Welcome to the program. We begin tonight with north koreas missile test and the ongoing global cybersoo attack. Joining me are david sanger and ben rhodes. The North Koreans are just stepping up their Testing Program an theyre stepping it up in the most interesting way. So their biggest concern is not doing something that would prompt President Trump to take some kind of preem tiff military action or something that would so horrify the International Community that it would actually unify everybody on the saks. And that would be dropping the icbm just off the west coast or something. So instead theyre doing a series of tests that are going high up into space. This one went 2,000 kilometers, 1400 miles. And then its doing a very short parabel and coming down it landed 400 or so miles from the north korean coast. So that replicates the reentry of an icbm. So theyre putting together the component pieces of what it would take to demonstrate that they could send a missile much further, witho
Were live at the white house. Surprise loss. Chris cornell, a driving force in grunge rock, dies unexpectedly. Black hole sun wont you come the soundgarden lead singers death following a concert in detroit. His family and fans shocked. An investigation underway. And concussion controversy. Nfl star tom brady facing serious questions this morning after this revelation from his wife giselle bundchin. He had a concussion last year. He has concussions. But the nfl has no record of them. Did the patriots quarterback hide injuries to stay on the field . The nfl saying it wants answers today, thursday, may 18th, 2017. From nbc news this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today. 7 00 on the west coast on a thursday morning. Savannah will join us in just a couple of minutes, but we want to start with this breaking news. Roger ailes, the man who started fox news and then built it into a lucrative powerhouse b
Lesson in friendship playing out at recess, nightly news begins right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. We heard directly from President Trump late today about the on slot of headlineslot of headline slot of headlines battering the white house this week. In a brief news conference, the president saying yesterdays appointment with special counsel to take over the russia investigation is a witch hunt that divides the country. And he offered an emphatic no when asked whether the former fbi director comey knew about National Security advisor Michael Flynn. We get details from chief White House Correspondent hallie jackson. Reporter tonight, new reaction to the special counsel taking over the russia investigation. I respect the move but the entire thing is a witch hunt and there is no collusion between certainly myself and my campaign, but i can [000 01 59;00] russians, zero. I think it divides the country.
Fight terrorism, but how . We sat down with mr. Trumps secretary of Defense James Mattis in his first formal interview since taking the job. We are going to move in an accelerated and reinforced manner, throw them on their back foot. Dickerson and the secretary thoughts about the threats from north korea. It would be a catastrophic war if this turns into combat. Dickerson we will have a report from iraq and we will look at another war with filmmaker ken burns who will preview his upcoming project the war in vietnam. Plus the president returns to new questions about soninlaw Jared Kushners contacts with the russians. And his own effort to influence the investigation. We will have plenty of analysis on all of the news coming up on face the nation. Good morning and welcome to face the nation t i am john dickerson. We begin with an update on the war in terror as iraqi force ms. Continue their final push to get isis out of mosul, our Charlie Dagata is on the front lines and filed this repor
Fight terrorism, but how . We sat down with mr. Trumps secretary of Defense James Mattis in his first formal interview since taking the job. We are going to move in an accelerated and reinforced manner, throw them on their back foot. Dickerson and the secretary thoughts about the threats from north korea. It would be a catastrophic war if this turns into combat. Dickerson we will have a report from iraq and we will look at another war with filmmaker ken burns who will preview his upcoming project the war in vietnam. Plus the president returns to new questions about soninlaw Jared Kushners contacts with the russians. And his own effort to influence the investigation. We will have plenty of analysis on all of the news coming up on face the nation. Good morning and welcome to face the nation t i am john dickerson. We begin with an update on the war in terror as iraqi force ms. Continue their final push to get isis out of mosul, our Charlie Dagata is on the front lines and filed this repor