Elon musk. He started to post on the platform again today for the first time in a year. Now, our team will listen to that interview, pay attention to it, so you dont have to do that. We will update you later in the show or if anything interesting comes up. Of course, the mere fact the interview is taking place is alarming. The worlds richest man is using his enormous platform to basically give the republican nominee a free ad, and we will talk about that. Conservative Attorney George Conway who never holds back a former white House Aide Sarah Matthews, one of the braver voices out there will join me on set. So is former Congressman And President ial Candidate Beto Orourke will be with me later. We are following major Breaking News. The Washington Post is reporting the fbi is now investigating, expected iranian hack and attempted hacks of both president ial campaigns. What was already a crazy story just got much crazier and the Washington Post broke the story was in two hours ago and is
inspiring america week with the new soccer team created by some of america s most famous women announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, everyone language is no barrier to understanding the stories of civilians newly evacuated from the besieged ukrainian city of mariupol their faces and eyes tell it all. the hunger, the incessant bombing, the emotional torment of being trapped in a dying city about 100 survivors were led to safety today from the infamous steel plant that has served as the last refuge in mariupol new commercial satellite images reveal the near complete destruction there. ukrainian soldiers say many more civilians remain trapped in the plant including children, all while russia claims to have intensified its attacks elsewhere. still u.s. defense officials say russia s progress in seizing territory in the east of ukraine has been anemic, moving into areas to declare victory only to leave and allow the ukrainians to reclaim them k
house in a minute. and breaking this afternoon, one of the country s biggest airlines wants the justice department to make a new no fly list after all that bad behavior on planes. we have our tom costello jumping in front of a camera with developing details. i m hallie jackson in washington. good to be with you on a friday afternoon. we will start with new details on that rnc vote coming into us. you see here nbc s leigh ann caldwell covering this for us from the capitol, josh dawsey investigative political reporter to the washington post joining us, also here former republican congresswoman barbara comstock along with olivia, chief political strategist for the renew america movement. with the reporting and the nuts and bolts josh, you are there, you are in salt lake, right, where this rnc meeting is happening? yeah, i am. and leigh ann, you re covering from the fawout from d.c. the resolution said in part and i m reading just like it was written whereas representat
that language sent an unintended message. i used that once. i think others have then we stopped using it because i think it sent a message we weren t intending to send. we knew that president putin made a decision. the vast majority of times we talked about it, we said he could invade any time. i think i used it once last week. but the decision now is you re not describing it as imminent. i haven t in over a week. new satellite images show russia continues its military build up by ukraine s border. cnn pentagon correspondent, barbara starr, is with us now. first, the pentagon press secretary said these american troops will not go into ukraine. made that clear. what did they say is the purpose of these deployments? well, that s perhaps one of the most significant questions right now that people are asking. u.s. troops not going into ukraine unless maybe they have to help evacuate americans out of the country, should it come to that, but not anticipated and certainly
3,000 u.s. troops to europe as the threat of a russian invasion looms over ukraine. hello, welcome to america reports for a wednesday, john roberts in washington. sandra, good to be back with you. sandra: great to see you. welcome back. sandra smith in new york. additional forces are deploying to poland, germany and romania, all of which are nato members, on top of the 8500 troops already on high alert and ready for deployment if needed. john: the pentagon says the u.s. is committed to defending nato allies as tensions rise, and new satellite images reveal the extent of russia s military activity in the region. sandra: steve live in kyiv, what is putin doing now? what s he doing now and what s he going to do, the question many world leaders are asking themselves. putin kept quiet about ukraine for a month, he broke the silence yesterday in classic passion. twisted it around saying the u.s. was trying to drag russia into war in ukraine, not mentioning the massive bui