President trumps destructive agenda for decades to come. Dont be fooled. This is not some middle of the road pick. On every issue kavanaugh has proven to threatening a womans right to choose, challenging the constitutionality of the Affordable Care act and ruling against workers and consumers at every turn. This is a fight for the soul of our country and the senate needs to stop kavanaughs nomination. It would be a disasterous attack on basic human and civil rights. Well get into that in a moment, but first President Trumps contentious european trip ends tomorrow in finland where the eyes of the world will be on his first stand alone meeting with russian president putin. Joining me now is democratic strategist and republican strategist susan. Let me go to you. The president went to england, faced massive protests even protests in his stop over to play golf and now leaving there shortly headed into the meeting in finland. With all that has to be discussed you have got clearly ukraine an
New concerns tonight about violence on summer vacation. And a sale so popular it triggered mayhem. Lines wrapped around malls. Thousands of disappointed kids turned away. Announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening as we welcome our viewers in the west. President trump is in london tonight with a swirl in his wake in brussels over what was and wasnt agreed to at this weeks nato meetings. To hear the president tell it, it was mission accomplished, that he successfully squeezed his european counterparts to spend even more on defense. But some of those allies are pushing back, offering a different account tonight. This evening, the president and first lady are being hosted by britains Prime Minister theresa may and her husband as the two leaders prepare for their own tough talks amidst the u. K. s political turmoil. Nbcs Kristen Welker is in london tonight. Kristen, good evening. Reporter lets tester, good evening to you. President trump may be in britain but some ke
Viciously attacked the train station in london after penning a pro trump oped and friendly fire and the Democratic Party, selfdescribed socialist who ousted longterm congressman joe crowley in a shocking defeat is now trying to take down other Democratic Party icons. Welcome to fox news at night. Sparks flew in congress as a public hearing with the embattled fbi agent who sent antitrump Text Messages tumbled into a heated political freeforall. Gop lawmakers threatening when he refused to answer questions on the russia pro. Catherine herridge on it all day. Good evening. Reporter he testified this is another victory for the russian president and those who want to tear america apart and acknowledged his Text Messages were used to attack the fbi as integrity. Nothing but true, so help you god . Fbi agent peter stzrok singled out as prototype for political bias and todays hearing he broke his silence. There is simply no evidence of bias in my professional actions. Republicans on the hospit
Right now, President Trump spending the weekend overseas playing golf at his club in sko scotland. The white house insists its a working meeting. With the meeting with putin two days away. And back home, democrats want the president to pump the brakes on the russia summit, asking him to cancel his oneonone meeting. The new letter lawmakers are sending to him today. One democrat will be joining us this hour. Hi, everyone, im alex with tt. Heres whats happening. Ramping up the pressure on the president to be aggressive when they meet for that summit monday. Heres what steve cohen and John Garamendi told me earlier. The problem is weve got two men notorious liars, both putin and trump. Trump cant tell the truth and putin is smart enough not to tell the truth. Its time for him to stop hugging the russian bear. The russian bear is a very dangerous bear. Its time for him to stand back and, frankly, punch the bear in the nose. Meanwhile, theres new details about that bilateral News Conference
Meeting with congressional staff. The partial Government Shutdown now on day 16 and a breakthrough is not expected any time today. Theres no end in sight. Meanwhile, President Trump joining a staff retreat at camp david. Before leaving, the president said he may decide in the next few days whether to bypass congress and declare a National Emergency to build the border wall. Setting the scene for us, msnbcs Mike Viqueira at the capital and Geoff Bennett at the white house. Geoff, the president appeared to be signalling a concession of some sort on his end. Tell us more. The definition of what constitutes a border wall is becoming more and more flexible by the day. This might seem like ancient history now, but it was six days ago that President Trump feeted, an all concrete wall was never abandoned as has been reported by the media. You have Mick Mulvaney saying they are willing to take this all concrete wall entirely off the table thinking that democrats might be able to get behind some