stephanie ruhle starts now. tonight, the chaotic start to this new congress. republicans ran on inflation, immigration, and crime but they are focused on fights, internal vaccinations, and stunts. today removing the presented of a lot and when mark from a committee assignment. then the former president feeling the pressure. a potential new charges for his already jailed money man. and the gun country. the fresh push for more people to legally carry just as we get results of the first federal gun crimes reported in decades. as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. house republicans have set off a new fire storm on capitol hill today. minnesota democrat, elon omar, has been officially removed from the foreign affairs committee after a party line vote. republican cited her past eight months criticizing israel, with some democrats saying, it is just political revenge for the removal of marjorie taylor greene and paul
house republicans have set off a new fire storm on capitol hill today. minnesota democrat, elon omar, has been officially removed from the foreign affairs committee after a party line vote. republican cited her past eight months criticizing israel, with some democrats saying, it is just political revenge for the removal of marjorie taylor greene and paul gosar from their committees during the less conference. nbc s ryan nobles has more. tonight, democratic congresswoman ilhan omar divided. my leadership and boys will be diminished. if i am not on this committee for one term. after republicans took the dramatic step, but to remove her from the foreign affairs committee. how speaker, kevin mccarthy, says it is in response omar s past comments. with both republicans and democrats of condemns antisemitic. including support for israel was all about the benjamins. and that israel has hypnotized the world. comments omar has apologized for. when it comes to foreign affairs, e
already ramping up its assault tonight. plus, a major update to a story we ve been following. the fbi now investigating congressman george santos for allegedly stealing thousands of dollars meant to help a veteran s dying dog. this is the $17,000 that sontose claims he spent in florida reportedly doesn t add up either. hunter biden s attorneys now calling for a criminal investigation into rudy giuliani and others over the laptop found at a delaware computer repair shop. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, half a million more russian fighters. that s what ukraine is bracing for tonight, 500,000 more russians and a major onslaught. here s ukraine s defense minister with the chilling warning. translator: officially, they announced 300,000. but when we see the troops at the borders, according to our estimates, it is much more. we think that they have already mobilized 500,000. 500,000. it sounds huge on an absolute basis, and if it pans out, it is huge. just to give y
announcement about his future in the nfl. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening after suffering a dehumanizing death helplessly beaten in the street, the life and the person that was tyre nichols was celebrated in a memphis church today a funeral that portrayed nichols as more than a victim of a shocking act, but also a father, a skateboard enthusiast, a photographer the service, however, was also a public outcry for police reform, attended by other families who have lost loved ones to police. also in attendance, vice president kamala harris who said this violent act was not in pursuit of public safety on that note, we have learned more about the five officers charged with nichols death, including the disciplinary histories for four of them as an apparent disconnect emerges between police accounts of the confrontation with nichols and what is seen on video recordings priscilla thompson leads us off tonight reporter: tonight, songs of sor
her attorney says school officials ignored. our nbc news reporting. the concerned texts the teacher sent to a loved one just before the shooting. the major winter storm moving into the northeast after a tornado outbreak left a trail of destruction farther south. al roker is here. president biden reversing course, now pledging the u.s. will send 31 abrams tanks to ukraine. so, what changed? just in, two years after he was suspended, facebook lifting its ban on donald trump. the dramatic video, a man with a long gun shooting up at a police helicopter. and the team of 25 performing a medical miracle for two infant twins. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, and one of the country s most closely watched criminal cases today south carolina prosecutors began laying out their double murder case against alex murdaugh, prominent attorney and patriarch of a powerful charleston area family accused of murdering his wife and 22-year-old son.