York, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. Help is coming from as far away as the east coast to fight wildfires in the west. An epic season of destruction that reached a new milestone today. 7 million acres torched this summer so far. Across several states right now its an all hands on deck effort. Soldiers, even jail prisoners enlisted to join the foot with so many homes lost and so many others at risk. One of the worst fires continues to burn in chelan, washington, which is where National Correspondent mcll almaguer leads us off on this busy tuesday. Reporter these are the conditions firefighters are facing on the front line. Flames shooting closer and closer to homes in washington state. The National Guard has moved in, bracing for a monster day tomorrow. Winds expected to kick up dramatically. There are still hundreds and hundreds of house as that could be in the line of fire. Reporter the air attack key. Dozens of drops every hour. Four helicopters have been ma
Serving as secretary of state. And weve also learned this week a federal judge in washington is set to hold a hearing on another issue touching on this email controversy surrounding a wellknown member of clintons inner circle. Our justice correspondent Pete Williams has late details. Reporter the fbis forensics experts are now examining the server once located in hiltry clintons new york home, the device that hosted her private email account. Two sources familiar with the process say analysts are optimistic they can recover at least some data even though theyve determined, as was previously disclosed, that it was wiped clean when the account was deactivated. The fbi is examining whether any government secrets were improperly sent or received on the private server, which was not a classified system. It was never designed to be secure. It was designed to be a way of sharing information, not protecting information from being shared. I do want to be the champion reporter the emails have be
Disclosure agreement all personnel must sign. Thats clean and clear that would be violation. Lou the department of justice now refusing to provide two of its top officials in the fbi for interviews with the Senate Judiciary committee. One of those previously said james drafted a statement exonerating Hillary Clinton two months before interviewing her. His comments are of interest to the department of justices investigation of the handling of the clinton email investigation itself. The Justice Department citing special counsel muellers russia investigation in its refusal to provide those officials for interview. Steven boyd wrote this. Saying quote. The scope of the committees inquiry has not been deconflicted with special counsel muellers investigation. Therefore to protect the integrity of the special counsels investigation, well not be able to provide them for interviews at this time. The likelihood james comey will be facing investigation. It is clear much has changed in washington
Disclosure agreement all personnel must sign. Thats clean and clear that would be violation. Lou the department of justice now refusing to provide two of its top officials in the fbi for interviews with the Senate Judiciary committee. One of those previously said james drafted a statement exonerating Hillary Clinton two months before interviewing her. His comments are of interest to the department of justices investigation of the handling of the clinton email investigation itself. The Justice Department citing special counsel muellers russia investigation in its refusal to provide those officials for interview. Steven boyd wrote this. Saying quote. The scope of the committees inquiry has not been deconflicted with special counsel muellers investigation. Therefore to protect the integrity of the special counsels investigation, well not be able to provide them for interviews at this time. The likelihood james comey will be facing investigation. It is clear much has changed in washington
To break bread and suck blood with the president. President trump had a taste of the sweet bipartisan nectar after making the debt ceiling deal with chuck and nannes while the idea of crossing a 60 vote Senate Threshold to make cuts longterm is intoxicating by working with the dems, swap and spit with the people who would trade kidneys and grandkids for a majority in either chamber to kickstart impeachment proceedings. Fans of the president think its a stroke of genius for him to torture his own party by having pillow fights with the opposition, but the president is in need of a win any, compromise is worth the interparty bad blood and spent capital. After a botched and Embarrassing Health care loss, the president cant rely on Republican Leadership to deliver something as crucial as tax reform and that leaves people posing the wrong what if . The question isnt what if the president fails on taxes with republicans . Its what if he succeeds with democrats . Theres not a donkey in washing