a key piece of smith s case, the pressure trump put on his vice president, mike pence, including a call on christmas day asking mr. pence not to certify the results. mr. trump allegedly telling pence, quote, you re too honest. how pence reacted today. our team in washington and our legal analysts standing by. also tonight, the scare on capitol hill. staffers running out of the senate office building after reports of an active shooter. police later giving the all-clear. what happened? the gunman who killed 11 people at a pittsburgh synagogue sentenced to death for the worst anti-semitic attack in u.s. history. the disturbing images, a cinder block cell in an oregon home. the fbi says a kidnapped woman was kept inside but made a dramatic escape. tonight the plea to the public for help. are there more victims? and visitors flocking to a zoo in china after this video exploded on social media. is that a bear or a human in disguise? announcer: this is nbc nightly news w
so there is a lot of presidential politics happening right now, where the primary over the weekend in south carolina, and a primary tomorrow in michigan. lucky for us, someone who knows a ton about politics and never seems to hold back, james carville, is standing by to talk with us about all of it. there s also quite a bit of legal news we are following. today, the manhattan district attorney alvin bragg as the judge in that criminal case to impose a gag order on trump. former u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york who s been on our show many times before, felipe perez, we ll discuss with us and what comes next with there. but i want to start tonight with a little bit of what i will call a reality check. about the very likely general election matchup between joe biden and donald trump. both candidates face challenges right now. but they are no way the same. on the one hand, president biden is dealing with poll numbers that don t seem to budge on the econ
to impeach me because comi coming down, i don t know . i love that one. anyway, another story. joe biden can joke all he wants, but the evidence against him keeps pouring in. irs whistleblowers have document in.s suggest the bidens have overseas bank accounts. and congressma n comey revealing how sloppy they were at flvering up the foreigomern cash flow. banks flagging 170 suspicious reports alone. but hey, hunter biden s already accepted responsibility. so i guess we should juste. leave this alone. he did attempt so he s a private citizen, by the way, to resolve this case and has paid t the back taxes. hunter biden has tried to accept responsibility. the republicans in house want to be in an uproar. they want to be apoplectic because, my go.hey wantd richarn was, according to the son of the president of the unite d states of america. why the wouldn t preferential treatment d? mov i want to move on, though,e to donald trump and hunter hav biden. i should not analog
parents rights, and a lot of people. let me walk you through why this is the stop story now. a few years ago, few might have been able to predict what is happening in a university has been forced to halt in vitro fertilization after a local judge has ruled they will treat those frozen embryos as, quote, children. they feature of image of god. this came out of alabama where two clinics are holding those procedures. that rule, like a long water of republican antichoice matter. we ll return to that in a moment. the rule sending shockwaves across the nation as they see this effort to limit right, to limb medical choice, and potentially interfering with family planning techniques, procedures by parents who want to have kids. this is a crackdown on parents trying to have children. it does not appear to create criminal liability for ivf providers in the practice of ivf or the crazy of those embryos. the legally extreme ruling would be pared back on appeal. there is no nationally re
well, i know i would i would clap, too. so happy tuesday, everyone, tonight. let happs take a trip back in time, all the way back to the summer of 2023. that s when the mysterious figure known o president bidenesta established the first ever office of climate changebl healh equity, a new bureaucracy deep within the department of health and human services. well, at least health and human services belong together. but climate change and health equity might as well be themi office of brains joy. they are. th so why bring this up now? well, the office of climate change and health equity or ouchi rhymes with fauci wants to scold you and the scold in charge as america s assistant secretary health adm rachel levine. take a look. , hello.i i m admiral rachel levine. this black history month, i am pleased to partner with omi in advancing betteeased tor thrh better understanding for black communities. climat bee change is having a disproportionate effect on the physical and m