. >> reporter: that was nbc's life, mattered. >> reporter: that was nbc's richard lui reporting. >>> it is the top of the hour and it's real good to be with you tonight. congresswoman liz cheney is tweeting today after the republican party decided that trump is in and she is out. now she's talking about the future of the gop, but why does she want to stay? >>> plus, people are still feeling the pain at the pump in the south. we'll tell you when things are expected to return to normal. >>> and the end of an era for both the "ellen" show and the golden globes. from nbc news world headquarters in new york, i'm joshua johnson. welcome to "the week." >>> you know, sometimes grown-ups can act like high schoolers, including on capitol hill. this week was all about who's popular and who's not. >> you got everybody there. you got your freshman, jocks, preps, jv jocks, asian nerds, cool asians, varsity jocks unfriendly black hotties, girls who eat their feelings, girls who don't eat anything, desperate wannabes, burnouts, sexually active band geeks, the greatest people you will ever meet, and

joining me now, nbc news justice correspondent, pete williams. pete, what more can you tell us about this? >> well, he's john shafer, he's 53 years old, he's from indiana. and he is a member of the oathkeepers. he describes himself as a lifetime founding member of the oathkeepers. this is a still picture from the government's original charging document against him, accusing him of entering the capitol with bear spray and using it on capitol police officers. you'll see the photo of the circle in his hand that the government says showed him deploying and preparing to deploy bear spray. but in the plea agreement today, he does not plead guilty to that. the government filed the charges only of entering the capitol without authority and trying to obstruct congress. in return, he has agreed to cooperate with the government and they will them what he knows about what led him into coming to the capitol. he says in his court documents in his admission that he was among the very first five or six people to get inside the building. it's significant, because

that's where we find nbc's ed august. ed, take us through what is happening on the ground in havana. i understand this heavy police presence across the capital is in anticipation of possibly more anti-government protests today? >> reporter: yeah. the government got caught very much off guard last sunday, and they haven't made that same mistake from their point of view again today. a thick, heavy police presence throughout havana, and as you said in your introduction, thousands are cubans got up well before dawn to attend a pro-government rally. now, from my experience in cuba and reporting here for a number of years and looking at this pro-government rally here today, you have a mix of people who were instructed to attend, people like teachers, people in unions, people in factories who are told, look, here is a demonstration tomorrow, you need to go and show your support, yes or yes. you have people that go because they want to go. there have been rumors circulating there would be an anti-government demonstration, the lik

nbc's andrea mitchell. the united states, one so powerful and so innocent in its worldview, in so many ways. let's go to our pentagon correspondent now. jim lefty. jim, you have some information for us about why these particular targets might have been chosen? >> well, these particular targets -- for small, the world trade center for its very high profile. and the obvious trap that the terrorists set. after the first attack, they knew very well that all television cameras and one of the most media intensive centers of the world would be focused on those twin towers, so that when that second plane came in, with that horrific video of it striking the second tower. that would achieve a monumental victory for them. the target here, all these. the most powerful center military will in the world. tom? >> all right, nbc's jim. i'm told that marine one, the helicopter carrying the president from andrews air force base is back to the white house now. landing on the white house who lawn. we do expect to hear from the

joining me now is nbc correspondent julia an israeli. give me a sense of the scope of this law and why it's so different. >> reporter: well, it's so different, chris, because it allows people the chance to sue in civil court if they find that someone who they are not even connected to some connection to an abortion. so let me walk you through that. that means that as a member of a residents of texas you could sue an uber driver who took someone to an abortion clinic to have a procedure there. it can be that disconnected. so rather than previous laws that look to criminally charge abortion prove vieders, doctors who performed abortion after a certain number of weeks, that just gives people the tools to go get these civil penalties in courts, and you can get up to $10,000 by suing someone. i heard someone today say it's essentially like enabling bouncing hunters on abortion, so this is a different way that we've seen done in the past. the supreme court did not stop it as they could have last night, and so it went into effect, and right now

nbc's mike memoli, mike, welcome this sunday. where is biden's next stop on the infrastructure tour? >> reporter: if you look back on the month of april, the president spent most of the month hunkered down had he white house, working on that big speech he delivered to congress last week, finalizing details with key staff. but he and other officials are now ready to hit the road throughout the month of may to try to sell this economic plan, the trillions of dollars that it represents, to the public. we already saw the president with the first lady last week in atlanta. the next day, in philadelphia. i was with him as he returned to his beloved amtrak. starting tomorrow he's heading down to virginia. later this week he'll also visit louisiana. interesting, he hasn't visited many red states. louisiana is deeply red. the vice president out of course on the road, she'll be heading this week to rhode island and milwaukee. as the administration sells the american jobs plan, the american family plan, we're seeing administration officials

and according to the script nbc gave me to read, it's a very good move by nbc what they have done here. >> see, why -- man, i just -- >> no, i shouldn't have said that. i'm sorry. my bad -- >> that's not on mine -- go ahead. >> the golden globes is 87 people and no one's black. even the republican party is tim scott. i mean, come on. they have two other black members in the house. i know that when you have 87 members in charge of the golden globes and no one's black, it's 2021, there's something wrong. same thing if you're a corporation now and you're looking around, it's important. representation parties, because behind the scenes representation has an impact on what you see on the screen. i worked at "saturday night live" years ago, i was the only person of muslim heritage. they would ask me questions, because they wanted to get things right. they wanted to represent things accurately in a very difficult time. behind the scenes representation, i can tell you firsthand, actually contributes to a better product on tv or in the films and people appreciate it more. so it's the right thin

nbc's julia ainsley joins us with more on this. julia, talk us through this story, what happened when and what's the upshot of it all? >> so this is back in 2017 when el paso was doing what we now know is the pilot program for family separations. they began to separate parents and prosecute them for what would have been misdemeanors and those parents were not able to find their children. there was a prosecutor there who had been detailed to el paso named joshua stern, similar name, who said that he did not feel comfortable doing this and he was really worried about the fact they could not find the children of these parents so he actually started to try to help the defense do that job. well, his bosses got upset. they went to maine justice and said we want to get rid of this prosecutor who's been detailed to our office. the person they had to go to to get rid of him and end his detail early was monty wilkinson, now the acting attorney general. he's really filling in temporarily until merrick garland is confirmed. jacob soboroff and

nbc's sahil kapur keeps an eye on that. pete, first to you, what will you be looking for from the attorney general at 2:00? >> i'll be looking at concrete steps that the federal government can take. the most concrete steps that the federal government can take is intervene in the stay lawsuits filed with tougher voting restrictions. the justice department can use the bully pulpit, the attorney general can criticize them, but the real force is to step in and use the position of the federal government to advocate on behalf of the people who are criticizing the laws and say that they are unconstitutional or violate federal laws. there used to be under the voting rights act a requirement before the government made any changes in voting procedures changing the dates for advance registration, moving a polling place, anything, they had to get permission either from the justice department or a federal court. that all changed when the supreme court cut the heart out of the voting rights act. so, now one of the main ways that the just

that's nbc's raf sanchez reporting live from beirut. if you want to learn more about the israeli/palestinian conflict we have you covered. we had a plain english explanation of how we got to this point last night on "the week" on peacock. this short link will take you there. pck.tv/theweek. again, pck.tv/theweek. >>> we know how climate change is impacting the earth. what is it doing to us in space? we'll explain next. >>> also ahead, next year's golden globes are cancelled, ellen is ending her show and the gop's infighting could split the party, but not everything is falling apart. benifer is back together. we think. politics and pop culture in our next hour. ♪ tell me, baby ♪ >>> we know how climate change is impacting the earth. what is it doing to us in space? we'll explain next. >>> also ahead, next year's golden globes are cancelled, ellen is ending her show and the gop's infighting could split the party, but not everything is falling apart. benifer is back together. we think. politics and pop culture in our next hour. ♪ tel

joining us now, nbc news producer haley talbot. also with us, politics reporter for "the huffington post," egor bobbic. haley, let me start with you. and for everyone that's watching, haley and i work together every day. we're both part of a tight-knit nbc news team that covers capitol hill day in and day out. and she and i have been covering this election together over the course of the last few months. and as she was working to support all of us yesterday, i was in the senate russell office building reporting on basically what she was seeing, because haley, you were inside the house chamber. we saw some of those photos of lawmakers sheltering in place. just as we reset for everyone who is waking up this morning, take us inside the chamber. what did you see? >> that's right, kasie, quite the chaotic scene in the house chamber yesterday. i was up on the second floor in the gallery watching this go down. members were up in the gallery with us, hundreds of members down on the floor. what really escalated things was when we were told

that was nbc's shaquille brewster in chicago. now, covid is crushing the finances of millions of americans. perhaps yours, too. but today white house economic director brian deese made the administration's case for relief to a bipartisan group of 16 lawmakers. this month president biden rolled out a $1.9 trillion stimulus plan. it includes an additional $1,400 per person, state and local government aid, and higher federal unemployment benefits. republican lawmakers held firm on the last relief plan's price tag and this one is facing similar opposition. the biden administration has said it would prefer bipartisan support, but today senate majority leader chuck schumer made it clear. all options are on the table. >> we hope our republican friends will see the need and work with us. but if not, we will get it done. there are other means that we can use, including reconciliation that will enable us to do this. >> joining us now is jared bernstein, a member of president biden's council of economic advisers. mr. bernstein, good evening

nbc's monica alba is at the white house. so, monica, what have we learned about this overall shake-up? what's the latest? >> reporter: this is new action from the dhs secretary who's juggling a whole range of issues, so that's the backdrop to this decision to really get rid of the current members on this advisory council. about 32 of them were notified in a letter yesterday that we've obtained that they no longer will serve on this. it's an unpaid position, and we should point out there were both democrats and republicans, some of whom had served on this kind of board for years, but they have essentially been told, you will no longer be needed in this role as the secretary undertakes this new review comprehensively, and there are some people who are staying on. the chairman and the vice chair are going to be trying to assess in what roles maybe they can remake this council, but what's also interesting to note here is that on that list of people who were on the council, several trump loyalists, people like ken cuccinelli and

joining me now, nbc news medical contributor dr. bhadelia. heartwarming to hear what we'll be able to do to help india. probably a drop in the bucket when you think what they're battling. talk how much you think these supplies will help and what needs to happen in india to keep this virus from spreading? >> yeah. i'm going to start with the second one first. what you're really seeing is almost a vertical increase exponential increase of cases and reports are that the deaths you're seeing reported are likely severely under counted. i can speak from my own family's experience in india. lost two family members in the last week alone. you're seeing just a public health system and health care system in cases collapse because of inability to provide hospitalized care. today's announcement is using immediate relief in terms of the personal protective equipment and rapid tests you talked about as well as ventilators and other things to help care for patients in the hospital, but what you also see is the u.s. is looking at sending raw materials for in

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gadi schwartz, nbc news. >> our thanks to nbc's gadi schwartz for that report. we're going to continue to follow that through the morning. >>> but let's turn now to the situation at the southern border. in a bipartisan effort, democratic senator kyrsten sinema of arizona and gop senator john cornyn of texas, who represent states along the border, are calling for president biden to use his, quote, full authorities to respond to an ongoing crisis at the southern border. the pair sent a letter to president biden asking for him to take immediate action in two areas -- making sure there are enough resources and facilities along the border and improving the asylum process. the letter reads in part, "it is critical that our nation take aggressive steps to secure our border, protect our communities, and ensure migrants are treated fairly and humanely." the letter comes after reports surfaced that the number of migrant children being held in border patrol custody for longer than ten days has quadrupled in the past week. >>> senator cornyn, though, is facing backlash afte

>> nbc's kelly o'donnell getting us started. good to see you as always, friend. >> there are plenty of options for millions of americans trying to make the most of it. from embracing the normal, by staying safe by visiting an outdoor area. it's time to pack up, mask up and brave the airport terminal for the long flight home. joining us now to cover every angle for us is nbc's mara barrett at doylestown, pennsylvania. blayne alexander at the airport in atlanta and in arizona. as we start to return to normal on this holiday, the local parade in doylestown is so important to that community. what are you hearing from residents and small business owners there? >> it really is, jeff. i've spent the better part of last year plus reporting on empty streets as people stay safe and quarantined and today the streets were filled with color guard members, band members and just this overarching sense of joy and relief from thousands of community members that came out to celebrate the parade and last year it was cancelled and it would have bee

from nbc news world headquarters in new york, i'm joshua johnson. welcome to "the week." ♪♪ >>> quote, the people of texas are informed that in accordance with a proclamation of the executive of the united states, all slaves are free. this involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves and the connection heretofore between them becomes that of employer and hired labor, unquote. that was general order number 3, read in galveston, texas, on june 19th, 1856, and with that, the last state to learn of abolition got the news. that general order is the reason for juneteenth celebrations across the country days after it was made a federal holiday. on thursday, president biden signed the federal designation into law. >> by making juneteenth a federal holiday, all americans can feel the power of this day and learn from our history and celebrate progress and grapple with the distance we've come. but the distance we have to travel. >> if you're not familiar with juneteenth, don't panic. we'll explai

according to nbc news, these extremist organized the capitol hill riot in plain sight. they posted fliers on facebook and instagram as well as discussing their plans on far-right corners of the internet. some even live streamed their destruction of the capitol as they did it, earning thousands of dollars from fans as they ransacked and destroyed priceless american history. joining me now, two experts in online disinformation, nbc news reporter brandy is he droez sni. good to see you both. brandy, twitter one of several social media sites cracking down on president trump's after the capitol hill insurrection. how are the president and his followers reacting to the bans? how is this going to change the ways, if at all, that they organize? >> well, from reports we can tell that trump is lived. we can guess that because this is the main form of communication that he has used to communicate with his followers. he loves twitter. the fact that he can't be on it right now must be driving him insane. but he can't because what he does with twitter and what he did with twitter was

nbc's vaughn hillyard is here in washington with more on that. vaughn, tell us what we know right now. >> reporter: joshua, this was a young man who was stopped at a security checkpoint, at which we're told he showed a noncredentialed government i.d. of course it was not an inauguration-authorized pass to get through. law enforcement ultimately arrested and charged the man because he was in possession of an unlicensed firearm with 500 rounds of ammunition. that gentleman has since been released and has told authorities that he was working in private security here. but i think what this incident speaks to is the security apparatus that has been built up around the capitol. it was just ten days ago that an insurrection took place in which there were fatal flaws made by law enforcement in the protection of not only the u.s. capitol infrastructure but also the lives that were at risk and ultimately, multiple individuals died at the scene of the u.s. capitol. now, fast forward, we're only four days away now from inauguration day. the biden team still

from nbc news world headquarters in new york, i'm joshua johnson. welcome to "the week." >>> the trial was just about all we could talk about this week and it topped the agenda on the sunday morning shows today. lawmakers had plenty more to say about the second acquittal of the former president. >> i think that we successfully prosecuted him and convicted him in the court of public opinion, and in the court of history. he's obviously a major political problem for the republican party and as long as he's out there attempting to wage war on american constitutional denl kra democracy, it's a problem for all of us. >> at the end of the day it wasn't more witnesses we needed, it was more senators with spines. that's what we saw. they lacked the fortitude. they were more concerned with their seat in power, afraid of donald trump's base, to be more concerned for our democracy, our constitution, the american government, and even the body of the senate. >> we were never going to reach 67 votes in the senate without mitch mcconnell voting guilty. so he went a

danny solace is an nbc legal analyst. and malcolm nance is in and miss nbc terrorist analyst. danny, clearly we have two very different cases here. the case of the man accused of killing ahmaud arbery. the case involving call rittenhouse. different sets of facts. was the biggest difference to you when people start thinking about the rittenhouse verdict as we prepare for a verdict in the trial of ahmaud arbery's accused killers? accused ki>> no two criminal cae exactly like, just as you pointed out. in fact, these two cases are very different. in that case of arbery's killers, you have a situation where there's plenty of evidence that the defendants took themselves to the encounter and not only at the very last second they claim self-defense when arbery turns toward them. before that he's doing everything he can to run away and. that appears to be from the defendants own testimony. so, that's a very challenging case for these defendants to claim self-defense. but i think while the two cases show us is there is a lot of reach range between self-defense cases. no two are alike. t

>> well, i've read through the nbc report. there's a lot in there, but i see two significant takeaways. first, i see this sharing element that they shared some degree of intelligence and concern with the capitol police and reportedly so did the nypd intelligence unit. what that looked like, we don't know. who it went to in capitol police, we don't know. it looks like it was shared fairly widely across police departments at least in the capitol region, at least at metro police and at capitol police. there's a second takeaway, of course, and that is that we're learning from this report that the fbi disrupted over a dozen already predicated active investigative subjects by approaching them in the days just before the capitol incident and told them they did what agents call a knock and talk, joshu joshua. here's what a knock and talk looks like. we're very close to arresting you. we're on to you. we're watching you. and should you get in a bus, car, or plane, and head to the district of columbia, that may serve as the final elemen

nbc news has learned that the remaining u.s. diplomatic personnel on the ground in kabul are now being evacuated. that's according to a state department memo obtained by nbc news. earlier today, u.s. central command confirmed that they carried out a drone strike on a vehicle controlled by isis-k. there are reports from other media outlets of civilians, including children, being killed in that blast. nbc news has not yet independently confirmed those reports. centcom has just released a statement acnoning those reports and saying, quote, we are still assessing the results of this strike. we know that there was substantial and powerful subsequent explosions resulting from the destruction of the vehicle indicating a large amount of explosive material inside that may have caused additional casualties. the strike comes after the u.s. embassy in kabul warned american citizens yesterday to leave the airport because of a specific and credible threat, and just days after a suicide attack by isis-k killed 13 american soldiers and more tha

sources have confirmed to nbc news. and as we mentioned, it is a major escalation in the criminal investigation that stems from giuliani's various dealings inside the country of ukraine. so joining me now is nbc news correspondent ken dilanian and former fbi senior official msnbc legal analyst chuck rosenberg. so ken, let's get at the delay. this search warrant in some ways, this is an investigation that's been going on for quite some time. the investigators have wanted this search warrant for quite some time but it had been delayed. explain the delay and why today. >> that's right, chuck. i don't think we know the full reasons for the delay. but our colleague tom winter and the "new york times" have reported that the fbi was seeking -- was asking the success department to go to court and get this search warrant for a long time during the trump administration and was meeting resistance. and we can all draw our own conclusions about what was going on there. but the search warrant has now been executed. and what it means

>>> let's begin with nbc political reporter vaughn hillyard and nbc news national security analyst frank figliuzzi. he's the former assistant director for counter intelligence at the fbi and the author of "the fbi way: inside the bureau's code of excellence." that book is out this week. vaughn, let me start with you. what's the late est st on all t? >> reporter: joshua, more than a dozen individuals have been charged with federal crimes for entering the capitol on wednesday just four days ago. authorities say that they are continuing this investigation and they intend to charge every individual who is part of the insurrection that we saw on wednesday. of course, this is an issue when you have hundreds of individuals and the video that you are looking at now makes this transparently difficult because while i stood there on the west lawn of the capitol on wednesday looking up, so much was unknown and what that video that you're looking at right now is making it clear what is only becoming evident here in these last days of just what was put in front of these capitol police officers who wer

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nbc news has not seen or verified this letter. there had been multiple reports that congressman gaetz is under investigation for possible sex trafficking. federal prosecutors have not charged gaetz or confirmed the inquiry. that came from an investigation into greenberg indicted on charges including but not limiting to sex trafficking and the lawyer signaled he is willing to cooperate with prosecutors. today a firm for congressman gaetz who's previously denied the allegations responded to the reporting with a statement that read quote, congressman gaetz has never paid for sex nor had sex with a 17-year-old as an adult. roger stone issued his own statement which read this part quote i made no effort whatsoever to secure a pardon for mr. greenberg and i took not a dime from him or anyone else seeking a pardon. i have seen no actual proof of any of the wild accusations he has made against congressman gaetz. meanwhile back in the world of real life that's nothing to do with trump or his associates, joe biden is starting his second 100

joining me is nbc news correspondent kelly cobiella. what does this latest move from the attorney general and the israeli supreme court mean for palestinians living in east jerusalem and other neighborhoods in the area? >> reporter: well, ayman, the attorney general basically said when he announced he wasn't going to intervene that the cases were too weak, that the palestinian families' cases were too weak and in his arguments wouldn't make an difference in a potential eviction to come. a lower court has already ruled in the settlers' favor. so it does bring the likelihood of those evictions even closer to happening. a date for the supreme court hearing has not yet been set but it could come any day now. it's not just about those families. you also have some 700 palestinians who are threatened with forced eviction in the neighboring area that's about 2 1/2 miles away. and all of this centers around this right to return law, essentially allowing jewish israelis to claim property lost during the 1948 war for independence but does not allo

eastern time on nbc. >> nbc news correspondent kathy park is at gillette stadium in foxborough, massachusetts -- >> on the field! >> the center of the football world this morning. kathy, how are you feeling? what's the atmosphere like? >> reporter: yeah, well, i can say, the momentum is certainly building. and it has been for months, ever since his game was announced. you have fans coming in from all across the country for kickoff tonight at 8:20. but yeah, we are here in the middle of gillette stadium. and keep in mind, this is where tom brady essentially became a legend. so over there is a tunnel. this is where he will eventually be walking out, rushing out, and several hours from now, first time as a visitor, but take a look up there. those are all the titles. six super bowl titles that he was able to bring home with the patriots. but, obviously, he is now, as you mentioned with the tampa bay buccaneers, and that's why here fans in new england, they're a bit torn about who to root for. and they have some mixed emotions. take a listen. >> it's wicked exciting. >> i hope tampa kills the patr

from nbc news world headquarters in new york, i'm joshua johnson. welcome to "the week." >>> okay, so not to sound like a superstitious lottery player, but we kept seeing the numbers show up in the news this week. 50. covid-19 cases are rising again in all 50 states. new cases are up an average of nearly 50%. in the last seven days. there was some promising news. the u.s. crossed the halfway mark. 50% of americans are now fully vaccinated. so where does that leave the rest of the country? still struggling somewhat to win over unvaccinated adults. in a new poll this week, just over 50% of them say getting the shot is riskier to their health than getting covid. in reality, vaccines cause side effects that soon subside. covid can kill you. the poll also found 57% of unvaccinated adults thought the press had generally exaggerated the seriousness of the pandemic. only 17% of vaccinated adults agree with that statement. so how do we convince more people to get the shot? well, some of america's major companies are ending the debate, at least for their empl

this in an nbc news exclusive. during a sit-down interview with nbc's lester holt, capitol police lieutenant michael byrd described the moment he decided to discharge his weapon as trump supporter ashli babbit attempted to breach the chamber where members of congress were sheltering in place. >> have you continued to question your actions that day? >> i knew that day, i followed my training and i spent countless years preparing for such a moment. you ultimately hope that moment never occurs, but you prepare as best you can. i know that day i saved countless lives. >> joining me now is clint watts, msnbc national security analyst and distinguished research fellow at the foreign policy research institute. welcome to you. what is your reaction to what you just heard from lieutenant byrd? >> alex, one of the most interesting things having watched january 6th unfold live and then having watched since those officers, if someone hadn't shot earlier, knowing from my own training when you see a model of people rushing you l

nbc news correspondent erin mclaughlin is joining us with the very latest. good morning. >> reporter: we are still no closer to understanding how a live round capable of killing made its way onto the set of "rust." >> overnight a vigil held in albuquerque, new mexico, to remember cinematographer helena hutchins. >> no one should dion a film set ever. >> the 42-year-old was killed on the movie set "rust." after alec baldwin fired a prop gun. baldwin seen comforting hutchins husband and son. amidst the despair and sadness, countless despair and sadness. nbc has learned days before the tragic shooting the gun in question was involved in other accidental misfires. the "l.a. times" reporting baldwin's stunt double accidentally fired two rounds after being told it was cold. the same thing yelled moments before baldwin shot and killed hutchins telling the "l.a. times" there should have been an investigation into what happened. there were no safety meetings. there was no assurance that it wouldn't happen again. all they wanted to do was rush, rush, rush. hours befor

kicking off our coverage tonight from the white house, nbc's monica alba, nbc news capitol hill correspondent, leigh ann caldwell, the reporter on the byline of today's exclusive from "the washington post," national political reporter, amy gardner, and former federal prosecutor, mario. what was your first reaction when you heard this call, amy? >> shock, actually. on the one hand, we have all seen the evidence since november 3rd that president trump is not spending much time that we can see on governance. we don't see him talk about the covid pandemic or the vaccine rollout. and we do see him tweeting about election fraud. and we've gotten, you know, great reporting from a lot of different media outlets about how much he's been ruminating and obsessing about his defeat in the election. but listening to him on this call sort of took it to the next level, i think, for folks who have listened to it, including me when i first listened to it. and i think that's because, just hearing his voice, repeating the same stories over and over again, repeating the accusations that have been refuted and debu

from nbc news world headquarters in new york, i'm joshua johnson. welcome to "the week." >>> let us begin tonight with hurricane ida. residents are trying to head inland as this major storm approaches. bill karins starts us off tonight with the latest on ida. bill. >> good evening, joshua. we are getting in the new 8:00 p.m. advisory from the national hurricane center. we are also now for the first seem seeing the center of the storm on radar. that's the green you see here beginning to show up. that is about 275, 285 miles from new orleans at the current time. so the white is the clouds. the green is the rain bands. and those will be moving on shore as we go throughout the overnight hours. this is the satellite imagery and we color it to kind of see the brighter reds. kind of lets meteorologists know where the stronger portions of storm are. this is the new advisory. 105 miles per hour so the winds did not increase. that's great. we want to keep this as weak as possible. we don't think it is going to get weaker before a landfall but we do expect it

vice president kamala harris with nbc's lester holt. like most of the vladimir putin's agenda, solutions will not come overnight. in addition to immigration, president biden has tasked harris with protecting voting rights. wednesday she will meet with a group of texas democrats who blocked a voting bill in that state. also next week we will see the vice president take on another task, convincing more americans to get vaccinated. she will visit greenville, south carolina, monday, and then atlanta, friday. a lot of big-ticket items on her to-do list. chief among them, how to address the humanitarian crisis at our border like at mcallen, texas, where there's a new camp housing hundreds of migrants. nbc's gabe gutierrez takes us there. >> reporter: minutes after they arrive a crowd gathers begging to be referred to immigration lawyers. there's an overwhelming sense of desperation here. that desperation extends to a nearby shelter which is at capacity. we speak with some of the children here with their parents' permission. [ speaking foreign

joining me now, nbc news correspondent anne thompson and nbc news correspondent stephanie gosk and trial attorney and legal analyst ann bremer. anne thompson, i'll begin with you. walk us through this stunning decision from the state's highest court. i think it caught us by surprise. >> totally did. absolutely is stunning, the kind of decision that takes your breath away, but basically what the state supreme court said was back in 2005 the then district attorney, a man named bruce castor, made an agreement with bill cosby not to prosecute him in the case of andria constand, and he did so for a couple of reasons. one, he found that she made inconsistent statements about what supposedly happened back in january of 2004, two, that it took her a year to come forward to make the accusations and, three, that there was -- that she met with him and called him in the year after, so those three things made bruce castor think he couldn't win this case in court so he made this agreement with cosby not to prosecute him so that then andria constand could go to civil court and sue bill cosby, and there

here to start us off with the latest, nbc news white house reporter and nbc national security and intelligence correspondent and nbc news pentagon correspondent courtney kube and lieutenant jern and deputy security adviser for iraq and afghanistan. thank you all for being here. we'll start with you, mike, outside the white house. talk about this decision to stick with that august 31st deadline. what led to that decision? >> well, aaron, i want to start by noting that president's scheduled remarks that we were expecting initially at noon and then 2:00 p.m. have just been postponed yet again. we now expect to hear from the president sometime after 4:30 this afternoon. if the president is watching as i hope he sometimes does, i say this not as a criticism but as the data point to really speak to what white house officials have been a dynamic situation. we do expect as white house officials and other administration officials have been telling us that the president is proceeding with that august 31st deadline as planned for the withdraw of the remaining u.s. troops. but significantly that we're als

my colleague, nbc's emily achetta, joins us from l.a. there's a search going on as well for gabby. >> reporter: a lot going on today, alex. we're watching two searches play out thousands of miles across the country. the fbi zeroing in on the outskirts of grand teton national park, they're looking for gabby petito. her family says the last time they spoke to her on facetime, she was headed to that area. more than a thousand tips have come in to police hoping to solve the disappearance of gabby petito. now, as of a few days ago, brian laundrie, he returned from the company's vacation earlier this summer, on september 1 to florida by himself. gabby's family saying that with each passing day, the desperation just continues to grow. some of these tips coming in the form of social media videos from tiktok to youtube. the whole country gripped by this complicated case. happening today in florida, police are searching for brian laundrie, as you mentioned, in the thick woods of a nature reserve there. 25,000 acres. they've described it as swampy,

from nbc news world headquarters in new york, i'm joshua johnson. welcome to "the week." let's start tonight with new details from the investigation into the capitol attack. according to "the washington post," the fbi has new evidence of how it was planned and coordinated. agents are still tracking down and charging suspects. federal prosecutors have filed conspiracy charges against two members of the far-right nationalist group the proud boys. the two allegedly worked together to obstruct and interfere with law enforcement officers who were protecting congress during the insurrection. lawmakers also had a lot to say this week about what happened on wall street. stock traders coordinated on the social network reddit to take on giant hedge funds and shake up the markets. it opened up a long list of questions about how the stock market works and how it should work. in our next hour, we will break down this story. trading can be really complex, but what happened is actually pretty easy to understand. and in just a few minutes, we'll speak to congresswoman maxine waters. she'

on behalf of all our colleagues at the networks of nbc news, good night. if we can, we're battling technically difficulties, but we're going to try to start tonight live in kabul. it is 5:30 in the morning, tuesday morning right now in kabul, and's chief foreign correspondent richard angle, should probably know he has spent big portions of the last decades of his life in afghanistan during the war there. richard also just weeks ago, before some of the last fierce fighting by and the afghan commando units, fighting against taliban forces. we now know that was some of the last fighting like that that there was an afghanistan.

nbc's tom llamas and hallie jackson are also building new programs on nbc news now. i cannot personally wait to watch them. to say that i am honored and humbled is an understatement. i'm a bit of a nervous wreck too, or at least i was once the announcement went out on tuesday. i've had a few days to work through the anxiety. so what helped calm me down? well, simply put, the new program will amplify the kind of journalism you've come to expect here. connecting people, demystifying the news, making room for everyone, staying highly interactive, and definitely enjoying ourselves along the way. you know, the last few years have revolutionized the ways we show up for one another. personally i think we're up to the test. but whether it's a golden opportunity like this one or the golden badges on officers doing their duty, the tasks before us can seem absolutely enormous. and when we don't know exactly what to do, our values can give us courage to make good choices. that is how we honor those golden badges. and it's how you earn gold medals. it is exactly the moment when s

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nbc news exclusive interview with the russian president vladimir putin monday on today nbc news nightly news with lester holt and msnbc. next, for republicans governor cut off covid unemployment benefits this weekend. weeks before the benefits expired, wait until you why your wife. later, with new data tells us about the state of women in the world forces especially moms,. the fall classes coming and businesses returning to the office. >> republican governors in four states this week and cut off federal pandemic unemployment benefits. to be clear, they have done this three months before the federal benefits are set to expire nationwide. 21 other gop led states can soon follow, as nbc's kathleen hart explains, they view their decisions as a test. >> thousands of americans will no longer receive their 300 dollar weak benefits. after four states cut off federal unemployment programs. >> it has helped tremendously, like i said, i've been waiting on this money, i did make this much and half the jobs are. work >> iowa, mississippi, missouri, where the first would withdraw almost three months

joining me from moscow, nbc news correspondent matt bodnar. talk to us what we saw what happened in court and what do we know about the latest investigation? >> reporter: thank you, ayman. obviously, one of the biggest draws was the opportunity for someone to see navalny for the first time since the hunger strike ended but for me what really stuck out was his performance in court. he brought his defiance with him. he gave this very fiery speech which he essentially used to characterize putin's entire regime as an option force that is essentially siphoning this country dry at the expense of ordinary russians. and so, you know, navalny, characteristic defiance. but outside of the courtroom some very important things happened today. as you mentioned navalny's team says that new charges have been filed against navalny and two of his senior associates. basically, being accused of opening an organization that infringes on the rights of citizens. it's a strong charge but it carries with it the maximum penalty of two or three years if prosecuted. we c