Maureen good morning, everyone, and welcome. I feel like it is like school. We are waiting a for a few more people to sit down, and then we will get started. Thank you for coming. Immigration on the United States signed on march 6, the januaryplaced 27 executive order, whose implantation was halted in multiple federal courts. The new executive order is titled protecting the nation from foreign terrorist entry. The new order is similar in butctive to the order involves clarifications. It was drafted far more carefully to avoid legal challenges. The new executive order still for travel for 90 days muslimmajority countries, but now, it is only six countries. Iraq has been taken off the list. Still suspends the Refugee Admissions Program for 120 days, and it still imposes a cap of 50,000 refugees for 2017 when the Refugee Admission Program begins. Again, it is stalled in the may in with hearings in the circuit courts of appeals. But the issues surrounding the executive order are not just l
Usain bolt wins again, and simone biles wins another gold. Are they the best athletes of alltime . Nightly news from rio begins right now. Announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt reporting from the olympic summer games in rio. From the olympics, first the headlines. At least seven deaths have now been reported in louisiana. The number of rescues has reached 20,000 after a Staggering Amount of rain, as much as 2 1 2 feet inside 72 hours in some places. From overhead, baton rouge this evening, were looking at a watery scene that is in some ways reminiscent of the ga ga gabe. Reporter now a federal disaster area. What are we looking at right here . A shopping center, clearly a major retail area. Reporter today a break from the downpours, but not from the heart break. Many rivers receding, but still at levels. More than 7,000 people have been rescued in louisiana in the past few days, more than 12,000 or so have spent time in emergency shelters. Life after the historic flood wo
Correspondent john roberts is monitoring all of this and joins us now live. Good afternoon as we are here in the brady Briefing Room awaiting sean spicers arrival, should be in the next few minutes. The relation between the president , democrats on capitol hill has erupted into allout war over what the white house claims is democrat slow walking the cabinet picks. Heres what President Trump tweeted this morning. When will the democrats give us our attorney general and rest of cabinet they should be ashamed of themselves no wonder d. C. Doesnt work this work erupted into full froth last night when the president fired the acting attorney general, one of about 30 holdovers from the Obama Administration, sally yates after she said she would not instruct her attorneys to defend this new extreme vetting executive order, nor did she even know if it was legal. Sean spicer had addressed such talk at yesterdays briefing, almost seemed either prescient or foreshadowing in what he said. Listen to
Wikileaks. Welcome to the Wikileaks Press conference on the cia. The Central Intelligence agency lost control of its entire Cyber Weapons arsenal. I love reading those wikis. I think you have to assume this is purposely timed. The cloud of russia continues to darken over this white house. Fbi director jim comey met with lawmakers today. Do you believe that barack Obama Wiretapped trump tower . Theres no evidence of that. This is the closest we will ever get to repealing and replacing obamacare. This bill as written today simply would not pass the senate. Wonderful deals, great deals. Thats what i do. The time is here, the time is now. Health care plan two, repeal and revenge. Good evening. Sometimes the most important story is not what donald trump is saying, its what hes not saying. Tonight we can report President Trump specifically refusing to do something every other president has considered a constitutional duty and a nobrainer, confront those who attack the cia or steal from it. C
With people who Everybody Knows are dirty. And it doesnt matter if thats okay in their country. It is not okay in the United States if youre an American Company or american businessman doing that. Just willful refusal to look and recognize dirt you are wallowing in, thats enough to get nailed in this country under our lawes. And it is absolutely not okay if youre a business point who will at some point run for president. Theres that. Yeah. Thanks wsh rachel. Thank you, lauwrence. Nbc news is reporting that the president stunned his staff by taking questions at what was supposed to be simply an announcement of another trump executive order. This one about Building Permits for intrastructure. Not surprisingly there were no questions about infrastructure. The president knew exactly what questions would be about. In his defense of his comments about the murder of heather in charlottesville on saturday, by a white supremacist, donald trump relied entirely on a claim that everyone, including