federal investigation. the doj is pointing a special council. republicans say this is not aimed at seeking justice. the senior national correspondent kevin corke is live in d.c. with the breaking details on this. good evening, david weiss is the man. the very same same david weiss who says congressional republicans attempted to paint a sweetheart deal for hunter biden, despite possible or some would say obvious violations. that david weiss is leading an escalation into hunter biden. his title became special council today. his powers were the same yesterday. what s different? it does not make any difference to us given what we understood to be the case. critics argued weiss should not have been named special counsel citing this as section 6.3 in the doj regulations. a special counsel shall be selected from outside the united states government. this is a political decision, not a legal decision. they re trying to put out a fire, and they just poured gasoline on it. nobo
not waiver. nato, and we will not tire. john: different victories in ukraine, military experts warn the real winner might be another nation all together, china. gillian: the fear is while the u.s. is preoccupied, china could be preparing to invade taiwan, catching western powers off guard. l how likely is this scenario? coming up on america reports. i m still not home, i m not comfortable yet and i m just just not sure. as soon as i opened my door 10:00 monday night, it was an overwhelming my eyes watered, it was my nose burned, it was hard to breathe. they should buy out all their houses along the track, they are never going to get their money out of them. nobody wants to live down there. john: the head of the environmental protection agency giving an update to the federal response of the toxic train derailment in ohio. residents are on edge over the future of their health and community. john roberts in washington. good tuesday to you. gillian: and to y
like many don t want his help. maybe it s because biden is out of touch with voter concerns. check out the new poll showing 63 percent of voters do not think the president is being attention to the most important issues. or perhaps it s because they were worried about what he may say. yesterday joe biden made a rare appearance on the campaign trail in pennsylvania with john federman who is fighting for a close race with dr. oz. while there, the president seem to forget who he was supporting. then we re going to be a great lady in the assessment. it is of course john federman s life, not the senate nominee for democrat party. but at least nine democrats in tight spaces have either said they want they do not want the president s help where they dodge the question altogether. he was asked about that twice and he clearly didn t appreciate the question. there haven t been that many candidates campaigning with you. it not true, there are 15. figure they re going to be a few m
a movement began it to abolish police departments nationwide, all of this has unfolded in the twin cities peered at the numbers don t lie, assault, burglary, property destruction, motor vehicle theft, spiking, all of them in minneapolis over the past year. and, while homicide may have dipped in the past year, which is good news. the city is now seeing an increase in murders over just the past two years, three years. going right back up again. despite the grim numbers, far left democratic congress woman ilhan omar, controversy at times, who just snuck out a win, her district includes part of minneapolis, and continues to push the defund police a gender. that is coming from her. not only do we need to defund but we need to dismantle and start a new. so we must continue to hold people accountable that want a certain system to fully function for certain people, and completely have at dis- interest in that system functioning for the rest of us. but we do need to completely dis
his mission for puerto rico as the island faces a long recovery from another deadly hurricane. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, everyone it s a threat that shadowed a generation of americans during the cold war a nuclear standoff with russia and now president biden giving voice to growing new fears and a dangerous new era once more framed by the threat of nuclear conflict. president biden saying, we face the prospect of armageddon comparing it to the cuban missile crisis his dark comments referring to threats by russia s vladimir putin to introduce tactical nuclear weapons or chemical and biological weapons on the battlefield in russia s war with ukraine. president biden saying he takes putin s threats seriously saying, putin is not joking while there s no indication thus far that russia is preparing to use nuclear weapons, the president s blunt comments are sending a chill from washington to the streets of moscow where our keir simmons