Miraculous survival story shot on camera while running to the rescue. Nightly news begins right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening, the white house struggling to find a singular message about its syria policy following thursdays Cruise Missile attack tonight finds itself suddenly engaged in damage control after Spokesman Sean Spicer tried to draw a moral comparison between Bashar Al Assad and adolf hitler saying hitler didnt even sink to using chemical weapons. The historical fact he gassed jews and others walk lost on many who watched spicer as he spoke at the press briefing. His words and attempts to clarification touching off an emotional response. A short time ago comes an apology. White house correspondent Kristen Welker has details. Reporter tonight, a messaging misstep rocking the white house after sean spicer compared Bashar Al Assad to hitler. We didnt use chemical weapons in world war ii. You ha
This hour. Well talk about his decision and new job. And syrias civil war is in a very dangerous perhaps decisive Tipping Point right now. Can the world prevent Bashar Al Assad from using chemical weapons against his own people . Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. We begin with president obama taking his battle to extend tax cuts for the middle class into the heart of the middle class suburb today. He visited a family just outside washington, d. C. , using their story to dramatize what will happen in just 26 days if he and congress cant make a deal on the socalled fiscal cliff. A source of great concern for so many people, everyones taxes will go up, will go up if theres no deal. Lets go live to our White House Correspondent dan lothian. Hes on the scene for us over at the white house. How did it go, dan . Reporter well, wolf, weve seen the president do this before in the past whenever hes locked in negotiations with lawmakers. He heads out on the road, either goes to a back
Shot. The race was starting to increasingly look like it wasnt even going to be close. And the colin powell endorsement just took the wind out of the mccain campaigns sails. John mccain responded to the endorsement that same day by going on fox news and sighing that, well, it wasnt all that much of a surprise. He at least, though, was able to say even if he did not have Colin Powells endorsement, he did have endorsements from some other former republican secretaries of state. So at least he had those names to offer for counterbalance. The Romney Campaigns counterbalance tonight to them losing the colin powell endorsement this year is a whole different kind of counterbalance. You want to call me crazy, go to hell. Call me crazy all you want. This morning, on cbs, Republican Former secretary of state colin powell officially endorsed barack obama. Thats on one side of the race today. On the other side of the race today, well, tonight actually, as we speak, the Romney Campaign is hosting a
Becoming a really evident long shot. The race was starting to increasingly look like it wasnt even going to be close. And the colin powell endorsement just took the wind out of the mccain campaigns sails. John mccain responded to the endorsement that same day by going on fox news and sighing that, well, it wasnt all that much of a surprise. He at least, though, was able to say even if he did not have Colin Powells endorsement, he did have endorsements from some other former republican secretaries of state. So at least he had those names to offer for counterbalance. The Romney Campaigns counterbalance tonight to them losing the colin powell endorsement this year is a whole different kind of counterbalance. You want to call me crazy, go to hell. Call me crazy all you want. This morning, on cbs, Republican Former secretary of state colin powell officially endorsed barack obama. Thats on one side of the race today. On the other side of the race today, well, tonight actually, as we speak, t
Just took the wind out of the mccain campaigns sails. John mccain responded to the endorsement that same day by going on fox news and sighing that, well, it wasnt all that much of a surprise. He at least, though, was able to say even if he did not have Colin Powells endorsement, he did have endorsements from some other former republican secretaries of state. So at least he had those names to offer for counterbalance. The Romney Campaigns counterbalance tonight to them losing the colin powell endorsement this year is a whole different kind of counterbalance. You want to call me crazy, go to hell. Call me crazy all you want. This morning, on cbs, Republican Former secretary of state colin powell officially endorsed barack obama. Thats on one side of the race today. On the other side of the race today, well, tonight actually, as we speak, the Romney Campaign is hosting a gala fundraiser in texas with former Vice President dick cheney and this guy. Tonight, its big boy time. Tonight is not