Your nose cnn news central weekdays, at seven eastern hello everyone. Welcome to the amanpour hour. Here s where we re headed this week people would play to trump s ego from the trenches while serving in the trump white house was general, a jaw mcmaster s tough this mission. Yet he wants to be regarded the way he thought people regarded strong men. Also this hour legendary actor in mcallen on why he ll never retire fat suit that saved him as i landed vault somewhere in the front row on myself screaming, help me, help me. Then quick far conversation with journalists for hersh and mark landler on the week s biggest stories, should elon musk worry about being arrested the next time he goes to france, it s not an inconceivable notion. And from my archive holy ghosting, the divine disconnect that reshape britain. And why my conversation with the author hilary mantel s is more relevant than ever. And finally there s one more on the hong the afghan women defying the taliban s latest draconian
$6 million if he will have to pay interest on it. how will he make that payment? it s not humanly possible. dana: david spunt at the justice department with this. good morning. today s line of questioning is not a deposition, a transcribed interview, a former business associate of hunter biden will not be under oath but lying to congress is a big no no. the first two met back around 2017 according to sources. they say that the two came together through cefc, a chinese energy company with reported ties to the communist party of china. the company has since shut erred. according to house oversight investigators, yen will be questioned about money that came through there and various companies allegedly that money made its way to joe biden. $40,000. it was a payment listed as a loan repayment from the president s sister-in-law, sarah biden. oversight chairman james comer says the origin of that money going far back or edge gnats with a company that benefited from cefc which i
plus, two jewish men shot outside of synagogues in los angeles on different days. tonight authorities say they re connected. the victims targeted for their religion. the federal hate crime charges just filed. the outrage in ohio. families waiting in long lines for help in east palestine two weeks after that toxic train derailment and new details on what may have caused this crash. the tragedy on the field. a 12-year-old dying after collapsing at football practice. the family says the ambulance took 30 minutes to arrive. what his mother says could have saved his life. and the book of 125,000 names, the story it tells and the deep connection for our correspondent. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. and good evening. i m tom llamas in for lester tonight. they were sworn to protect, but today five fired memphis police officers were in a courtroom facing charges of murder that they beat tyre nichols so badly during his arrest last month that he died
and division over the war you rages on college campuses. also good news about the u.s. economy, but why so many don t believe it. elle reeve is in west monroe, louisiana, to understand. and a school shooter hears his ntence, an emotional day for the parents of four students he gunned down. the united states vetoed a u.n. security council resolution, calling for an immediate ceasefire in gaza, citing no mention in the resolution of the attack by hamas. 13 countries voted in favor. the uk abstained. in israel, that country s defense minister said he believes there are signs hamas is, in his words, beginning to break inside gaza. today, an israeli flag was raised in the middle of palestine square in the heart of gaza city in the north. alex marquardt has more on the scale and intensity of the battle. alex joins us now. what evidence, if any, is there to support what he said? reporter: well, anderson, no doubt israel has significantly degraded hamas capabilities. they ha