Al roker is tracking it. New Police Body Cam from the las vegas massacre. For the first time, see what deputies encountered when they breached the snipers nest and skipping college with tuition rising and Student Loan Debt soaring, even other students are saying its not worth it. Announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening and thank you for being here. It was a horrifying scene in savannah, georgia today as a fourengine military plane fell from the sky exploding on a busy highway into a ball of flame and smokes. Cameras capturing the final seconds just after take off. There were nine people aboard the puerto rico c130. Gabe gutierrez has late details tonight from the scene. Reporter this Surveillance Video captured the moments the plane plummeted to the ground. It went flat on its back and down to the ground, boom. Everything was no slow motion. It disappeared behind tree line, saw it goes nose down and the explosion came up, fire ball. Knew something was real but
Thursday, may 3rd. We will go live to seoul shortly. We start with this bombshell. Damage control does not begin to describe what is going on at the white house this morning. Aides already trying to clean up after the new addition of the Trump Legal Team Rudy Giuliani said last night. The president did pay back his personal Attorney Michael Cohen for the 130,000 in hush money cohen delivered to porn star Stormy Daniels 11 days before the election. That directly contradicts something the president himself claimed. On fox news, giuliani claimed the payment as legal and went further. Political correspondent sara murray has more from washington. Reporter good morning. Rudy giuliani may be a new addition to the legal team, but entering with a flash. On fox news, he divulged that e trump reimbursed Michael Cohen for the 130,000 that he paid to silence Stormy Daniels. That was not campaign money. Im giving you a fact you dont know. It is not campaign money. No Campaign Finance violation. They
On fox news, he divulged that trump reimbursed Michael Cohen for the 130,000 that he paid to silence Stormy Daniels. That was not campaign money. Im giving you a fact you dont know. It is not campaign money. No Campaign Finance violation. They funneled it through a law firm . Funneled through the law firm. And the president repaid it. No Campaign Finance law . Zero. I knew how much money donald put in the campaign. 130,000. You could do a couple of checks. When i heard of the retainer of 35,000 when he was doing no work for the president. That is how he is repaying it. With a little profit and margin for paying taxes. Do you know the president didnt know about this . He didnt know about the specifics of it as far as i know. He did know about the general arrangement that michael would take care of it. I take care of this for my clients. I dont burden them with every single thing that comes along. Reporter that is counter to what Michael Cohen and the president said publicly. Cohen said
Everybody just coming in to this breaking news, what you all are reporting and what the significant is. Sure. What were reporting is that ty cobb, the Top White House lawyer, his title was actually white house special counsel, just to keep things confusing. Ty cobb is leaving, and is going to be replaced as you said, with emmet flood from the Law Firm Williams Connolly certainly part of the Impeachment Defense Team during the clinton administration. This is significant, because ty cobb came in last year as kind of a voice of moderation and collaboration with the special counsel. Arrived at a time when the situation was kind of tense. Mueller team was just getting started. Didnt feel they were getting the documents wanted fast enough and cobb basically became the point person at the white house for all things mueller, both for the mueller team and for reporters like you and me. His whole thing was, we are in full cooperation mode. So much so he caused tension between him and the white H
Knew nothing about any payments. Counselor guliani revealed to hannity that he paid Michael Cohen for giving 130,000 in hush money to Stormy Daniels. In a series of tweets this morning, President Trump wrote that he paid Michael Cohen through a monthly retainer adding the money didnt come from campaign funds. The president went on to call nondisclosure agreements like the one that Stormy Daniels signed among those of people with wealth. And Stormy Daniels said the agreement was used to stop the false accusations made by her about an affair. Despite already having signed a detailed letter admitting there was no affair. Again, just last month, the president said he knew nothing about the payment. Did you know about the 130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels . Then why did Michael Cohen make it . You have to ask Michael Cohen. Hes my attorney. You have to ask him. Do you know where he got the money to make the payment . Shepard well, i dont know. President trumps tweets confirm what rudy gulia