Friday Nightcap: Toxic fumes – and toxic politics – spill into Ohio

The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle

MS NOW, Stephanie Ruhle

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🗓️ 25 February 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Politicians are playing the blame game after a catastrophic train derailment spilled highly toxic chemicals in East Palestine, Ohio. But their inaction leaves residents without clear answers – or even clean water. Plus, Republican state lawmakers are doubling down on the GOP’s anti-LGBTQ rhetoric, introducing more than three hundred anti-LGBTQ bills nationwide – and it’s only February. Garry Kasparov, Igor Novikov, Amb. William Taylor, Dr. Kavita Patel, BD Wong, Mara S. Campo, George M. Johnson, and Ron Insana join.

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0:00.0	Tonight, one year of war, memorials throughout Ukraine and across the world marking the brutality
0:10.7	of Russian aggression as the fight for democracy continues.
0:15.0	Then how one lawsuit in Texas could overturn access across the nation to abortion pills,
0:21.2	what the consequences could look like.
0:23.6	And our Friday night gap is in the house breaking down the major headlines and biggest winners
0:28.3	of the week as the 11th hour gets underway right now.
0:39.0	Good evening once again, I'm Stephanie Ruhl.
0:41.4	We begin this evening in Ukraine where it is now 6 a.m. on Saturday morning in Kiev.
0:46.6	A deadly and brutal war is now entering its second year officially.
0:51.2	February 24, 2022 was day one of Russia's unprovoked invasion.
0:57.2	For the past year, Ukrainians have endured relentless attacks from Russian forces.
1:01.7	Thousands of people have been killed and injured.
1:04.3	Millions were forced to leave the country while entire communities were destroyed.
1:08.9	Today, President Zelensky marked one year of war with a ceremony honoring those who died fighting to defend Ukraine.
1:15.7	He vowed that 2023 would be the year of victory over Russia.
1:20.2	But as NBC's Richard Engel reports, Ukraine is bracing for a very tough road ahead.
1:27.0	This war doesn't appear anywhere close to over.
1:30.6	Poland today delivered new German-made leopard tanks just the first four of 14.
1:37.0	Ukraine is expected to launch a new counteroffensive when more weapons, including American tanks, arrive.
1:44.5	A year ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin thought Ukraine would fall quickly that Ukrainians would be happy to join Russia.
1:52.1	Instead, they packed off their families to be refugees.
1:56.1	13 million are displaced from their homes.
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