Nightly news begins right now. Announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt reporting tonight from washington. Good evening. Mr. Trump goes to washington. Insiders are telling us are receptive. Donald trump came ready to listen in the most talked about political summit this city has seen in sometime. Todays meeting between trump and House Speaker paul ryan created plenty of buildup and drama but largely left us still guessing whether the most powerful republican will endorse his partys expected president ial candidate. The word encouraging is ryans term. Aftersitting down with trump and other party leaders, ryan looking for common ground, trump looking for acceptance and both looking for a way for party union. A party that may be nbcs katy tur on a meeting and starting to warm to trump. Reporter donald trump stopped by a swarm of press and as he faced off with Republican Party leaders in a day of closeddoor meetings. A week since becoming the presumptive nominee, trump flew to w
A gruesome discovery in florida. Early today starts right now. Thanks for joining us. Im betty nguyen. Breaking news overnight. For the first time in americas 240year history, a woman is at the top of a major party ticket. But while the democratic primary out of california is still too early to call, senator Bernie Sanders refuses to back down. The front page of the New York Daily News says it all secretary clinton has clenched a majority of pledged delegates to become the Presumptive Democratic nominee for president. Taking new jersey and south dakota and new mexico Hillary Clinton makes history in breaking the next Glass Ceiling. It may be hard to see tonight, but we are all standing under a Glass Ceiling right now. Thanks to you, we have reached a milestone. First time first time in our nations history that aan clinton also made some of her strongest points against her likely republican opponent donald trump. Donald trump is tem rah mentally unfit. He is not just trying to build a w
Place to be. And the trump thing is down there. Marlaga. Is that where you stayed. No we tried to crash there they didnt let us in. Thats great. Lets get into the headlines. One thing we talked about this morning you cannot deny it all of the papers on their front pages you have to lot about you know. Muhammad ali. We talked about politics. We had to mention it. It was worth note heing died friday 74 years old his daughter tweeted and said his children surrounded him in final moments holding his hands and hugging and kissing him. And just you know. You know what i was shoul shoulding about with ali you look at what is going on in politics. Ali was the one that created some of what we see now in this day in age. This was a time nobody in sports talked smack. Right. You know you shook hands after the game and you tipped your cap and went along your way. Ali was the first one that came out and said no youre no good and look at our discourse in this country now about how we talk to each ot
Key to our future success. Weve proven and special elections in 2014, we believe going into 16 we have we have the right makeup of what the electorate will look like. The United States is never static nor are our analytics. We feel very strongly that we will maintain the House Majority this election cyclecycle, being president ial, is a little more volatile. We feel very confident that we will maintain the majority. I know my friends, he is on my Telecommunications Subcommittee and we do a lot of Work Together but we have these other jobs on our off time. I was here and they said they think they could win 60 or 70 and maybe 70 or 80 after the republican convention. My rebuttal to that is simply show me the list. If you look at the list, you get down and along the way they failed to recruit anybody again. I think it was a bit of a stretch to say they were going to get to 60, 80 or 40. Our members are in very strong shape. In the last three weeks we have been pulling district after distr
In the community, are you seeing more registration on that end that maybe you as ncla, and the community from those kind of groups and would those increases be happening there . And can you be more specific when you talk about weaker investment . Are we talking how much money dont you have . How much money isnt the Community Getting now that was getting before . How many millions is not there . And is that did that money evaporate or go to other groups and are they in the community . Provocative questions for the end. All right. The Koch Brothers. So, look, its a free world. Right . Folks should be courting the Latino Community itch think theres been investments on that end and libra is trying to educate latino busy a conservative agenda, and thats fine. In terms of how many Voter Registration is theyve done issue dont know because i dont know what their numbers are. But to me, its we are not afraid about having a debate over ideas. Thats fine. And we have had libra at our conference a