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inspiring america. >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt good evening, everyone forecasters are using terms like "heat dome" and "atmospheric rivers" to describe what is driving extreme weather conditions across the country tonight, from dangerous rain and flooding to crippling heat many will see triple-digit highs in fact over the course of the next seven days, over 250 million americans can expect temperatures 90 or hotter. and while drought-stricken parts of the west can't seem to buy a drop of rain, too much of it has fallen in montana and wyoming. it's been...

releasing damning new testimony from an attorney in trump's white house. in a tease of sorts for next week's hearing watch this -- >> in our next hearing on thursday, the select committee will examine president trump's relentless effort on january 6th and in the days beforehand to pressure vice president pence to refuse to count lawful electoral votes. as a federal judge has indicated, this likely violated to federal criminal statutes. >> to. and that's heating up the comment, the committee's newest bombshell, a portion of the deposition from former white house lawyer, eric herschman...

Work to just six of its employees, according to u.s. house subcommittee report released today. why do you think that covid spending at that time was so out of control? >> it's just, we did not have effective enforcement of the oversight procedures that congress put in place. >> the economic injury disaster loan problem, known as eidl has previously been under scrutiny, as the small business inspector general told lester. >> it largely relied on an honor system. >> -- have already hue some borrowers to [inaudible] cryptocurrency and test. let's now, are looking closer at -- describe -- 20% of t...

And senator leahy worked very hard on that. 702 has proven its worth. courts have upheld it. it has one of the most rigorous oversight procedures that -- of any act that i think in existence today. and it enables us to focus on terrorists s abroad and identif those who could be threats to u us. >> now that we have that in place, the fbi, for example, is able to search limited 702 collections subject to minimumization procedures using u.s. person data to help connect the dots. if congress were to impose a warrant requirement on assessing information obtained through so-called u.s. person querie...

It was one of the most intense times i've ever seen this committee do. 702 has proven its worth. courts have upheld it. it has the most rigorous oversight procedures that -- of any act i think in the existence today. and it enables us to focus on terrorists abroad and to identify those who could be threats to us. >> now that we have that in place, the f.b.i., for example, is able to search limited 702 collections subject to minimization procedures using u.s. personal data to help connect the dots. question, if congress were to impose a warrant requirement on assessing information obtained thro...