same-sex marriage, too. and the first gun legislation passed in years. now on its way to the president biden s desk and our nbc news exclusive, one-on-one with ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy. his message about the americans captured while fighting in ukraine. what he is now vowing to do. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, everyone where do privacy and personal freedom begin, and where do they end questions that framed an enduring divide in modern american, one many thought was settled nearly 50 years ago when the supreme court affirmed the constitutional right to an abortion today, the court answered that question again, this time in a 5-4 vote taking away what was regarded as a fundamental right. right now, new laws banning abortion are taking effect in several states, just hours after the court overturned the landmark roe versus wade decision leaving it to states to determine whether abortion is legal. justice samuel alito
and we start the fourth hour of morning joe with the january 6 select committee holding the final public hearing before the july 4th recess and there were plenty of fireworks and a lot of drama. top officials from the justice department described then president donald trump s relentless obsessive efforts to persuade doj officials to join him in a plat to overturn the 2020 election results by just saying the election was corrupt and essentially act as an extension of his campaign. riveting testimony came from trump s former acting attorney general jeffrey rosen. his deputy richard donahue and steven engel. how often did president trump contact you or the department to push allegations of election fraud? so, between december 23rd and january 3rd, the president either called me or met with me virtually every day. so the common element of all of this was the president expressing his dissatisfaction that the justice department in his view had not done enough to investiga
this is today in the bay streaming live on roku, amazon fire, apple tv, and online one good morning to you. thank you for allowing us to be part of your morning. i m marcus washington. i m laura garcia. let s start with a look at the forecast. we would get to mike in a bit. warm one today but this will be the last for the week. we will start to cool off. yesterday was the hottest day of the week so were starting to see progress toward more comfortable therefore inland areas. as we take a a look outside in san jose. it s a clear start with temperatures in the upper 50s. we will see a lot of sunshine. yesterday at this time we did have clouds. it will be a warm afternoon reaching 84, but that s normal for this time of year. 91, livermore. 96, fairfield. upper 60s near the coast. we will talk about the cooler air coming in. good morning, mike. house looking for the commute? good morning. the commute is looking great. let s take you to the maps. contra costa county had a
the kind of strawberry we ve now learned is behind that hepatitis a outbreak is it in your kitchen? and this memorial day, we travel the country. the sights and sounds honoring our heroes, the men and women we will never forget. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening while this memorial day is an occasion for fun, relaxation, and remembrance, for 21 families in uvalde, texas, this marks the beginning of what will be an unimaginably painful week a funeral services for all those lives lost begin to take place. yesterday the president and first lady spent hours with the families, pledging to make sure the pain they are experiencing will lead to progress and change today, however, we are learning more about what exactly happened after the shooter arrived at the school, what law enforcement did and didn t do. plus the spotlight growing on the school s police chief who was in charge at the time and now we ve confirmed that the u.s. department of j
seaborne russian oil are significant. they underline the european chief said they will cut 90% of europe s russian oil imports by december. the discussion of some interim status for ukraine on the way to being a full member of the european union is important. i wish they would find some speedy transition plan but it is not there. so, they re trying to find ways to keep faith with ukraine and in a period where i think the pressure on ukraine is growing. i think your right to express some concern about europe. they ve got their own economic troubles and political splits. but this last weekend that they held together more strongly than i might have feared. i was going to say, pretty remarkable that they held together even pulled hungary along when they had to know this inflation number was coming out. they have the same problem on the other side with nato. but do you remain optimistic like so many observers that when it comes to nato, turkey, at the end, will back down and a