right. with us we have the host of way too early jonathan lemire, professor at princeton university, eddy jr., former white house director of communications to president obama, jen palmary, co-host of showtime s the circus and member of the new york times editorial board mara gay. joe will join us in just a bit. willie, we have a lot to get to. i know we re not starting with this, but rudy giuliani was sued. did you hear about that? i did. there s some explosive and wild details that are coming out of that lawsuit that i think we re going to be talking about in just a few minute. do want to ask you first, though, jonathan lemire about this latest debt ceiling meeting at the white house the big four getting together, some glimmers of optimism. i guess we re grading on a curve here, though, based on there being no optimism out of the meeting a week ago. that june 1st date that secretary janet yellen has been warning about for several weeks is inching closer. what came o
plus, two jewish men shot outside of synagogues in los angeles on different days. tonight authorities say they re connected. the victims targeted for their religion. the federal hate crime charges just filed. the outrage in ohio. families waiting in long lines for help in east palestine two weeks after that toxic train derailment and new details on what may have caused this crash. the tragedy on the field. a 12-year-old dying after collapsing at football practice. the family says the ambulance took 30 minutes to arrive. what his mother says could have saved his life. and the book of 125,000 names, the story it tells and the deep connection for our correspondent. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. and good evening. i m tom llamas in for lester tonight. they were sworn to protect, but today five fired memphis police officers were in a courtroom facing charges of murder that they beat tyre nichols so badly during his arrest last month that he died
hitting the airwaves just last night. speak of the most dangerous thing facing georgia is four more years of brian kemp. my record has been attacked because miss abrams doesn t want to talk about her own record. talked to a police officer and they will tell you they are terrified of doing the job senator leahy has been doing this thing with a pocket constitution for the last couple of years. it is not a prop. carley: with a jam-packed night, jackie ibanez has more from all the candidates. by the end of this week early voting will have kicked off in 25 states. 17 states have officially opened their polls with iowa, nevada, tennessee set to join them later this week. early voting underway in georgia were republican governor brian kemp and democratic challenger stacey abrams went head-to-head in an intense debate last night. the incumbent pushing abrams on her past and i police rhetoric. listen. how many sher sheriff sherifs have i think you believe it s the truth.
and the grand jury is over, we re told. this prosecutor will probably have to get sign off from merrick garland before charging the president s son. and merrick garland will face incredible pressure to manage this case fairly. now, a trusted source tells primetime that hunter biden was actually offered a pretty good plea deal a up couple million dollars in fines and no prison but hunter told him to take a hike and dared him to go to trial in delaware where he knows he would get home cooking. this that was a big mistake by hunter biden and made rank and file agents incredibly mad. plea deal offering just got a lot more serious. the new deal is $15 million in fines, and having to plead guilty to multiple felony charges, this is a game of chicken that hunter thinks he is win because his father has the power of the pardon. it may not be that simple. the source tells primetime that an astounding amount of whistleblowers are coming forward within the fbi and other agencies. and