Nightly news begins right now. From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. After a lengthy and very public casting call through the lobby of trump tower, the president elect ended the suspense today over one of the most coveted jobs in his administration. Donald trump picking an oil company ceo to be his secretary of state. With no government experience, Rex Tillerson, the exxon mobil boss, is being praised as a seasoned International Deal maker in business, and it is those business connections, specifically his ties to russia, that are raising the most serious concerns about him tonight. And putting trump at odds with members of his own party. Nbcs Kristen Welker starts us off with the latest. Reporter tonight, president elect donald trump, likely setting up his first confirmation fight with members of his own party, officially tapping Rex Tillerson to be his secretar touting what he calls tillersons deep understanding of geop
From democrat tears for the president continued his eye told you so tour in nashville last night where he addressed immigration and health care and of course the federal government that has spent itself into static corpulence. We are proposing a budget that will shrink the bloated federal bureaucracy and i mean loaded. Kennedy freedom loving cost cutters and no government that leans is less mean squealed in approval as proposed cuts to an entire Department Like the National Endowment for the arts a cultural category that should never read a victim of the governments immoral and subjective whims. The government has killed the arts. Liberation the equals reanimation. The epa taking a chainsaw the budget. 31 decrease and that adds up to 3200 jobs lost. Where can these out of work people go . To the pentagon. The military will get an immediate 10 , 52 milliondollar boost spending thrust doesnt add up to revenue neutrality and that has people like kentucky senator rand paul up in arms. Why
From democrat tears for the president continued his eye told you so tour in nashville last night where he addressed immigration and health care and of course the federal government that has spent itself into static corpulence. We are proposing a budget that will shrink the bloated federal bureaucracy and i mean loaded. Kennedy freedom loving cost cutters and no government that leans is less mean squealed in approval as proposed cuts to an entire Department Like the National Endowment for the arts a cultural category that should never read a victim of the governments immoral and subjective whims. The government has killed the arts. Liberation the equals reanimation. The epa taking a chainsaw the budget. 31 decrease and that adds up to 3200 jobs lost. Where can these out of work people go . To the pentagon. The military will get an immediate 10 , 52 milliondollar boost spending thrust doesnt add up to revenue neutrality and that has people like kentucky senator rand paul up in arms. Why
1 . Take a look at the groups on the move. We still have technology in the red. Care has been lagging. Tech just barely in the red. Materials, consumer staples, utilities are leading some of the gains here. Look, ifnted to take a i may, at what is going on with oil. Because we have also seen the s p track very closely today with oil prices. White yellow, the s p in and you can see clearly what is going on. Around and made a roundtrip. So have oil prices there are concerns about supply constraints in nigeria. But supply in canada has been coming back online. That has been pushing oil around today. In the most toe gains, weve got microsoft higher, exxon mobil also rising with the rebound in oil prices. And amazon. Com on a fiveday winning streak at this point. Percentagewise, some of the winners were looking at today tied to news include monsanto, which might be getting some interest from a buyer of germany to create the Worlds Largest agrichemical company. Ralph lauren beating estimates
Ehavent at diesel, a book store in brentwood, california, where they talk about the sixday war betweensel and its arar between israel and its neighbors. Military historian recalls the german u boat offensive in 1942. The captains command result out in the destruction of four ships in the Chesapeake Bay on under15, 1942. This discussion us half an hour. Im very pleased to be back here. Because the subjects of world war ii and the navy have always been one that ive been fascinated by, and in the book, the burning shore, ive taken a slugly different tact from by earlier work, turning the tide, and that earlier book, i focused on the oceanwide campaign in the spring of 1943 where the allies, after years of struggle, finally won the battle of the atlantic through pure grit and the barest edge in technology. This is a massive struggle and, therefore, the history of it tends to span thousands of miles. In the burning shore i was aible to take a slightly different look because in every big war