For more. Phil, a pretty remarkable last hour. Tell us what happened. Reporter yeah, and it wasnt even close. Lets first talk about the policy, and it underscores why this was a fight the president shouldnt have picked to begin with. This is the National Defense act. It is the defense bill as outlined by legislators and for the last 60 years it has been passed by congress with pretty wide bipartisan margins. The difference this year was President Trump who opposed the bill, not necessarily on defense policy grounds, which is the core of what it is, it also protects the pay raise for troops, i might add, he opposed it because it did not include online appeal of section 230, not only the those who drafted the bill tried to tell him incessantly. It also authorized the change for army bases named after confederate soldiers. It was just a small component of this bill. The president complained pretty regularly that this bill was soft on china and russia, something the enactors of this bill s
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From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. We begin with a heartbreaking story out of oklahoma where a College Softball team trip ended in tragedy on a busy interstate. Four young women were killed after the bus they were on collided with an 18wheeler. All the victims were members of the Softball Team at North Central texas college. The youngest of those killed was 18, the oldest 20. And tonight back in texas their tightknit College Community is gripped by a profound sadness. Kerry sanders is in ardmore, oklahoma, tonight for us. Kerry, good evening. Reporter good evening, lester. The womens Softball Team was about 40 miles shy of their destination when their bus was hit by a tractortrailer that crossed that wide grassy median down there here on interstate 35. The crash happened on a stretch of interstate 35 in oklahoma where the speed limit is 70 miles per hour. A tractortrailer headed north, a College Teams bus driving south