House Speaker Mike Johnson meets with Trump at Mar-a-Lago as the far right threatens his job

The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle

MS NOW, Stephanie Ruhle

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🗓️ 13 April 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Before going on trial Monday, Donald Trump hosted embattled House Speaker Mike Johnson at Mar-a-Lago. Was that meeting enough to save Johnson from far-right threats to take his job away? Plus, our spotlight conversation on Christian nationalism, what it is, and how it could reshape America if Trump wins. And we look at the scandal involving the former interpreter to a baseball superstar. Molly Jong-Fast, Catherine Christian, Ken Rosenthal, Anthea Butler, Pete Wehner, and Katherine Stewart join.

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0:00.0	Tonight Speaker Mike Johnson heads down to Maralago to meet with Donald Trump as the far right threatens his job.
0:07.0	Plus, he won 142 million bucks gambling illegally, but he lost 183 million. The former
0:15.9	interpreter for Shohay Ottani is now in hot hot water with the DOJ.
0:20.4	Then our spotlight conversation on Christian nationalism will break down what the movement
0:26.4	is what it could mean for the election and why supporters are so deeply devoted to Donald
0:32.1	Trump as the 11th hour gets underway on this Friday night.
0:46.7	Good evening once again. I'm Stephanie Rule and we are now 2007 days away from the election and we are just days away from the
0:51.7	historic first ever criminal trial of a former president of the
0:56.8	United States of America.
0:58.6	On Monday morning, jury selection will begin in the Manhattan District Attorney's case against Donald J. Trump.
1:05.1	Today the judge denied Trump's efforts to delay the trial on the ground of
1:09.7	too much pretrial publicity. The former president of course is charged with 34
1:15.0	felony counts of falsifying business records related to an alleged hush
1:19.6	money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels. The presumptive
1:23.5	Republican nominee spoke about the case earlier today alongside
1:27.1	House Speaker Mike Johnson down at Marlago. Our own Gabe Gutierrez has those
1:31.8	details.
1:33.0	Tonight, on the eve of his Manhattan-Hushmoney trial,
1:37.0	former President Trump defiant, saying he's willing to testify in his own defense
1:41.0	in a case he slams as a partisan prosecution by a Democratic DA.
1:45.0	Mr President, do you plan to testify?
1:48.0	Yeah, I would testify, absolutely.
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