Democrats now have 40 votes to filibuster a final vote. Republicans have suggested if they didnt get an up or down vote they could trigger whats called the Nuclear Option. That strategy would put gorsuch on the Supreme Court, but it could also destroy the filibuster, as well as harm the consensus building relationship that our Founding Fathers had envisioned for the body. Reports and analysis from new york with our correspondents. Chief Legal Correspondent ari melbor. Chris, where do we stand on the democrats filibuster, and are they ready for the republicans potentially to go nuclear is reporter theyre almost expecting it. A number of them have said thats where its heading and weve never seen anything like this. Its unprecedented. Its got a lot of people upset. The tensions are very high, and right now with 40 democratic votes, saying yes on a filibuster, they need just one more. 41 will do it. And sitting in the seat behind me in this hearing room is chris kuhns. Hes the democrat fro
These years later. Nightly news begins 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. President trump and the white house are speaking out about two controversial World Leaders today in ways that are surprising some. The president is not ruling out applying his negotiating skills in a sunday facetoface meeting with north koreas kim jongun. And hes standing by his invitation for the philippines president to visit the u. S. The brutal antidrug campaign has raised serious human rights concerns. National correspondent Peter Alexander has details. Reporter tonight, President Trump with this alarming warning about north korea. So nobody is safe. Were probably not safe over here if he gets long range missiles, were not safe, either. Reporter that dire assessment after surprising comments to bloomberg news. Opening a door to a meeting with dictator kim jongun. If it would be appropriate for
Going before the Supreme Court very soon and rather than doing something with daca now, frankly, id rather work with the democrats, let the Supreme Court rule first. [ indiscernible ]. No. Were looking at a National Emergency, because we have a National Emergency. Just read the papers. We have a crisis at the border of drugs, of human beings being trafficked all over the world. Theyre coming through, and we have an absolute crisis and of criminals and gang members coming through. It is National Security. Its a National Emergency. Well be letting you know fairly soon. Do you want to declare a National Emergency, how would you then build the wall . Where will the money come from . We have a lot of different ways. Im not getting into that. Well luooking at it strongly. Hopefully we can do it this way. Its going to be a steel border giving us great strength. Why do the democrats [ indiscernible ]. They dont like concrete so well give them steel. Steel is fine. Steel is actually steel is ac