draining their bank accounts. for some victims it s fatal. one mother who fought to convince police her son s death was no accidental overdose. those images of unruly passengers on planes. today, the flight attendants on the steps of the capitol. what they re demanding congress do about it. the growing scam involving ai. how criminals can impersonate you or a loved one and cash in. and on this vietnam veterans day, , haarry smiith on a a journey home more than 50 years in the making. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, and welcome, everyone. we begin with developing news out of the vatican tonight surrounding the health of pope francis. just days before the start of holy week observances, the 86-year-old leader of the roman catholic church is in a hospital in rome tonight after suffering breathing difficulties in recent days. tonight the vatican reports pope francis is being treated for a respiratory infection and will remain hospit
air. as top leadership called fact-checking bad for business. then, democrats holding republicans feats to the fire over gun safety legislation, demanding a vote be brought to the floor. congressman dave cicilline joins me live. and a new republican-led bill in idaho to make abortion access a whole lot harder in a first of its kind trafficking law, as the of our gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle, live from washington, d.c., newly-revealed evidence is ratcheting up the legal pressure on fox news. the network is facing a 1.6 billion, with a b, dollar defamation lawsuit from dominion voting systems. nbc is obtained several slides of internal fox communications used by dominion lawyers in pretrial hearings. fox to try to keep these secret, but a judge released them. they show in new detail how the network repeatedly aired conspiracy theories about dominion in the 2020 election, even as foxes fact-checker s, in what it calls
room found no evidence for fraud, but host continued to push the conspiracy theories on air. as top leadership called fact-checking bad for business. then, democrats holding republicans feats to the fire over gun safety legislation, demanding a vote be brought to the floor. congressman dave cicilline joins me live. and a new republican-led bill in idaho to make abortion access a whole lot harder in a first of its kind trafficking law, as the of our gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle, live from washington, d. c., newly-revealed evidence is ratcheting up the legal pressure on fox news. the network is facing a 1. 6 billion, with a b, dollar defamation lawsuit from dominion voting systems. nbc is obtained several slides of internal fox communications used by dominion lawyers in pretrial hearings. fox to try to keep these secret, but a judge released them. they show in new detail how the network repeatedly aired conspiracy the
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