Right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening to our viewers in the west. The white house tonight is putting iran on notice and taking no option off the table in response to irans test this week of an unarmed Ballistic Missile calling it a violation of a u. N. Nuclear accord, a provocation and destabilizing. But the tough and surprise warning delivered by the president S National Security adviser today threatens to put the administration at odds with other members of the u. N. Security council, which contrary to the white house, has not thus far declared the missile test a violation. White house correspondent Kristen Welker has late details. Reporter a surprise at the white house briefing. President trumpS National Security adviser Michael Flynn unleashing a stern warning to american adversary iran. As of today, we are officially putting iran on notice. Reporter at issue, a series of provocations, including ir
And queen of belgium and theyll meet with the Prime Minister of belgium. It will be the official welcome of the host country and then nato with the 28 member nations. This issen a opportunity for donald trump to mend some fences after calling this organization obsolete and then retracting that after he had a chance to meet with the secretary general and to have a bit of time in office to get a different view of how nato is a force in the world. It is expected that some of the conversation here which had originally been about things like russia and ukraine as the anticipated heavy story lines, now with the tragic events in manchester, theres an expectation that confronting terrorism and isis and al qaeda and the lone wolves that are especially showing their power in europe in particular, that that will be a big part of the conversation. For President Trump the issue of terrorism has been a thread throughout his journeys for the last several days, wanting to get nations in the arab and m
House with nbcs hans nichols. This bomb sheel tweet effectively confirming hes under investigation. Its stunning because yesterday he didnt answer shouted questions about any of this now the confirmation. Reporter this is the investigation not into collusion with the russians but the obstruction of justice part of the investigation. Ive read the president s tweet several times and whats clear is hes referring to Rod Rosenstein. He wrote a memo to President Trump where he laid out the case for firing fbi director james comey. He got similar advice from Jeff Sessions. Its clear from this that he thinks the person who is investigating him is not Robert Mueller, the special counsel but in fact Rod Rosenstein, the same Rod Rosenstein that President Trump nominated to be Deputy Attorney general. This is a remarkable turn of events when you look at who the president nominated to fill out his Justice Department officials, he only has three that have been senate confirmed. When you look at the
Im very anxious to appear before the House Intelligence Committees. Plus under fire. Critics slamming President Trump for this moment with a female reporter which is now going viral. She has a nice smile on her face so i bet she treats you well. The legendary phil donahue is here to way in on all of it. Well begin this morning with resetting the repeal and the stunning decision by the Senate Republican leadership to postpone a vote on their highly Controversial Health care bill. There are a lot of questions this morning. So we are bringing in the best team of reporters and analysts in the business. Here to explain where we go from here taking you to capitol hill where casey hunt is standing by. You spoke to Senate Majority leader mcconnell about this surprising announcement, surprising because he couldnt get the votes. Lets listen. Mr. Leader, is your effort to repeal obamacare dead . No, no. Were continuing to talk about it. Its a complicated discussion. Weve got a lot of discussions
Good day. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. President trump is in belgium preparing for a critical phase of his first foreign trip making a direct pitch to nato allies to spend more and hoping that they forget about his Campaign Rhetoric about nato being obsolete. The buzz here at home all about the first familys first meeting with pope francis with plenty of memorable moments. Joining me new, kelly o now, ke and nick schmidt. Kelly, first to you in brussels. This nato meeting were told that the nato leaders have been told to keep their speeches short because President Trump might not be as interested in all the details that usually take place at a nato meeting in brusse brussels. Weve seen those report, weve heard those comments. There is perhaps both an adaptive quality to that and maybe even a condescending quality to it. You have had so much experience with this, the density of the complex issues that are sometimes discussed at a nato meeting and this is convened in part because we