investigations into the current president s family. ted lieu, democrat of california, set to orient facts as they exist on earth one. watch. let me ask you a series of basic questions to get facts out to the american people about our system of justice. trump adviser roger stone was convicted in a federal court, correct? that s my recollection. trump donor elliott brady was convicted in a federal court. correct? also my recollection. the attorney general at the time for those two convictions was bill barr, which president nominated bill barr for attorney general? president trump. you were the fbi director for all of those cases at the time. which president nominated you? president trump. okay. what these facts show is we don t have a two-tiered system of justice. we have one department of justice that goes after criminals regardless of party idealogy. all of these folks were convicted under the administrations of three separate republican attorneys general. i
starts now. tonight on the reidout when honest people say what s true, calmly and without embarrassment, they become powerful. at the same time, the liars who have been trying to silence them, shrink and they become weaker. that s the iron law of the universe. true things prevail. yes, indeed. true things do prevail, tuck ems. you are repulsively racist as the guy you once played on tv. now, add hospital waiting room to the ever-expanding list of places where you can be shot and killed in gun-crazy america. senator raphael warnock is here to talk about today s deadly shooting in atlanta. and we ve got the latest on texas republicans unprecedented push to give one hand picked official the power to overturn election results in the state s largest democratic-leaning county. we begin tonight with how white nationalist receipts can get you fired. even from fox. the new york times reports, damning text messages tucker carlson sent to a producer after he watc
what he said about reports the u.s. spied on south korean officials, rising nuclear tensions and relations with china the slow-moving disaster the severe flooding threat as snow melts much of yosemite park closed, as some areas along the mississippi are already under water. what doctors are calling one of the worst allergy seasons in decades why so many adults are suffering for the first time. and the remarkable life of an american original, singer, actor and civil rights activist, remembering the great harry belafonte. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening and welcome, everyone. there are 560 days until the 2024 presidential election, and tonight the ingredients for a potential trump-biden rematch are falling into place following president biden s announcement today that he is in, officially running for a second term in office as he put it in an early morning video release, to finish the job. the president laying out the stakes, taking
the special counsel s case against donald trump. i will ask former general neil. meanwhile, fox cuts ties to tucker carlson. but don t give the murdochs profiles acreage war just yet, i will take you through all the things that they didn t firecracker for and what that reveals about the future of the network. and later, a trip to the british embassy a cup of tea with her thoughts on the war in ukraine, being a woman in a male dominated field, and yes, the upcoming coronation of king charles. so we saw a pretty jarring split screen this week from the two leading candidates for president in 2024. and that split screen served as a reminder of what is at stake in this election. on one side, president joe biden formally took the plunge, officially launching his reelection campaign in a video released on tuesday. in it, the president reiterated his commitment to protecting personal freedoms from voting rights to abortion rights, to civil rights, big issues in this campaign. he
seven! seven! tributes pour in for the former head judge of strictly and king of the catchphrase, len goodman, who s died aged 78. he had no understanding ofjust how big he was, how much people loved him. in my own house we still never use the word seven, we say seven differently. he changed a whole number for so many of us. how a third of government money for extra school tutoring after the covid lockdown still hasn t been spent. and with just under two weeks until the coronation, a bbc poll suggests less than a third of18 21i year olds want the monarchy to continue. and coming up on bbc news: the draw for the sixth round of rugby league s challenge cup will take place shortly on the bbc. 16 teams go into the hat to see who will play whom in the ties in may. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. the head of the un has called on the security council to do all it can to pull sudan back from what he called a catastrophic conflagration which could engulf the whole re