congress. merrick garland answered questions about everything from gun violence to tech giants to child labor and much more. he gave an early sign that he would not go into detail about some of the justice department s most politically fraught investigations. that includes the classified dork found at the home of current and former president it requires as much as possible we speak to our work and our filings in court so we do not jeopardize the viability of our investigations and the civil liberties of our citizens. as expected, the attorney general received his toughest questions from republicans. texas senator ted cruz slammed garland for failing to arrest any protester opposed to the overturning of roe v. wade who demonstrated outside the homes of some supreme court justices. in my judgment, the department of justice has been politicized to the greatest extent i ve ever seen. i vigorously disagree. i believe the men and women of the department pursue their wor
until then, i ll send it back to you, guys, from the bottom of the world. all right. the top of the hour on cnn newsroom, good afternoon, everyone, i m bianna golodryga. i m victor blackwell. we re beginning with another dangerous close call involving a commercial airliner on a u.s. runway. the faa is now investigating. so here s what happened, monday night in boston logan airport, a jetblue flight and a private jet reportedly came within 565 feet of colliding. just a weeking in burbank, california, a mesa airlines had to abort its landing because a southwest flight was on the same runway. there was a close call between a fedex carg honolulu. days before that, aiines flightt of a delta flight at jfk in new york. this is all taking place as president biden s nominee to lead the faa sits down for his confirmation hearing and it hasn t exactly been smooth sailing for him. cnn aviation correspondent pete muntean joins us now. pete, if confirmed, he clearly has a lot on hi
president biden urging hamas to accept a new israeli peace proposal saying, it s time for the war to end. why there is new optimism tonight. just in, the sentence for michelle troconis, convicted of helping her boyfriend plot to kill his estranged wife. o.j. prices are at record highs. what s driving them up? and the long shot baseball team chasing extra innings after their college closed for good. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, and welcome. donald trump today unrepentant, defiant, and casting himself as the aggrieved one as newspapers across the country proclaim the new york jury s finding of guilt against the former president in his falsified documents trial. today at trump tower, the very place the crimes at the heart of the case took place, mr. trump stood before gathered reporters and some supporters in what appeared to be an unscripted monologue. he railed against the judge calling the trial, unfair and rigged, and withou
spring break could bring a spike in cases, too. if you get the coronavirus that s your own fault because you know the risks of coming out here. wearing a mask, that s not the normal compared to people who do wear a mask. governor cuomo has lost the confidence of his governing partners. for the good of the state he should resign. he should look into his heart to see if he can govern effectively. we have a broken immigration system. our cities and our counties on the border don t have the resources to deal with this. the flow of humanity arriving at our front door never stopped. the donald trump administration didn t stop them. i m pamela brown in washington. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world on this sunday. you are live in the cnn newsroom. a year ago, the pandemic was just getting started in the u.s. i m sure we all remember how we felt at that time. and spring breakers were largely oblivious to its threats. you can t say people
increase sea level rise from miami to new orleans up to shanghai. so many weather patterns, ecological systems. there s so much to learn, scientists aren t sure how much is attributable to man-made change. the south pole has been yo-yo ing, even as the north pole h beemelting at an alarming rate. now is the regular flag, the prescription for this, for generations of the fuels that burn and creating this blanket around the planet and heating up life as we know it. it also probably means pulling gig da tons of carbon out of the sea and the sky to try to level this off and stop, you know, the ultimate horror show which is tipping points that can t be stopped. so, that s the latest numbers out of antarctica, hopefully, i ll bring you back positive stories about whales, our big friends in the deep.