Smith coming before the cameras moments ago to make the announcement. The indictment also stsix unindi coconspirators. Who are they . Tonight the reac frrump as he once again runs for the white house in 2024. Our team In Washington and our legal analysts standing by. Also tonight, the Suspected Gilgo Beach Serial Killer making his first appearance in court. Victims Family Members inside the courtroom. The biggest wildfire in the u. S. This year exploding to more than 80,000 acres and producing firenados. The fight to contain it. The stabbing at a new york gas station that killed a gay professional dancer. The death being investigated as a hate crime. The teen police are searching for. And the extraordinary legacy of Henrietta Lacks. More than 70 years after her cells were kndge, leading to her historic breakthroughs leading to settlement for her family. This is Nbc Nightly News with lester holt. Good evening and thank you for joining us. Donald trumps legal jeopardy became much more se
distinguished supreme court practitioner, laurence tribe. harvard historian, yell historian, and of course on this important night we are fortunate to hear from to law professors who are also practitioners, andrew weissmann, and neal katyal. neil katyal is of course a distinguished supreme court practitioner, having argued 50 cases before the court, and andrew weissmann is a former federal prosecutor and justice department official. my mission therefore in this hour is to get out of the way so that you can hear from them and not me. but i, want to take a minute to begin with two things that may reside more in the category of pet peeves than scholarly discussion that you are about to hear from our guests. one is that clarence thomas should ve recused himself from this case because everyone on that bench today knew, clarence thomas s wife was there. she was there, she was present when donald trump incited engaged in insurrection. the essence of our case is president trump s o
welcome to hannity . busy monday ni t. exas the border showdown in texas that is heating up. it is now a constitutionals heal crisis and a national security crisis. and governor greg abbott, . he s not backing down. he will join us with the very latestl join. plus, the possible senate border deal would be a disaste r for the country. we re going to tell you why w every republican senator should. be strongly opposed to it. but first, american soldiers abroadbut fi are under attack. three brave members of the u.s. army were killed and we had, what, over w 40 more injured ina drone attack on a base in jordan yesterday. one official is now saying that the drone evaded u.s. defenses because it was mistaken for an american drone. well, that begs the question, what s going on with our military? we know our defense secretar h ouyow our defense secretar spent days in the icu, that the commander in chief had no knowledge of it at all. now, there are three soldiers dead because of d
to make sense of the latest news that burst out this weekend. everybody in the world trying to figure out whether russia may be falling apart again, whether vladimir putin may be teetering at long last after 23 years of n increasingly consolidated, increasingly dictatorial power in russia. david remnick will be joining us live on that story in a moment. we are also keeping eyes tonight on our own supreme court where in the midst of their own serious and expanding ethics scandals among conservative justices on the court, that court is nevertheless expected to issue yet another round of hard right, very controversial,e possibly very unpopular rulings. we ve got more on that ahead tonight ahead of what is expected to be a big day at the court tomorrow. we are also watching one rr particular federal court in south florida. tonight the trump appointed judge who will apparently be tr overseeing the federal criminal trial of former president trump issued an order about witnesses in
for joining me this evening. the last time the republicans had a contested presidential primary was the year 2016. and no it seemed sort of impossible to imagine now the party was kind of divided about trump s victory all the way to the convention floor, and you saw that no more clearly than when senator ted cruz went to the podium in a prime time speaking slot, i might add, and refused to mention trump s name during his convention speech. and boy, oh, boy did people notice. if you love our country and love your children as much as i know that you do, stand and speak and vote your conscience. vote for candidates up and down the ticket who you trust to defend our freedom. god bless each and every one of you, and god bless the united states of america. prior to that moment, before all those just deafening boos, ted cruz and donald trump had been going at each other for months. relations between these two men were not good. trump regularly went after ted cruz s family during