Speaking during an appearance last night, at his maralago estate a longside don king. I think we ought to get on with our lives. The whole age of computer has made it where nobody knows exactly whats going on. Also last night the president elect praising his predecessor as he he made note he and president obama had their own phone call yesterday. He called me. We had a very, very good talk about generally about things. He was in hawaii. It was a very, vy nice call. And i actually thght we covered a lot of territory. A lot of good territory. But just hours earlier the president elect had tweeted, writing, doing my best to disregard the many inflammatory president o. Statements and roadblocks. Thought it was going to be a smooth transition. Not. Nbcs Kelly Odonnell is covering the trump transition. Shes joining us in our washington studio. We get ready to hand over the reins in 21 days. The hall mack of american democracy that theres one president at a time, i guess in the last several d
Nightly news begins right now. From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. Im kate snow in for lester tonight. Four weeks from today, President Trump will officially take the oath of office. But in the past several days, the president elect has inserted himself into high profile and controversial Foreign Policy issues. Today he went even further than his previous comments about nuclear weapons, and we learned that trump made a phone call to egypts president last night after the Israeli Government asked trump to weigh in on a u. N. Resolution involving israel. All of it breaking with past protocol for a president in waiting and angering the obama administration. We begin tonight with our chief affairs correspondent, andrea mitchell. Reporter even as Vladimir Putin was ruling out an arms race in a marathon fourhour news conference, donald trump was saying, let there be an arms race in an offcamera call. The president elect told y
More jobs coming to the u. S. , but is that claim really all hes making it out to be . And gigantic lawsuit. The brother of Jonbenet Ramsey suing a Major Network after they ran a special that she says accuses him of killing his sister. The total hes asking for from them and others, 750 million. But we begin with the death of hollywood legend Debbie Reynolds who died just one day after daughter Carrie Fisher. Reynolds, of course, graced the screen for decades and matched steps with gene kelly in singing in the rain. Good morning good morning weve talked the whole night through good morning reynolds was 84 and was dealing with the immense grief of having to bury her 60yearold daughter carrie. Her son said it was too much who told him, i miss her so much, i want to be with carrie. Gadi schwartz is live in los angeles for us. What a week of heartbreak in hollywood. What do we know about what happened in the moment leading up to Debbie Reynolds death . Were hearing more about what happened
Harbor with a sitting president. Their day will begin with a bilateral meeting. Then there will be a wreath laying ceremony at the u. S. S. Arizona. Afterwards they will make remarks to the media and survivors who were invited here. You have to keep in mind this is a relationship that president obama has really worked on for the past eight years with japan. It was marked by his visit in may to hiroshima. Keep in mind the president didnt offer any apologies when he went for things that happened in the past. Just like we are not expecting the Prime Minister to offer apologies today. This is about moving forward. Hallie . Nbcs Tammy Lightner from honolulu. Thank you very much. Howard fineman from the Huffington Post joins me now from washington. Howard, you just wrote a peace about th a piece about this. You talked about the symbol ichl of the visit. Expected to be a powerful visit. What do you expect to see today . What i expect to see is both visual and verbal expression by president ob
Which the u. S. Allowed it to pass condemning set elements in the west bank. The Israeli Government continues to insist it has hard evidence the obama admin stlapgsed orchestrate the resolution and vote. They are vowing to share that evidence with the Incoming Trump administration. We know there was deep collusion with the palestinians in order to push this United Nations Council Resolution forward. That is deeply disappointing. Historically america has protected israel at this very, very biased body. Yesterday a spokesman rejected that u. S. Was the driving force behind the resolution. We did not take the lead in drafting this resolution. That was done by the egyptians with the palestinians. Ben rhodes said the u. S. Is not trying to resolve the Israeli Palestinian conflict through the u. N. Resolution. That does little to calm the concerns of israelis who will be watching the secretary of state speech very closely later today. Lisa and heather back to you. It will escalate over the w