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condition. several football players among them a campus in mourning tonight. dennis rodman telling nbc news he's going to russia to help bring brittney griner home. the former basketball star has played a role in international diplomacy before the nationwide teacher shortage and how some school districts are dealing with it. kids in classrooms but the teachers are remote. and they were a secret weapon during world war ii now, finally being honored. we're with the last of the navajo code talkers. >> this is nbc "nightly news" with kate snow. >> good evening. in a part of the cou...

One that carry birds around >> this looks like you in uniform, in your marine corps uniform ingenious, the code unbreakable, but it was at first rejected by marine top brass. but after a test -- >> he said, we don't understand it either, but it works send us some more navajos. >> reporter: navajos who had been forced to attend strict boarding schools, whose purpose was to strip them of their heritage, their spirit you went to indian school when you were small, and did they punish you for speaking your language >> absolutely. >> reporter: the code talkers' success, a cruel paradox. peter's daug...

Couple of days there's a new controversy that breaks another norm. and he's really redefining the presidency. and he has had some highs, you know, neil gorsuch to the supreme court but an awful lot of lows. and, you know, to single one out, look at charlottesville and just how much his comments there about both sides really -- really divided this country in a pretty horrible way. >> and it's funny. i asked all of you before the show for highs and lows. the other high we were talking before the show, joy, it was the saving the -- the sparing of the elephants. >> not murdering elephants. >> not ...

Day. but, again, it was totally uncalled for in regards to mentioning pocahontas in this setting, especially in the fact that it had nothing to do with this gathering. this was all about honoring the code talkers, and rightly so. >> sonny, one more question. >> please zblie read that you want americans to know the proud history of native americans and their service to this country. and you say that the native people of america have voluntarily served with honor by per capita in larger numbers than any other race in america, in every conflict in defense of this country, we did not stoop to clai...

Portrait? >> i'm not sure that -- and it isn't up to me to infer whether or not that was intentional or not intentional. that portrait has been sitting there since, you know, january i believe when he put it up there. it does concern me that we don't consciously think about what, you know, what that inference could make to native americans and certainly this whole event was about honoring the code talkers, the last of the 20 that may be alive. >> and there was a great deal to honor there. such heros. what about the white house claim that what people should really be offended by are elizabeth w...