case. and the long overdue honor for a 102-year-old world war ii veteran. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, everyone after holding the attention of millions of tv viewers this summer, the recent pause to the january 6th hearings into the attack on the capitol have turned attention now to the department of justice and attorney general merrick garland to provide what could be the next act in this american, legal, political, and constitutional drama with outside pressure mounting for indictments of mr. trum and some of his inner circle, i sat down with the attorney general today for an exclusive interview. the ag dismissing accusations his office hasn t moved swiftly enough to build cases against those at the top of the ladder and telling me concerns over further tearing the country apart would not deter his office from holding those criminally responsible accountable. let s start off and talk about january 6th. we just watched weeks of s
Tornado on the ground near hillsdale, oklahoma. It is lesson 75 people about 100 miles north of where we are right now. All of this is on the heels of the outbreak we just described yesterday for the north. Nebraskas at the heart of it. There are stunning images of homes leveled, foundations exposed. We heard from a man who described sheltered in place with his family, unsure of what was coming next. I could see the storm way out to the west here, coming out 204th and i pulled into the neighborhood and you can see the tornado about half a mile away. I thought it was going west, but it hit us straight on. My wife and kids were already in the basement. Like i said, we made it through. Reporter you just moved in here . Two weeks ago. Reporter we also heard a report about a building in nebraska with 70 people sheltering inside. Despite the numbers of reported injuries that we have heard, several reports, weve heard no reports of any deaths. In terms of what people in the region should be e
is criminally responsible for attempting to interfere with the transfer, legitimate lawful transfer of power from one administration to the next. how is your department dealing with the pressure? every day you wake up there is a column in a newspaper talking about what you will do and when you will do it. the only pressure that i or my prosecutors or the agents feel is the pressure to do the right thing. that s the only way we can pursue the rule of law. that s the only way we can keep the confidence of the american people in the rule of law, which is an essential part of our democratic system. i caught up with the attorney general in martinsburg, west virginia as he toured the national tracing center this is where the atf tracks the firearms used in crimes a process still done using mostly paper records. today agents showed the ag how a small piece of plastic can transform a semiautomatic rifle into a military grade assault weapon.