and now a lot more people can. so let s go. the digital age is waiting. new reporting as we come on the wear from washington, a key court appearance, a new white house statement, and more questions for the administration. let s start with what is happening right now this hour. the new mexico suspect solomon pena getting ready to go before a judge, just about 30 minutes from now. arrested on conspiracy charges. among others. for the shooting attacks, the ring leader, police say allegedly targeting democratic officials, in albuquerque. our team is live on the ground with new reporting and what to expect. also this hour, president biden s first reaction to the deadly helicopter crash in ukraine. the interior minister and more than a dozen others killed. we have a live report from kyiv and the pentagon with more on just what happened. plus, any minute, the white house getting ready for you name it, inevitably nor questions on how president biden handled classified documents,
president and his fellow democrats first laid out nearly 16 months ago. look, this bill is far from perfect. it s a compromise. but it s often how progress is made, by compromises. and the fact is that my message to congress is this this is the strongest bill you can pass to lower inflation, cut the deficit, reduce health care cost, tackle the climate crisis and promote energy security, all the time reducing the burdens facing working class and middle-class families. so pass it. pass it for the american people. pass it for america. i want to bring in nbc capitol hill correspondent ali viatali, jason furman served as chair of the economic advisers and is professor of economic policy at harvard. i don t know how much of this you were able to listen to, jason, but if you had to sort of break it down for folks to the basics of what is, as we said, a very complex economic argument that the white house is trying to make, what is it? it s a very complex economic situation. t
same-sex marriage, too. and the first gun legislation passed in years. now on its way to the president biden s desk and our nbc news exclusive, one-on-one with ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy. his message about the americans captured while fighting in ukraine. what he is now vowing to do. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, everyone where do privacy and personal freedom begin, and where do they end questions that framed an enduring divide in modern american, one many thought was settled nearly 50 years ago when the supreme court affirmed the constitutional right to an abortion today, the court answered that question again, this time in a 5-4 vote taking away what was regarded as a fundamental right. right now, new laws banning abortion are taking effect in several states, just hours after the court overturned the landmark roe versus wade decision leaving it to states to determine whether abortion is legal. justice samuel alito
washington, president biden acknowledged his own power is limited. i can t outlaw a weapon. i can t change the background checks. i can t do that. the best hope of senate working group is diving in with a source telling nbc news that the group feels a new urgency. they have met twice in person, continued to text and e-mail and will meet again virtually tomorrow. but there maybe one key voice standing in the way. the top republican in the senate, mitch mcconnell. as one of our guests latest put it, he s behind a deade s long effort to block gun control. so what is really on the table? lths dive right in with white house correspondent carol lee, washington post bureau chief ashley parker is also senior political analyst. thanks to both of you. carol, you re one of the reporters who wrote a story with the headline inside a biden white house adrift and it points to the texas shooting as a horrific reminder the president has not successfully pushed congress to pass legisla
and if they, including some critically injured, get out, more humanitarian aid is getting in. but neither development is altering the big picture inside the war zone where the already horrific situation is getting worse by the hour. plus, donald trump s eldest son and the head of his business empire expected to take the stand in their civil fraud trial in new york. his testimony potentially critical to the judge s decision on whether he or his father will ever be able to occupy a c suite in manhattan again. and a dramatic decision by a kansas city jury that could fundamentally change the way people sell their homes in america. realtors found guilty of conspiring to jack up their fees and ordered to pay nearly $2 billion in damages. the ultimately penalty could be triple that amount and more lawsuits impacting more states are already in the pipeline. but we start with that sign of hope today in gaza. for the first time since the start of this war, a handful of americans