Nightly news begins right now. From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. Im kate snow in for lester tonight. Four weeks from today, President Trump will officially take the oath of office. But in the past several days, the president elect has inserted himself into high profile and controversial Foreign Policy issues. Today he went even further than his previous comments about nuclear weapons, and we learned that trump made a phone call to egypts president last night after the Israeli Government asked trump to weigh in on a u. N. Resolution involving israel. All of it breaking with past protocol for a president in waiting and angering the obama administration. We begin tonight with our chief affairs correspondent, andrea mitchell. Reporter even as Vladimir Putin was ruling out an arms race in a marathon fourhour news conference, donald trump was saying, let there be an arms race in an offcamera call. The president elect told y
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