manipulate the media in this way, plant stories get their views in the media? it goes beyond your wildest imagination. the extent to which the cia has gone to manipulate public opinion with the objective essentially of manipulating the mind and attitudes of workers throughout the nation and the world. jesse: if you think journalists should be smarter than that, well, here s a story. i also was interrogator and, indeed, briefed the press. when we, the cia, wanted to circulate disinformation on a particular issue, we would pick out a journalist. i would go do the briefing. and hope that he would put the information in print. what was your percentage of success? usually, the journalist would go with it because it was it looked like some kind of exclusive and i would say our percentage of planting that kind of data was 70% to 80%. jesseof this about 40 years . but we have forgotten it. from w.m.d.s to russia collusion, to covid to the laptop. the population has been
great to see you. today is national hair style appreciation day. rachel: do you appreciate my hair? pete: people only appreciate one hair style. it s fox in the front and farm in the back. that s what i m going with. some people don t like it. i understand that. i got an e-mail, why doesn t your hair look like wills? will s looking sharp. will: you got an e-mail? pete: people get my e-mail. i domino. but i read it. new york in the front, tennessee in the back. whatever you want. i m working on it. rachel: it s growing on me. will: working on it, where s it going? pete: you know where it s going. rachel: i was not a fan but it s growing on me. the last segment with the frame with the pictures that go by and it was rainy and we didn t know what to do so we just went through photos with the kids. will: i would never sign up for that. if kate lean said we re going to sit around and say we re going to go through old photos, i d never sign up for that. rachel: why? will: i m signin
officials locate four kidnapped americans after they were stuffed in the back of a pickup truck. now two are dead. two alive. plus a new exclooifs be interview with ukraine s president. a 45-minute conversation including volodymyr zelenskyy s take on a setback in bakhmut. and ron desantis tries to grab the moment. the governor delivers the state of the state address, and previews his 2024 plan to make america more like florida. up first for us, devastating words from a mexican border taunt. officials announcing two american kidnapped victims are two, two others are alive. a source tells cnn that one of those two locked in a battle to survive. the race against the clock to find the hostages started last week. just across the border with the brazen attack. you can see it here. gunmen firing on the van before pulling americans from the car. john miller is working his sources. we begin with our security correspondent josh campbell. what s the latest on the sad tragedy here?
president trump and classified documents discovered, tonight, lawyers for the former vice president revealing about a dozen classified documents have now been found at his home in indiana. and what the vice president told me in november. did you take any classified documents with you from the white house? i did not. what s going on with classified documents? mary bruce live at the white house. tonight, in california, the two mass shootings in three days. tonight, the second one and the dramatic video showing police taking down the alleged gunman, wanted for killing seven people at two locations in half moon bay outside san francisco. and in monterey park, news tonight on that 72-year-old suspect, where 11 people were killed in that ballroom. matt rivers in california tonight. also breaking news, yet another deadly shooting we re following tonight. the urgent manhunt, a home surrounded in yakima, washington, after police say three people were killed. they believe at ra
it comes after another gunman killed 11 people during lunar new year celebrations near los angeles. a search for answers tonight. tornado damage reported in texas as a powerful storm sweeps across the eastern half of the u.s. 83 million under winter alerts. al roker is here. the major reversal for the u.s. deciding to send abrams tanks to ukraine. how it could reshape the battlefield. ticketmaster on the hot seat on capitol hill after the taylor swift ticket debacle. what the company blames for the mess. and after disappointment at the beijing olympics, american mikaela shiffrin making history on the slopes. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening and thank you for being with us. a big development tonight in the ongoing fallout and questions over the handling of classified documents at the highest levels. we learned today that documents marked classified have been found in the private indiana home of former vice president mike pence. i