Beyond the orchestra. Nightly news begins now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with kate snow. Good evening. The day began with the white house demanding a congressional investigation into President Trumps explosive claims that his predecessor tapped his phones during the president ial campaign. Now a senior u. S. Official tells nbc news that the fbi director has asked the department of justice this weekend to publicly reject the president s claims. It is the latest Stunning Development the nations fbi director taking on the president he serves. We begin tonight with kasie hunt, whos been following the story all weekend. Reporter President Trump today demanding Congress Investigate his explosive claim of wiretapping during the president ial campaign. A day after he tweeted, without offering any evidence, that president obama tapped the phonet all were seeing is, lets take a closer look. Lets look into this. If this happened, if this is a
Its a sickening case of child sexual abuse. Police say this man raped an under age Northern Virginia girl. Well tell you where cops caught up to him. Breaking news. One person dead after flames ripped through an arlington home. Good evening. I am eri i am erika gonzalez. Darcy spencer just arrived at the scene. What can you tell us . Reporter we have been able to confirm one fatality. A second victim with lifethreatening injuries. The fire taking place at this house on south grant street here in arlington county. Fire officials telling us there were boarding conditions inside the house. Firefighters had a difficult time getting through the front door and reaching the victims. One person was initially pulled out. Then they found the second one was pronounced dead. Another taken to a hospital with lifethreatening injuries. Well now talk to frank mill we. He is a neighbor. He knows the couple who lives in this house. We dont know who died but hell tell us what he saw. Basically all i saw
Matters that deal with the Trump Campaign. That statement by the attorney general on thursday came after the Washington Post revealed sessions met twice last year with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. Sessions scrambled to clarify. In retrospect i should have slowed down and said, but i did meet one russia official a couple of times. That would be the ambassador. Sessions met with kislyak on july 18th after speaking to a group of ambassadors at the republican convention. And he met again with the Russian Ambassador at his Senate Office on september 8th, just three days after president obama took a hardline on russian sanctions in a g20 meeting with Vladimir Putin. Since the election mr. Trump and his surrogates have repeatedly denied any contact between the campaign and russian officials. I am just telling you, its all phony baloney garbage. All the contact by the Trump Campaign and associates was with contacts during the course of the election . How many times do i have to answer th
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