a any gateways opened. reporter: today s ban will not affect the liquid flavors for thc, the active ingredient in marijuana that researchers believe may be connected to the exploding number of illnesses and deaths, lester tom, thank you. for president trump the start of the year will be largely consumed by the impeachment process as democrats and republicans try to end their stalemate over the senate trial to come as hallie jackson reports, new documents are fueling democrats demands. reporter: democrats tonight are seizing on newly unredacted documents about what s at the heart of the president s impeachment. that freeze on military aid to ukraine. emails viewed by nyu law school blog just security show tensions between a pentagon staffer and the office of management and budget over the freeze. the documents, according to the report contain an email from a top omb official ultimately citing the president, saying there was a clear direction from him to continue the hold. whi
that s tonight s last word. the 11th hour with brian williams starts now. tonight trump storms out of a shutdown meeting with democrats and whether it was genuine anger or a straight up political stunt, tomorrow brings his photo op visit to the southern border. in the meantime your federal government remains shut down. rod rosenstein leaving the justice department but a source close to the deputy a.g. tells abc news he won t leave the mueller investigation high and dry. and tonight new reporting on the counterassault. the white house legal team and their plan to fight back against what s about to be an exploding number of investigations. all of it as the 11th hour gets under way on a wednesday night. and good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 720 of the trump administration. day 19 of the government shutdown. and there is no sign of a way out as talks collapsed again today.
tonight trump storms out of a shutdown meeting with democrats and whether it was genuine anger or a straight up political stunt, tomorrow brings his photo op visit to the southern border. in the meantime your federal government remains shut down. rod rosenstein leaving the justice department but a source close to the deputy a.g. tells abc news he won t leave the mueller investigation high and dry. and tonight new reporting on the counterassault. the white house legal team and their plan to fight back against what s about to be an exploding number of investigations. all of it as the 11th hour gets under way on a wednesday night. and good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 720 of the trump administration. day 19 of the government shutdown. and there is no sign of a way out as talks collapsed again today. tomorrow the president travels to the u.s.-mexico border to make his case once again for a wall, or what he now refers to as a barrier of steel sla
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international gathering and that means protesters. groups or individuals with something to say always seek out these events and the television cameras that cover them. we want to go straight now to chicago. paul, tell me about this domestic terrorist sceting that netted some potential troublemakers? reporter: what happened was authorities here in chicago have arrested three young suspects, all of them 20-somethings. they brought them into court today after arresting them wednesday and they re accusing them of a vast conspiracy. in fact, they say they were going to get molotov cocktails or fire bombs and perhaps throw them at barack obama s campaign headquarters. the mayor s home, rahm emanuel s, and also throw these fire bombs at police targets. very serious allegations. let s hear what authorities have to say. the individuals that we have charged in this investigation are not peaceful protesters. they are domestic terrorists who came to chicago with an anarchist agenda t