have a good holiday weekend and on behalf of all my colleagues at the networks of nbc news, good night. >>> very good evening to you and thank you, again, rachel maddow will be with us soon. we are happy you are here with us tonight. we have a lot to cover tonight, reporter katie benner who along with her colleagues at "the new york times" broke the bizarre matt gaetz story and will share it live tonight. we will have a live report from minneapolis as what was described as a day of devastating testimony in the derek chauvin case. the former minneapolis police officer who is on trial for killing george floyd. there's a lot to get to tonight and where we are going to start tonight is with the latest from nbc news justice correspondent pete williams. who has been reporting today, that the burst of violence at the north entrance to the u.s. capitol grounds today that left one u.s. capitol police officer killed. and another hospitalized with injuries and a suspect dead involved in all of that. ramming a car into those officers and into a metal barricade and then leapt on out of that with a

on behalf of all my colleagues at the network of nbc news, goodnight. of nbc news goodnight. >> very happy to have you here. state of the union's thursday night. all right, so, if you are not lucky enough to live through it at the time, he may not know this. i did live through it at the time, so i know. here is how it looked, he would click on the start but the, lower left hand corner of your screen, but instead of starting some normal program, you start microsoft bob. microsoft bob appears in a face on your screen and in order to get started doing your work, your homework, whatever you would have to knock on the door of microsoft bob's house, click on the knocker, the dog would demand know who you are, he would bark it, you let you in, and that is where you are supposed to get your work done, with the dog demanding answers from you. to start a program, click on it. what's program? what are you talking about? why am i in this barn? you have the wherewithal to tell the dog you want to click other options, the parks that you again. a gigantic list of thin

tonight nbc news has a little more about that quote, the u.s. intelligence community has developed a new information about konstantin kilimnik whom they call a russian spy that leads them to believe that the associates chairmen paul manafort past internal poll and strategy information to russian services, two u.s. officials say. they did not disclose when or how the u.s. came into possession of the new intelligence about kilimnik, including whether not the information was developed during the trump or biden administration. officials did not identify the source or type of intelligence that had been developed, and quote. just a little more there but not enough to answer the big burning questions. we will be right back with more. stay with us. with us did they brave mother nature... and walk away stronger? did they face the unknown, with resolve...and triumph. ♪♪ there's strength in every family story. learn more about yours. at ancestry. so what's going on? [dog] i'm a talking dog. in every family story. the other issue. [dog] oh...i'm scratch

the latest reporting was that the nbc news is the first to report it's the sex trafficking investigation in to joel greenberg that led investigators to congressman gaetz and had they report that the under age girl that is the basis for the child sex trafficking indictment against greenberg is the same girl for whom congressman gaetz is facing similar charges. there's a part that is still developing. that appears to be part of how federal investigators got involved here in the first place. and that's only now coming in to focus when it comes to congressman gaetz. in the indictment of the other guy, joel greenberg, prosecutors accuse him of making multiple fake i.d.s. fake licenses and i.d. cards at the tax collector's office where he worked. >>> they accuse him explicitly of using the fake i.d.s to facilitate the child sex trafficking and prostitution of which he is accused. it's not how clear the fake i.d.s, and particularly with his own picture on them were part of the alleged trafficking scheme, but the orlando sentinel was reporting that federal investigators got to congressman gaetz

tonight, nbc news has a little more about that. quote, the u.s. intelligence community has developed new information about konstantin kilimnik, whom they call a russian spy that leads them to believe the associate of ex-trump campaign chair paul manafort passed internal campaign polling and strategy information to russian intelligence services, two u.s. officials say. the official did not disclose when or how the u.s. came into possession of the new intelligence about kilimnick including whether or not the information was developed during the trump or biden administrations. the officials did not identify the source or type of intelligence that had been developed, end quote. so just a little more there, but not nearly enough to answer some big, burning questions. >>> we'll be right back with more. stay with us. it's a dark, lonely place. this is art inspired by real stories of people living with bipolar depression. emptiness. a hopeless struggle. the lows of bipolar depression can disrupt your life and be hard to manage. latuda could make a real di

on behalf of all my colleagues at the networks of nbc news, goodnight. nbc news, goodnight. what a news day this has been. the biden administration announcing today today, that the u.s. war in afghanistan will finally come to an end. and multiple presidents have tried. even in the george w. bush administration, which started that war. they said that by the time george w. bush left office, they were trying to end it, they wanted to bring u.s. troops home from afghanistan even back then. they set targets, for withdrawal, based on what they hope to be improvements on conditions on the ground. surprisingly conditions on the ground never improved enough to warrant hitting those targets, so the troops did not come home then under the president who started that war. president obama wanted to bring that troops home from afghanistan as well but then he famously surged more troops into afghanistan, to try to improve things on the ground. because they hoped to be able to end the u.s. war there, based on improving conditions on the ground. but in the end, surprise, conditions on the gro

joining us from there is nbc news correspondent ron allen. ron, thanks so much for joining us again tonight. i know you've been out there several nights in a row in at times challenging conditions. what are you seeing tonight and how do you compare it to how the last few nights have been? >> reporter: rachel, as has been the case every night after nightfall, things get a bit more tense. and we have seen more debris, bottles, rocks, going into the police compound in the last half hour or so. it's a very different crowd tonight. there's a lot of people riding around on -- in cars and motorcycles, racing up and town down the streets. there's also a lot of hostility directed towards us, towards the media. there was some of this on social media, urging people to smash cameras. that's one reason we are keeping our distance. there have been a couple of incidents were photographers closer have been pushed back by some elements in the crowd. the crowd of course is very diverse, there are people here from many, many different reasons. but the bottom li

news, good night >>> alexandria ocasio-cortez is gr going to be here with us live tonight. i'm looking forward to speaking with her in just a moment. one of the highest s est profili rights attorneys in the country will be here with us, as well. we're going to start tonight, though, with a little bit of an update on that bananas story that we had to unexpectedly shift gears to cover at this time in the show last night, when "the new york times" published late breaking news about the republican congressman who is probably the most high profile fanatical trump supporter in congress, republican congressman matt gaetz. "the times" last night published the news that congressman gaetz is under criminal investigation by the u.s. justice department for very serious allegations of child sex trafficking. now, i swear i'm not going to spend more of my life than i need to following every twist and turn in this somewhat nauseating story, but because we gave you the backstory and context on this last night, i feel the need to update you tonight. because the sheer bizarreness of this stor

joining us now from there is nbc news correspondent ron allen. ron, thanks very much for joining us tonight. i know you've been out there several nights in a row now and it's been sometimes really challenging conditions. you are using tonight? and how do you compare it to what the last few nights have been? >> well, rachel, that has been the case every night after nightfall, things get a bit more tense. and we have seen more debris, bottles, rocks going into the police compound in the last half hour or so. it's a very different crowd tonight. there's a lot of people riding around in cars and motorcycles, racing up and down the streets. there's also, i have to say, a lot of hostility directed towards us. towards the media. there was some of this social media are urging people to mask cameras. and that's one reason we're keeping our distance. there's been a couple incidences where photographers closer have been pushed back by some elements in the crowd. the crowd of course is very diverse. there are people here from many different reasons. but the

nbc news presidential historian michael beschloss, good to see you. thank you so much. >> same here, be well, rachel. >> all right, more ahead tonight. stay with us. >>> in 2017, russia's most vocal, most effective critic of the putin regime, alexey navalny, was opening up new headquarters for his opposition movement when somebody approached him to shake his hand. and when navalny obliged, the person threw something at him, doused him with a chemical that dyed navalny's hand and face bright green. it was of course scary at the time. navalny said at first he thought it was an acid attack because his skin started to tingle. but after he got attacked like that, he told his supporters it kind of liked it. he said it made him look like a super hero. he said he could use his green face to raise more money for his organization. he would stand out at rallies. he made it seem almost funny until it happened again. a month later he was outside his offices when another unknown assailant came up to him and attacked him with another kind of green dye. this time he

ron allen, nbc news correspondent is live for us there in brooklyn center, ron where are you and what you can you see from where you are? >> we are just down the street rachel from police headquarters, which is down in that direction. we can see a lot of smoke, coming from tear gas that's been fired apparently by the police. in the protesters have been firing off fireworks in the other direction. we've also seen a number of projectiles going into the police compound there are steps around it. the standup has been going on for several hours. the police have come out recently in the past couple of hours, couple of minutes, i should say, and said the crowd was in violation of the curfew and if they did not leave they would be in violation. the police have been patient, they have been waiting this out. but now it seems like their patience has run out. there are more and more people coming this way. can we go down this way a little bit guys? if you go come down here, down the street a little bit you can see that the crowd is coming this way. let's stop right there. there you go. all night,

>> nbc news reporter meagan fitzgerald live from brooklyn center, minnesota. you and your crew stay safe. keep us apprised over the course of the night. it's invaluable to have you there on the ground. please stay safe. >> reporter: absolutely. >> we'll have -- checking back in on that situation again, evolving situation right now in brooklyn center, minnesota, suburban minneapolis. daunte wright, unarmed, killed by police yesterday. body camera footage appearing to show an officer saying she was going to tase him. apparently intending to tase him, expressing shock that she had shot him once she did, but he was killed by a gunshot to the chest as confirmed by the autopsy report tonight. this happening as minneapolis is already on edge because of the george floyd murder trial under way. just a tinder box of a night and a live eerks involving situation in minneapolis. not everybody wants the same thing. that's why i go with liberty mutual — they customize my car insurance so i only pay for what i need. 'cause i do things a little differently. hey, i'll take on

joining us now is nbc news presidential historian michael beschloss. it's been too long. thank you for being here tonight. >> wonderful to see you, rachel. >> i'm drawing an implicit parallel with lyndon johnson in terms of his pre-presidency reputation and then the ambition and the progressive nature of his ambition as president. i don't think it maps exactly to what we're seeing with joe biden, but is it -- does that strike you as an appropriate parallel. >> i think it's a great parallel, and you know, here's a case, lbj ran for the senate in 1948, gave white supremacist speeches in the late 1950s when there was a civil rights bill in congress basically the first major one to pass since the time of reconstruction. johnson was there to water it down because he wanted to please a lot of the conservatives in his caucus and in texas. so when john kennedy was murdered on the 22nd of november, 1963, there were a lot of black americans and a lot of righteous other americans who were very worried that johnson would be a deal maker and that unlike kennedy, he would come in and h

us on behalf of all of my colleagues at the metrics of nbc news, goodnight. , goodnight. it was 100 years ago this spring. teenage boy named dick roland, just a teenager, he was at grave risk of being lynched. tulsa oklahoma had defendants dragged out of the courthouse, dragged out of the jail before and lynched in the streets. in may 1921, when dick roland had been arrested in tulsa. there was fairly good reason to believe it was going to happen again. a local paper, the tulsa tribune published an account on may 31st 1921, that essentially accused this black teenager, dick roland, of rape. he worked as a shoe shine boy at a building in downtown tulsa. the paper in red hot terms essentially accused him of sexually assaulting a white teenage girl who worked at an elevator operator at the building where he worked. and teenage dick roland was arrested that day and after, he was arrested, a mob apparently a large mob of white tulsa residents started gathering at the courthouse demanding basically to get their hands on him. and tulsa was a bustling city at the time. a lot of b

on behalf of all my colleagues at the networks of nbc news, goodnight. >> as we speak, ten russian officials who are ostensibly on the diplomatic staff of the russian embassy in washington and in new york, tonight ten different russian officials have been told by the biden administration that they have 30 days to leave the united states. now, i'm being a little bit willie about what their jobs are because an instances like this the general perception is that the russians are being kicked out of the country tonight, even though they may work at the embassy of a consulate, the perception is that these folks are being asked to leave because they are not legitimate diplomats. again, generally speaking the idea is that whoever the guy is not really -- he is actually a spy. intelligence personnel, spy for the russian government working here with a cover story that they are employed at the embassy. this of course is the worst cover story in the world, anybody who has read a single book ever or seen even one bad spy movie can spot this a mile away. it is an unsubtle cover. but they still do it. beca

with our thanks for being with us, on behalf of all my colleagues on the networks of nbc news, good night. >>> we're happy to have you here. a big show for you tonight. the chair of president biden's council of economic advisers is here tonight. cecilia rouse. this will be her first interview on this show. looking forward to talking with her. today of all days, that will become clear why in just a moment. we'll also be talking with the "new york times" reporter who just broke the astonishing story of the previously unknown major grift, major fraud that former president trump ran against his supporters in the final months of his time in office. to the tune of over $120 million and thousands of fraud claims. now even one state republican party claiming to have been just plain ripped off by the former president and his operation. we will have more on that ahead tonight. plus, we will have some very interesting news tonight, unexpected at least to me, from the nra's bankruptcy trial. which ought to be getting more attention. that is under way as of today in texas. super interesting. so we hav

nbc news has now confirmed this reporting by cbs tonight. we've also tried to reach the marijuana entrepreneur/hand surgeon, but he did not answer our calls. still, that was fun. congressman gaetz reiterated his denial that he's ever paid for sex. he specifically denied that he had sex with an underage girl. but the story, of course, first broke in "the new york times" last week that congressman gaetz is being investigated by the justice department over whether he had sex with an underage girl and whether he paid for her to travel with him across state lines. if true, that could constitute a violation of federal child sex trafficking laws. the investigation of congressman gaetz reportedly started as an offshoot of a different federal child sex trafficking investigation that led to federal charges against a friend of congressman gaetz. a local republican elected official in florida named joel greenberg. mr. greenberg was arrested last year on an array of charges, including sex trafficking of a minor. he's currently in jail awaiting trial. he'

at the networks on nbc news, good night. >> i know, i know, rachel has the night off. but do not despair. she'll be back tomorrow. tonight georgia state representative park cannon. will join us love. she is the lawmaker arrested for knocking on a door where the governor was signing into law a sweeping voter suppression law. this will be her first interview since the charges were dropped. we will also be joined live in just a moment by white house senior adviser cedric richmond. he is here to talk about the president's newest executive action on gun control, action that comes unfortunately and tragically on a day when there was another mass shooting in america. >>> but we start tonight outside a federal courthouse in orlando, florida, where embattled congressman matt gaetz received some very, very bad news from an unlikely albeit reluctant source. watch. >> does matt gaetz have anything to worry about? >> does matt gaetz -- that is such a -- >> when it comes to what happened today in court. >> does he have anything to worry about? you're asking me to get into the mind o

thanks for being with us on behalf of all of my colleagues at the networks of nbc news, good night. >> we start tonight on the republican side of politics and politics in the news where things are a little bit of a three-ring circus right now and it is starting to seem like the circus tent could come down in the wind. starting in georgia tonight, the national bull's eye and the focus of so much anger and upset and controversy over republicans rolling out new restrictions on voting rights, today in a surprise georgia's republican lieutenant governor admitted that the impetus for these draconian voting restrictions was the set of lies that was told by president trump and on behalf of president trump after he lost georgia in the election in 2020. this is what all of the critics have been claiming. georgia republicans are admitting this is true. >> this is really the fall out from the ten weeks of misinformation that flew in for former president donald trump. when noah juulsen showed up spending hours spreading misinformation the republican lieutenant governor of georgia admitting that re

shomari stone is a reporter for the nbc station in washington, d.c.. nbc news 4. mr. stone shot this footage today as the country learned all at once all together what the verdict would be. >> oh, thank god! >> how are you all feeling right now? >> woo! >> huh? >> numb. like you still feel sadness about it all, like, that we're here. >> what about you, ma'am, i see you have tears in your eyes right now. >> feel so relieved. i feel relieved. i don't see how it could have been otherwise. >> reporter: as an african american woman, what's going through your mind? >> an african american woman, i am glad that i have lived to see this in my lifetime. i never thought i would live to see it. and i am 91 years old. >> i am 91 years old. i don't see how it could have been otherwise, but i know it could have been otherwise. that was in washington, d.c., today. this was in minneapolis at the site where george floyd was killed last year by police officer derek chauvin. the gentleman you see here has just heard the verdict and he is leading a chant of george floyd's name until he ca

nbc news reports that the white house actually discussed the possibility of activating national guard troops in all 50 states in anticipation of potential mass protests in response to whatever the jury's verdict will be. that hasn't happened. we haven't seen 50 state national guard activation. but the d.c. national guard was activated, and other places may do the same. today, the governor of minnesota asked ohio and nebraska to please send state troopers in to minnesota to help out with needs there. we had a week of angry protests in minnesota. brooklyn center, minnesota, about ten miles from where the george floyd trial has been under way, after police released body cam footage of daunte wright being shot and killed by an officer who shouted that she was going to tase him, but then fired her pistol into his chest. and the footage is seared into you, from both cases. and today, in the closing arguments, the prosecutor in the george floyd trial made a deep argument about the people who took the footage of george floyd being killed by that police officer. the bystanders who saw this man

nbc news confirmed this reporting by cbs tonight, we tried to reach the marijuana entrepreneur hand surgeon. he dn answer our calls. still that was fun. he reiterated denial that he ever paid for states. he specifically denied tonight that he had sex with an underage girl. but the story, of course, first broke in the "new york times" last week that congressman gaetz is being investigated by the justice department over whether he had sex with an underaged girl and whether he paid for her to travel with him across state lines. that would constitute a violation of child sex trafficking laws. the investigation of congressman gaetz started as an off shoot as a different federal sex trafficking investigation. there was an elected official in mr. greenberg much he was arrest lastd year on an array charges including sex trafficking of a minor. he plead not guilty. the sex trafficking involving the same underaged girl as the gaetz investigation. mark caputo has new reporting to that i that shed light on the regulationship between gaetz and greenberg and the relation shep between these two criminal i

our thanks for being here with us on behalf of all my colleagues at the networks of nbc news, goodnight. >> happy to have you here. it was a big news day today. president biden announced that we just hit 200 million doses of vaccine administered. you will recall he initially said he wanted 100 million shots, to be administered in his first hundred days as president. then when he hit that really early, he doubled the goal and said ok not 100 million shots, but 200 million shots in 100 days. today's announcement means that he hit that even that doubled goal, more than a week before the deadline. and this comes of course when things are not all smooth sailing on the vaccine front. this comes as we are expecting some word from the u.s. government, from the cdc in the fda by the end of the week about whether or not the johnson & johnson, one shot vaccine, is going to come back into use. but even with the administration of that one shot vaccine still on pause, for almost two weeks now, we apparently today to hit 200 million doses administered anyway. which is phenomenal. today president biden

shimmery stone is a reporter, a longtime reporter for the nbc station, and bc news for, mr. stone shot this footage today as the country learned, all at once, altogether what's the verdict would be. >> oh thank god. >> how are you feeling right now? >> i am numb, i still feel sadness about it all that we're here. >> what about you ma'am, i see you have tears in your eyes right now? >> i feel so relieved. i feel relieved. i don't see how it could've been otherwise but i do think it could've been otherwise actually. >> as an african american woman what is happening in your mind? >> i am inclined that i have live to see this in my lifetime. i never felt that i would love to see it and i'm 91 years old. >> i am 91 years old. i don't see how it could've been otherwise but i do know that it could've been otherwise. that was in washington d.c. today. this was in minneapolis at the site where george floyd was killed last year by derek chauvin, the gentleman you will see here has just heard the verdict and he is leading a chant of george floyd's name until he can't anymore. >> george

on behalf of all of my colleagues at nbc news, good night. ♪ ♪ >> while we are on the subject. did i get it straight? i got my shot. i did. i am so excited. i got the johnson & johnson one shot vaccine. can i just tell you about it for a second. i went on my own and didn't have anyone take a picture of me when i was getting the shot. i didn't. i don't think i would have liked to have seen a picture of me getting the actual shot anyway because i am afraid a needles and it would make me throw up if i saw a picture of myself getting an injection. but i took the photo of myself. i know it is a terrible photo. i am wearing my old battered west point baseball cap and forgot i put a bright red binder clip on the left side of the bill for safe keeping. i am such a dork. and this will be like forever in my vaccine photo. i look a little crazy in the photo, beyond just the weird hat. it is because i was sitting there balling my eyes out from relief and from gratitude from being able to get the shot. i kept having to sneak under my mask so i would not soak it while i sat there crying for

i want to bring in the conversation nbc news national reporter dion hampton who is also in brooklyn center tonight. what can you tell us about your vantage point and what you're able to see? >> thanks for having me on. from what i see, i see a jekyll and hyde crowd. this way, my colleague mentioned there are about 500 people left that are demonstrators and here, you have a peaceful crowd. people who are praying. people who are telling the other protestors not to become violent. so over here, you have people, hands up. don't shoot. we have one bullhorn. and you have people saying, we don't want any violence. now, if you pan the camera this way, maybe 75 yards down the street, it's the completely different crowd. this crowd is provoking the police, this crowd is agitating the police. and, again, they're very juxtaposed to what is going on here. so the police have been saying that they want the crowd to stop being unruly. and the protesters down there who were throwing the water bottles and the other debris and the officers is saying it's unlawful. the captain has come out, and they're giving

cnn is reporting tonight and this is not confirmed by nbc news, but the investigation i'm going to matt gaetz is examining, among other things, whether gaetz may have used not just money, but drugs in his dealing with young women. cnn says investigators are examining where gaetz engaged in a relationship with a woman that began when she was 17, and whether his involved with other young women broke federal sex trafficking and prostitution laws. again, this is per cnn. we have not confirmed this. cnn saying that investigators are looking at whether he used drugs in addition to cash in his dealings with young women, that is new. as we reported last night, the house republican leader, kevin mccarthy, has now confirmed after initially saying otherwise, he's now confirmed that if and when congressman matt gaetz is indicted, republicans in the house will remove him from all his committee assignments and otherwise relieve him of his congressional responsibilities. presumably they'll move to expel him from congress if he's convicted, unless he quits first. but we shall see. that's still happenin

nbc news reported today that that latter part of the tax collector guy investigation, the part where they looked at his devices and decided what was going won with the fake i.d.s through his office is he was using fake i.d.s to facilitate criminal sexual acts, including sex trafficking of underage persons. that part of the investigation into this tax collector guy ultimately led to what are now the newly reported details of this federal criminal investigation into republican congressman meat gaetz, who is also accused of sex trafficking of a minor mr. greenberg, the seminole county tax collector guy and gaetz are reportedly close there are several pictures of them together and now investigators are looking at whether congressman gaetz may end up charged with sex traffics of an underaged girl but while we were absorbing that detail of the story here, right, not just that these two guys are -- one of them facing charges, one of them facing similar allegations that led to a criminal investigation, but the connection of the sex trafficking charges against the tax collector guy to the sex

on behalf of all my colleagues at the networks of nbc news, goodnight. >> it is the 26th of april today. it isby the end of this week, e will be through and done with the first 100 days of the joe biden presidency ends by the end of this week we will be through and done with the first third of this year, 20 1:21, which seems impossible. it's been six months since the presidential election. how is that possible? it feels like it's been about 16 minutes. but spring has sprung. part of the reason that i have been having sort of technical difficulties and things are wonky all day is that i today returned to my actual office for the first time since last march. and i've learned a lot. i learned that some chewing gum happily survives untouched in a desk drawer for more than a year, but some really does not. and when it goes bad, boy does it go bad. i also learned that little packets of soy sauce that you get with chinese food, some of them turn solid over time in just the right conditions. take it from me, it is a whole new world out there once you get your vaccine full of wonder and weird st

. >> president biden speaking today about the new mask guidance. the cdc loosening running up that mask guidance for those who are vaccinated. i should tell you, he also had this drop the mic moment today when nbc's peter alexander asked president biden why he was wearing a mask when he walked out of the white house to make his remarks today. watch this. >> wear a mask, you chose to wear a mask as you walked out here. what message were you sending by wearing a mask outside? >> watching me take it off and not put it back until i get inside. >> freeze it right there. the president flashing his high beams on that one. his sunglasses on, big grin, it's like classic biden. you've got to be kidding me, right? you can watch we take the mask off as i come outside and then not put it back on until i get inside, that's what we're doing here guys. come on. there will be no aviators at the state of union address tomorrow, but i think you can expect some of that same tone at least on covid and i will tell you we're not supposed to call tomorrow night's address

the all-new buick envision. an suv built around you... all of you. >>> we're going back to our live position in brooklyn center, minnesota. with nbc's ron allen. ron, what's the latest there? >> reporter: well, you can see across the street there, there is a huge police presence there, clearing out that gas station. they have began grabbing and arresting people out of the crowd. we wor told we had to move across this major street so we think we are in a safe place right now. but if you look that way and come pan the other way, all here you can see the police advancing even further. with that big, huge, armored vehicle in the center. it goes down that way about 100 feet or so. there must be several hundred officers. and they're now well down the street from in front of the police headquarters. where the protesters have gone we don't know. people have just scattered. and we've also seen many people arrested. don't know if the number -- of that is yet, but bottom line is this night the police have just said this is