Lester holt. Good evening. An hourlong press conference with president obama today over an issue no less weighty than iran and the nuclear bomb was suddenly overshadowed by a single question about another serious topic and an answer no one expected the president would publicly utter. The question was related to the rape accusations that surround bill cosby. It was not the issue top of mind as the president went before reporters to pitch the Historic Nuclear Deal with iran but its what a lot of people are talking about tonight. Were of course covering it all. But we want to start with Nbc News National Correspondent Peter Alexander and that question. Ill say this. Reporter it was a stunningly powerful statement, especially for a president whos made it his policy not to comment about ongoing legal matters. If you give a woman or a man for that matter without his or her knowledge a drug and then have sex with that person without consent, thats rape. Reporter the president himself a lawyer
New york this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. An hourlong press conference with president obama today over an issue no less weighty than iran and the nuclear bomb was suddenly overshadowed by a single question about another serious topic and an answer no one expected the president would publicly utter. The question wasrape accusation thats surround bill cosby. It was not the issue top of mind as the president went before reporters to pitch the Historic Nuclear Deal with iran, but its what a lot of people are talking about tonight. We of course are covering it all. But we want to start with Nbc News National Correspondent Peter Alexander and that question. Ill say this. Reporter it was a stunningly powerful statement, especially for a president whos made it his policy not to comment about ongoing legal matters. If you give a woman man for that matter without his or her knowledge a drug and then have sex with that person without consent, thats rape. Reporter the presi
The highest level. Nunatak. Nunatak. Correct. And he spells it right but they both go home winners. The Scripps National spelling bee ends in a tie. Captioning funded by cbs this is the cbs morning news for friday may 29th 2015. Good morning. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. The former speaker of the house Dennis Hastert has been indicted by a federal grand jury for violating banking laws and lying the fbi. The indictment says hastert paid hush money to keep an unnamed person quiet about, quote, misconduct. He served from 1999 to 2007 and was the longest running speaker. Good morning. Good morning. According to the indictment hastert who is now 73 withdrew 2 million in very small increments to stay under the Bank Regulators and lied to investigators to keep one person quiet. A car sped past reporters last night. The former House Speaker still has not commented on allegations he agreed to pay millions of dollars to silence a longtime acquaintance and that he lied to the fbi. Acc
Possibly could. Noneunatak. Nunatak . Nunatak. Correct. And he spells it right but they both go home winners. The Scripps National spelling bee ends in a tie. Captioning funded by cbs ning funded by cbs this is the cbs morning news for friday, may 29th, 2015. Good morning. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. The former speaker of the house Dennis Hastert has been indicted by a federal grand jury for violating banking laws and lying to the fbi. The indictment says hastert paid hush money to keep an unnamed person quiet about, quote, prior misconduct. Hastert served as speaker for eight years from 1999 to 2007 and he was the longest serving Republican House speaker. Susan mcginnis is in washington. Susan, good morning. Annemarie, good morning. This is coming as a shock to many here on capitol hill. According to the indictment hastert who is now 73 withdrew 2 million in very small increments to stay under the Bank Regulators and lied to investigators to keep one person quiet. A car s
Good evening. An hourlong press conference with president obama today over an issue no less weighty than iran and the nuclear bomb was suddenly overshadowed by a single question about another serious topic and an answer no one expected the president would publicly utter. The question was related to the rape accusations that surround bill cosby. It was not the issue top of mind as the president went before reporters to pitch the Historic Nuclear Deal with iran, but its what a lot of people are talking about tonight. We of course are covering it all. But we want to start with Nbc News National Correspondent Peter Alexander and that question. Ill say this. Reporter it was a stunningly powerful statement, especially for a president whos made it his policy not to comment about ongoing legal matters. If you give a woman or a man for that matter without his or her knowledge a drug, and then have sex with that person without consent, thats rape. Reporter the president , himself a lawyer, publi