About its main Graduation Ceremony after weeks of protests and dramatic arrests. The frightening moments during a livestreamed sermon. A man pulling a gun on the pastor. But it fails to go off. How he was stopped. The final countdown after years of delays. Tonight boeing is set to launch its first crewed flight of its starliner capsule. And a historic battleship like youve never seen before. Visitors flocking for a rare glimpse as it gets a makeover. Announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening and welcome. The news traveled fast in gaza tonight, where celebrations broke out after word began to spread that hamas had accepted a deal to end hostilities in gaza. But hopes of a pause in the fighting were just as quickly shattered when israel declared the deal hamas was embracing was far from israels essential demands. And so instead of a deal tonight israel is raising the stakes, pressing forward on its threatened Military Operation in rafah, potentially displacing 100
Ouront starts right now id front next Breaking News are brutal, beat down for trump using all credibility as the former chief of the National Enquirer or reveals he was quote trumps eyes and ears during the president ial campaign plus George Conway was in the courtroom today with trump. This is conway, a lifelong conservative is taking a major leap to help the biden campaign. Hes going to tell you exactly what hes doing its a big zap. And republica turningn for employment moscow marjorie, big time tonight. One senior senator putting the blame on Marjorie Taylor greene for the party losing in november, right . Bullseye. Lets go out front good evening im Erin Burnett Outfront tonight, we begin with the shutdown, but, judge, in trumps Hush Money Trial telling trumps lawyers, quote, youre losing all credibility with the court. This is as they were struggling to defend trump four, ten alleged violations of his gag order. And were actually as i speak right now, on standby for ruling from jud
Thank you very much, thank you. [applause] martha: president trump and first lady melania trump and the vice president mike pence and his wife karen pentz as they kick off a tradition and beautiful summer night in washington, d.c., as they get ready for the picnic with members of congress, democrats and republicans all gathered there on the south lawn for the evening. the president expressing his hopes that perhaps they can come together on some legislation in the very near future and he was obviously putting out some good words for steve scalise who is still in the hospital but appears to be doing better. he s got a long road ahead of them but he is someone who was very well-liked on capitol hill. his children got the eight tour tonight, we want to keep eyes os