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Of music. Nightly news begins right now. From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. The echoes of President Trumps explosi explosive accusization of president obama outshined the gop health care. The white house operating in lowprofile mode today as the president s spokes people seem to be trying to catch up with their boss and the source of his head scratching allegation, that former president obama had ordered the wiretapping of trump tower during the campaign, but with no offer of evidence, democrats suspect its all an attempt to deflect attention from the russians. Reporter the rarely pressshy president staying behind closed doors today, standing behind his explosive, unproven claim he was spied on by president obama. Quote, just found out that obama had my wires tapped in trump tower just before the victory. The president s tweets speak for themselves. Reporter press Secretary Sean Spicer calling for a congressional inves
A teacher inspiring america with the power of music. Nightly news begins right now. From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. The echoes of President Trumps explosive and inexplicable twitter accusations against former president obama over the weekend threatened to drown out todays big news. The announcement of a revised immigration ban. In uncharacteristic fashion, he signed the new order without the press corps or cameras on hand. The white house operate ng lowprofile mode as his spokes people try to catch up with their boss and the head scratching allegation that former president obama had ordered the wiretapping of trump tower during the campaign. But with no offer of evidence, democrats suspect its a Trump Associates and the russians. We get it started with hallie jackson. Reporter the rarely pressshy president staying behind closed doors today, standing behind his explosive, unproven claim that he was spied on by presid
Everything. Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. Two and a half years after president obama kept a promise to pull u. S. Forces out of the war in iraq, he sent them back there, into a new war against sunni muslims known as isis. Isis has been seizing territory in iraq and syria to form a new islamic state. Today, u. S. Fighters hit isis targets in Northern Iraq with the goal of stopping them from overrunning a key kurdish city. Earlier, the u. S. Airdropped relief supplies to starving refugees surrounded by isis forces. We have a team of correspondents on this story. First, well go to david martin at the pentagon. David. Reporter its not exactly shock and awe, but this is what the First American strike of the new battle for iraq looked like. 500poundalizerguided bombs hit a feel gun used to shell the city of erbil in Northern Iraq where scores of American Military personnel and diplomats are based. The f18 jet fighters which d
Reporter how much of the success do you credit to phil . Everything. Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. Two and a half years after president obama kept a promise to pull u. S. Forces out of the war in iraq, he sent them back there, into a new war against sunni muslims known as isis. Isis has been seizing territory in iraq and syria to form a new islamic state. Today, u. S. Fighters hit isis targets in Northern Iraq with the goal of stopping them from overrunning a key kurdish city. Earlier, the u. S. Airdropped relief supplies to starving refugees surrounded by isis forces. We have a team of correspondents on this story. First, well go to david martin at the pentagon. David. Reporter its not exactly shock and awe but this is what the First American strike of the new battle for iraq looked like. 500poundalizerguided bombs hit a feel gun used to shell the city of erbil in Northern Iraq where scores of American Military personn