president biden urging hamas to accept a new israeli peace proposal saying, it s time for the war to end. why there is new optimism tonight. just in, the sentence for michelle troconis, convicted of helping her boyfriend plot to kill his estranged wife. o.j. prices are at record highs. what s driving them up? and the long shot baseball team chasing extra innings after their college closed for good. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, and welcome. donald trump today unrepentant, defiant, and casting himself as the aggrieved one as newspapers across the country proclaim the new york jury s finding of guilt against the former president in his falsified documents trial. today at trump tower, the very place the crimes at the heart of the case took place, mr. trump stood before gathered reporters and some supporters in what appeared to be an unscripted monologue. he railed against the judge calling the trial, unfair and rigged, and withou
questioning the fairness of the judge and jury. mr. trump claiming without evidence that the new york court acted in conjunction with the white house and the doj in a rigged trial. president biden in his first comments calling the claims dangerous, but will it change the political landscape with the election rapidly approaching. mr. trump raking in campaign donations in the hours after the verdict and what about voters as a nation makes sense of a historic moment. our team coverage ahead. also tonight, the new legal defeat for abortion in texas. the state supreme court rejecting the latest challenge to one of the country s most restrictive abortion laws. president biden urging hamas to accept a new israeli peace proposal saying, it s time for the war to end. why there is new optimism tonight. just in, the sentence for michelle troconis convicted of helping her boyfriend plot to kill his estranged wife. o.j. prices at record highs. what s driving them up. the long shot baseb
it can set price controls. reporter: supreme court of the united states needs to defend its branch of government and say wait a minute, it s not proper on something of this measure to have only one branch of government making the decisions. the law can only be challengeded by a three-fifths majority vote in the senate, and though it s prohibited from rationing care, rationing isn t defined. so if it were to set a price of a surgery, a life saving surgery so low that no doctor would perform it, would that be rationing care? we don t know. that s up to them. that s why some critics call it a death panel. not only that, after 2020 the law says none of their decisions can ever be challenged by anyone. stocking were down today. the nasdaq fell five. s&p droppeded two.
having any sort of entity that s a nationwide entity. we used the word rationing way back when. a couple years ago. rationing isn t necessarily a bad term because we don t have unlimited resources. but who is doing the ration. i think this makes kathleen sebelius look very bad that she made the wrong decision and it bodes badly for the future. martha: very interesting piece you wrote this morning. reporter: it took fox news to bring this to our attention. bill: brit hume on the one issue republicans are warned about.
work this man does and we are not here to impugn him in think way, but we ll wait when he come out with his word later today. here is the problem the story has been out there for two weeks and we ve been told about one plot, just one, and that was here in new york city. fair enough, bill, that is a very good point. we have to be careful about the exposure of intelligence sources and methods. i mean, this thing came out by an individual who, you know, cloaks himself in the garb of a whistle-blower. i look at it very differently. he s exposed a very sensitive intelligence operation. we don t know what information we ve now missed because of the exposure of this program. of it also comes at a time, you know, the i.r.s. scandal, the rifling of reporters emails, the benghazi bungling where people s trust of government isn t very good. so it s gotten caught up in all of that. bill: one after the other. hopefully general alexander will help clear the air this afternoon about the importan