ma we spoke to some of the faithful celebrating mass at the nationa shrine of e emaculate conception. there's a sense of betrayal that's hard to overcome. >> it's hard to be a catholic now and i struggle every >> it gives us hope that they're going to be disciplined by the hierarchy. >> mccarrick is the highest ranking catholic church official to be defrocked. stay with news 4or continuing coverage of the mccarriccan dah scandal. >> jussie smollett is fighting ack against claims that he orchestrated the attack. but police want to talk toim again. we're following all the twists tid turns in this baffling case. >> the investigaon into a possible hate crime against empire actor jussie smollett continues this weekend. a lawenforcement source telling nbc news the chicago police are looking into whether he paid twe men to f an attack against him. they're firing back saying jussie has now been further victimized by clas attributed to these alleged perpetr ors thatjussie played a role in his own attack. nothing is further from truth and anyone claiming otherwise is lying. >> this comes after

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of reaction today after jeff bezos delivered a preemptive strike against the pare company of "the nationa enquirer," calling them out for what he describes as a blackmail attempt. bezos offering e-mails purportedly from ami that el threaten these of embarrassing photos of the io billnaire. bezos looking to deweaponize those photos even as he hunts down theource. our stephanie gosk is here now with the latest. stephanie, good evening. >> good evening, lester. the richest man in the world, and ceo of amazon, jeff bezos, is not going down without a fight. the tech giant says "the national enquirer" andwner david pecker are trying to blackmail him. now he's turning t tables on the tabloid. jeff bezos says he won't roll " over fore national enquirer" writing in a bombshell blog, ifn y position i can't stand up to this kind of extortion, how many people can? it standard with this article in "the enquirer" exposing bezos' i reship with former tv anchor lauren sanchez, complete with private texts and photos. the tabloid claimed it ended bezos' 25-year marriage. wanting to know how "the enquirer"

delegation, they're not responding well t you knoy said for days and weeks there's this idea of a nationa emergency declarati was floating out there, that they would opposite it that they recommend the president not do it. we haven't gotten at least from nancy pelosi and chuck schume we haven't gotten an explicit commitment to file a lawsuit but it's certainly someth on the table and something you hear other members of the delegation pushing for. it's definitely an option. you also hear them saying that now that this preside.has been course on their repuican side of the aisle you know kevin mccarthy in general has been supportive of the president, we're getting a little bit lesu pushback,nterestingly among the broader republican congressional members, including ,n the senathere are some that are also pushing back and enying that this sets a dangerous prec. >> sean, when you were on our show last month when weaponry talking about the government shutdown, you actually said you were surprised that the president hadn't already declared a national emgency. well, here we are. he has. d do you t

like it's back to the drawing board for the skins now that governorrr hogan announced the spa at nationa harshbor will not be to a new stadium. the redskins and maryland's governor were looking at that space and hogan still wants to acquire that space from the federal government, but heo doesn't wantt a new stadium there. we reached out to hogan's office for more i heard back just yet. meantime, where can the skins go? support for returning to rfk site in d.c has dwindled. as for virginia, the former governor was all about bringing the redskins to the commonwealth t the current governor hasn't given any indication that he's terested in housing the team. >>> they keep our kids safe getting to school and back and so today we are saying thank you to cg guards throughout the dmv. >> it is crossing appreciation day. we go to fairfax county with one guard who serves three schools a day and is a big part of their community. >> reporter: right back there is king outside fe days a week, rain, shine, sleet, snow, or worse guiding fairfax county students into schoo and traffic along the way. it's a

. >> and the house democrats lead by pelosi are going to push forward dcondemning the nationa emergency then it will go to the senate. it is called a privileged resolution. >> and i think what pelosi is trying to do is smart politics. there's a big question which are you going support trump or are you going to stand on the other side of it? she is trying to force that. it could likely go to the court. it could be a long embattled fight. there are moral opponents, constitutional law opponents to it. >> so -- >> exactly. it could play out in an interesting way in the coming weeks. >>> an unexpected issue running for democrats and president trump's new election strategy. stay with us. everyone's got to listen to mom. when it comes to reducing the sugar in your family's diet, coke, dr pepper and pepsi hear you. we're working together to do just that. bringing you more great tasting beverages with less sugar or no sugar at all. smaller portion sizes, clear calorie labels and reminders to think balance. because we know mom wants what's best. more beverage choices, smaller portions, less sugar

joining me now withc reaction conservative filmmaker, nationa spokesman for the congress of racial equality and, but start with you. are we already over the tipping. here of what is and what is not racist with this issue, the other. >> there is a political correct reign of terror that's going to end up terrorizing us all. aod good friend and a fox news contributor wrote in her book that if everything is racist, the nothingness. the problem is, they want to give tribute to michael jackson on rapper by trent gillislee alexey and campaigning with the historic racism that black americans had to dealla with ov the centuries, actually minimizes and actually belittle the real history and what has happened to african-americans. i think we need to take a deep breath. are you going to go to whoopi goldberg and ted danson. ted danson went out in full blackface whoopi goldberg was not offended, but she enjoyed it thoroughly and left about it. it was done at some type of friars roast. we have to realize how far we'v come. >> so you disagree with nigel? >> i absolutely disagree. we know we will not be ab

. >> he's accuse iing the nationa inquirer for blackmail for accusing to go public with private photos. it believes it did actinawfully he reporting of the story. peter alexander has that story. >> reporter: overnight jeff be o dropping a bomb shell the billionaire. boss of amazon accusing the national enquirer of extortion and blackmail. in a personal post on the blog medium, bezos says f representative ami and its owner reached out to his attorney in anttempt to stop bezos' investigation into how the enquirer obtained intimate text messages between him and the woman he's reportedly dating. if he refused, the enquirer threatened to publish more texts and photos. explaining his decision to sak out, he writes, of course, i don't want personal photos published, but i won't participate in their wl known practice of blackmail, politica favoliticliolitical attacks and corruption. i refer t loroll this log over and see what crawls out. despite the embarrass. ment, he also posts ami's e-mails detailing the ten images they are threatening to publish including the below the belt selfie of bezos

inside the iconic b and c terminals at reagan nationa airport, a wall is born.t used to, but all of airports are going through a variety of readjustments. >> look and you can see on the ticketing level, metal beams, fencing and walls will put this space behind security. change is the biggest inside reagan national airport. the ticketing level stays the same but over here in national hall, wihere you're used to coming andng out, that goes behind the new mesh fencing and the wall that's a change. brian confirming the big change. national hall where ben's chili bowl and so many other restaurants a will be post security. he said the idea is to add more space security checkpoint to give travelers moreoptions. >> the entire national hall will be available. it'll be more convenient for traveler. >> it looks confusing. >> reporter: passing through today, he believes the airport e will be bette the work is finished. >> i like good flow, clean airports. >> reporter: for now you knows what t all about. completion for all the construction here at the airport set for 2021.w

. >> he will proetect his nationa emergency declaration guaranteed.o lawsuits are being prepped in a number of states, there is also the aclu that will be suing the president, what will congressional democrats be doing. migration has dropped 80% and we doubled the enforcement efforts. so we winced a drop. >> we talk about the facts, the statistics, the numbers, and the president is not listening. what are you going to do to assert your authority? >> i think we will pass that resolution. they should be concerned about the president's attempt to insert the power that is in the constitution for us. i think declaring a national emergency goes way beyond border security and the president's extraordinary pours. >> he has to report periodically and stick specifically with some of the powers he will use. this is not a willy nilly action. it gives the president broad and extraordinary powers. >> i think he bifurcated an emergency crisis at the border, why do we think that he would not. a broader range of powers to impact the american people. >> a number of peo

(grant) in nationa lnews tonight....gotiators in congress reach a tentative border security deal to avoid another partial government shutdown... but now the big question is - will presdient trump sign it? people familiar with the deal say it would provide fewer than two billion dollars to build 55 miles of new 'border barriers.' that's well below the president's demand for five point seven billion... to build over 200 miles of wall. the dealine to avert another shutdown is midnight friday. if lawmakers do not act, hundreds of thousands of federal workers will bea national emergency as a way to get his wall built, but that move would almost surely result in court battles. (vicki) president trump hinted he could bypass congress and get the funding for his proposed border wall by declaring a national emergency -- and the white house has ááactually drafted documents to do it. but what does that mean, and when would it take effect? if the president were to veto congress, they'd need two-thirds of each chamber to override it.

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'll get to the nationa morecast in a few minutes. >>> also this rning, it'll be a little longer until special counsel robert mueller releases his final report on the russia investigation to the attorney general. a senior justice department official telling nbc news it will not be given to the justice department while theld presiden a high-stakes summit with north korea's leader. this as president trumpays he's ready to veto any legislation that tries to stop his national emergencycovered f pennsylvania avenue this morning. we start with geoff bennett, our white house correspondent on the north lawn. good morning. reporter: peter, good morning. the waiting game continues. a justice department official says special counsel robert mueller's reportex is nocted to be delivered to the attorney general as early as next week, as was widely reported. house democrats though are demanding thathenever the report does drop on the ag's desk, he must make it public. judgment day delayed, as a senior justice department official tells nbc news, special counsel robert mueller is not expected to deliver

rise in those groups to what they say is now-time all high, over 1,000 such hate groups, many white nationas std white supremacists. what is inflewsing that rise? , well, you think some of the critical numbed this is what we have at a.d.l., is extremist-related murders. when you look at the past ten years s in tuntry, 73% of htremist-related murders in this counte been carried out by right-wing extremists and the majority by white supremacists. so over 2700 people killed by extremists. at the same time you see an increase in other white supremacivt aities, so whether flyering, putting white supremacist banners, stickers and fly rps around the country, a 2,000 increase from 2017 to 2018. so white supremacists have bn emboldened and found different mote to carry out and p their messages and in some cases with deadly consequences. >> reporter: the government's documents say the dendant is a domestic territories bent on committing acts dangeus to ndman life intended to affect governmental t. when we talk about terrorism, we think at extremistslamic terrorism. there's actually a different threat

i think, judy, that you have to say a nationa emergency ithe great depression, the polio epidemic, theing of fort sumpter, you know, something that we can agree is an emergency. this is a political emergency. it's a political emergency as david described, not just the stinging rebuke of congress, but by actual count 200 times donald trump candidate and then president has pomised that this wall, this tall, unscalable wall will be built and paid for completely by the mexican government, and he obviously has not delivered on that. i just point out that, in 2000, bill clinton's last year in the white house, there were 1.6 million illegal entries stopped by the uthorities at the border. in 2017, donald trump's first year, there were fewer than 400,000. i mean, it's not an insvasion, david said. i mean, it's not an emergr cy otan a political emergency. >> woodruff: and it's going to be challenged in the courts. we were hearing some of that earlier in the pro. david, what about the fact that republicans in congress didn't go along, there weren't enough of them to go along with what the presid