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committee member jamie raskin said thats the moment that trump became the first president in american history to call for a protest against the peaceful transfer of power. >> we expect the committee to try to link this to extremist groups mobilizing around january 6. also, the committee has suggested they will probe possible links between trumps circle and some of the extremist groups. one of the witnesses today, stephen ayres, a convicted rioter. also a former spokes keeper for the oa...

an urgent appeal is launched to help the millions of people affected by the flooding in pakistan. water levels are rising. the south korean government promises to ban seouls basement apartments — after severe flooding kills people and traps thousands in their homes. and fans of serena williams are still celebrating, after she knocked out the number two seed at the us open. hello and welcome to the programme. a team of un inspectors in the ukrainian town of zaporizhzhia have begun the...

inch closer to a legislative victory. after hours of debate they are voting on the glacier production act. it would be the largest reduction in climate in u.s. history, i would also lower the cost of prescription drugs for millions of americans, among other things. earlier today millions of americans join us on msnbc to discuss the significance. >> vote after vote after vote, we have done this. 11 hours straight. why? because we know this bill is finally going to do something about cli...

views as the biden administration working to hit him with criminal charges, or even put him and his people in prison." according to the justice departments office of legal counsel, a sitting president cannot be charged with a federal crime. now, the same is not true for a prosecution at a state level. however, that would possibly go to the supreme court. lets bring in the host of "way too early" and white house bureau chief at "politico," jonathan lemire. former staff for hillary clint...

lucas pom tom lynnson at the white house -- tomlinson, and virginia republican lieutenant governor winsome sears. welcome, everybody, im neil cavuto and happy weekend. so far a happy and, thus far, calm weekend after the supreme courts historic 6-3 decision to essentially gut roe v. wade. lets go to alexandria hoff at the supreme court with how things are looking there. >> reporter: hi, neil. yeah, a few more protesters have arrived over past hour, several dozen now with chants breakin...

move closer to shore what you can do to avoid what lies beneath. >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt good evening im tom llamas in for lester tonight we begin with breaking news massive ground stops and delays across some of the countrys biggest airports, making the holiday travel chaos even more complicated. a difficult summer travel season is now going from challenging to worse before the severe weather even moved in, americans facing a rare combination of hig...

swing the election to the former president. this is what it looked like in michigan back in december when those fake electors actually showed up at the state house and tried to talk their way past police. >> the electors are here. theyve been checked in. >> were electors. were electors. >> all 16 electors are inside. the elector college has been checked. >> but these are the rest of the electors. >> he said the rest of the electors. theres no such thing. it may seem ludicrous watching ...

>> these are the rest of the electors. >> the rest of the electors? there is no such thing. it may seem ludicrous watching that. the testimony that we will hear more of tomorrow, this was part of a multi-scheme for the president to overturn the election. its unprecedented. some members of a january 6 committee. he said he received at his home. addressed to his wife had mentioned how she and her husband and their child would be executed. the division of whats to come in the politics and...

but unlike the new american president, this guy had been ruling his country for 40 infamous years. >> his excellency, more market duffy, leader of the revolution, president of the african revolution, king of kings of africa. >> gaddafi raged on for 95 minutes and eight seconds, a diatribe against the wind from a jumble of handwritten notes, waving a copy of the un charter and then pretending to wrap it up. >> it should not be called the security council. it should be called the terror ...

new american leader was making his first appearance at the annual united nations general assembly. president barack obama was just eight months into his first term, and the un meeting was his big debut on the global diplomatic stage he and his secretary of state, hillary clinton, were greeted warmly by american allies as they announced a more cooperative approach to international affairs as opposed to the with us or against us attitude of the prior administration. president obama was n...