and a key tenet of his pledge to deglobalise, putting in his words, America First. Our diplomatic editor, mark urban, looks at what trumps first day tells us about a new direction for america. Back to work on a blowy, rainy morning for the people of this city. For the new president , after a weekend of political bluster, a day to demonstrate that the Wind Of Change you porters bluster, a day to demonstrate that the Wind Of Change supporters had voted for had hit the white house. First one is withdrawals from the of the United States from the Trans Pacific partnership. Everyone knows what that means, right . Weve been talking about this for a long time. Mr trump signed three Executive Orders today, stopping a pacific trade deal, freezing governmentjob recruitment, and halting funding for abortion education overseas. That follows an earlier order to hob
. earlier, we mentioned vladimir putin claiming, quote, success in mariupol and saying the russians are, and again, his words, liberating the besieged port city. he also said if the remaining defenders were to lay down arms, russia guarantees their lives and decent treatment in accordance with the relevant legal acts. we can t independently verify that. president zelenskyy said today russia is not engaged in war in mariupol, it was more like a, quote, terrorist operation. i m joined by david remnick who spent much of his career covering russia and author of the book, lenin s tomb. we saw putin today in this obviously choreographed meeting with the defense minister, announcing the so-called liberation of mariupol.
controversial 1994 crime bill. lately, he s spending time tackling issues he spent his entire career covering. you can see that too in his approach with russian president vladamir putin, which brings us to the third story, the ongoing diplomatic challenge with russia. and the former chairman of the foreign senate relations committee there will be enormous consequences if he were to go in and invade, as he could, the entire country, or a lot less than that, as well. or russia, not only in terms of economic consequences and political consequences, but it will be enormous consequences worldwide. it was a big day for biden. a day that also put into sharp focus where the president s comfort level lies. a return to those 90s era tough on crime policies, national security issues, and a vow to hunt down the terrorists, gun
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