Americas news headquarters, im eric sean. Hi, arthel. Arthel hi, eric, happy fathers day and happy fathers day to all the fathers listening right now. I am arthel neville, so while the president was speaking inside the arena, peaceful and rather uneventful protests were underway outside with some disturbances as the president hit familiar themes blasting democrats and joe biden and using recent events to highlight whats at stake in november. Americans have watched leftwing radicals burn down buildings, loot businesses, destroy private property; injured hundreds of dedicated police officers, they want to demolish our heritage so they can impose their new oppressive regime in its place, they wanted to fund and dissolve our police department, think of that. Arthel casey steigel, downtown right now. Reporter the cleanup has begun, we started to see the tents go down in addition to the barriers and all of the temporary fencing that was put up. The president spoke for about an hour and 45 mi
Nightly news begins right now. From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. Im kate snow in for lester tonight. Four weeks from today, President Trump will officially take the oath of office. But in the past several days, the president elect has inserted himself into high profile and controversial Foreign Policy issues. Today he went even further than his previous comments about nuclear weapons, and we learned that trump made a phone call to egypts president last night after the Israeli Government asked trump to weigh in on a u. N. Resolution involving israel. All of it breaking with past protocol for a president in waiting and angering the obama administration. We begin tonight with our chief affairs correspondent, andrea mitchell. Reporter even as Vladimir Putin was ruling out an arms race in a marathon fourhour news conference, donald trump was saying, let there be an arms race in an offcamera call. The president elect told y
Carson for housing and urban development n. A moment, we will play for you one of the more Heated Exchanges from that hearing between dr. Ben carson and senator Elizabeth Warren, democrat, of the commonwealth of massachusetts. Some highlights, though, from the other two hearings that have a military and intelligence, slash, National Security bent. The headline by one way of viewing them is that both nominees, mattis and pompeo are way out ahead of donald trump, the president elect. That is to say, a much more traditional view of u. S. russia policy and u. S. putin policy. Looking at the quotes i have wrich down from general mattis on the subject of putin, first of all, senator mccain started off by saying putin will never be our partner. General mattis said of russia, they are an adversary. There are an increasing number of areas where we are going to have to confront russia. He said, they are trying to break the nato alliance. Pompeo agreed that the Senior Leadership of russia was gui
You. That means to mock you. To taunt you. And to give us strong repent. That is what we are here for. This building right here is the one place that a woman in the state of mississippi can get an abortion. These people out here show up every day to harass women going in there. That means it has to be one of the hardest days of a womans life. These people show up to make it that much harder. This week in the united shades of america, we are in jackson, mississippi. Talking about reproductive rights, reproductive justice, childbirth, Sex Education and Womens Health overall. We are also talking about this. You spit on the cross and you hate god. No matter what side of the issue you are on, we have to agree this is totally [ bleep ] up. I dont throw it around. I get one. Do you believe in punishment for abortion. There has to be a form of punishment. To the woman . Yeah. People worry about access to abortion. In the two years he has been president , you were right to worry. Carry on, worr