This is just over an hour. [background noises] [background noises] we have cspan here so we all have to behave. Good morning Washington Bureau chief of the Christian Science monitor. Our guest today is Shalonda Young director of the White House Office of management and budget. This is her first appearance at a monitor breakfast so welcome. Director young hills from louisiana urges degrees for Loyola University in new orleans and she worked on the hill for years pierced most recently as a staff staff director and House Appropriations. In 22 atd once she became acting omb director a year later it was confirmed easily by the senate including 14 republican votes. I picked up one. [laughter] way to go. In this day and age that is something for director young was a key negotiate of the debt ceiling talks last year. We will be interested in getting her take of all the government funding issues now urgently on the table. So again welcome. Now for the ground rules. We are on the record here, pl
years ago we lost a member of our nbc news family covering the war in iraq. tonight, my conversation with david bloom s widow about the lives his story may have saved announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening and welcome. the tears of grief that consume nashville, tennessee, just ten days ago over the murders of young children and school staffers are replaced tonight by cries of anger and accusations after an extraordinary move by tennessee house republicans to seek the expulsion of three democratic members for their roles in a gun safety protest on the house floor last week. all day angry supporters and gun safety advocates crowding the statehouse where the gop majority was putting the resolutions up to a vote one by one, declaring the three participated in disorderly behavior when they led supporters in chants demanding stricter gun safety measures. expulsion a rarely exercised right of the tennessee house that critics on the left tonight are c
democrats seats. also tonight in a new report in the u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan the white house largely blaming the chaos and decisions by former president trump on the actions it says the u.s. should have taken even sooner. the rising tensions in the middle east. israel striking back tonight after the biggest barrage of missiles from lebanon in more than 16 years. tracking severe storms on the move tonight in the midatlantic on the heels of that deadly tornado outbreak. nbc news investigates after our report on toxic air concerns near a louisiana school. what the epa is now doing about it. and it was 20 years ago we lost a member of our nbc news family covering the war in iraq. tonight my conversation with david bloom s widow about the lives his story may have saved. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening and welcome. the tears of grief that consume nashville, tennessee, just ten days ago over the murders of young children and
medical procedure. but when they arrived in march 3rd the unthinkable happened. they were met by members of the gulf cartel and abducted at gunpoint. the mcghee and eric williams were found in a shack days later. the brown killed it is believed to be a case of mistaken identity. u.s. law enforcement sources exclusively tell cross dharnt there s much more to this story but both u.s. and mexican authorities are still unraveling exactly what led up to this violence but we don t know. so when she arrived back in the u.s., we asked louisiana taf ya mcghee what happened. watch. are you feeling okay? is it true that from the reports that it was a drug deal gone wrong? can you tell us a little bit about what happened with the cartel? why were you in mexico? so there s still a lot of questions left to answer starting with who is this brutal gulf cartel. willing to spill blood for their operation, and what do we make of their apology for this whole ordeal? i m joined now by steve m
medical procedure. but when they arrived in march 3rd the unthinkable happened. they were met by members of the gulf cartel and abducted at gunpoint. the mcghee and eric williams were found in a shack days later. the brown killed it is believed to be a case of mistaken identity. u.s. law enforcement sources exclusively tell cross dharnt there s much more to this story but both u.s. and mexican authorities are still unraveling exactly what led up to this violence but we don t know. so when she arrived back in the u.s., we asked louisiana taf ya mcghee what happened. watch. are you feeling okay? is it true that from the reports that it was a drug deal gone wrong? can you tell us a little bit about what happened with the cartel? why were you in mexico? so there s still a lot of questions left to answer starting with who is this brutal gulf cartel. willing to spill blood for their operation, and what do we make of their apology for this whole ordeal? i m joined now by steve m