victory. how the justices appointed by former president trump sided. and the legal questions still unanswered. the u.s. investing billions to develop anti-viral pills that could one day treat covid. and the concerns over the delta variant. why the early symptoms can cause confusion. plus, companies turning up the pressure to return to the office. president biden signing a law to make juneteenth a national holiday commemorating the end of slavery. tonight we re in the city where it all began. and ahead of father s day, our nbc news dads with some fatherly advice. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening. i m jose diaz-balart in for lester. we begin tonight with severe weather affecting much of the country and a double threat. a tropical storm warning has been issued for part of the gulf coast including metropolitan new orleans as a tropical system gains strength in the gulf of mexico. and in the west a brutal and dangerous heat wave affe
paves the way to an actual bill? let s dig deeper on all of this. i want to bring in nbc s national reporter sahil kippur, and moderator for washington week on pbs, it s friday so you better tune in. sahil, let s talk about voting rights. talk to us about joe manchin s compromise and whether it actually changes the prospects of something getting done here. reporter: that s right, steph crucial offer, because if they can get that, they can say they re united and force a conversation about whether more is an option. they need 60 votes to move forward. they don t have any hope of getting meaningful republican support to advance this bill. the senate is likely to vote on tuesday. there are multiple things that manchin said that offered democratic support, including making election day a national holiday guaranteeing 15 days of national voting. even a push for some i.d. rules was pushed by warnock if it is designed in a way to not be restrictive or oppressive. a significant move
for an update on the vaccine race. a disturbing video from the january 6th insurrection. it showed a man wielding a flagpole in the direction of police officers. the doj has a stunning detail about who he is. a former new york city police officer. we will get an update on the case in a few moments. we start with the new hurdles and passing the president s agenda. garrett haake has the latest from the hill. nbc s mike memoli is standing by for us at the white house. garrett, i will start with you. set the stage for us. where are we right now in this infrastructure negotiation process? we don t know a lot about the bipartisan proposal. some democrats seem to be pressing forward on going at it without republicans. what about that $6 trillion plan progressives are floating? reporter: the infrastructure effort is still proceeding on two parallel tracks. bipartisan negotiations about hard infrastructure, what potentially enough senators from the two parties could agree to,
administration leading up to the january 6 attack on the capitol. i m going to take you inside what we now know about this stunning 24-day period between the electoral college vote and the january 6 certification of that vote. when our democracy, yes, was hanging on by a thread. i want to start on the day of the electoral college vote, december 14. that s when the deputy attorney general at the time, jeffrey rosen, gets an email from the white house with the subject line, from potus. attached to the email are materials alleging that voter fraud in michigan, where trump lost, with talking points alleging a coverup there. that email hits rosen s in box right before the president announces that bill barr is out as attorney general and that rosen will now be the acting attorney general at doj. bill barr leaves officially on december 23rd, putting rosen in charge of the department on that day. i want to go a few days later. six day of him acting attorney general. he gets another e
since it was enacted. president biden praising it as a major victory. how the justices appointed by former president trump sided. and the legal questions still unanswered. the u.s. investing billions to develop anti-viral pills that could one day treat covid. and the concerns over the delta variant. why the early symptoms can cause confusion. plus, companies turning up the pressure to return to the office. president biden signing a law to make juneteenth a national holiday commemorating the end of slavery. tonight we re in the city where it all began. and ahead of father s day, our nbc news dads with some fatherly advice. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening. i m jose diaz-balart in for lester. we begin tonight with severe weather affecting much of the country and a double threat. a tropical storm warning has been issued for part of the gulf coast including metropolitan new orleans as a tropical system gains strength in the gulf of