the tale of triumph for a baby giraffe inspiring america. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening a solemn journey to buffalo for president biden today meeting with some of the grieving families who lost loved ones in saturday s supermarket massacre the president and first lady visiting the site the president offering comfort and giving full-throated voice to the anger so many feel over the racist ideologies that drove the attack that allegedly targeted black people the president declaring white supremacy will not have the last word this evening a chill still sweeping across buffalo as the pieces of the horrific plot reveal themselves. tonight what we ve learned about the suspect s previous journey to the city, the planning, the alternate targets allegedly considered all under the nose of an unsuspecting community. emilie ikeda has new details for us tonight. evil will not win, i promise you. reporter: today president biden and the first l
the general election. plus, republicans in north carolina s 11th congressional district run out of patience with madison cawthorn as trump s pick in that race is voted out. we ll break down those results. and speaking in the wake of the buffalo tragedy, president biden vowed to, quote, expose those who use power and prestige to spread hate. but the question this morning, will he name names? good morning. welcome to way too early on this wednesday, may 18th. i m jonathan lemire. we ve got a lot of news to get to today. here we go. results are still coming in this morning for pennsylvania s closely-watched primary election. in the hotly-contested senate race, republicans still do not have a winner. the election is too close to call between trump-backed dr. mehmet oz and hedge fund executive david mccormick. mccormick is backed by several trump administration officials, including former secretary of state mike pompeo. recent polling saw him losing momentum after trump
things. and a joke. i called him a lot of ugly things. you called him a joke on that recording. a washed up piece of [ bleep ]. reporter: depp s team used audio recordings where heard fueled fights. i m really, really, sick of this argument. i m sorry. so let me go. you go. and i ll speak to you in a couple hours. okay? okay? stop. okay. why are you saying stop? may i go? reporter: beyond painting heard as the antagonizer and abuser and drug user herself, depp s attorneys accused her of embellishing alleged bruises, questioning how she could be abused one day and on the red carpet the next. your nose doesn t appear to be injured in any of these pictures, does it, ms. heard? that s why i m wearing makeup. right. and makeup covers up swelling, right? reporter: depp is suing heard for 50 million after she wrote
of ugly things. you called him a joke on that recording. you called him a washed up piece of [ bleep ]. reporter: depp s team also using audio recordings where they say heard fueled fights. i m really, really, really sick of this argument stop. i m sorry. okay? so let me go and you go and i ll speak to you in a couple of hours. okay okay stop. why are you saying stop because you may i go? reporter: beyond painting heard as the antagonizer and abuser and drug user herself, depp s attorneys also accused her of embellishing alleged bruises, questioning how she could have been abused one day and on the red carpet the next your nose doesn t appear to be injured in any of these pictures, does it, ms. heard? that s why i m wearing makeup. right and makeup covers up swelling, right? reporter: with each actor claiming to be the victim of physical abuse, depp is suing heard for 50 million after she wrote an op-ed calling herself a domestic abuse
were showing just now, that is what resulted from that is an up swelling of people saying, this is outrageous. in fact, i think that the explosion of the me too movement was that you can connect the dots directly from donald trump bragging in the hollywood access tapes about committing sexual assault all the way you connect those dots to the women s march on washington the day after the inauguration to what we re seeing now, which is just women are absolutely stepping up. i m so thrilled that rachel crooks is running for office. she is one of dozens and really hundreds of women that have stepped up. let me go to rachel on that. we talked substance. we talked some policy context. on the politics, rachel, do you think there s high odds what donald trump said last night might help your candidacy? i mean, of course i think it energizes the women that are running, once again. whenever he makes fun of