brought down a presidency 50 years ago today. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening the fate of two missing american military veterans, volunteers in ukraine s fight against russia, may be coming into focus tonight. video said to show alexander drueke and andy huynh, appearin on russian television this evening the men apparently captured by russian troops we are showing still frames of the video that appears to show both men alive a third american remains unaccounted for. they are among an unknown number of u.s. citizens that traveled on their own to fight on behalf of ukraine, prompting a renewed warning against such travel from president biden today. notably the captured americans were not mentioned by a defiant president vladimir putin today in a speech in the russian city of st. petersburg keir simmons is there tonight, and thus, we remind you russia is cracking down on the media, limiting what reporters can say under threat of imprisonm
the conversation was pretty heated. i remember hearing the word wimp, he called him a wimp. i don t remember if he said you are a wimp. it was a different tone that i had heard him take with the vice president before. these pictures of pence never seen before, the vice president being hidden by the secret service in an underground garage under the capitol, reading the president s tweet that said that pence lacked courage to overturn the election. that tweet helped inflame the mob, a mob that had come within 40 feet of the vice president when he was making his escape. markets are mixed today after thursday s disastrous day on wall street and president biden gets defensive about economists predicting a recession. two american veterans fighting in ukraine have gone missing, along with a possible third who volunteered to fight the russians. we will have the latest from kyiv. follow the money, nbc justice correspondent pete williams retracing the steps of the watergate bre
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James comeys replacement would do a far betterjob. The president claims americas most senior Law Enforcement official had lost the confidence of almost everyone in washington. James comey was leading an fbi investigation into alleged links between the Trump Campaign team and russia. Heres our north america editor, jon sopel. This is a fox news alert. Fbi Directorjames Comey has been fired by the president of the united states. The term Breaking News is banded around with abandon. Last night, it was justified. Because at fbi offices the first they knew that their director had been fired was when it flashed up on their tv screens. And james comey, who was in los angeles addressing staff, knew nothing about it either until an aide handed him a note and the letter sent by President Trump was brutal. At least they left him the governmentjet to fly back to the east coast, a private citizen, a turbulent career cut short. And today the president was unrepentant. Reporter why did you fire Direc
James comeys replacement would do a far betterjob. The president claims americas most senior Law Enforcement official had lost the confidence of almost everyone in washington. James comey was leading an fbi investigation into alleged links between the Trump Campaign team and russia. Heres our north america editor, jon sopel. This is a fox news alert. Fbi Directorjames Comey has been fired by the president of the united states. The term Breaking News is banded around with abandon. Last night, it was justified. Because at fbi offices the first they knew that their director had been fired was when it flashed up on their tv screens. And james comey, who was in los angeles addressing staff, knew nothing about it either until an aide handed him a note and the letter sent by President Trump was brutal. At least they left him the governmentjet to fly back to the east coast, a private citizen, a turbulent career cut short. And today the president was unrepentant. Reporter why did you fire Direc