the campaign this week. the supreme court makes th right call on the abortion call at least for now i asked congresswoma alexandria ocasio-cortez about the political moment that we are in, during our sunda exclusive. and it is coming up. first, plus one of the keys to reelecting and come from a tough starting position? former obama campaign manage jim seen it was the last guy t do it, and he joins me just few minutes. meanwhile, ron desantis seem to be running agains everything and everyone. except the guy he is going t have to be to win th republican nomination. smart strategy i m not so sure a little ice cream with presidential nominee turne secretary of state - john kerry and i talked to one of my former boss is about a threat to committing to th work he s doing to fight it. many of us across the countr breathed a big sigh of relie on friday when the supreme court announced that the mos widely used abortion pill will remain available while on appeal moves forward. it is
urban on meet the press callin out supreme court justice, clarence thomas. for falling short of ethic rules that apply to othe public servants coming up. i m gonna ask his colleagues of california what changes h wants to see at the nation s highest court. and then a showdown on capitol hill with the entire u.s economy on the line. new information that we re learning about democrats and republicans as they try an figure out how to avoid trillion dollar plus benefit a default i should say we begin once again with the overnight evacuation of u.s. government employees fro sudan. special forces teams from th army, navy deployed for th high stakes pitch. and they were successfully abl to, extract several doze diplomats and their families from the u.s. embassy. in the capital of khartoum that city seen nine days o violence as rival military factions continue to fight for contro of the country at least 400 people have bee killed, we want to bring i megan fitzgerald, who standing by
up before he was going to about. these guys were lying through their teeth. the name come out of the possible times pentagon document. it is that of daniel ellsberg. the pentagon papers leak sent shock waves through the country. nothing shocked america more than found out our own government had us wired. can targets the communications of everyone. ingests them by default it. collects them in its system and filters them and analyzes them and measures them and stores them for periods of time. jesse: now another leak has come out of the pentagon. since early march, batches of highly classified military documents have been slowly dripping out online. our war secrets on ukraine, iran, north korea, and so many other country infantries have been just sitting out in online gaming chat room for over a month. but the pentagon only found out about it last week. why did we know about it why did you know about it before [inaudible] that means they were up for many weeks if
announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, and thank with us. official assurances that all is safe near the site of that ohio toxic train derailment aren t playing well with many area residents tonight, not with people experiencing physical symptoms and fish dying by the thousands in nearby streams. it has been almost two weeks since the train jumped the tracks in eastern ohio near the pennsylvania border spilling tanker cars carrying hazardous chemicals. after a controlled burn meant to avert a catastrophic explosion, officials signaled it was safe for evacuated residents to return, but tonight there is worry, skepticism, and anger about what is really happening and about what people are being told ron allen is covering it for us tonight. reporter: tonight outrage growing less than two weeks after that massive train derailment and the controlled burn of hazardous chemicals sent up a toxic plume of black smoke in east palestine, ohio. it doe
tonight. i am going to take a contrarian view. i have got some questions. here is my first question about this story. the china balloon story. this is like laughter out of uncomfortablity. i can t believe this actually happened. right? sow china. they seem to have chosen the most low tech spying mechanism possible to humiliate the united states. a balloon. when my grandmother took me to the zoo when i was a kid with my grandfather, i got a balloon. it s the same technology china is flying over the united states. over sensitive nuclear facilities on the cusp of a major meeting between the two countries. i have some serious questions here. right before this major diplomatic meeting where tony blinken, our secretary of state is supposed to meet xi jinping, china picks a freakin balloon to fly over? not their version of an sr-71? no, a , a balloon we can all se. something doesn t make sense. what particular capability is china demonstrating if this is some kind of message? we can