your hour s top stories. a brilliant display in new york city featuring 70,000 fireworks lit up the night sky. president trump spoke at his salute to america celebration in washington despite criticisms that the event was politicizing a holiday. a 6.4 magnitude quake in california caused fires and prompted a hospital evacuation. for now, back to dateline. welcome back to dateline extra. i m craig melvin. as sarah s loved ones laid her to rest, her husband ryan sat in a jail cell, charged with her murder. the couple s family and friends were convinced he was an innocent man. but investigators weren t buying his story. soon a surprising ally would bolster their case, a family
these gulf monarchies that mr. nader worked for, all to benefit the trump campaign by flooding american social media and what amounted to a giant si-ops campaign to turn off clinton voters and boost trump. that s what he was offering. the trump campaign, of course, says they weren t buying. the times reports that after that meeting, george nader became a close presence around the trump campaign, he took multiple meetings with jared kushner and michael flynn and with steve bannon. after trump got elected in november of that year, george nader reportedly made a $2 million payment to one of joel zamel s companies. again, zamel was the guy who had been offering a foreign election interference effort for sale at that trump tower meeting back in august. and again, the trump campaign says they didn t buy what he was offering. but still, nader paid him $2 million right after the election. and that payment has still never been explained. that same month, december 2016, george nader is the one
york times . this time last year. at the trump tower meeting where george nader, donald trump jr., erik prince, and a man named joel zamel who was reportedly offering at that meeting an off the shelf foreign election interference effort that would be run by mr. zamel s israeli company and financed by some of these gulf monarchies that mr. maider worked for, all to benefit the trump campaign by flooding american social media and what amounted to a giant si-ops campaign to turn off clinton voters and boost trump. that s what he was offering. the trump campaign of course says they weren t buying. the times reports that after that meeting george nader bim a fresh presence around the trump campaign, he took multiple meetings with jared kushner and michael flynn and with steve bannon. after trump got elected in november of that year george nader reportedly made a $2 million payment to one of joel zamel s companies. again, zamel was the guy who had been offering a foreign election
with your hour s top stories. the new england patriots are now super bowl champs for the sixth time. they beat the los angeles rams 13-3. low scoring there. the first and only touch down of the game was just over seven minutes left. the pats also beat the rams in the super bowl back in 2002. a plane crash in southern california leaves two people dead and two others hospitalized. the small aircraft went down in a residential neighborhood and set two homes on fire. for now back to dateline. welcome back to dateline extra. i m craig melvin. as sarah widmer s loved ones laid her to rest, her husband ryan sat in a jail cell charged with murder. the couple s family and friends were convinced he was an innocent man, but investigators weren t buying his story. soon a surprising ally would bolster their case, a family
that president obama passed. how is it going? as bad as it looks? not going so well. there was a warm welcome for secretary kerry by the public when he limped in on crutches thank you, thank you, john kerry. as soon as he sat down it was pretty clear that the lawmakers weren t buying what john kerry was selling in terms of this defense of the deal he called it saying there was no viable alternative to what the republican lawmakers were calling, calling it a unicorn. some of them on the committee, for instance marco rubio, warning this deal is only as good as this president, and that perhaps the next president, i.e. him, might be able to undo it. take a listen. we will coordinate in every possible way with israel with respect to israel s concern so if israel conducts a cyber attack against the iranian nuclear program, are we