insurrection. the questions tonight, could it happen in other states, and will the supreme court weigh in? also tonight, the grim milestone in gaza. an estimated 20,000 now dead just as hopes grow for another cease-fire. the deal to free ten americans in a prisoner swap with venezuela and who the u.s. released in return. the powerful storm slamming the west coast while in the northeast, new rescues and evacuations days after that deadly storm. the christmas travel rush kicking off inside the tsa as they brace for massive numbers. our nbc news exclusive, the warning china s president gave to president biden at their summit last month about taiwan. nbc news investigates why patients are dying when they are not properly monitored. the lapses one woman says led to her husband s death. and the touching tributes at the secret christmas tree in central park. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, and welcome, everyone. even as they tr
hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining us this sunday. happening right now, more anti-immigration rhetoric from former president donald trump causing reverberation, the white house calling the comments fascist after the former president said this in new hampshire saturday. they re poisoning the blood of our country. that s what they ve done. they ve poisoned mem institutions and not just? south america or three or four countries, but all over the world they re coming in from africa, from asia, all over the world pouring into our country. cnn s priscilla alvarez is in washington. this is a strong rebuke from the white house. what will is it appeared the president saying? reporter: that s right, fred. the white house saying it s similar to other authoritarian regimes, but the white house slamming the former president for his comments on immigration yesterday. in a statement this morning, a white house spokesperson saying echoing the grotesque rhetoric, and t
for schools across the country. the cdc issuing new guidelines tonight, recommending three feet of social distancing for school children with masks instead of six feet. could this help get children back to school sooner? some teaches unions pushing back tonight, the cdc director say, we have done the science. president biden also at the cdc tonight as health officials raise new concerns over those highly contagious variants, with several states now seeing cases on the rise. the worsening situation on the southern border. president biden s dhs secretary traveling to el paso, texas, today. hundred of migrant children and teens now held at border patrol cities for ten days or longer, well beyond the legal limit. matt gutman tonight. the widening scandal involving new york s governor andrew cuomo. the new york times reporting tonight for the first time a current employee of the governor s office, and what she now alleges involving the governor. back to see the american
we have in the last 20 years. all this as republican lawmakers this week on this show and on america reports recount similar stories about their conversations with border patrol agents. i looked out and talking and said the night before, 100 had come across. he said some of them are on the list. he said what list? the terror watch list. we go to monument 3 and talk to the agents. it s not just people from mexico or honduras. they re finding people from yemen, iran, turkey. people on the terrorist watch list they re catching. those remarks prompting this from rubin guillegos comments. in 2019 the state department said there s no credible evidence indicating that terrorist groups have sent operatives via mexico. that same year, dhs said we stop ten individuals on the terrorist watch list per day from traveling to or entering the u.s. former white house press secretary kayleigh mcenany is standing by on this. let s begin with tom holman, former ice director and juan will
can. if our republican friends block it, we re going to put our heads together and figure out the best way to go. everything is on the table. it s plain and simple. there s estimates a infrastructure package that could have a price tag of $4 to 5 trillion. the republican leader offered this are prediction. i think the trojan horse will be called infrastructure. but inside the trojan horse will be all the tax increases that senator scott and others have been talking about. my suspicion is they re going to jam everything that they can in to that bill and call it a infrastructure bill like they tried to call the bill a couple weeks ago a covid bill. how democrats expect to get it done was revealed in a hot microphone moment. ben cardin and pete buttigieg talk about going alone to using senate rules to pass it with 51 votes. ultimately it s going to be put together similar to how the rescue plan was put together. most likely reconciliation. infrastructure was thought to