terry moran and cecilia vega standing by. record holiday travel heading into the fourth of july, possibly one of the busiest in decades. hundreds of pilots on the picket lines demanding higher pay. thousands of flights cancelled last weekend. nearly 50 million americans driving or flying. we ll tell you the worst times to be on the road. tracking severe weather over the holiday weekend. damaging winds and hail in the northeast from philadelphia to new york to boston. and the tropical threat in the gulf taking aim at texas and louisiana. rob marciano timing it out. the abc news exclusive. jonathan karl one-on-one with congresswoman liz cheney. defending the bombshell testimony from former white house aide cassidy hutchinson. sources telling abc news she was one of the witnesses that told the january 6th committee about being pressured by donald trump s allies to protect the former president. the case making national headlines. authorities arresting the fugitive suspect
hook parents for calling the massacre a hoax. also tonight, four current and former officers now facing federal civil rights charges for the raid that killed breonna taylor. what the justice department alleges they did. the biden administration declaring monkeypox a public health emergency. what it means for the federal response. the record-shattering heat. nearly 80 million on alert. al roker is standing by. the new twist in a nearly 40-year-old cold case. he spent decades in prison for a murder he didn t commit. who authorities have now charged. and the nfl preseason kicking off on nbc. why tonight s game head coaches. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, everyone, from las vegas, where i m attending a gathering of black and hispanic journalists. we start tonight in moscow, where american pro basketball star brittney griner was sentenced today to nine years in a russian prison. the sentence coming right after the court pronounc
they said they wanted to come home safely and share their military skills with other fighters. the news continues. let s go over to laura. thank you, anderson. i am laura coates and this is cnn tonight. it seems that everyone told trump that the emperor had no clothes on, even behind closed doors but the vice president counsel, the vice president, they all told him that the plan to have vice president mike pence not certify the election was an american. in the words of the prosecutor, illegal. even the top prosecutor, attorney general bill barr could not support the play to stay in office. tonight we have two former attorneys general here. both are going to give us their take on whether the emperors wardrobe might be treated for prison guard. it is being watched very closely and we are wondering what his predecessors think and what might they have done differently. day three has had quite a theme. it is called pressure. persistent, relentless, unyielding pressure. all targe
then, you said at some point, there was a telephone conversation between the president and the vice president? is that correct? yes. when i entered the office, the second time, he was on the phone with who i later found out to be the vice president. did you hear the vice president, or only hear the president s end? only hear the president s end. it was a calmer tone and then became heated. the conversation was pretty heated. did you hear any part of the phone call? like the end of the president. as i was drops off the note, i remember hearing the word wimp. e called him a wimp. i don t remember him saying you will be a wimp. it s been reported that the president said to the vice president, something to the effect of you don t have the courage to make a hard decision. i remember it was something like that, yeah. being not tough enough to make the call. the wording is wrong. i made the wrong decision four or five years ago. the word that the president call