Spumoni and dirt. You put caustic chemicals and then it separates out something called alumina. And if you dry alumina out and take it to your metal processing plant, your smelters, you process that dry alumina powder into liquid aluminum. And the process by which you get that powdered alumina into liquid aluminum is the smelting process and in big aluminum smelters its one of the things we humans have created to most closely approximate the pits of hell on earth. The pictures from aluminum smelters, especially big aluminum smelters, its basically scifi. Hard only the this is on the surface of the planet. When the soviet union collapsed and its stateowned giant aluminum smelters were becoming private property, private businesses, that heavy russian industry like a lot of other Russian Industries at the time turned into full scale murderous gang warfare. As various thugs and connected gangsters fought it out in many cases literally for control of what they knew would be a multibillion d
Thompson our chief Environmental Affairs correspondent, bill neeley chief global correspondent, eddie glaude an msnbc contributor and professor at princeton and david jolly a former congressman from florida. Peter, start with you, the president has the right to try to invoke executive privilege. A lot of argument about whether or not this would apply in this situation, but are you hearing from the white house that they might try to do that . Thats a good question. We havent heard that from this white house just yet although i am told by associates close to the president that when he came back from his foreign trip he did becomeimately aware of the growing severity, the significance, seriousness of this investigation to that point, so in terms of his executive privilege we dont have any new details on that but be clear this investigation is expanding, five current and former u. S. Officials now telling nbc news about the fact that they are looking into the fbi and congress is looking in
Still on duty. Nightly news begins right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening to our viewers in the west in what has been an especially busy news day both here at home and abroad, which is where we start with a deadly terror attack in london today just outside parliament. The attacker plowing his car into pedestrians in the citys Westminster Bridge in the shadow of big ben, turning the iconic span into a scene of carnage before he stormed the gates of parliament itself, leading to a deadly encounter with police and forcing lawmakers and others to race for cover. Tonight, the attacker and four others, including a police officer, are dead. At least 40 others, some school children, were injured. A gruesome scene in the heart of london and thats where bill neely starts our coverage. Reporter at the very heart of britains democracy, murder and terror. Dead and injured outside parliament. Tourists among hundreds
About how Donald Trumps personal lawyer is going to respond to all of this, the action he says hell take. Thats right, poppy. The indication is that the pursuit of jim comey now begins less than 24 hours after his dramatic testimony on capitol hill. A source familiar with the situation telling cnn that the attorney for the president , the personal attorney who has been with him for so long, marc kasowi kasowitz, does intend to file complaints with the Senate Judiciary committee, as well as the department of justice Inspector General against jim comey that he did give information contained in one of his memos to a friend, an acquaintance, who, in turn, gave that information to the news media. So the administration, including the president s tweet this morning, clearly casting jim comey as a leaker. Now, there are a couple questions that still have to be answered on all of this. Number one, jim comey no longer a government employee, which suggests that the department of justice would hav