Murder mystery shocker. Charges dropped against the man once convicted of killing government intern chandra levy. If he didnt do it, who did . Nightly news begins right now. The Democratic National convention. This is nbc nightly news with lester holt reporting tonight from philadelphia. Good evening. Coming off that soaring and passionate endorsement speech by president obama, tonight it is Hillary Clintons turn to tell her own story to this convention and to america. A speech she hopes will put not just a period on this week but an exclamation mark as she heads into the thick of the campaign. Like donald trump, clinton arrived at her own convention with high negative approval numbers. It will be the proverbial elephant in the room when she takes the stage this evening. How will she address it . Nbcs Andrea Mitchell has details. Reporter the torch is passed. Tonight its her turn. After that embrace and the most ringing endorsement any president has given a possible successor in modern
We got some news about members of the Conyers Family. Melanie sloan joins us tonight. You are one of the reasons this story has come to light. Tell us how it happened. E after i told my story to the Washington Post and appeared in the news, Courtney Morse reached out to me, wanted to talk about what happened to her. She was considering whether or not to come forward and i encouraged her to publicly telll her story. Tucker one of the reasons i want to talk about this, there are a lot of allegations were flying around and some of them seem true, some you dont really know. This seems to be in a different category because she is suggesting he was implying something very dark by invoking the name of a murdered intern during their exchange. Are we mistreating this . She thought he was implying something horrible. She thought it was possible. She was clearly very nervous by it and scared by the entire experience. Tucker here you have a member of congress, one of the most famous, now literally
Vice president s former spokesman. Hello and welcome to fox news night. I am Shannon Bream in washington. From al franken to turn franks come allegations are turning into resignations. We have brandnew developments. Senator franken, democrat, says he is resigning soon, raising questions about why the delay and who will fill the critical Minnesota Senate seat. Commerce min franks, a republican, has just resigned among us scathing goodbye from paul ryan. Ed, lets start with the developments on trent franks. He was one of the First Tea Party members in the house of representatives. He is somebody whos coming out tonight saying he and his wife had problems with fertility. They wanted to have a child command is basically acknowledging that may be a couple of his female Staff Members were asked to be a surrogate mom. Thats backfiring on him tonight. Putting out in his statement, due to my familiarity and experience with the process of surrogacy, i clearly became insensitive as to how the dis
His resignation this week. We got some news about members of conyers families. Melanie sloan joins us tonight. You are one of the reasons this story has come to light, tell us how it happened. After i told my story to the Washington Post and appeared in the news, Courtney Morris reached out to me, wanted to talk about what happened to her. She was considering whether or not to come forward and i encouraged her to publicly tell her story. Tucker one of the reasons i want to talk about this, there are a lot of allegations were flying around and some of them seem true, some you dont really know. This seems to be in a different category because she is suggesting he was implying something very dark by invoking the name of a murdered intern during their exchange. Are we mistreating this . She thought he was implying something horrible. She thought it was possible. She was clearly very nervous by it and scared by the entire experience. Tucker here you have a member of congress, one of the mos
Both of these men used to work at the highest level of the russian investigation, both of them no longer do. The reason for that is where our story begins tonight. Bruce orr was demoted this week from his position as an associate Deputy Attorney general career that happened just as fox news learned and inquired about his just discovered meetings after the election with both Christopher Steele Whose Research is known as the trump dossier and Glenn Simpson who hired steel. James rosen broke this story tonight. And fox news first queried the justice permit about bruce or, we were told that orr had been stripped of his title in office a few hours before our inquiry. Later, they told us that he lost that job because hes also and remains director of dojs organized crime Drug Enforcement tax force and his wearing of two hats was unusual. The doj acknowledged the real reason for his demotion yesterday. He withheld from superiors meeting last year with two controversial figures. Investigators f