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the networks destructive project continues. >> in fact his case, he specifically didnt want any -- thats not a problem. >> tonight, the question -- legal exposure for so-called news channel that shared confidential biden campaign information with the trump white house. >> we put, you know, a different viewpoint, if you like. i was -- >> david wallace wells in the massive problem that the partisan mania over the origins of covid-19. >> were going to investigate the chinese virus. >> and...

taking partial responsibility saying it didnt act with enough urgency, but are there more bank failures ahead the incredible scene on a school bus as a brave seventh grader takes control after the driver passes out. politics embracing artificial intelligence a potentially useful tool, but will distortions of reality get even worse and giving kids with autism a powerful voice thats "inspiring america." >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt good evening, and w...

last while in the southeast at least seven tornadoes reported along with hail and flooding. the threat far from over. also tonight, the deadly collision of two army apache helicopters killing three soldiers and injuring another. dozens killed in ukraine, most at an apartment building, as russia launches its worst attack on civilians in months. our reporter is on the ground. inside the manhunt for two escaped inmates still on the run after a third is captured, and another found de...

Tom costello has been looking this new report over. tom, the fed essentially admitting it failed here. >> reporter: thats right. the fed says theres plenty of blame to go around in the failure of svb. it says first this is a textbook case of bank mismanagement, and in a mea culpa the fed said it also failed. government regulators did not understand the depth of the banks problems and were far too slow to react. one big issue, the feds very bureaucratic regulatory oversight system. the fed is now...

Question is, the regulatory regime both nationally and internationally in place on these labs maybe we -- should be taking another look at it. >> its lagging behind where the research is. its especially ranking behind parts of the world weather building new labs for the first time. the u.s. is in a slightly better place, erupts in a better place, but the truth is, globally, were gonna be doing much more this research, we want an integrated network and oversight system so we know exactly whats ha...

Things right and so it was the right thing to do to take it.— thing to do to take it. if you have this cross-party _ thing to do to take it. if you have this cross-party support, - thing to do to take it. if you have this cross-party support, why - thing to do to take it. if you have | this cross-party support, why not this cross—party support, why not get it openly before you actually try and change the system? to a certain extent you must be dismayed it has become this controversial? i am ...

Happen some time this week. it was largely a staff-driven interview. i was briefed by staff after the interview. its very clear that don mcgahn repeatedly said that the former president did not listen to his advice. were going to wait to see what the transcript shows, but i hope the department of justice takes a good look at it to see if the former president engaged in any acts that obstructed justice or violated any laws. its clear to me the president violated obstruction of justice. >> how imp...

Well. but what is to be gained? there are only a few weeks left in this congress before youve got a new session that begins in january. so what business could be tended to post his testimony in a matter of weeks? >> nothing. i think this is political grand standing, using the criminal justice system, in this case the oversight system sort of as the mechanism. i just think its wrong. i think that they have all they need to know about the clinton e-mail. i think america has all it needs to know ab...

When are they going to go to congress? when will they sort of tell the story about the gap between what he says and what the u.s. intelligence community tells him is true? >> well, the best way to get to that point, nicolle, is for our oversight system to work. that is to say two intelligence committees. they can call the community down, director coats, any other member of the intelligence community. gina haspel, and ask those questions. is what you are -- what are you telling the president. the...

United states intelligence community cannot protect sources from congress and that congress will out them and force the intelligence community to out them. he has also really taken a sledge hammer to the intelligence oversight system, which was built in the wake of watergate in order to prevent the intelligence community from running amok and abusing peoples civil liberties. if you dont have a functioning congressional intelligence oversight system, then what actually prevents the intelligence c...