Nightly news begins right now. From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. Im kate snow in for lester tonight. Four weeks from today, President Trump will officially take the oath of office. But in the past several days, the president elect has inserted himself into high profile and controversial Foreign Policy issues. Today he went even further than his previous comments about nuclear weapons, and we learned that trump made a phone call to egypts president last night after the Israeli Government asked trump to weigh in on a u. N. Resolution involving israel. All of it breaking with past protocol for a president in waiting and angering the obama administration. We begin tonight with our chief affairs correspondent, andrea mitchell. Reporter even as Vladimir Putin was ruling out an arms race in a marathon fourhour news conference, donald trump was saying, let there be an arms race in an offcamera call. The president elect told y
Backed away from their call to reject a temporary funding bill without a law to help the socalled dreamers. Well, the bill passed today will fund the government through february 8th in exchange for a commitment from Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell to take up the immigration debate, including the dreamers. Well, this morning mcconnell gave this assurance on the senate floor. As long as the government remains open, it would be my intention to take up legislation here in the senate that would address daca, border security, and related issues. Well, a few hours later senator Chuck Schumer, the democratic leader said democrats would vote to reopen the government. Here he goes. I expect the majority leader to fulfill his commitment to the senate, to me and to the Bipartisan Group and abide by this agreement. If he does not, of course, and i expect he will, he will have breached the trust of not only the democratic senators, but members of his own party as well. Well, despite the fact
Around. That shows you a little bit of a sense of the sri lankan capital on edge after the devastating series of terror attacks hitting three Catholic Churches across the country. And three Luxury Hotels here in col colombo. The police found 87 detonators in a bus station here in the last couple of hours. When the Police Conducted a raid of a suspicious location yesterday after the initial blast, there were more explosions on sunday afternoon killing three Police Officers. People are nervous. Our kour few will go into effect at 8 00 p. M. Social media access was shut down to prevent rumor mare yoru and un substantiasubstantiated. You mentioned the memo shared between departments warning from information received from a foreign intelligence Cerebral Palsy vis of the threat of terrorist attacks against Catholic Churches and the Indian High Commission here. Thats been confirmed by senior government officials calling for an investigation saying it is an example of negligence and incompeten
Over his financial records. And also, his seething anger continuing over the Mueller Report. And if there was any question if its top of mind for him still today, the president then just tweeted this. Only high crimes and misdemeanors can lead to impeachment. There were no crimes by me, no collusion, no obstruction, so you cant impeach. Like many things in the day following the reports release, that is not exactly what the report said. Lets get over to Kaitlan Collins at the white house for us today. Lets begin. What is this legal battle now between the president and House Democrats . This is a big new development. Its essentially the president and his businesses are now suing the House Oversight committee chairman, elijah cummings, because they want to block his efforts to get the president s financial records. Now, at the center of all this is this Accounting Firm the president used for several years to prepare his financial statements. The House Oversight committee sent them a reque
Is terrible. This is the end of my presidency. Im fd, using a curse word. On page after page, Robert Mueller details the many ways the president tried to make it all go away, including rid of the special counsel. He documents orders that the president gave such as to fire mueller which his subordinates did not carry out, but would have turned the white house politically radioactive. At least three people working for president declined potentially damaging directives from the president. Sometimes they said they would do it and just they didnt, hoping the president would forget about it, despite having the greatest memory what he had asked them to do. There is also much in muellers 448page document on episodes he and others reported on at the time, where the administration characterized as fake news. Funny some of those same people are under oath, they confirmed the fake news was real. Sarah sanders made up facts about why comey was fired and under oath admitted she was, in the words of