Jesus resurrection. And, on this easter, a story of redemption. A man in robes is saving souls. Mr. Seeley is really a rock star, and there was no guarantee, frankly, that he would do as well as he has done. Ne begnaud good evening. Im david begnaud. They were in church on Easter Sunday when the bombs went off in sri lanka. There were eight explosions. It was a coordinated attack, hocording to authorities. Three churches and three Luxury Hotels were targeted. Most of the attacks were in the capitol of colombo. According to officials, more than 207 people had been killed, including several americans. More than 450 more had been wounded. 13 suspects had been arrested as of tonight. Elizabeth palmer has more. Reporter Sri Lankan Police arrested seven suspects just hours after the easter day tsmbings, following a raid that left three officers dead. One of the blasts at about 8 30 this morning was caught on cell phone. Up close, the carnage was apocking. The sri lankan Prime Minister appeal
Thats right, this is an eightpage subpoena, dana. It goes to not only the underlying records but the grand jury material by may 1. The reason that matters is because under federal rules of criminal procedure, grand your material must be kept secret, so congress is going to need a court order at this point. Separately, another committee, the chairman of the oversight committee, said impeachment is on the table. We may very welcome to that very soon. Right now, lets make sure that we understand what mueller was doing, understand what barr was doing and see the report and the unredacted form and all of the underlying documents. There appears to be a split on impeachment among democrats. Adam schiff seemed to back away from the idea. No schiff sound. Sorry about that. He says essentially the evidence has to be extremely graphic and also has to be overwhelming in terms of support across both sides of the aisle so that it would make it worth while. Meantime, the House Majority leader steny h
Shredder yes, sir. About our relations with broadcasts its special report tomorrow morning on the ukraine, particularly in law impeachment proceedings against pardon . Was there more than one . Enforcement. President trump, the first have we ever asked the ukrainians to investigate thos. Public impeachment hearings in no, sir. Anybody and and i told her, the impeachment proceedings and he asked where the big Paper Shredder is . Right. Well, catherine, there are two against president donald j. Did you ask him why he wanted to know . Ways of looking at that trump and when that nbc news no, sir, i didnt. I said its in there. Question. If there is a crime that was did he have anything with him . Committed in the United States and theres some nexus for us to special report tomorrow morning is anchored by lester holt from not at that time. He later came out and said how do you work it, and i said you have to take action, we have two press the button. Mechanisms for that. Nightly news and nbc
Fellow World Leaders there as well and they have a long list of world crises to deal with. One of the pressing issues, most pressing issues right now is the environment and the Climate Crisis were facing. Specifically, the french president wants the devastating wildfires burning in the amazon to be a priority. Nick paton walsh is joining us with the latest on the fires in the amazon in brazil. Nick, the last hour you gave us a really good scan of what the impact of the fires, the smoke in the air, what that looks like and described what it feels like. I wonder for the people who are with us at this hour you can tell us about that and what is changing at least, the suggestion from the brazilian president. Reporter well, look, let me run you through where were standing here. We are where close to 300 large fires are currently burning, the most afflicted states in all of brazil. Im going to show you what this has slightly got worse, the sun has kind of picked up in terms of visibility. Yo
And nbc news correspondent today show Host Chuck Todd from meet the press. Yes, were all part of the big happy family, but i cant tell you exactly what that nbc news special coverage is going to look like. That said, i can pretty much guarantee you it will not have a theme song as cool or as oddly ponderous and artistic as the way nbc news played its special theme song and leadin to the impeachment proceedings in 1973 for then president Richard Nixon. Because that was all covered with nbc news special reports, too. But have you seen this . This was they like developed a whole theme song. This was like the opening credits to the watergate hearings. Nbc news special report. Watergate. Senate hearings. Here from washington is nbc news correspondent. Good morning. This is the Senate Caucus room in washington, d. C. , and its jammed this morning. Jammed with spectators, newsman, senators and their aides. And the scene adds to the sense of drama as the senate opens with what is likely to bec