starting with just weeks to go until the start of the 2024 presidential race. gop frontrunner donald trump just scored a major legal victory against special counsel jack smith in that the supreme court issued a one-sentence judgment yesterday bluntly rejecting smith s request to fast track arguments on the former president s immunity case. so what comes next? evan perez breaks it down. reporter: the u.s. supreme court rejected a request by federal prosecutors to skip the appellate court and have the high court decide whether donald trump has immunity from prosecution in the election subversion charges. the decision deals a significant blow to special counsel jack smith s effort to keep a march 4th trial date on track. that s a lot harder now that prosecutors will have to wait several weeks while the d.c. court of appeals weighs the same questions. trump argues he has immunity. he also claims because he was impeached by the house of representatives and acquitted by the senat
on camera. a chinese fighter jet comes within 400 feet of a u.s. air force plane. our richard engel s dangerous assignment inside an african nation pracactically rurun by a russian mercenary group. how it s fueling the war in ukraine mystery solved why the famed venice canal suddenly turned green. and a major comeback for the pitcher diagnosed with cancer just five months ago announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt and good evening i m tom llamas in for lester there is fear and outrage in iowa tonight as desperate families cling to hope that their loved ones may still be alive inside a partially collapsed apartment building in the city of davenport look at these images part of the building is totally gone, but then there was this amazing scene last night. a resident waving for help some 27 hours after the collapse not only that, it came after authorities said that first responders had checked the entire building and no one was left inside. in fact, th
trapped. the city under fire for trying to demolish the building today. we hear from desperate family members. also tonight, the most brazen attack inside russia yet. drones targeting residential areas in moscow. how president putin is responding tonight. the mass shooting on a boardwalk in florida. nine injured, four of them children while in california, a group of teens attacking these marines. the first big test in congress for the debt deal with a deadline to default just days away. news about former first lady rosalynn carter. her new diagnosis just announced. close call caught on camera. a chinese fighter jet comes within 400 feet of a u.s. air force plane. our richard engel s dangerous assigngnment insidide a african nation practically run by a russian mercenary group. how it s fuelling the war in ukraine. why the famed venice canal suddenly turned green. and a major comeback for the pitcher diagnosed with cancer just five months ago. announcer: this
This is cnn breaking news. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. President biden arrived in israel hours after a devastating explosion in the courtyard of a Baptist Hospital in gaza, a deadly tragedy that the u. S. Is now asserting, the u. S. Believes israel is not responsible for. Rather, President Biden said earlier today, it was damage that the palestinians may have caused. The images emerging are devastating and the descriptions of the deadly aftermath are rather graphic. Heres what a volunteer who went to help clear the remains said. Translator i came at 8 00 a. M. As a Volunteer Thinking i would help with minor thing, but i was shocked to see unimaginable things like childrens corpses, elderly coralses, bodies scattered, intestines and many human bodies. The hamascontrolled Palestinian Health ministry immediat immediately blamed the Israeli Military and that accusation flew around the world, but after investigating the matter israel says that they have evidence that the cause of t
jonathan, the ukrainians say we need patience and time. given the weather is good right now, it is the middle of summer, what is the timeline? what are they looking at here? i don t think it s a set timeline, remember most leaders in the west say they will support ukraine for as long as it takes. but clearly, when it gets cold, when it s winter, it is much more difficult to fight so they are hoping, the ukrainians, to make significant advances this summer and they have gained ground, but not as they say, the commander to be spoken to, both the east and the south, going as fast as they would like. that said, what we have heard from the general is he is still not committed his full strike force. in other words, still not committed his full strike force. in otherwords, lots still not committed his full strike force. in other words, lots of those western trained troops and the equipment they will be using provided by the west have still not