welcome to prime weekend. i m nicole wallace and let s get right to the week s top stories. threats and intimidation leading to doxxing and s.w.a.t.ing apparently. not enough to satiate donald trump and his maga accolytes. of course that was for concealing hush money payments to a porn star and it was meant to hide that information from the american voter ahead of the 2016. now trump allies are propertying their revenge and their retaliation against the people who have had the audacity to hold the ex- president accountable. of course all this happens at the expense of the rule of law. basic decency and our very democracy. new york times out today with quote, within hours of a jury finding trump guilty last week, the anger congealed into calls for action. since then prominent gop leaders and out of government have demanded that elected republicans use every available instrument of power against democrats. including targeted investigations and prosecutions. here s how trump
message to the world from the hallowed shores of normandy. well, never saying the word trump. the president implicitly warned of the threat. he believes his election your opponent poses to us democracy as for donald trump, he s using his guilty verdict on 34 counts to rile up his base on the campaign trail as some swing state voters tells cnn don t care about what happened in that new york courtroom and i ll go one-on-one with the former house speaker, nancy pelosi. she is in france for d-day commemorations and will weigh in on the president s message overseas and all of the drama with her congressional colleagues right here in washington i m dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics first up, a presidential complete from the cliffs pointe-du-hoc, where american soldiers turned the tide of world war ii, 80 years ago. today, joe biden is asking the american people to honor the legacy of those heroes gather here today just not just to honor those who showed
billion with a b, we ve got this honore got this high for sola alvarez at the white house, and this is cnn welcome, till the interject after this hour, some eye-popping numbers from a watchdog group keeping tabs on the us supreme court, suggesting justice clarence thomas received $2 million in gifts for more than 100 entities, 2 million. justice thomas, not the only one racking up the numbers in this study plus the biden-harris campaign, making a play for anti-trump republicans such as the ones who keep turning out for nikki haley and republican primaries. republican governor glenn youngkin s, virginia will be here on the lead and we ll talk about that in much more. plus new murder charges for the man accused of being the gilgo beach serial killer. the new evidence on a laptop that prosecutors say was his blueprint for serial killing. we start this hour with the 2024. 2024 leave. let s play the music election dam up. one we could go today. donald trump was convicted of 34 f
the first major heatwave of 2024. triple-digit temperatures in the west. we re tracking it. attorney general merrick garland defiant on capitol hill, telling republicans, i will not be intimidated, as they demand tapes of president biden s interview with special counsel robert hur. our nbc news exclusive. the new electric vehicles rolling off gm s assembly line. the ceo on why gm is still betting big on evs, despite a sales slowdown. and after he stole the show from his congressman dad, the 6-year-old telling us about his viral moment of fame. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, and welcome. president biden tonight sidestepping congress and taking his own action to sharply tighten controls at the southern border. with his signature alone, the president using his executive authority to shut down asylum requests when the average daily number of illegal crossings between ports of entry exceeds 2,500. tonight, that average number tops
donald trump and try to control the narrative because trump himself always controlled the narrative. now if you talked to any of his senior advisers, they are making no plans for him to go to present his lawyers believe they have a good case for him not to go to prison. they think is age, the fact that he doesn t have any kind of criminal record, make that case and they are insisting that he will not go to prison. however, donald trump is making his own personal phone calls privately saying that he thinks he could very well be behind bars and that he is okay with it. i will note that almost anyone you talked to, who knows donald trump does not think you would actually be okay with going to prison, but that is what he is telling people. and you also have some reporting on this vetting process in the search for trump s running mate yeah, things are really starting to heat up and they have in the last several weeks, several of those potential vice president that i m sure can