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The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle

Are Republicans 'cringing' after Trump's Georgia speech?

The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle

MS NOW, Stephanie Ruhle

Politics, Washington, Congress, News, Ms Now, President, Versant Media, Policy, Msnbc, Versant, Government, Senate

4.43.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Former Prince Andrew 'released under investigation' after UK police arrested him. Then, Trump declares that he's "won affordability," but do Americans think so? And one journalist reports on troubling conduct within ICE and Border Patrol agencies. Peter Baker, Mark Leibovich, Greg Bluestein, Ron Insana, Justin Wolfers, Garrett Graff, and Gen. Barry McCaffrey join the 11th Hour this Thursday night.

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0:00.0

Tonight, former Prince Andrew is under investigation after British police arrest him, how the fallout from the Epstein files has spread overseas.

0:09.0

Then the president returns to Georgia and praises his administration for seizing 2020 ballots as the state's election board hires a private investigator.

0:19.0

Plus, the ongoing fight over ice and border patrol

0:22.3

tactics. One journalist says the cult for inside is much worse than you think as the 11th hour

0:28.2

gets underway on this Thursday night. Good evening once again. I am Stephanie Rule, and we are now 256 days away from the midterms.

0:45.1

Today, the president went down to Georgia. It was supposed to be part of his mini tour to talk about, you guessed it, affordability.

0:52.5

But the state has been in his administration's crosshairs

0:55.1

for very, very different reasons. Last month, if you recall, the FBI seized ballots from the

1:00.5

2020 election in Fulton County. The county has taken the DOJ to court over it. Well, today, the Georgia

1:06.3

State Election Board wrapped up a meeting, and one member said it looks like it's the state board

1:12.0

versus Fulton County. The board decided to hire a private investigator to report them, but it is not

1:18.0

exactly clear what that person is actually going to investigate. Usually the person who would look

1:23.9

into voting issues is Georgia's Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger. Instead,

1:28.7

the board subpoenaed Raffensberger to testify about some of these alleged issues at its next

1:34.7

meeting. And while Trump's speech in Georgia was advertised as an affordability speech, as I mentioned,

1:40.7

of course, he weighed in on this very issue the state's elections by the way did you see

1:47.6

they raided the fulton county place storage house and now the democrats have hired a massive team

1:58.4

of lawyers they have the balance that should be no problem right have the balance. That should be no problem, right?

2:01.8

They have the ballots.

2:02.9

FBI came in and raided.

2:04.3

They found plenty of stuff.

2:06.1

And now they have the ballots.

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