The 2017 inaugural committee was arrested on charges of illegally lobbying the campaign and the trump administration on behalf of the united arab emirates and for failing to register as a foreign lobbyist. A sevencount indictment unsealed in a new york federal court today accuses barrack and two other individuals as acting and conspiring as agents of the uae between 2016 and 2018. The indictment alleges that barrack provided uae officials with sensitive nonpublic information about developments within the administration. Barrack is also charged with counts of obstruction of justice and for lying to the fbi about his dealings with the emirates. Barrack is a longtime friend of the former president and is alleged to have used that relationship to get language inserted into one of then candidate trump s speeches at the behest of emirate officials. While trump didn t praise one of the officials as was proposed, he did ending up promising to work with gulf allies. We ll work with our gulf all
Contempt for black enfranchisement, calling it voter integrity. And they ve demonized those protesting for black freedom from police violence and lionized those that inflicted actual violence on those capitol police officers that gop lawmakers have now snubbed for daring to call it what it was, an insurrection. But of course, those are the congressional republicans that voted for the juneteenth holiday. 14 others responsibility predictively, calling it racist for acknowledging that different groups of americans have experienced history differently, but at least their stripes show because even though the bill passed unanimously through the senate, as we approach this week s senate vote on the for the people act, the republican minority leader has already spurned even a compromise to combat the historical threats to voter participation. We re watching that in every state that black people live in. We start tonight s show with attorney and law professor sherrilyn ifill, president and dire
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christmas with fears that travelers will deepen the crisis. plus, reaction t a supreme court decision involving how many can worship together. to the rescue, the military s new mission stepping up to help hospitals out of rooms and resources in the heartland. the effort to feed families this thanksgiving long lines across the country and a shocking new report, 1 in 6 without enough to eat. black friday s best deals and a shopping season like no other, the one simple thing you can do to get the best buys online. and thanking health care heroes, the outpouring of love and kindness bringing smiles this holiday. this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening and happy thanksgiving i m kate snow in for lester tonight and we begin with late breaking news, president trump continuing to insist he won the election taking questions for the first time since the election and saying he s not ready to concede but the president also pledging to leave the white house
increasingly convinced vladimir putin may be ignoring those warnings. state department correspondent benjamin hall has the latest tonight. good evening, benjamin. good evening, bret. yes, the state department and the rest of the administration say they are ready for any eventuality whether that is for diplomacy or russian military escalation. everything we have seen and heard today suggest the latter is increasingly likely. russian troops ready, and the stage is set. all putin needs now is the excuse. he could have that very soon. russia is already working actively to create a pretext for potential invasion. u.s. officials say intelligence indicate russian operatives feigned urban war ferrari and using explosives are already in eastern ukraine ready to carry out acts of sabotage and may be planning operations against russia s own forces. we have information that they prepositioned a group of operatives to conduct what we call a false flag operation. russia is also p