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President. I was a speechwriter and i never got to attend the state dinners as a guess guest. I was under a lot of stress trying to make the toast but the ambience for the guests i think as far as i can tell its just fun. People are almost universally excited to be there. Im not trying to make this sound silly but it would be deal dishonest to say people dont enjoy this because there are a lot of usually wellknown people there. They have common interest generally for the visit and it is always i...

Speaking with the missing womans sister, amber. Reporter Oakland Police say they are treating this as a missing persons case. We spoke with sandra cokes sister who flew in from new jersey this afternoon. She suspects foul play. Reporter she reportedly told her teen daughter that she was meeting with someone who said she had found her dog. This king spaniel, it had been missing for over a month. Cokes daughter called police when she did not return home that night. She has a 15yearold daughter who...

The decision was to go forward. We have had decisions where it rains and we have the guy standing behind with the umbrella. But the weather is a call that is made the dayof the event in the two state dinners you were responsible for; were the inside the whitehouse or did you have the tent . For mexico we were inside for dinner and then outside for a tent where beyonce performed. For china, we had three tables in three different rooms and everything was inside the whitehouse your work is done by ...

John there are three ways to help people who need help, government can try to do it. Give people money, start programs. Charities do that too, and id say theyre better at teaching people how to help themselves. Theres the saying goes teach a man to fish. Then theres a third way, i think its the best way. Ill get to that later in the show. But first lets debate the first two. When i was in college, president Lyndon Johnson declared allout war on human poverty. He said for the first time in our hi...

And now john spos el. There are threeways to help people who need help. Government can try to do it give people money, start programs. Charities do that, too. They are better at teaching people how to sell teach a man to fish. Theres a third way the best way i will get to that later in the show. First lets debate the first two. When i was in college johnson declared an all out war for human poverty. I believe in them and then i watch his poverty programs create pore poverty. They spent trillions...

Respectful and safe as they can possibly be. Well, the Obama Administration now ordering Public Schools nationwide to let transgender students use whichever bathroom or locker room they want. Texas now resisting the white house directive accusing president obama of blackmail. Leland vitter is live. Reporter this is based on title 9 which bans gender discrimination, part of the Civil Rights Act in the 60s and 70s. If you read it, it talks a lot about sex discrimination or gepd gender disyim thacr...

And now there are conflicting reports as to whether or not trumps soninlaw Jared Kushner is the instigator. Lets go to sara murray, our cnn politics reporter. Sara murray, whats the scoop with Jared Kushner here . Its interesting because it depends on who you talk to. There are people who think this is Jared Kushners retribution, its his way of getting back at Chris Christie for throwing his father in jail when Chris Christie was a prosecutor. So thats a narrative going on but the other narrativ...

Showing girls they can do anything the boys can. Nightly news begins right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening to our viewers in the west. Hillside still scarred by summer fires in danger of sliding away this evening as the winddriven rains force hundreds to evacuate their homes. The water that along parts of droughtstricken california once prayed for now coming too fast in this historic season, triggering flooding....

For the week. Dallas has announced plans to open a mega shelter to accommodate 5,000 evacuees. Officials, charities, and hospitals working to get it open at the Kay Bailey Hutchison violation cent shelter at the latest. The governor of texas calling in 1,000 additional members of the National Guard to help flood victims. Across the country, several states and the u. S. Military sending emergency workers and equipment to texas where the work is only beginning. Femas going to be there for years. T...

Provocative reporting from abc news. Abc has this, i need to tell you that nbc news has not verified it. But what abc is reporting tonight is that the president s Campaign Chairman, Paul Manafort, abc says that hes in talks with prosecutors about not just potentially pleading guilty to some of the felony counts that hes charged with in washington, d. C. For which hes expected to go on trial starting next week, but abc is reporting that hes in talks with prosecutors and the special counsels offic...