Top u. S. Official. Senator Chuck Schumer urging israel to hold new elections and oust Benjamin Netanyahu americans stranded as chaos grips haiti, and could the u. S. House migrants fleeing the violence at Guantanamo Bay allout search for a missing 22yearold College Student. The last known videos of him was he overserved alcohol before disappearing his family speaking out to us. The biggest rocket ever built, successfully launched by spacex, but breaking up during reentry now the faa investigating. And meet the new class of astronauts training to take america back to the moon announcer this is Nbc Nightly News with lester holt good evening and welcome. There are big developments in the criminal cases faced by former President Donald Trump the first related to the federal classified documents case a judge late today denying mr. Trumps request that the case be dropped on grounds of unconstitutional vagueness. It was the first of two motions argued by the former president s lawyers during
The first Warning Signs for the trump campaign. Hanging above the first three indictments trumps team waiting for another shoe to drop in georgia where fulton d. A. Fani willis says she has a duty to prosecute. I took an oath and the oath requires i follow the law. Also sharing see the questions. The shocking news from the Justice Department tied to two u. S. Navy sailors arrested for spying. The Sensitive National secrets at the heart of the case. We begin with former President Trumps next big day in criminal court. Such five days after republican candidates take the stage for the first primary debates later this month. The former president on truth social bemoaning the high cost of his court battles, quote, my political opponent has hit me with a barrage of weak lawsuits which require massive amounts of my time and money to adjudicate. Resources that would have gone into ads and rallies will have to be spent fighting these radical left thugs in numerous courts throughout the country.
he is probing the night the trump aides and some outside allies tried to hatch a military coup plot. again, if those words sound disturbing to think about your own american government and not something happening in some other region, buckle up. your government is investigating this with an eye on indicting potentially the people who wanted to abuse your military to take away your vote. it s a big story. i know it s summer, i know it s friday, this is a big story. the night of december 18th in the oval office where some of the most extreme trump plotters were working on tactics that allegedly even rudy giuliani warned would land them all in prison. they wanted to have soldiers seize election machines. they wanted to install one of trump s political legal operatives to try to dictate unlawful orders, both pertaining to the justice department and the military. that would be sidney powell. she had been on the campaign side, more or less, meaning arguing in court or making motions
appreciate our company, i m michael holmes in atlanta, first breaking news and concerns about a possible widening conflict in the middle east. u.s. and uk have been hitting houthi charters in yemen. show you new images now that shows smoke hanging over the skyline in a western yemeni port city, as the sun begins to come up there. the coalition strikes following a surge of attacks by the iran-backed rebels, on commercial vessels in the red sea. american fighter jets are being taking off from the u.s. white d. eisenhower aircraft carrier to carry out the strikes. the senior u.s. official says it is unclear what percentage of who the athletes have been destroyed inside yemen at the amount was significant. we are told u.s. coalition forces hit more than 60 targets, at 16 houthi locations, and those targets included the militants radar systems along with storage and launch sites for ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and drones. let s show you where they are located on the map t
experienced in the department of justice. they have investigated this case to the highest ethical standards and they will continue to do so as this case proceeds. the case jack smith is referring to could proceed in new jersey, according to legal experts, which could explain some of the things trump was not charged with in the indictment filed in the southern district of florida. also tonight, what to expect when president biden attends a major gun control summit tomorrow in connecticut. senator chris murphy joins me. plus, i have a big announcement about a blockbuster reidout special next week with a very special guest. they don t get much bigger. i will spill the beans a little later. but we begin tonight with the wild card in the mishandling of classified documents case against the twice impeached, twice indicted former president, donald trump. the wild card is the judge, who is set to oversee the case, u.s. district judge aileen cannon. you may remember her as the t