On 9 11. How he told him that america was under attack. Nightly news begins right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. We start tonight with two urgent government warnings about the fire risk from samsungs new he is smartphone which is already under recall. The latest came this afternoon from a the Consumer Product Safety Commission and from samsung itself, warning owners of galaxy note 7 phones to stop using them after a series of fires linked to the phones lithium ion batteries. The alert comes on the heels of a warning from the faa against using the samsung phones on board planes, where the consequences of a burning or exploding phone could be catastrophic. Tom costello with what consumers need to know. Reporter with 2. 5 million phones under recall, the faa is telling consumers to turn off their phones and dont use them. This happened with my note 7. Reporter the lithium ion batteries can explode and c
Noreaster that could dump more than a foot of snow throughout the northeast. The winter blast set to begin tonight with snow intensifying overnight into early tuesday. Well bring you a full forecast. We have al roker, my friend, with me later on in the show. We have some heavy hitters lined up to help us break down todays news. Chris jansing following all the latest from the white house. My eague, kie hunt is over apitol hill. Karine jeanpierre from moveon. Org and ee is with us this afternoon as well. Nice to see you ladies. Im going to start with chris at the white house since we just had the press briefing last hour. Really the big headline out of that well, there were several but one was this wiretapping accusation and what sean spicer said to try to explain what the president truly meant bishgs quote unquote, wiretapping in his original tweet. Reporter and whether hes had a conversation about that. He said, look at what the president s tweet said, wiretapping. Then there was all t
And in particular, theyre looking at the data operation of the Trump Campaign. Now, theres no accusation here that anybody committed any wrongdoing, but one of the things that the fbi is interested in is perhaps anybody might have wittingly or unwittingly helped the russians target the data. Now, last year Jared Kushner did an interview with Forbes Magazine in which he described helping build this data operation that was headquartered down in san antonio, texas. And he described that they were using a lot of technology to microtarget and figure out where they could find small groups of trump voters in parts of pennsylvania, in wisconsin, in michigan. Of course these are states that ended up being key to the president s victory. Again, the fbi is at this stage gathering information. Theres no allegation of wrongdoing against Jared Kushner. And he is not a target of this investigation at this point were told, anderson. So why are investigators looking at kushner and his relationship with
Attorney general Rod Rosenstein spoke out today insists its not a fishing expedition and downplayed the subpoenas. In general, chris, it doesnt say anything about the likely indictments because we conduct investigations and make a determination as some point in the point of the investigation whether charges are appropriate. Whats the advantage in terms of an investigation taking a case to a grand jury . Many of our investigations, chris, involve the use of the grand jury. A way to gather documents. Sometimes bring in witness witness for full testimony. A tool we use like any other tool in the course of our investigations. The subpoenas are widely seen in washington as a big step forward in the case. Heres what a Ranking Member of the House Intelligence Committee said earlier today. Instead, if these allegations are true, its moving into a new phase with the impaneling of a grand jury so that special counsel can subpoena witnesses and documents. That wouldnt be taking place if there was
Military strength, jobs, Supreme Court pick, economic enthusiasm, deregulation and so much more has driven the trump base together. Will never change. You have that. As for the russia investigation, the president mentioned the justice official who launched it is defending the investigation. Well have more on that in a second. Lets begin with Kaitlan Collins in new jersey today. Thats a lot of twitter for the first day on vacation, kaitlan. Reporter thats right. Clearly, the bad weather is getting the president to tweet. The white house is insistent this is a working vacation that are necessary because of repairs that are happening in the west wing. There are no Public Events for today. We were told by a white house spokesman the president received his intelligence briefing this morning and had an hour long phone call with secretary of state, Rex Tillerson and his new chief of staff, kelly to discuss north korea. We know hes been on twitter and watching television. The president talked