school classmate and the powerful connection these girl scouts share that s inspiring america. this nbc news nightly news with lester holt. good evening and thank you for joining us we are on somewhat of a legal watch tonight vo involving former president trump somewhat in that the growing expectation has been fueled mainly by mr. trump himself with his unverified claim over the weekend that we be that he would be arrested on tuesday. the office has not commented on the timing of a decision on whether to prosecute. in the absence of news, key republicans have been rushing to mr. trump s defense and vilifying democrat prosecutor alvin bragg. but tonight even many of his loyalists are discouraging trump supporters from taking up the former president s call to protest. it s where we start tonight, with garrett hake reporter: the manhattan d.a. s office tonight on the verge of a fateful decision, whether to indict a former president for the first time in history, a case c
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a message to our community, to our society that girls can do whatever they want. reporter: it s been a long, hard road to get here, with tragic fatal mistakes. american troops invaded to find weapons of mass destruction that never existed. they stayed for the next eight years to stop a civil war triggered by the invasion. around 4,600 americans died here, along with several hundred thousand iraqis. in 2006 i went to a baghdad orphanage and met marwa, aliyah, and sorwa. their parents were executed during the frenzy of religious clashes in the chaos of saddam s overthrow. every day there were more war orphans. the girls are still very clingy, clearly in need of a lot of affection. reporter: i met marwa again this week. she s married and has four healthy children. but her life never recovered. my life didn t get better. we don t have a future, she says.