battlegrounds. north korea s new escalation, firing an icbm after launching 23 missiles in a single day. is a nuclear warhead test coming? u.s. officials visiting wnba star brittney griner in a russian prison. what the white house is saying about the stalled effort to free her. and the ace superstar kyrie irving and the firestorm over anti-semitism, after calls to suspend him, what the league commissioner is saying now. the faa flooded with complaints about shrinking airline seats. the mounting pressure to take action. and the jaw-dropping photo bomb. the photographer speaking out about this scary close encounter. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening. breaking news as we come on the air tonight. word that paul pelosi, the victim of a brutal hammer attack at the hands of a home intruder has been released from a san francisco hospital. his release coming just days after the office of house speaker nancy pelosi revealed he faced a lo
his lawyers mistakenly sent years, years of his texts to the oppose counsel. oops. we begin tonight with samuel alito. the supreme court justice who played partisan god or at least thought he could when he authored the majority opinion that overruled roe. now we imagine today was a hard day for justice alito, but, no, we don t feel especially badly for him. remember, he s the one who cited in his opinion a 17th century jurist who supported marital rape and witch burning so it shouldn t surprise us at all that alito in the first public appearance gloetd over making women suffer and mocked his foreign critics during a speech he delivered in rome. i had the honor this term of writing i think the only supreme court decision in the history of that institution that has been lambasted by a whole string of foreign leaders. one of these was former prime minister boris johnson, but he paid the price. what really wounded me was when the duke of sussex addressed the united nations and
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election deniers saying our system is broken and then full heartedly accepting the results when they are the winners of of it, so quite frankly it s dangerous to our democracy. democracy is on the ballot in 2022. it s not hyperbolic to say that future of free and fair elections is on the line here, and i need folks to join me at katiehobbes.com to make sure this doesn t happen. david frum, i didn t agree with the politics of a john mccain at all, and i wonder if john mccain were still alive and still here would the sort of perverse incentives that are at work right now in the republican party, because it did work with him on build the wall, would even a john mccain have had to run this kind of a campaign? i don t think so and for this reason. what s happening in arizona. here s a state as you said was becoming a conservative state, an increasingly contested state. rise of technology, education,
embrace their marginalization and that s what s sglapg in your state, katie hobbes, you re running for governor, but it s a full slate race. as i see it. it s either all of you who are in the world of reality are going to win or all of the magas are going to win. it s hard to imagine a split-ticket voter who says i ll take finchem and katie hobbes. i ll take the two of you. i can t imagine that. is the state party prepared to run essentially a slate strategy to say if you put this whole crew in, you re essentially breaking arizona democracy and u.s. democracy perhaps as well? i mean, absolutely. we have to run this way. it s not just the governor s office or the secretary of state office or the attorney general s office. we have there s too much at stake in the to focus on all of these races and, again, because of the damage that can be done to our democracy. these folks are not based in reality, and honestly i don t know how poem take them