joining us now is ben collins, a senior reporter for nbc news. he covers disinformation and extremism on the internet. ben, thanks for being here, i really appreciate you making time. >> thank you. >> it is easy to sort of point and drop your jaw and be agog at this. but i feel like one of the reasons i wanted to talk to you about it is i feel like you've been smart about how these are our fellow americans and these are people who are politically engaged in their own way. and these folks are looking for something and believing they're finding it within these strains. did you feel surprised that there were so many people who actually turned up there, given how obscure and far out there these theories are that would have motivated them to have to be there? >> yeah, rachel. i was shocked about this, frankly. look. in the qanon universe, this is like a denomination of it, this jfk junior thing. let's back up to what qanon is, right? it's this idea that there's this guy named "q" embedded in the government. he was saying there was a big secret plan fr

on behalf of my colleagues at the networks of nbc news, good night. a good student as well but he was a solid multi sport athlete, he played basketball and baseball and tennis. he was a particular real standout swimmer. he graduated from high school in 1960, went to college, graduated in 1964. and then in 1965, he listed into the united states army. now, if you are doing the math, him enlisting in 1965, that was way before the drive for vietnam. the drop didn't start until years later, in 1969. he won in, before that, by choice, he enlisted in 1965. and then in every day in business brings something new. so get the flexibility of the new mobile service designed for your small business. introducing comcast business mobile. you get the most reliable network with nationwide 5g included. and you can get unlimited data for just $30 per line per month when you get four lines or mix and match data options. available now for comcast business internet customers with no line-activation fees or term contract required. see if you can save by switching today. comc

nbc has just called the new jersey governor's race for democrat phil murphy. democrat phil murphy has been reelected to a second term in new jersey, defeating his republican challenger, jack children rarely, we will be talking with the steve kornacki, to tell us why took so long to call this race. but it looks like the democratic party did lose the governor's race in virginia, but not the one in new jersey. which breaks pattern. in a way that is favorable for the democrats. and honestly, the headlines today, while i counted, democrats were just destroyed, the democrats weren't panicking. now they sure ought to be. honestly there is one thing that they ought to maybe panic about, which is the polling that they're terrible against. both the polling for a lot of the races have been pretty much off, like it has been for a couple of cycles. if they don't figured out a way to fix, that their campaigns aren't going to be kept -- so they can panic about that pulling. the fact that polling is bad. yes. okay. but honestly, would have been here for the past 30 years, eve

when nbc news made the call. that said, tonight, within the past hour, the republican candidate in new jersey, ciattarelli, has just posted a video on twitter, saying he is not conceding that race. he does not think this is over. he says he is a team of lawyers, and he mentions that the states republican party is still manning its election integrity hotline. at the same time he did tell his supporters tonight in this video, i don't want people falling victim to wild conspiracy theories are online rumors. well consideration is paid to any and all credible reports, please don't believe everything you see, you read or see online. he said quote, i promise you, whatever the outcome of the election result, it will be legal and fair. it's good, but he's not conceding. he is more than 40,000 votes behind this, point and most of the votes are counted are from new jersey's heavily democratic leading counties. so that 40,000 margin, is likely to get large and not bigger as the count goes on. we shall see. so far no concessi

have a great weekend unless you have other plans, on behalf of all our colleagues at the networks at nbc news, good night. this hour, it's good to have you here on this friday night in what has been an incredible, incredible news day. today, among 1 million other things, today, for just about an hour and a half, kamala harris was the acting president of the united states. now, having an acting president, this is something that has happened previously, most recently during the george w. bush administration it happened twice when president george w. bush god put under, had anesthesia in order to have colonoscopy's, dick cheney was acting president for each of those times for a couple of hours. under ronald reagan as well, 1985, george bush senior, vice president happy bush was acting president for eight hours, while reagan had surgery for colon cancer in 1985. today it was just under an hour and a half, while president biden had a colonoscopy, as part of his physical, the white house released a long detailed readout from president biden's doctor about his health and everything they looked

joining us now from kenosha is nbc news correspondent -- shaq is at the course where the jury has been deliberating today, he's been on the story from the beginning. when that kenosha officer shot and injured jacob blake. chuck thank you so much for joining us tonight, i know this is all coming together, and it's been a long haul. definitely the case, rachel, no problem at all. i'll tell you the courtroom houses pretty quiet now, but it was much early different earlier today. when you had some protesters, people who were both defending rittenhouse and people who were -- calling on his of conviction. you had been gathered outside the courthouse. but inside the courthouse we saw the jury and we finally got an idea of the official makeup that the jury is deliberating. and now in our eight of deliberations, they broke for the night, they'll begin day to deliberations tomorrow. but we know that makeup includes seven women and five men. out of that entire jury, one person identifies as being a person of color, a man. and this is a county that is about 87% white, so it's fairly representative

is nbc news -- steve kornacki. steve, i don't know if this is beauty sleep time, or cram time, but thank you for letting me interrupt either way. >> appreciate you accommodating me, i know this is not the most professional of backdrops here. >> this is why cable news looks like now steve, you'd be surprised. all right, tell me we, as an election watcher appreciating the importance of what's gonna happen tomorrow, both in terms of the -- water you expect the dynamics to be in terms of how this is going to roll out? is this one of those things where we're expecting democrats to have done a lot of the early voting, and the early vote is going to be counted first and so it's going to look blue at the beginning part of the day and read at the later part of the night, is it gonna be that kind of a dynamic? >> i think it's going to be a mix, the the typical pattern in virginia's been that the republican areas, the rural areas are the quickest account, you often see the republican candidates in virginia getting a sizable l

nbc news has reached out to all six individuals who received these subpoenas today. no word so far from any of them about whether they intend to comply with these subpoenas. watch this space. comply with these subpoenas. watch this space [gaming sounds] [gaming sounds] [gaming sounds] just think, he'll be driving for real soon. every new chevy equinox comes standard with chevy safety assist, including automatic emergency braking. find new peace of mind. find new roads. chevrolet. >>> i know it feels like it's 4:00 in the morning, but it's the normal time and it's only monday. whew. everything is going to be fine. that does it for tonight. we'll see you tomorrow. "way too early" is up next. >>> the house's investigation of the january 6th attack sent out a slew of new subpoenas. they went out to former and new campaign aides who sought to overturn the 2020 election. the question is will they comply? >>> plus, members of president biden's cam net are ramping up efforts to pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill. the message is will they get the message across to voters

military officials told nbc news enough to shred this row of bunk houses and throw shock waves as powerful as truck bombs. one of the missiles landed here and because the ground is a little softer it created a very deep crater. it's about 15 feet deep, probably twice as wide. so you can see these were powerful missiles just by the fact that they were able to displace this much earth. many soldiers were taking shelter near where the missiles exploded. some were in bunkers, others out guarding the base. >> so you could feel that, the push of the blast wave on your body? >> yeah, 100%. >> out guarding the base when those ballistic missiles landed. this was the al assad air base in iraq. u.s. troops were hit there in january of last year, so just under two years ago now. and we now know that was the largest ballistic missile attack ever launched against u.s. troops. 13 missiles, each with an explosive payload of between a thousand and 2,000 pounds. these are missiles the size of trucks. we have the footage of the missiles hitting al assad base, we have footage of the aftermath at al-asad. the

you'll recall exactly this time last night, this time on last night's show, nbc news had just called the very closely fought new jersey governor's race. virginia and new jersey are the only two states that hold their governor's races in a year like this, the odd numbered year right after a presidential election. they're the only two states that do it. they do it every four years. all the way back to the 1980s, every newly elected president, his first year in office has seen his party lose the governor's race both in virginia and in new jersey. that's just the way the pendulum swings. president biden this week actually became the first newly elected president of the united states since ronald reagan to not fall prey to that curse. to not have his party lose both those governorships. biden's democratic party did lose the virginia governor's race but they won in new jersey, which we found out this time last night, when nbc news made the call. well, that said, tonight within the past hour the republican candidate in new jersey, jack ciattarelli, has just posted a video on twitter saying

here's some of the coverage from the time that attack happened led by nbc's chief foreign correspondent richard engel. >> reporter: iran has confirmed that it has launched what is a conventional strike, firing, it says, more than a dozen ballistic missiles from inside iranian territory at bases that house american personnel here in iraq. iranian state tv posting video of ground-to-ground ballistic missiles roaring toward iraqi bases housing u.s. troops and claimed iran's supreme leader ayatollah khamenei saw the launch from the control room. they posted more video of what they said was the impact around 5:30 p.m. eastern time. each of the missiles was packed with a thousand or 1,600 pounds of explosives. military officials told nbc news enough to shred this row of bunk houses and throw shock waves as powerful as truck bombs. one of the missiles landed here and because the ground is a little softer it created a very deep crater. it's about 15 feet deep, probably twice as wide. so you can see these were powerful missiles just by the fact that they were able to displace this much earth. ma

joining us now is shaquille brewster, nbc news correspondent. shaq has been at the kenosha courthouse since the trial started. he was there to see the crowd's reaction today when the jury delivered its verdict. shaq, thanks for being here, i know it's been a really, really long day. >> reporter: thanks for having me, rachel. >> what is it like in kenosha right now? the town saw those weeks of protests last year, including the violence that resulted in this trial. supporters and protesters of rittenhouse have been back in kenosha for this trial. what's the atmosphere been like? >> reporter: really, rachel, despite the fears, concerns, and deliberations, as we watched the deliberations stretch into four days, kenosha is calm tonight. and that is much to the relief of many people here in this community. we mentioned and we've been talking about the national guard that has been on standby, the schools that switched to virtual learning in anticipation of this verdict. and you're just not seeing that real reaction here on the streets. i'll tell you, i

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nbc news time magazine, several outlets, several other outlets, published reporting about how the america's frontline doctors fiasco morphed from that and nichelle's sort of launch into, what appears to have been, a very lucrative telemedicine scam. in which, they marketed and prescribed another fake covid cures. the anti parasite drug, ivermectin. which is a drug that has real uses, both in livestock and in humans. it treats your scabies. but it is an anti-parasitic drug. it doesn't treat covid. not even a little bit. the public reporting around where the ivermectin praise where the red came from up to including people taking animal formulation of the drug and putting them in serious danger by doing so, the public reporting around the ivermectin craze show this america frontline doctors group appearing to take a hefty financial cut out of telemedicine appointments that were used to prescribe people that bogus treatment. so much so that the house corona is now investigating the role in the whole ivermectin crease. we have reached out to america's frontline doctors today for comments in this

nbc news correspondent shaquille brewster. shaquille, i hereby urge you to go somewhere warm and indoors. i know it's a cold night in kenosha. thanks for being out there under the lights for us. i appreciate it, my friend. thank you. >> you got it. >>> we'll be right back. stay with us. -had enough? -no... arthritis. here. new aspercreme arthritis. full prescription-strength? reduces inflammation? thank the gods. don't thank them too soon. kick pain in the aspercreme. ♪ ♪ 'tis the season to break tradition in a cadillac. don't just put on a light show—be the light show. make your nights anything but silent. and ride in a sleigh that really slays. because in a cadillac, tradition is yours to define. so visit a cadillac showroom, and start celebrating today. ♪ ♪ >>> he made threats and suggestions about harming a member of congress. that is in itself an insult, an endangerment of congress and an insult to the house of representatives. we cannot have members joking about murdering each other as well as threatening the p

lawmakers at the capitol at this hour right now, nbc news reporting tonight that president biden has been on the phone with democrats in the house, urging them to vote tonight. president biden was scheduled to leave washington tonight to go home to delaware for the weekend. he is no longer going. he's staying in washington. right now house members are in the midst of an hour long debate after which they're expected to hold a procedural vote. the real question of whether they would actually vote later tonight, we shall see. in the last few minutes we've gotten a new statement from president biden. and also final passage of the bipartisan infrastructure bill tonight. the president says, quote, i am confident that during the week of november sath, the house will pass the build back better act." they're trying to pass the structure thing tonight in a rule like a procedural vote to get them to the build back better. if the house does what the president is urging, that would mean the smaller roads and bridges bill will get signed, will -- it will pass the house. it's already passed the sen

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. >> nbc news national correspondent steve kornacki allowing me to crash in on his sleep time. thank you for doing this and making time. >> i'm always happy to talk elections. i'll see you tomorrow. >> i'll see you tomorrow, steve. >>> again, we're going to have full election coverage tomorrowo night, looking at the key races in the virginia governor's race, we have key races in a number of important u.s. cities. we have ballot measures that are going to do-to-be sfr interesting in terms of policy and partisanship. it is a more interesting off-year election year than usual this year, and i'm looking more forward to it than usual. >>> still ahead tonight, the supreme court heard oral arguments on a case it went wayh out of its way for.on they have not moved this fast to hear a case since bush v gore. the arguments were live ar streamed, electric, at times infuriating. we have that story and expert help to figure it out, next. t. do you take aspirin? plain aspirin could be hurting your stomach. new vazalore is the first liquid-filled aspirin capsule clinically shown to cause fewe

a letter from secretary lloyd austin, from -- obtained by nbc news. all members of the oklahoma army and air national guard, regardless of duty status, must follow the direction of the air force. for specific covid vaccine deadlines and requirements. failure to do so may lead to a prohibition on the members participation. conducted under tighter 32. may quote, jeopardize the member status in the national guard. which means, requested i'd. members of the oklahoma national guard defied the federal order that they have to get vaccinated, then they may very well lose their jobs as members of the national guard. that's with the rule means. spokes person for oklahoma's governor tells the oklahoma newspaper tonight that governor stitt maintains his position that the governors, of chief, are all members of the national guard while they are on title 32 status. meanwhile they are not actively deployed on a federal mission or training. so neither side is backing down. we called the oklahoma national guard today to see with this will actually mean for their membe

if that "usa today" reporting is true and nbc news has not independently verified it, but if that is true it is vile, right? wounded soldiers hurt in an enemy attack told that they shouldn't apply for the purple heart as the president at the time gave these repeated weird press conferences denigrating their injuries and playing them down. it's just vile, right? it is just astonishing as a thing that could have happened in our modern history. but now that time in our history is apparently over because the soldiers who were hurt in that big deal missile attack under trump, those soldiers are apparently no longer being told that they shouldn't apply for the purple hearts that they earned. "usa today" is reporting as of today that the army has just received and has now started to process dozens more nominations for purple hearts from the soldiers who were hurt in that attack. once those applications, those nominations are processed, it means the total number of purple hearts awarded to soldiers who survived that attack will likely more than double, and it will happen this time without a

on behalf of all of my colleagues at the networks of nbc news, good night. on washington in the news, sometimes, we like to do a thing where we look at sort of beyond the beltway. look at the front pages of local newspapers around the country to see how the national news is playing around the actual nation. and not just in the capital. that is something that we tried to do frequently on the show. we have it on covid, a number of times. we have it on big political developments. like issues on impeachment, for example. i find it sort of a helpful reset. a slice of the news world that gets you out of the beltway mindset for a day. well, today, house speaker nancy pelosi stuff, they seem to have had a similar kind of idea. pelosi staffers today sent out snapshots of front pages around the country. front pages from local newspapers around the country. in terms of how they're covering the trillion dollar infrastructure bill that passed through congress and that president biden is about to sign. the headlines about that bill are great. particularly about the local

on behalf of all of our colleagues at the networks of nbc news, good night and happy thanksgiving to all. the night off, she will be back on monday. the law stated, quote. a private person may arrest an offender if the offense is committed in his presence or within his immediate knowledge. if the offense is a felony and the offender is escaping or attempting to escape, a private person may arrest him upon reasonable and probable grounds of suspicion. that was georgia's citizens arrest law. it enabled any ordinary system doesn't to capture any ordinary citizen if they could claim that the person committed a crime. it was made the law of the state in 1863. it is no coincidence that that law was put into place that year. 1863 was codified. beloved was codified right after president lincoln signed the emancipation proclamation, enslaved people in georgia started fleeing their captors. when cornell law professor put it bluntly quote, it was a slave catching law for slaves that attempted to flee. and it remained the state saw during jim crow when it was used to justify the lynchings of fou

on behalf of all our colleagues at the networks of nbc news, good night. prohibitive from testifying, but i'm asking much more directly, will the government yuck. about all the money in this and who will be helped. >> well they did call i laid at the white house brian, so we're probably not gonna see the president tonight, but that's not to say that we're not gonna hear from other democrats, who are i -- as well as for the biden white house. my white house inbox immediately filled up with emails applause with senators who had been wanting to theirs to pass from other lawmakers and institutions who had been lobbying for different causes in this bill. because this is a win for democrats. the cheers that you heard on the floor, there, come after hours and weeks of hard deliberations and negotiations, policy items that were important falling by the way side. only to beat revised and brought back in, moderates having their arms twisted but they would move on those tonight on the vote that we haven't seen yet, which is on the build back better package. i want to

on behalf of our cold leers here at nbc news, good night. d night. >> rachel has the night off, she will be back on monday however. here is something that is worth watching if you didn't see today, i'm gonna tell you this is not an exciting piece of tape, in fact it is so bland and normal that if we were living at any other time we might not even bother playing it for you, but this is worth seeing. this was the republican candidate for governor of new jersey today conceding last week's election which he lost in new jersey's incumbent democratic governor. >> to those who are disappointed that i am conceding, to those whose faith in our election system is shaken, to those who are angry that i am not asking for a recount today, let me say this, i've worked every day and night for 22 months to become new jersey's governor. if you think i would be standing here today conceding if i thought i won this election, you couldn't be more wrong. i hate to lose. ask mayor deceit go. but i'm also someone who believes strongly in our republic and our democr

virginia governor's ir race but they won in new jersey, which we found out this time last night, when nbc news made the call. well, that said, tonight within the past hour the republican candidate in new jersey, jack ciattarelli, has just posted a video on twitter saying he is not conceding that race. he does not think this is over. he says he has a team of lawyers and he mentioned that the state's republican party is still manning its election integrity hotline. at the same time, he did tell his supporters tonight, i don't want people falling victim to wild conspiracy theories or online rumors while consideration is paid to any and all credible reports, please don't believe everything you read or see online. he said, quote, i promise you, whatever the outcome, the election result will be legal and fair. seems good, but he's not conceding. he is more than 40,000 votes behind at this point, and most of the votes still to be counted are from new jersey's heavily democratic-leaning counties, so that 40,000-vote margin is likely to get larger, not bigger as the count goes on, but we shall see

on behalf of our colleagues on the networks of nbc news, good night. joining us this hour. it was a sunday, in late february, 1965. the autobahn ballroom at 156 and broadway in harlem, new york city. it's a landmark, big building, beautiful building. had a huge theater that's had thousands of people. and on the second floor there was an actual ballroom, and the capacity of the ballroom was smaller. the capacity of the ballroom for dinners and other seeded events were about 200 people. but that sunday, february 1st 1965, there were double. that number of people crowded into that room. packed audience of 400 people in that room. all there to hear one of the towering and most controversial figures in american civil rights history. malcolm x had been the face and the world famous voice of the nation of islam since long after he joined the nation of islam in the early 1950's. but after more than a decade as a lightning rod in that specific cause, he had make an acrimonious split from the group. he had split from the nation of islam the year before he took the stage in that crowd

at the networks of nbc news, good night. it's good to have you. here shotguns are legal. sawed off shotguns are not legal. the national firearms act of 1934 put in place new federal rules, again 1934, against owning a whole big class of weapons and weapons accessories that are believed to be associated with serious crimes. so that 1934 law included things like, machine guns and silencers and sawed off shotguns. and now, just because i just said that small sequence of sentences all of the gun people are now going to write me really pedantic misspelled threatening letters telling me that i've explained this in a way that they do not like. i welcome your hate mail. bring it on. but frankly, the bottom line truth for most americans is that for 87 years now, u.s. law says you cannot have a sawed off shotgun. you cannot shorten the bear of your shotgun to be 18 inches or less, because, crime. but this being the united states of america in which we are not really a route to have nationally derive policies about guns, even though sawed off shotguns have been illegal in this count

on behalf of our colleagues at the networks of nbc news, good night. here joining us live tonight. this is going to be my first chance to interview or since before the 2020 elections. i have a lot of stuff stored up to ask her. i also, have to tell you i ripped through the political thriller she just wrote with the great author luis penny. they co-wrote a political thriller. it's hillary clinton's first novel. i read everything luis penny writes anyway. honestly, i read their book so fast that was like somebody was timing me to get through it. so, we will talk a little bit about that with secretary clinton. we'll talk with her a lot about what's going on in the country right now. i'm really looking forward to that interview. but before we get there, i want to give you an important update tonight on a story that we have been covering closely. this is a story that is more than four decades in the making. as i said, we have been covering it for a while now just because it is a through the looking glass absolutely bizarre impossible to believe story out of missouri. and it's related to