Optics were endlessly bad’: Big Tech CEOs grilled on Capitol Hill

The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle

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🗓️ 1 February 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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The wait for the appeals court’s decision on Trump’s immunity claims continues, while President Biden heads to Detroit for an event with United Auto Workers. Meanwhile, Big Tech CEOs faced tough questions about child safety on Capitol Hill. Then, a border bill is hanging in the balance as Speaker Johnson introduces a bill that would bring back the child tax credit on top of business tax breaks.

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0:00.0	Tonight Donald Trump's legal delays any impact they may have on November as he
0:06.0	tries to peel back the union vote from President Biden. Then tense moments and a
0:11.2	public apology during a Senate hearing with tech CEOs
0:14.8	about child safety online, but will anything meaningful come out of it?
0:19.6	And the border deal hangs in the balance while GOP infighting nearly tanked a tax cut deal.
0:25.5	How Republicans are playing politics we vote as the 11th hour gets underway on this Wednesday night. Good evening once again, I'm Stephanie Rule,
0:40.0	live from MS NBC Headquarters here in New York City.
0:43.6	And timing is everything, especially
0:46.2	when it comes to Donald Trump's legal dramas
0:48.7	and his campaign to retake the White House.
0:51.2	It has been just over three weeks since an appeals court heard
0:54.4	arguments over Trump's claim of absolute immunity from prosecution in the
0:58.7	2020 election interference case. So far there has been no decision and it looks like that case will begin
1:04.9	well past the scheduled March 4th start date. Today special counsel
1:09.2	Jacksmith's team was in Florida for a closed-door meeting with Judge Aline Cannon about Trump's classified documents
1:15.6	case which is said to begin in May.
1:18.1	But there are questions about whether that would be pushed back as well.
1:21.4	And as Politico points out each day that Trump's criminal
1:24.2	cases are delayed raises the possibility that the opening days of his trials could
1:29.2	be pushed to late summer or fall or potentially even after the election. But today Donald Trump was
1:35.2	focused on his standing with union members. He went to Washington to meet with the
1:39.4	Teamsters leadership in an effort to lay the ground for an endorsement. But the teamsters, they were not
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