the emergency, first responders and hundreds of water rescues. also breaking as we come on tonight, israel now launching dozens of air strikes on the southern gaza city of rafah. the israeli war cabinet approving plans to launch a ground attack. it all comes just as hamas now says it has agreed to a potential ceasefire, though different terms from what was offered in recent days. so, what both sides are saying at this hour. here at home tonight, the protests on college campuses over the war. tonight, columbia now canceling its main commencement ceremony. and more than 100 arrested in california. tonight, the news coming in, an american soldier has now been detained in russia. martha raddatz standing by with late reporting. tonight, the drama in court. president trump s criminal trial. the judge telling trump, the fines against him are not working, telling the former president, jail is now a possibility. the judge telling trump, at the end of the day, i have a job to
flooding. the emergency, first responders, and hundreds of water rescues. also breaking as we come on tonight, israel now launching dozen office air strikes on the southern gaza city of rafah. the israeli war cabinet approving plans to launch a ground attack. it all comes just as hamas now says it has agreed to a potential cease-fire, though different terms from what was offered in cent days. so, what both sides are now saying at this hour. here at home tonight, the protests on college campuses over the war. tonight, columbia now canceling its main commencement ceremony. and more than 100 arrested in california. tonight, the news coming in, an american soldier has been detained in russia. martha raddatz standing by with late reporting. tonight, the drama in court. president trump s criminal trial. the judge telling trump, the fines against him are not working. telling the former president, jail is now a possibility. the judge telling trump, at the end of the day, i ha
it gave no means of tracing this back to the source, but it had a lot of information in it about things that had been happening in trump tower. and it appeared to be from somebody inside the transition or inside trump tower who was concerned about what this person was seeing. and a lot of what s written or conveyed in this letter has sort of come become true over time. it s taken a while for a lot of this stuff to surface, including this detail about this discussion over a back channel or a private channel of communications with moscow. again i just want to i m trying to sort of bend over to read this as charitably as possible. so i mean is it possible that they were setting up lots of different back channels with lots of different foreign leaders? well, we don t i mean i suppose it s possible. clearly they were in communication and meeting with a lot of leaders, a lot of foreign leaders. most of them, as you point out,
were coming through the front door, not the back door
issues for the benefit and safety of the american people. by grandstanding and political sizing the investigation into russia s actions, james comey created unnecessary pressure on our ability to negotiate with russia. james comey is ready to break his silence, seming an invitation to testify in open session before the senate intelligence committee at some point after memorial day. let s go now to riyadh, saudi arabia, where nbc s kristen welker is traveling with the president today. in a few minutes, president trump will officially be welcomed by the saudi royals. what will that look like? reporter: well, this is going to take place at the royal court palace. it will include the first lady and then a little bit later on the president will have a bilateral meeting with king salman. this is a day that s going to be filled with pomp and circumstance and the president will be meeting with saudi and arab leaders. his goal is to have a bit of a
reset, to send the message he s not ant
refuse to share information about the islamic state with the united states. and official telling the post that trump revealed more information to the russian ambassador than we have shared with our own allies. nbc news has not confirmed the reports about the meeting. roughly an hour ago national security adviser h.r. mcmaster emerged from the white house to offer this denial. there s nothing that the president takes more seriously than the security of the american people. this story that came out tonight as reported is false. the president and the foreign minister reviewed a range of common threats to our two countries, including threats to civil aviation. at no time at no time were intelligence sources or methods discussed and the president did not disclose any military operations that were not already publicly known. two other senior officials who are present, including the secretary of state remember the
meeting the same way and have said that. their on the record accounts