Historic summit at camp david with the leaders of japan and south korea. On the agenda, confronting threats from china and north korea. Donald trump deciding to skip next weeks first gop president ial debate, and new reporting tonight, when will he surrender on new charges in georgia . Nbc news reports aboard an f16 fighter jet, the u. S. Today approving the shipment of f16s to ukraine, but how long will it take to train ukraines pilots to fly them . And after losing her restaurant in the fires, the top chef still cooking with compassion for maui. Announcer this is Nbc Nightly News with lester holt good evening, and welcome. Normally this time of year, people in the south and the east are keeping an eye open for potential hurricane threats. Tonight, however, in a historic weather twist, americans on the west coast are on alert with an eye on Hurricane Hilary as it races northward off the Baja Peninsula Parts of california are under the first Tropical Storm watch ever issued for that st
now congress failure to reel in post-pandemic spending is forcing the central bank to tighten credit, choke spending and heighten risk of recession. in reality, this is not debate about spending, but who is going to do the spe spending. todd: alexandria hoff has more. alexandria: june 1 is the day the treasury secretary janet yellen has given for when it is debt limit must be resolved, if not, world implications would follow. today president biden and kevin mccarthy will meet after what was called a productive phone call last night. i just finished a phone call with the president, he s flying back on air force one. we re talking about his trip there and positive things that took place and spent time talking about the debt ceiling and where we are and i believe it was a productive phone call. we can solve some problems if he understands what we re looking at. we have to spend less money. alexandria: the president arrived back from washington. in japan, president biden
george, you not fooling anyone yeah, except i did. now i m in congress. i am jonathan capehart, thi is the sunday show president biden unveiled his new budget proposal this week, a seven trillion dollar plan that in vested billions into affordable childcare, whol care for older or disabled americans, and lowering housin costs. the plan proposes to pay for i by the corporate tax rate to 28% and imposing in 25% tax on billionaires a proposal snl had a little fu with last night. president biden proposed hi budget that would help fun medicare with 25% tax on billionaires take that rihanna! the white house says th plan could cut the federal deficit by a whopping thre trillion dollars over the next decade while still allowing th government to provide for thos who need a little extra help house republicans say the plan is dear way. citing theneed to curb spending due to the debt ceiling. reminder, that is money we v already spent. at the state of the union, the enthusiasti
with a strike by nurses. the family of yousef makki when the fight to have a fresh inquest into his death. a surprise fall in the amount spent by shoppers in december, as people cut back on their christmas spending. # it would be so nice. # and tickets have gone on sale for madonna s good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news channel. the ukrainian president volodomyr zelensky has appeared via videolink to make a direct appeal for tanks, at a meeting of western defence chiefs in germany. representatives of more than 50 countries are discussing the co ordination of stronger military support for kyiv. president zelensky called on the allies to agree the delivery of tanks and other advanced weapons as a matter of urgency. germany is under pressure to allow its leopard two tanks to be exported to ukraine, which isn t a member of nato. the uk has commited to sending 1a challenger 2 tanks to the frontline. here s our diplomatic correspondent, james landale. for western defence chie
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