the american congress. we are keeping a close eye on capitol hill this hour as isaac herzog is about to address a joint meeting of the house and senate. i m kate bolduan with john berman and sara sidner, this is cnn news central. we are now moments away from the israeli president addressing a joint meeting of congress, one of the highest marks of respect that the congress affords to foreign leaders. he s only the second israeli president to mack ke such an address and the first was his father 35 years ago. despite strong bipartisan ties between american lawmakers and israel and longstanding ties, this visit and this address is exposing some tension within the democratic party around that support right now in this political arena. cnn s lauren fox is back with us on capitol hill. this is about to begin. talk to me about this speech and this moment. yeah. obviously the chamber is looking more and more full as we await this address by the israeli president. one thing t
that the failed mutiny has substantially weakened putin s authority? oh, you know, that s the moment when everyone understands that the emperor is naked, because for many years he was considered to be a very experienced politician who knows what he s doing, who has everything under his control. he was using all members of his inner circle to counterweight each other, and he was creating that very difficult system of balance of power. and now it s obvious that he could not control his once puppet, who was very close to putin for many years, who was in charge of very delicate issues, he had his most important troll factory in russia, and he became known because of that. yeah. then he organised his private military campaign, private army, wagner group. and then he was. his mission was to become a counterweight for russian minister of defence, sergei shoigu. yeah. and then he became the real politician. so he has posed this huge threat to putin, which you say has made him weaker,
administration critics are saying it s another example of the political weaponization of the legal system. correspondent david spunt leads us off tonight with the details. good evening, david. hi, bret, good evening. this would be the former president s third indictment in as many months. he broke the news on social media hours ago and went after the man who could put him behind bars. former president donald trump announced he s the target of a federal probe. on social media, he called special counsel jack smith deranged. adding smith is, quote: giving me a very short four days to report to the grand jury which almost always means an arrest an indictment. smith indicted trump in another probe focused on classified documents last month. they re coming in. in the current investigation, he is looking at whether the former president incited the violence that took place in and outside the capitol on january 6th, 2021. and whether trump tried to overturn the results of the
north korea now. flash flood emergency in kentucky after almost a foot of record-setting rain. a tornado rips through north carolina doing major damage to a pfizer facility. and passengers on stretchers taken off a las vegas plane with no working a.c. as a brutal heat wave sets more records across the planet the two irs whistle-blowers telling congress why they think hunter biden got preferential treatment in a criminal investigation. democrats pushing back and the unlikely blockbuster double feature that s become the summer s hottest ticket announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, and welcome. we begin tonight with what we have learned about the very serious categories of crime special counsel jack smith is focusing on against former president donald trump that are spelled out in that target letter mr. trump says he received from the government over the weekend. a grand jury is investigating the lengths prosecutors say the ex-preside
triple-digit temperatures outside. they had to call in medical teams and oxygen. the stunning images tonight. that powerful tornado in north carolina, tearing through homes and businesses, hitting at lunch hour. multiple people hurt. and the twister slamming into a pfizer plant, sustaining major damage. in kentucky tonight, the governor there declaring a state of emergency. widespread flooding. and we re learning more about the nightmare on board that delta plane. passenger and crews spending more than an hour on the tarmac. the outside temperature reaching 110. rob marciano standing by with the tornado concerns still at this hour and the storms and heat. we also have new reporting tonight in the defection of an american soldier to north korea. his mother making a desperate plea tonight. the new image of that soldier at the dmz just moments before authorities say he ran into north korea on his own. a witness describing the moment. where he is right now and what do authori