women the recognition they deserve announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening in a year defined by some of the most extreme heat we ve ever seen, along with one of the strongest hurricanes to hit the u.s. mainland, tonight making headlines for unseasonable cold and early snow in the east, autumn interrupted by a sudden and dramatic detour into winter a climate change whiplash leaving 86 million people currently under freeze alerts from the northern tip of texas across the south and up into the northeast. more than 40 record lows possible this evening across 18 states several cities in the south could see their earliest freezes on record al roker will lay it out for us in a moment but first let s go to maggie vespa, feeling the big chill in michigan. reporter: less than a month into fall, a frigid blast blanketing swaths of the midwest in white. did you have to dig out the winter coat? we did. we went for a walk tonight and got them on repo
Altogether, the industry supports over 9 million jobs nationwide. These are jobs that natural gas is helping make happen, all while reducing americas emissions. Energy lives here. As you know, alongside the first public trump russia hearings in the house monday morning, in the Senate Monday morning will be the First Supreme Court nomination hearings for neil gorsuch. To get ready for those gorsuch hearings, sunday night 5 00 p. M. Eastern, a special look at go such and those hearings hosted by ari melbur. You should watch this. Hes sitting in for lawrence because he works too much. Thank you. Thank you for the plug. As for working too much, the old saying, look whos talking. I feel it. Thanks. Have a great weekend. Donald trump has doubled down on his unsubstantiated accusation that president obama
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Welcome to Watters World. Im Jesse Watters. How fake news is getting trumped. You hear that . That silence is the sounds of the trumprussia collusion scandal dying. A few weeks ago if you turned on your television, all heard was this. Collusion between Trump Associates and russians during the election. Members of conservatives president ial campaign had repeated contact with russian intelligence officials. Jesse but this is all a diversion. If anybody was getting played bid russians, it was the obama administration. It started with this pathetic stunts. We want to reset our relationship. Well do it together. Okay . Jesse hillary tried to reset relations with a button and she misspelled the word reset. Her state Department Gave russia access to 20 of american uranium Production Capacity related to a shady Clinton Foundation if donor. And imaginew if trump was caught saying that. When mitt romney labeled russia as americas biggest geopolitical foe, barack obama mocked him. The cold war h
Michael flynn. End the investigation. Im joined noud by ken dilanian with nbc news it, Natasha Bertrand who covers is the russia probe with the atlantic and jill winebanks, all three of you, i want to know what you make of these two witnesses being called, comey already and sessions very soon. And then the president. Chris, what i think this shows is mueller is accelerating sat ob struskz justice aspect of the probe. The three pillars of this investigation, it looks like the Obstruction Case is going down the track further and faster than the collusion and Money Laundering. Theres a lot we dont see but the obstruction witnesses we know who they are and what stories they have to tell. Its not a surprise that comey is a key witness. Whats surprising to me is its happening now and seems like its speeding up. Natasha, explain how you see what kind of a case mueller is going to make here with these hot witnesses now. It seems like ken said hes moving more quickly along the obstruction path.
Why . Because information is powerful. Thats our closing thought for you. And that does it for the beat. I also want to say a big thank you to Ayman Mohyeldin and Chris Jansing for anchoring all last week. I will be back here at 6 00 p. M. Eastern tomorrow. Hardball with Chris Matthews starts right now. Big bad wolf. Lets play hardball. Good evening. Im Chris Matthews back in washington. Well, the president spent the weekend defending his mental stability. And look, ive been away for two weeks and ucome back to that kind of news. And perhaps more telling, his defense of his military or mental stability only raised more questions about, you guessed it, his mental stability. And then there is the new hope of the resistance. Like other heroic figures, she goes by one name and one name
president. On saturday, President Trump tweeted, actually, throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being really smart. I went from a very successful businessman to top tv st