have access to an abortion pill. this hour, president biden will announce he is running for a second term as early as next tuesday. the anniversary of his 2020 announcement will that set up a rematch with donald trump and as we celebrate earth day tomorrow, i ll be joined by white house special presidential envoy john kerry as the u.n. secretary-general criticizes the biden administration s progress in reducing greenhouse gases enough to avoid a disastrous outcome for the world. good day, everyone i m andrea mitchell in washington where the clock is winding down on that supreme court s midnight deadline tonight to announce what he s going to do about controversial lower court rulings that would severely limit access to the most widely used abortion pill the justices have been meeting in their regularly scheduled friday morning conference where the issue is expected to come up a decision could be posted at any moment options include the court could grant a full stay send
delay in the new york grand jury probe into donald trump. also, mr. trump s feud with potential 2024 rival ron desantis is heating up. the colorado dentist accused of fatally poisoning his wife, formally charged with murder in court. midair scare. the captain on a southwest flight suffering a medical emergency, and the off-duty pilot who stepped in to help land the plane. our nbc news exclusive. on patrol with nato, guarding against the rising threat of russia at sea. and kids helping kids. the heartwarming idea inspired by our edition of nightly news just for children. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening and welcome on this thursday. is the clock ticking down for tiktok in america? the head of the wildly popular but also heavily criticized social media platform came to capitol hill today and walked right into a bipartisan storm of suspicion and distrust about the app. its chinese owners and its potential national security risks
strike killed a u.s. contractor in that country. the defense department saying they believe the drone use instead that first attack was iranian in fáorigin. the u.s. launching retaliatory strikes in response at president biden s direction. what the national securityok council is now saying about this latest attack. plus, former president trump s own lawyerñi forced to testify against him. -,■ could happen as soon as tody in the e1wide-ranging special counsel investigation into the former president. what we know about that legal fight that se1 hyp%9 washington, d.c., ase1ñr a manhn grand jury probing a former president is on hold at least until early ne0s i deal better with regular dtqi u$e peopleq in the politicd class, and i think that has been true for the entire time i ve been around. so here s the big question, would desantis bet( able to survive an entire campaign season we re already in, by the way. qñi as well. we begin with that breaking news, a second r
part of the grand jury investigation into the mar-a-lago classified documents. the former president escalates his rhetoric overnight. threatening, quote, death and destruction if he is charged with a crime. i will be joined by michigan congresswoman debbie dingell, one of the congress people who questioned tiktok s ceo. good day, i m andrea mitchell in washington. we start with the u.s. air strikes by f-15s against what the u.s. said are iranian-backed groups in syria. killing an american contractor and injuring five u.s. service members and another american contractor. the pentagon says the deadly strike was from an iranian suicide drone. courtney kubie reports. a rocket attack against another base in syria used by u.s. troops. president biden on his trip to canada ordering air strikes against the targets in syria in retaliation. right now, the president is meeting with canada s prime minister justin trudeau in ottawa. joining us now is white house national security counci
human scumw3 and a danger to th country. the former president with noi] shortage of things ÷:oxd say, b are his supporters still listening? meanmeanwhile, theçó bigger danger forfá trump may not be i $eh! new york but in e1d.c., what mit have been told about documents that trump had stashed at mar-a-lago. and the usñ senti]t(i]q f 1 syria after a dead americans at a localñi military base, one ogñ two attacks in th past 36 hours.e1 a live update from the pentagon is just an hour away.:e 5 video, that s manuel oliver, the father of one of the teenagers killed in the fápark we ll tell you why and% lkt( to himqfritáájjt up. but wexd start with donald trump, squeezed in the vice of multiple criminal investigations and las ■9 he even re-tweeted this article showing him with a bat next to another photo of bragg s head. but all of this isq als÷h■ seám asçó rallying cry to his base a a plea for donations ahead of trump s first major campaign rally tomorrow nigh