Road. Nightly news begins right now. Rmgs announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening, we begin with a rare aboutface for donald trump. In full retreat tonight after he ignited a firestorm on both the right and the left by saying women who undergo abortions should face punishment if abortions were outlawed. His comment to Msnbcs Chris Matthews made even some wellknown antiabortion advocates wince. To be clear, all the republicans running for president favor a ban on abortions, but none has gone so far as to suggest legal action against the women who have them which may be why trump has quickly backed away from the remarks and adapted the establishment line. Nbcs katiy tur has details. You have to ban it. Reporter donald trump dropping a political bombshell telling chris these that if abortion was banned the woman who gets one should be puni punished. The answer is there has to be some form of punishment. For the woman.