how it impacts the price you pay. and 75 years ago today he broke baseball s color barrier changing the game and america tonight we celebrate the legendary jackie robinson announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening. i m tom llamas in for lester as we come on the air tonight russia is lashing out. they re now warning the u.s. to stop sending arms to ukraine saying it is, quote, adding fuel to the conflict and may lead to unpredictable consequences russia also ramping up their military attacks. tonight new video of residents cleaning up from that missile attack in kyiv a city where they are now busy digging graves authorities revealing they found the bodies of more than 900 civilians. russia s likely still reeling from losing its most important battleship they had claimed it sunk after a fire broke out onboard, but now u.s. officials are saying it was, in fact, the ukrainians who took it down gabe gutierrez starts us off tonight from inside ukrain
d.v.r. and watch it back later today. begin today with a new challenge in the red hot housing market as the average interest rate for america s most common home loan, a high not seen in more than a decade. hello, john roberts in washington, good friday to you. thanks for having me, john. i m jacqui heinrich. 30 year fixed rate mortgage is 5%, up from 4.27 last week, the average just over 3% a year ago. mortgage lending giant says the goal of home ownership is the most expensive in a generation. john: and economic woes for the biden administration saddled with 40 year high inflation, and the president placing the blame for increased prices on russian president vladimir putin and voters are not buying it. his approval rating all time lows with the midterms months away. peter doocy kicks us off this afternoon. live on the north lawn. peter. the first one of the polls you mentioned looks at the president s overall approval rating and it is down. all the way down to 33%, acc
kitchen fire again. we ll see. but fear not, after a shortstopd ,he will be flyingel back to delaware for another vacation at the beach.bide so is biden too feeble and exhausted to keep up with the rigors of the job, or is he hiding from questionf ths like these? well, it s probably both. take a look. looyou have any concerns about? ability? i don t. president biden is about esident biden is about congress. it is let s talk about why i m here. oh, it s funny . , it s funny come on, man. i mean, joe will nevere will v voluntarily hand over all of his bank records. he has too much to hide. and tonight, an importantti update from the corruption allegations againsonallegatit j. among the thousands of government emails biden sentmenn using a pseudonym as vice president. vice, where to his son hunter discussed a future higher atsed a fu whit. hunter emailed joe joey meltd right back . th the 2014 email was sent to hunter s business account wa you know that business tha
replacing his campaign manager. what can you tell us? so to the campaign that just keeps resetting here. the campaign manager who s been with the governor for a long time, helped run his gubernatorial re-elect, has been demoted. she s now a senior adviser. his chief of staff, the guy who ran the official side has been moved over to be campaign manager. james is very much in line with the governor. he s sort of the same policy and political school of thought. very conservative. so i think this is kind of an indication that the campaign is going to start, continue to focus on a lot of things it s been focused on. really the issues that brought him to a point where he could run for president and was perceived to be a potential front-runner, at least at one point. matt, thank you for the latest there. in new hampshire, former president trump is expected to speak within the hour even as his defense team rather battles with doj prosecutors over suggested limits on government ev
inner circle. the memo which was obtained by the new york times and has not been verified by nbc news, was allegedly sent in early december 2020 by trump lawyer kenneth chesebro, who is one of the coconspirators identified but not charged in the justice department s latest indictment, of the former president. in the note, chesebro details the fake elector scheme which falsely claims former vice president mike pence had the power to block the certification of the states votes on january 6th. all just to buy time. chesebro admitted that the supreme court would likely reject the plan, in a statement to nbc news, the lawyer writes that he was simply providing legal advice to trump s campaign. but that quote whether the campaign relied on that device, upon that advice as he intended would have to remain a question to be resolved in court. those efforts by donald trump and his lawyers to subvert democracy has, in a small part, led the american varshini to create a task force for am