Settling at least six cases of sex yult harassment, and reportedly agreeing to pay the last woman, a colleague, 32 million. Good evening. And its great to start another week with you. And we begin tonight with harrowing new details about what those four u. S. Special ops officers encountered during that deadly ambush in niger. They were part of a larger team, and tonight, weve learned they were on their way back to base, when they were given a Second Mission. Those four american soldiers did not survive the attack. Toontd, we still do not know if they had body armor. What we doe know is when the call for help was made and how long it took in a rare moment today, the chairman of the joint chiefs coming before the cameras after the president today would not answer questions sent his way. Abcs mary bruce leading us off. The assessment by our leaders on the ground at that time was that contact with the enemy was unlikely. Reporter but tonight, abc news is learning much more about what real
Campaigns, meaning when you see a big check, all of this is reported, the spending is reported in Campaign Spending reports, but this spending indicates that money was spent at a law firm. You never, ever know what that law firm was doing. They might have been having you comply with fec reports. Right. All sorts of things. And thats a good point of if we do end up getting further information on this from that bank subpoena. I mean, it may be very opaque in terms of where how those payments funneled through. The democrats have said, the democratic leaning law firm, named on being the democratic funder here, they said in the statement about this, well, listen, we werent the only people that funded the research. The republicans should come out and admit it now, too. The republicans so far are not doing that and may be hard to figure it out seeing the records. So my guess is that it was the best funded republican president ial campaign at the time that was also getting the most criticism f
Well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. On day 277 of the Trump Administration, and in a squabble that now, as we said, enters its second week, the president today could not resist an ongoing fight with a gold star widow who is pregnant and grieving and going through the darke darkest days of her life. She buried the husband and father of her children on saturday. And today turning back to policy, we heard from the pentagon about the ambush that killed her husband and three other u. S. Soldiers. There is also new reporting from nbc news tonight which says, quote, an emerging theory among u. S. Military investigators is that the Army Special Forces soldiers ambushed in niger were set up by terrorists who were tipped off in advance about a meeting in a village sympathetic to local isis affiliates, three u. S. Officials who have been briefered on t briefed on the matter told nbc news. Today it was the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff who forthri
To wait until monday and a thing that this story shows is just how much what you could call masked spending 0 curls in campaigns, meaning when you see a big check, all of this is reported, the spending is reported in Campaign Spending reports, but this spending indicates that money was spent at a law firm. You never, ever know what that law firm was doing. They might have been having you comply with fec reports. Right. All sorts of things. And thats a good point of if we do end up getting further information on this from that bank subpoena. I mean, it may be very opaque in terms of where how those payments funneled through. The democrats have said, the democratic leaning law firm, named on being the democratic funder here, they said in the statement about this, well, listen, we werent the only people that funded the research. The republicans should come out and admit it now, too. The republicans so far are not doing that and may be hard to figure it out seeing the records. So my guess