Nightly news begins right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening, everyone and good evening to our viewers in the west and thank you for being with us tonight. Isis is now claiming credit for a bomb attack on a suburban london subway as the uk braces for yet another possible hit. Late this evening, the threat level therell advocated to critical. Its highest level meaning another attack is considered imminent. More than two dozen people were injured in britains fifth terror attack of the year when the homemade device only partially detonated. Tonight there is an all out effort to find who did it. Nbcs Kelly Cobiella has details from london. Reporter a massive manhunt on for the person that sent wall of fire and panic through the london subway, and multiple senior Law Enforcement officials briefed on the investigation say a suspect has now been identified. The fire ball just engulfed the whole jeep carriage. The
Society. Theres no reason that a kid, 19 years old thats been investigated already and not even a year ago, being a i believe to purchase a ar15. It starts with the politicians, i believe it starts with the nra. I want us to take action, i dont want this to be just another mass shooting, i want it to be the last mass shooting. President trump made a reference to the shooting but did not make a reference to gun laws. House speaker ryan putting any brakes on that kind of talk. What you dont do is knee jerk and say lets just take away a citizens rights. This is not a time to jump to conclusions, right now i think we need to take a breath and collect the facts. Other lawmakers say we have the facts, lets act. How many School Shootings do we need in a given year . So im here to say, mr. Chairman, please lets take some action. We cannot see this continue on. Senator cornyn brought this up to me and the three of us are going to sit down and talk about this. President obama, who saw 12 Mass Sh
Assembled. We have a lot of smart people. I tell you what, one thing weve learned, we have by far the highest iq of any cabinet ever. There are those that are saying its one of the finest group of people ever assembled as a cabinet. Were very proud of it. We have a Phenomenal Team of people, a great group of talent. Since then though, the president has fired or forced out more than half a dozen of those people he was including in that praise. Yesterday, President Trump announced the firing of va secretary David Shulkin. He did this through a tweet. I am pleased to announce that i intend to nominate admiral Ronny Jackson m. D. As the new secretary of veterans affairs. I am thankful to dr. David shulkins service to our country. Dr. Jackson who has no Management Experience will be tacked with fixing the governments second Largest Agency plagued with scandals. According to the New York Times trump feels more job that he understands the job of president and relying on his own instincts putt
This is the cbs evening news with jeff glor. Glor this is our western edition. We begin tonight with a high power, highprofile addition to the president s personal legal team. He is rudy giuliani, whose resume includes u. S. Attorney for the Southern District of new york. The hiring of giuliani comes as allies of the president are concerned another of his personal lawyers, Michael Cohen, could flip. Major garrett is at the white house. City mayor and longtime trump e pporter says he is joining the president s legal team to help thd the russia investigation. In an interview with the washington post, giuliani said, i hope we can negotiate an end to this for the good of the country. This is a hoax. Reporter just yesterday, the unesident again denounced special counsel Robert Muellers work. We are hopefully coming to the end. It is a bad thing for our country, very, very bad thing for our country. R t there has been no collusion. E reporter the president r wnplayed the likelihood he would
Already volatile situation worse. In and Ominous Press briefing today it, Sarah Huckabee sanders today said multiple times that the president does have the power to fire Robert Mueller. Do you believe he has the power to fire special counsel Robert Mueller. Certainly believes he has the power to do so. I know a number of individuals in the Legal Community including at the department of justice said he has the power to do so but i dont have any further announcements. Theyve said its Rod Rosenstein oversees the special al and only he has the power. Weve been advised the president certainly has the power to make that decision. I cant go anything beyond that. The New York Times is reporting during the raid of cohens office, the fbi agents were looking for records about payments to two women who calculated they had affairs with mr. Trump and information related to the publisher of the National Enquirers role in silencing one woman including the payment to Stormy Daniels and the payment made