president biden should have pardoned mr. trump. also tonight, the attempted assassination, a man walking up to slovakia s prime minister shooting him multiple times. aides pushing the wounded politician into a car and a man tackled on the ground. the prime minister s condition tonight. the barge slamming into a bridge in galveston, texas, causing a partial collapse and unleashing an oil spill. one community island cut off. opening statements in the bribery trial of senator bob menendez. the defense suggesting those gold bars didn t belong to menendez but to his wife. a heart-stopping new dash cam video from a semi truck as a crash sends it dangling off a bridge. the record-breaking filibuster in missouri as democrats wage a battle over abortion rights. and the athletes dominating the world of women s golf and swinging for a shot at gold in the paris olympics. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, and welcome. not one but two presidential de
you for this second hour of chris jansing reports. at this hour, battle ground blitz. vice president kamala harris heading to arizona days after a momentous abortion ruling. the strategy to paint donald trump as the architect of every post roe after shock. news clippings, hair spray, even a little shampoo, what a former trump aid told the fbi about what he thought was in the boxes of classified documents. plus, confessions of a cuban spy, a former u.s. ambassador expected to plead guilty in what authorities have called one of the highest and longest national security breaches in generations. and an nbc exclusive, how did a man on a terror watch list get released into the u.s. after border patrol caught him? our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments and we begin with nbc ease yamiche alcindor in tucson, arizona, where the vice president is planning to hammer donald trump on the issue of abortion. yamiche, good to see you. what are we expecting