Was elected. Now, thats the precedent we have been listening here to the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Amy Coney Barrett. Good evening to you. Im arri. Let me tell you whats going to happen now. Were continuing to monitor developments in the room. Well dip back into the proceedings any time as news warrants. We have journalists listening in and we know and expect senator Kamala Harris will take her first turn questioning the judge tonight. Msnbc will bring you that news worthy moment live when it happens. After all this time in the room, im thrilled to bring in two of our legal experts to kick off coverage on these high stakes hearings. Rich participate in four of the nomination hearings for the Supreme Court on the Judiciary Committee itself. Hes the president of the American Constitution Society and on six total Supreme Court nominees and the New York Times emily covers the courts and a fellow at yale law school. Good evening to both of you. Senator finegold having been in t
All i can say. Reporter residents as far as three miles away reported feeling the explosion. The blast knocked the home off its foundation. Roof shingles, tar and splintered wood are strewn across the lawn. Firefighters say the debris field is 200 yards. The length of two football fields. It was a pretty big impact. Reporter a dozen windows in neighboring homes were blown out. Firefighters say a gas leak in the dryer is what likely caused the explosion and subsequent fire and that natural gas also fueled the flames. Investigators estimate the home is a total loss, with more than 225,000 in damages. Although firefighters say they are confident what caused this explosion was that natural gas leak, they did bring in atf officials today just to do a thorough investigation. Live in hayward, kimberly terry, nbc bay area news. Thanks, kimberly. New details tonight on a patient who was found dead in a hospital stairwell. Today, officials released the cause of death for 57yearold lynne spauldin
Is there, what have we learned. Lets start with the president s tweet, Mission Accomplished accomplished. The military mission they executed last night against three chemical weapons Storage Research development facilities, that mission was accomplished. They feel confident that they had success in striking those targets and at least for now seriously degradiing assads ability to launch chemical attacks. Guarantees . No, we cannot guarantee any of this. What the pentagon is making clear is they make the targets they did and did not go for a broader mission, they were specific and one of the top generals here a short time ago explained exactly why. This strike aimed to deliver a clear message to the Syrian Regime of using chemical weapons against innocent civilians is inexcusable. We selected these targets carefully to minimize the risk to innocent civilians. Initial indications are that we have accomplished our military objectives without material interference from syria. A couple of k
Regrets some hes had a few. New reporting on the president s move to try and get Jeff Sessions to reverse his recusal on the russia investigation and why he wont just fire the guy already. And speaking of tweets, roseanne. She is out online again this morning after that racist tweet and the backlash from it led to the decision to put plug on her tv show. Did ambien make her do it . Were here with the latest details. We have a lot to get to. I want to start with tom winter where hes following this mornings Court Developments involving Michael Cohen. Whats the main thing youll be looking out for here . Reporter were going to be looking at here as far as any sort of updates or clues that we can fler glean as to when the review by the special master, when we think that might be wrapping up or just eechbven th progress of that. Right now federal investigators are slowed down because a lot of the evidence that they took from Michael Cohen two months ago was still under review. Thats the prim
Testimony continues to cause a heap of trouble for the president , and it may not be over. And weve got a former Russian Ambassador with us tonight to share what he knows about putin, what he fears about our relationship with russia, and what diplomacy looks like when practiced correctly, as the 11th hour gets under way on a tuesday night. And good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 782 of the trump administration, and tomorrow the president s former Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort appears in federal court for the second time in less than a week to hear a judge decide his second federal prison sentence. This one for the charges that mueller brought against manafort, d. C. Federal court. He was indicted back in october of 2017 for conspiracy, moneylaundering, lying and failing to register as a foreign agent. Nearly a year later during the early days of his trial, he pleaded guilty to the two conspiracy charges, entered into a deal to cooperate with m