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Man who could be tasked with heading up the operations is one step closer to the pentagon. Ash carter is the pick to succeed hagel as the defense chief and isis dominated a large part of his Senate Confirmation hearing today. The strategy connects ends and means, and our ends with respect to isil needs to be the lasting defeat. In iraq the force that will keep them defeated is the Iraqi Security forces that is our strategy to strengthen them and make them that force on the syrian side, not to ta...

We have coverage tonight. Bernard goldberg is here, political analyst brit hume is here as well. But we begin tonight with Trace Gallagher on the breaking news. Trace . Megyn, in the memo debra turner said brian misrepresented events which occurred while he was covering the iraq war in 2003. It then became clear that on other occasions, brian had done the same while telling that story in other venues. Of course, williams first claimed he saw a chopper in front of him get hit by a rocketpropelled...

Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. We got the unfortunate news late this afternoon that former president jimmy carter has been diagnosed with cancer. The word comes just over a week after we learned the 90yearold carter had undergone what was described as an elective operation on his liver. But we were told in a Statement Today that the cancer has spread beyond. Well get the latest from nbcs pete williams. Reporter in ...

We have coverage tonight. Bernard goldberg is here, political analyst brit hume is here as well. But we begin tonight with Trace Gallagher on the breaking news. Trace . Megyn, in the memo debra turner said brian misrepresented events which occurred while he was covering the iraq war in 2003. It then became clear that on other occasions, brian had done the same while telling that story in other venues. Of course, williams first claimed he saw a chopper in front of him get hit by a rocketpropelled...

Momentarily on whats happening here with regard to this drone in a moment. First, any moment we expect to hear from the leaders of both french and russia. French president Francois Hollande has been meeting with russian president Vladimir Putin. Todays meeting with putin is the latest by hollande as he is pushing for a broader, more correlated International Support in the fight against isis. As you know, he was at the white house recaller this week and just yesterday meeting with the german chan...

Meeting with senator bob corker. Here to break it all done for us. Lets begin with phil mattingly. Phil . No shortage of republican officials who predicted a donald trump nomination would lead to an electoral wipeout, and with good reason. Hypotheticalical headtohead matchups that showed trump trailing by double digits. No more. A much tighter race and for a couple of primary reasons if you look deep into the numbers. That is, the Republican Party is coalesking behind the nominee. One that is an...

Bus station in tartus and another in the residential neighborhood of jabla. At least 78 people were killed. In fallujah, iraq, new exclusive video of the all out battle between isis fighters and Iraqi Security forces. Iraqs Prime Minister announcing the operation to liberate fallujah is under way and reportedly trapped inside the city and to the east near the pakistan and afghanistan border, new information about the death of Mohamed Mansour confirming he was in an air strike over the weekend an...

Could be choosing between the lesser of two evils in november, it might have democrats shaking their heads, the latest polling does show skyhigh negatives for both donald trump and Hillary Clinton. Thank you reporter Bernie Sanders coming out strong over the weekend against the head of the Democratic National committee, Debbie Wasserman chutes. In all due respect to the current chairperson, if elected president , she would not be reappointed to be chair of the dnc. Reporter sanders going as far ...

Doubledigit lead against donald trump. Both new polls also confirm that these two front runners are most liked candidates to run for the white house in the history of these kinds of favorability surveys. And as the gap between the frontrunners is tightening, brauns is hardening the stance to stay in the democratic race. More on senator sanders in just a moment. But first lets get straight to tom foreman to walk through the polls and so, so important especially seeing the difference between trump...

How can anybody lose money running a casino . Really. This as polls show trump surging ahead of clinton. The Washington Post abc news poll has trump ahead of clinton by two points. Thats within the margin of error. But heres the bottom line. An 11point swing in trumps favor since march. Another poll by nbc news also shows trump surging by eight points in the past month alone. That poll is also within the margin of error. And in that one, clinton leading by three points. This comes as trump in a ...