was discovered after more than a century. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, everyone we learned late today of the passing of ivana trump, first wife to former president donald trump and mother to his three oldest children donald junior, ivanka, and eric trump tonight, the children in a statement describing their mother as a radiant beauty and caring mother and friend. ivana and donald trump became tabloid fodder when their 15-year long marriage ended quite publicly in 1992 the 73-year-old found dead in her manhattan home tonight, mr. trump, via his social network site, remembering her as a wonderful, beautiful, and amazing woman who led a great and inspirational life kristen welker has more reporter: in the 1980s they were one of new york s power couples. the brash real estate mogul donald trump and his glamorous first wife ivana tonight, the former president announcing her death, calling her a wonderful, beautiful, and amazing woman w
investments. plus, the latest in presidential politics as donald trump all but confirms that he is going to run for president again. what he says about the timing of his official announcement. and the u.s. secret service accused of deleting messages related to the january 6th attack on the capitol. we ll have the agency s explanation. good morning. welcome to way too early on this friday, july 15th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being here. former president donald trump s bid for the white house gain seems all but certain. in an interview, in my own mind, i have already made that decision. he says the only thing left to decide is whether to announce before or after this november s midterms. trump told the magazine that a benefit to announcing before november would be to potentially clear the republican field, saying quote, i think a lot of people would not even run if i did, because if you look at the polls, they don t even register. that of course, is actually not
was discovered after more than a century. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, everyone we learned late today of the passing of ivana trump, first wife to former president donald trump and mother to his three oldest children donald junior, ivanka, and eric trump tonight, the children in a statement describing their mother as a radiant beauty and caring mother and friend. ivana and donald trump became tabloid fodder when their 15-year long marriage ended quite publicly in 1992 the 73-year-old found dead in her manhattan home tonight, mr. trump, via his social network site, remembering her as a wonderful, beautiful, and amazing woman who led a great and inspirational life kristen welker has more reporter: in the 1980s they were one of new york s power couples. the brash real estate mogul donald trump and his glamorous first
their interaction will be open to the media and we should get at least images of their interaction. there has been a lot of speculation about whether they will fist bump or handshake or embrace, or stay across the table from one another and we will be watching the body language there, and it will be interesting to see, with the president having meetings with the broader coalition of gulf countries tomorrow, and the extent to which he and the crown prince engage when president trump and obama were here, the u.s. and saudi leaders kind of took a dual leadership role in that broader conference, and so we ll see if president biden is willing or eager to engage with the crown prince while he s there on that level. and the president s decision to meet the crown prince at all coming under fierce criticism from many in his own party back home. thank you, my friend. travel safe. good luck covering it this weekend. we appreciate you being here. still ahead in business, the futures board is u
soon, so had is not going to be a sort of legacy item that we re going to see in the near future. and many observers eyes, this whole first trip, israel, the palestinian authority is, just a precursor to the main event of this middle east journey which of course is where you, are saudi arabia, the president will be landing a few hours from now, walk us through his schedule, if you will, and we already know some signs of progress, saudi arabia announcing a few hours ago a rise in fly over air space rights with travel to other country, but the biggest issue is oil. what do we think the u.s. will get from this, in its effort to try to keep gas prices from surging again? the president will meet with both the team and then later on the crown prince and that s the relationship we are looking at particularly in terms of oil. president biden came to office, saying saudi arabia should be a pariah, knowing the crown prince s role in the killing of jamal khashoggi and critical of