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and republicans quick to publicly defend the twice indicted former president for changing the tune behind closed doors and then defend holding off and raising interest rates, for now. where the economy is and more importantly, where it is headed? as the 11th hour gets underway this wednesday night. good evening, once again, i am stephanie ruhle. donald trump gears up for the legal battle of his life, as the justice department defense its prosecution of the former president. just one day after trump's arraignment on charges of mishandling top secret documents, the attorney general voi...

private citizen. if he doesn't fact when the republican nomination. it has nothing to do with what he did tonight. he did what he has done countless times before. the question we need to answer is what we are going to do next. let's get right to it. my nbc news washington correspondent colleague emulsion centers here, liam cold will of the washington post, and andrew weissmann, former fbi general counsel and nbc news legal analyst. coming, this is the first and we've seen trump outside of the cocoon of conservative media for a long time. where was he? in a thunderdome stacked with hi...

stephanie ruhle. speaker kevin mccarthy may hav won the battle to pass raising the debt limit, but now he i on a collision course with the -- urged president biden to make deal to give the u.s. from default, and economic disaster >> now the president can n longer put this economy in jeopardy, we - we have sent it to the senate. the majority of american overwhelmingly want us to si down and negotiate it is up to them now >> this afternoon, biden again insisted negotiations were out of the question. >> i'm happy to meet with, mccarthy but not on whether or not the debt limit get extend...

we have justin jones fro tennessee, and i've got maxwel frost on here. it's interesting to me, becaus a man of a certain age, to hav these young people, who are th civil rights fighters of our time, it's amazing to watch. >> and such a contrast wit what we are led to believe about government, and it's antipathy towards the people and if there is reason for optimism in this moment, it' you didn't guess on your show. >> the really, it is and there's people who don't believe in the way things work or the way things are an prepared to challenge, it an say there's a different wa going for...

gets tonight's last word. the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts right now. tonight, pulling back the curtain on a potential second trump term. and his plans for day one of his administration. plus, his 2024 opponents facing off on that debate stage. that state of the race less than six weeks out from the iowa caucus. kevin mccarthy officially stepping down. what his departure means amid chaos on capitol hill. then, pop megastar taylor swift named time magazine's person of the year. her global impact far beyond the charts, as the 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday nig...