Campus unrest spreads. Police at atlantas Emory University tasing a protester in handcuffs. Restraining others with zip ties. Harvey weinsteins Rape Conviction in new york overturned. The egregious errors the judge is accused of making. Will it lead to a new trial . Tracking severe storms across several states tonight. The School Principal police say was framed with fake racist remarks using a. I. The suspect, a former staffer, arrested at the airport with a gun. And after the first video of their son in 200 days, the parents of an americanisraeli hostage speaking out. Their message of hope. Announcer this is Nbc Nightly News with lester holt. Good evening and welcome. An extraordinary give and take in the u. S. Hours wrangling Supreme Court today, as the nine justices spent nearly three hours wrangling with lawyers over questions of when or whether a former american president is immune from federal prosecution over acts while taken in office. The questions raised during oral arguments
Election, and if so, will it happen before november. What the justices appear to signal. Mr. Trump, meanwhile, back in a new york courtroom. David pecker, the former National Enquirer publisher back on the stand, testifying about the alleged catch and kill scheme to help mr. Trumps 2016 campaign. The tense Conversation Pecker says he had over paying off Stormy Daniels. Also tonight, usc canceling its main commencement after the arrest of dozens of propalestinian protesters. The new clashes as campus unrest spreads. Police in atlantas Emory University tasing a protester in handcuffs. Restraining others with zip ties. Harvey weinsteins Rape Conviction in new york overturned. The egregious errors the judge is accused of making. Will it lead to a new trial . Tracking severe storms across several states tonight. The School Principal police say was framed using fake ai. Arrested at the airport with a gun. And after the first video of their son in 200 days, the parents of an americanisraeli h
Seeing too much of that news. Very much news because its been all encompassing. We had a lot of meetings, as you know. But the people are getting better. Theyre all getting better. President trump is also weighing in on u. S. Intelligence that said russia is again trying to interfere in the 2020 election. Listen to this. First of all, i want no help from any country. And i havent been given help from any country. Russia, if youre listening, i hope youre able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. Just so its clear what we just did there. The first thing you heard was President Trump in india just moments ago saying that he doesnt want help from any other country in this election. And hasnt been given help from any country. And then the second bite was from way back in the campaign in 2016 when he asked for russia to look for Hillary Clintons emails. Lets bring in White House Correspondent jim acosta who was at that News Conference. Kaitlan collins as well. Both traveling in india.
That they allowed those u. S. Patients who tested positive for coronavirus back into the United States. Though today you saw him at that press conference acknowledging that in the end he does believe that was the right thing to do. But, two, also that federal officials were going to place some of those patients at a fema facility in alabama which the president faced blowback for getting calls from lawmakers saying, no, you cant just do this, including the governor of alabama and one of the senators, Richard Shelby of alabama. And were being told by sources, including my colleague kevin that the president wanted to fire people over this over these decisions made by his administration, though its not clear who he wanted to fire. And its not determined whether or not anyone has been terminated over this. We do not believe anyone has. But it does speak to the frustration the president has had behind the scenes of all this. Publicly he is really trying to calm the waters here, assure people
Also the president is downplaying the spat with secretary of state Rex Tillerson. The two met for lunch and said he called him a moron this summer. So this interview with Forbes Magazine boasted hes smarter and challenged him to an i. Q. Test. Asking if hes under cutting the secretary of state. Heres what he said. Did you under cut the secretary of state with the i. Q. Comment . No. I didnt under cut anybody. I dont believe in under cutting people. Thank you very much everybody. Do you still have confidence in secretary tillerson . Yes. Lets go to caitlyn, shes our White House Reporter in the white house, anticipating the big hockey team. But before we see the penguins here, what can you tell me about this lunch today between the president and his secretary of state . Yeah, a lot of facetime for these two men where the tension is at an alltime high between them ks brooke. During the press briefing we heard from press secretary Sarah Huckabee sanders who said the president was joking wh