nbc news says his "new yorker" article bore little resemblance to his nbc news reporting. but again, that "new yorker" piece was less than two months after he left this reporting at nbc and took it somewhere else. nbc letting this story get away is, i think the best way i can put it is, when you take nbc's word for it, nbc letting that story get away is a shame, but in ronan farrow's telling, it's not a shame, it's a scandal. nbc is saying, essentially, it's too bad that story got away. we were really hoping to get it to air once it was ready. ronan farrow is saying, no, you were stopping me from getting it to air, and that's why i had to leave. but that's not the only allegation that farrow levels against nbc news in his book. about seven weeks after his reporting appeared in "the new yorker" in 2017, nbc abruptly fired the longtime host of the "today" show, matt lauer, after what they called a credible allegation of sexual behavior in the workplace that was brought to the company's detention. the company never detailed what the specific allegation was that led to matt la

and it appears that she also sought a monetary payment from nbc. in an exclusive statement to nbc news, nevils responded to lauer saying, there's a matt lauer that millions of americans watched on tv every morning for two des.and there is the matt lauer who this morning attempted to bully a former colleague into silence his open letter was a case study in victim blaming. i am not afraid of him now regardless of his threats, bullying, and the shaming and predatory tactics i knew he would and now has tried to use against me the hollywood reporter says farrow uncovered seven allegations of workplace sexual misconduct by lauer as well as seven nondisclosure agreements many with hush money payouts to accusers of lauer and others at nbc. in a letter to employees today, nbc news chairman andy lack writes, any suggestion we knew prior to that evening or tried to cover up any aspect of lauer's conduct is absolutely false and offensive. the company says it reached two agreements relating to matt lauer. both were negotiated following his termination and allow

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nbc's stephanie gosk has that story. >> reporter: this morning ronan farrow alleged nbc news new about sexual harassment complaints against matt lauer years before the anchor was fired something executives at the company have consistently denied. >> there were seven non-disclosure agreements, multiple ones of those were with matt lauer accusers this is years before this incident with brook nevils and the firing i spoke to senior executives who were told. >> with matt lauer >> indeed. >> reporter: lauer's attorney responded in 25 years at nbc matt lauer did not have a single complaint brought to his attention until november 28, 2017. in the book, which was obtained by nbc news, farrow describes four agreements with women who say they were harassed by the long-time "today show" host at least two signed before lauer was fired. among them a woman who had worked for the show for years according to the book she told colleagues in 10 lauer exposed himself and propositioned her in he unzipped his pants and exposed his erect penis. she recalled lauer saying he knew she wanted it. he became angr

to be named on the record than he had at nbc news.is article was published on october 10h,2017, just days rk s jody kantor and megan twoey broke the story of other weinstein allegation ppz it was a watershed moment for the me too movement with even more victims feeling empowered to break their silence. >> any comment, harvey? >> reporter: weinstein was arrested in 2018 and now awaits a january trial on charges of sexual assault and rape related to two women. he has pled not guilty those charges and has consistently denied any allegations of non-consensual sex with anyone. harvey weinstein told abc news "what ronan farrow insinuates as factual accounts are actually an amalgamation of unrelated pieces of information that he formed together to tell what is little more than a dramatic fictional tale." >> it is a huge story and an important one in a way that was bigger than harvey weinstein, that was about vast systems that we are still struggling to expose. >> matt lauer, the long-time host of the "today" show, has been fired. >> reporter

he doesn't trust the management nbc news.en your extremes, do you think is in jeopardy of being fired? >> no comment on that. i will say the question is open as to whether they put dollars ahead of decency. if they were more interested in protecting their start anchor them protecting the women of the company. there needs to be an outside investigation into this company. they investigated themselves. that doesn't work. fox news had an outside investigator. cbs news had an outside investigator. npr, the nfl. this is how it's done. you get somebody on the outside who can be trusted. what happened here if you got noah oppenheimer who now they are pulling his college writings were he said women love to be prayed on. apparently he thinks women love to be preyed upon. noah has said that i deeply regret it. people do write down things in college. and they say dumb things. trust me. but that's the person who is investigating. andy lack -- i'm sorry, the reporting that ronan has put out is that there is an accuser, a woman named jane w

. >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >>> good evening, everyone we're tracking tropical storm nestor tonight expected to gain strength in the gulf of mexico this evening as it bears down in the florida panhandle. landfall is expected to bring dangerous storm surge early tomorrow in places bearing the scars of last year's hurricane michael. right now tropical storm warnings are posted for the florida panhandle. morgan chesky is there with the rush to get ready. >> reporter: tonight in the florida panhandle, bracing for impact tropical storm nesto launching a wave of last-minute preps. many areas still limping from hurricane michael. the category five storm at nearly wiped mexico beach, florida, off the map >> we're crippled up we don't show it. >> reporter: at his hardware store bearing the scars, he says his community isn't giving up. >> we'll stay here and build back it will take a little longer, but that's okay. >> reporter: the weather also a concern in new orleans where officials postponed a controed demolition of the cranes at the construction site where a

officials tell nbc news for now u.s. troops will remain in the country, but won't confront turkish forces should they launch the assault after fierce backlash from many republicans who call his decision a betrayal of u.s. allies, the president today tweeting "in no way have we abandoned the kurds. >> we've told turkey, i spoke with president erdogan of turkey, and i said got to treat them good. you got to take care of isis >> reporter: but the people in the cross-hairs of the impending turkish assault are protesting, desperately appealing for help the kurds have been fighting against isis with u.s. special operations forces and have created an autonomous enclave in syria, which turkey wants to destroy. a kurdish official today tweeting if america leaves, all will be erased turkey's specific goal is to create a buffer zone 20 miles deep, 250 miles long along its border inside syria. president erdogan showed a map of the area at the u.n. last month. and erdogan doesn't want to just occupy the area. he wants to settle it wi

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. >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt >> good evening, everyone. the white house late this evening has put democrats on notice that it will not be cooperating with the white house impeachment inquiry.ght cag urs house blocked a key witness from telling what he knows about the administration's dealings with ukraine. but tonight a brand-new nbc news/wall street journal poll finds more than half of americans think the allegations against the president are serious and should be investigated fully our hallie jackson has details >> reporter: a serious and significant escalation tonight as the white house notifies house democrats in a letter that the president, quote, cannot permit his administration to participate in this partisan inquiry, urging speaker nancy pelosi to abandon the impeachment effort and accusing democrats of trying to reverse the results of the 2016 election already the trump administration is blocking a key witness from a deposition today >> that is an abuse of power for him to act in this way, and that is -- that is one of the reasons

kevin tibbles, nbc news. >> what a great couple >>> that's "nbc nightly news" for this monday.'m lester holt. for all of us at nbc news, thank you for watching and good night. >>> right now at 6:00, tour guide by day, alleged spy by night. the bay area man accused of working on behalf of the chinese government. plus -- >>> absolutely no indication he was distraught. >> investigators, though, say he set fires and went about his day. tharbay. >>> what happened in the locker room, the sexual assault investigation involving a high school football team in the south bay. >> right now. good evening joining us. >> those allegations of sexual assault between members of a football team at a south bay high school, police in gilroy are now looking into weather several players attacked a teammate in the locker room. david is live at gilroy high on a story you'll only see here, damian. >> reporter: yes, the school has taken immediate and appropriate disciplinary action against the football players. and tonight this case is in the hands of police. the gilroy mustangs played everett high schoo

. >> this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt >> good evening, everyone the balance of power in volatile northern syria is dramatically shifting tonight russian troops quickly filling the vacuum left by retreating u.s. forces. the russians now taking over the security role held by american soldiers until they were abruptly ordered to abandon their kurdish allies this evening, the white house is dispatching vice president pence to turkey, hoping to stop the bloody advance on the kurds that the u.s. administration helped open the door for. richard engel remains in syria and has the latest >> reporter: the u.s. out, russia in tonight these photos show russian forces moving in to northern syria as u.s. troops evacuate some of their bases. some russians are making fun of what they consider u.s. weakness this video on twitter showing a russian-speaking man on what appears to be an empty u.s. base saying "let's see how the americans live." and turkey is thumbing its nose at the u.s. too, intensifying its bombardment of u.s. allies the kurds just hours after the white house said it would no long

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think he figured out that nbc had an achilles' heel.an paints it more succinctly through facts in his book but nbc had a matt lauer problem. everybody was aware of it. i think weinstein exploited that. >> tucker: not to jump ahead in the story, but at the end of your piece, you recount a scene were you confronted noah oppenheim directly and said "did you have any indication that your chief anchor had been accused of sexual misconduct during his time? " matt lauer had a problem with women" and he said, i'm quoting, "no." is that true? >> that happened, i confronted him in a meeting, and did i believe it? no. i don't think anyone else in the meeting believed it either. we all knew -- everybody at nbc was aware that matt lauer was off having affairs and whatnot. the extent to which we have now learned through documents and settlements that have been revealed in the book, it was much more than that. executives at the company were aware, they were told, even anda curry and she's gone on theve record saying she did tell they had to be aware o

that's "nbc nightly news."'m lester holt thank you for watching, everyone good night >>> fire burning in the north bay. >> the house is still smoldering. >> the city of california has thrown everything at it. >> there's no water. some of them are injured. >> the fire was outpacing the firefighters. >> it's tragic, absolutely tragic. >> it's all hands on deck. >> one hour at a time. >>> good evening, thanks for joining us. >> the kincaid fire sparked late last night exploded in the overnight hours, scorching at least 10,000 acres. >> that's what stands right now. let's give you a live look from sky ranger. the kincaid fire threatening homes, wineries and also the river rock casino. you can see it right there. this is a live picture from sky ranger. at this point the fire is still holding at 10,000 acres but there's zero percent containment. we've been really, really fortunate that the winds have started to die down, but the problem is that an even bigger wind event is just around the corner, may arrive this week

rehema ellis, nbc news, new york. >>> all right. still ahead as we continue here tonight, heart-stopping moments caught on camera as a car stuck on the train tracks. the dramatic rescue with seconds to go. >>> the bizarre mystery of a family allegedly kept in isolation for years in a small room cut off from the world. how they were finally discovered. >>> something everyone in washington can finally cheer about as world series fever grips the capitol. we hope you'll stay with us. >>> next, the tense moment on the tracks as a highway patrol officer in utah risked his life to save a driver from a speeding train with literally no time to spare. here is gadi schwartz. >> reporter: from the second a utah highway patrol trooper spotted a car on the tracks, it was a race against time in the distance the train rumbling ahead. the officer scrambling through brush and a fence and then opening the driver's door to find a man unconscious that heart-stopping moment such a close call that if trooper ruben correia could have gotten there a second

nbc bay area's tom jensen is live in mill valley right now. you just talked to an expert on incidents just like this one. >> i did. she talked about just coming from a symposium and people talking about thateo involving former san francisco 49ers coach keenan lowe who is now a coach at park roads high school in portland where that video is from. i talked to her. she has students here through her program called beyond differences that helps train middle schoolers

. >>> and my nbc news exclusive. amanda knox on her return to italy recently for the first time since her acquittal for murder time since her acquittal for murder. >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >>> good evening, everyone president trump, who oftennt trouble for himself, stunningly doubles down on controversial statements, this time may have doubled down on more impeachment trouble for himself, stunningly and publicly today calling on china to launch an investigation into a political rival, even as he faces an impeachment inquiry for doing the same thing with it was an extraordinary moment, and one immediately seized on by ukraine during a phone call. it was an extraordinary moment, and onimpresent. peter alexander is at the white house tonight. >> reporter: facing an impeachment inquiry for privately urging a foreign leader to investigate joe biden leader to investigate joe biden today president trump, unprompted, publicly urged a

nbc news >>> now to an nbc news exclusive. rare access into camps in china believed to be detaining a million citizens there we found families torn apart and children being indoctrinated. nbc's keir simmons takes us inside. >> we're in western china for a rare look inside what human rights groups call modern day concentration camps. the chinese rejecting that criticism have allowed us to film but only with an escort for what often felt like a choreographed trip >> it is as if everybody is waiting for us >> reporter: we find a religious minority group sitting at desks, sleeping in dormitories, expected to swear allegiance to the chinese communist party. china calls them education and vocation centers designed to fight terrorism after attacks the chinese blame on the group our measures are effective a senior communist party official tells me. we meet a mother who says her young daughter lost both parents. her husband just died and now she is here. tell me it isn't brutal to take a 4-year-old daughter when her father has just die

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it put me in an odd spot at nbc, let's say that. >> tucker: you resigned.e you heard from them since this piece came out? >> i've heard from a lot of employees who thanked me for it and said this is a public service and kudos. it's unfortunate we have to live in this existence. >> tucker: it was a public service, there has been an awful lot written about harvey weinstein in the past year but this is the clearest account i have read about the cover-up and nbc. thanks for coming on tonight. robbie swap he is an associate editor, he joins us. this account, i think you will agree leaves no room for debate. they acted as a pr team for harvey weinstein. >> he has the evidence in the piece, it's not a matter of being a human lie detector or and i believe him, he makes the argument in his story and what he told you, i don't think there is anyone who could doubt, this network not only stonewalled the investigation from the beginni beginning. and then when it was already out is not interested in telling the story, they weren't tested and talking about it. >> tucker:

how nbc is responding. claims that sexual harassment by one of the network news stars, she's going to break news in a few minutes. welcome to "fox new @ night," i'm shannon bream in washington. we begin with white house correspondent kevin corke. >> speaker pelosi did not mince words when she suggested the president suffered a meltdown at the white house, she suggested it was at least in part because of that incredible vote on capitol hill condemning the president's withdrawal from syria. let me show you a picture of the speaker from the meeting, the president tweeted out this picture, there she is pointing a finger at the meeting. she wasn't there very long. it went so poorly, the speaker herself stormed out. of why? here is new york senator chuck schumer. >> he called her a third-rate politician, he said that there are communists involved and you guys might like that -- this was not a dialogue. it was a diatribe, a nasty diatribe. >> speaking of diatribes, there was plenty of that back and forth on twitte

nbc, we don't go after weinstein and then weinstein won't bring up what's going on at nbc.ion for people. and i wonder if harvey, the harvey of the world, the bill cosby's of the world to enjoy mayhem because no one wanted to attempt the retaliation. if i do a story on this person, the person do a story on me. unlike nuclear war, you don't have first right capability. they can strike back. >> juan: in fact, greg raises an interesting point about if there is some kind of one-handed, why should one in terms of america media about the book "catch and kill" buying a story from someone making an accusation and killing it before it gets out there. >> kimberly: the question is was he fighting back again? >> juan: he was met at the leadership. >> kimberly: i don't know. i'm sure he was angry about that. i don't know if that was part of his motivation. i think savannah got the reaction when talking about the allegations is all that you can have. i don't know what to say. the allegations are horrific. the fact he was fired within a 20 a 24-hour period is interesting. i don't know wha

simple reason, why are they still running nbc?peaker that's a great question and the great question for people who work at nbc who are generalists there who do want the truth. they would like to knew that know that. i remember watching rachel maddow interviewed rowan pharaoh a while ago. i think she wanted to know what was going on. you need to be able to trust your boss is when you are a journalist that they are interested in helping you get the truth and that is grown in the farrow whole story that the derailed and hamstring him every way. not only do your bosses not have your back but they are working behind the scenes allegedly to undermine you. >> tucker: how would you feel if you were billy bush whose life was derailed because nbc sent a tape in which he didn't say anything to "the washington post" in an effort to change the outcome of a presidential election and then fired him for doing nothing wrong, meanwhile they are covering for harvey weinstein? >> you know, we hear about the campus rape crisis but what about the media

over 19 hours in the air and the cutting edge ways they are preventing jet lag. >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >>> good evening, everyone from los angeles whereight to s toril by a fast-moving wildfire residents told to evacuate, given minutes to flee, as schools were told to shelter children in place. and with high temperatures and fierce santa ana winds expected to pickup, utility companies may once again cut power in certain areas to reduce the threat our gadi schwartz is in pacific palisades tonight. >> reporter: in southern california's pacific palisades, a fire racing up a canyon, surrounding homes with flames. crews on high alert throwing everything they could at the fire as people ran from their homes. air drops and hand crews there within minutes. >> we got fire actively coming up the back of the home. >> reporter: as hundreds of residents were ordered to evacuate, anxious parents went to get kids from school. it spread 15 miles in 15 minutes. >> when i got here, it was a little scary, because there were four firemen in my driveway. >> reporter: at leas

how nbc is responding. in bc for nearly a decade, explain sexual harassment by one of the network's news stars. in just minutes. welcome to fox news at night. we begin with white house correspondent kevin cork at the scene of a dramatic showdown with democratic leaders. >> nancy pelosi did not mince words when she suggested the president suffered in her words a meltdown at their meeting, the white house this afternoon. she suggested it was at least in part because of that incredible vote on capitol hill condemning the president's withdraw from syria. let me show you a picture of the speaker from the meeting, the president himself tweeted out this picture, nancy pelosi right there pointing a finger at the meeting. she actually wasn't there very long. the meeting went so poorly the p speaker stormed out. why, you ask? here is chuck schumer. >> he called her a third rate politician, he said there are communists involved and you guys might like that. this was not a dialogue. it was a diatribe, a nasty diatribe.

nbc. >> i'm happy they found a home. if you'll be home tonight, it will be chilly tomorrow and it will warm up. chilly tomorrow. that's the forecast. >> we're back. chilly today. hot tomorrow. >>> tonight, a powerful storm, tearing through the southeast, toppling an 18-wheeler on the highway, spawning tornadoes. >> it sounded like the bottom fell out of things. >> thousands without power it's on the move at this hour. >> nbc news exclusive, the top kurdish commander one-on-one with our richard engel on what he calls ethnic cleansing and why he says the u.s. has abandoned them >> rallying back senator bernie sanders with his first big event since his heart attack >> i am back >> and the major endorsement giving his campaign new life >> stunning moment, caught on camera a student with a shotgun and the coach who disarmed

news we'll explain. >>> and an nbc news exclusive. our first look at a new dron delivery service lifesaving flights already under way. >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt >>> good evening, everyone tens of thousands of californians have been driven from their homes as major fires burned from one end of the state to another and we're hearing some harrowing stories of survival tonight, many forced to flee to safety through gauntlets of flames as a fire just north of los angeles accelerated overnight, leaping a major freeway. several homes have been destroyed and many schools have been closed as the region braces for more fires and possibly more preemptive power shutdowns. our joe fryer is in the burn zone. >> reporter: across california, the exhausting battle is far from over. outside los angeles, relentless winds pushed the so-called tick fire toward crowded neighborhoods overnight, quickly devouring homes. >> wow i mean, that's the entire hillside. >> reporter: with little notice, 50,000 people were forced to fle

gadi schwartz, nbc news. >>> we're w bravery. mystery, why was a family allegedly cut off for years from the outside world? announcer: time magazine reports: "the new american addiction. how juul hooked kids and ignited a public health crisis." other news outlets report- juul took $12.8 billion from big tobacco. markets e-cigarettes with kid frie5 million kids useses e-cigarettes. juul is "following big tobacco's playbook." and now, juul is pushing prop c to overturn e-cigarette protections. vote no on juul. no on big tobacco. no on prop c. >>> we're back now with a truly bizarre mystery, seven people said to have been found living a hidden room in a netherlands farmhouse possibly for years until one man said he escaped. we get the story prom -- from molly hunter. >> reporter: we're investigating how seven people, a father and adult kids live in isolation in a small lockable room in this farmhouse set off the road and shrouded from view by a line of trees. all seven people safe but police say they don't know why the family was th

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giuliani denied that allegation to nbc news today. chairman of the house intelligence committee ada>> gdh appearance is also stoking fear among people close to the president thursd a source familiar with his sondland plans to c that when he told the top diplomat in ukraine there was no quid pro quo, he was relying solely on what president trump told him, not on any firsthand knowledge of why u.s. military assistance to ukraine was held up or who ordered it the president denied dangling military aid in exchange for investigating the bidens it comes as president trump is keeping up sustained attacks against joe biden and his son hunter. >> by the way, where's hunter? >> reporter: the president accused the younger biden who had business dealings in ukraine and china of profiting off his father when biden was vice president. there has never been evidence of that still, hunter announcing over the weekend through his attorney, he will step down from the board of a chinese investment company by the end of the month. for his part, former vice

. >>> my nbc exclusive one on one with mark zuckerberg the facebook ceo defending the social media giant's controversial role in america's election do you feel like you're giving a green light to politicians that lie, lie, lie? the major changes the company says it's making to prevent interference in 2020 and zuckerberg getting personal like we've never heard before. >>> and our exclusive inside the record-breaking flight over 19 hours nonstop in the air, and the cutting-edge ways they're preventing jet lag >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >>> good evening, everyone from los angeles where firefighters and residents are on high alert and we witnessed a dramatic fight to save homes in peril by a fast-moving wildfire today. residents told to evacuate, given minutes to flee, as schools were told to shelter children in place. and with high temperatures and fierce santa ana winds expected to pick up, utility companies may once again cut power in certain areas to reduce the threat our gadi schwartz is in pacific palisades tonight. >> reporter: in southern california's pa

nbc's gabe gutierrez is at the courthouse >> can i give her a hug, please? >> reporter: late today a powerful moment in court as the brother of amber guyger's victim forgave her and asked for an embrace. she sobbed in his arms but outside the courtroom, outrage as guyger learned her sentence. >> set the defendant's punishment at ten years imprisonment. >> reporter: the prosecution asked for no less than 28 years, the age botham jean would have turned this week the jury took less than two hours of deliberations to hand down the sentencing, capping a dramatic trial during today's emotional punishment phase, jean's father e [crying] >> reporter: his son was shot and killed last september in his own apartment. guyger claims she mistook him for a burglar after accidently barging into his unlocked apartment, thinking it was her own. today for the first time, we heard from guyger's mother who described how her daughter was sexual molested as a child by a man she dated. karen guyger says her daughter was distraught after jean's death. >> she wish she could have take

nbc bay area's going live to oakland right now. you spoke with survivors about being prepared especially in light of the recent pg&e power shut offs. >> that's right. you know, we talked with people who gathered here today and of course they talked about the fire. they remember the details and the loss. they also talked about the community preparedness that came in the aftermath and some said with the recent power shut offs they now have more to consider. in oakland, people came together to remember the catastrophic and deadly fire of 1991. carolyn burgess recalls trying to get home from out of town. >> the operator said i think all of oakland is on fire. >> reporter: her home in the hills burned. she rebuilt. 28 years later many neighbors are new. >> some of whom don't even know about trimming trees or keeping the brush back from the house. you know, all of that basic stuff that i was not aware of 28 years ago. >> she is now well prepared for disasters but her planning was tested this month when pg&e proactively shut off power to

>> i believe the problem with the story is that nbc does not break the news.ast when it comes to survivors of sexual assault --? >> martha: why not? >> the bottom line is the potential threat of a lawsuit. >> martha: did russel simmons' lawyers threaten them with a lawsuit? >> they went ballistic the day before when she was asked for comment and they capitulated to his attorneys. and so again that statement not meeting standards and practices, this turned ny -- into a legal issue. it wasn't an issue around journalistic -- it wasn't an issue to whether they believed me or had enough information to move forward. they opted not to move forward after dragging me through six months of corroboration for nothing. >> martha: you believe there were people at the very top of >> announcer: involved in that decision. why do you believe that and who do you think they were. >> i was told it was the head of nbc universal. the head lawyer. so the head lawyer was talking directly with simmons' attorney. that's what i was told. so it became a fight between these two attorneys a

. >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt >> good evening, everyone as the former police officer at the center of an emotionally charged trial was found guilty of murder by a jury in dallas. amber gutonight after that jury rejected her tearful defense that itas mistake that led her to the wrong a partme and caused her to fatally shoot her unarmed upstairs neighbor our gabe gutierrez is at the courthouse. >> reporter: about five hours of jury deliberations led to this moment. >> we the jury unanimously find the defendant amber guyger guilty of murder as charged in the indictment >> reporter: the family of the man amber guyger shot erupted in cheers, but the former dallas police officer sat silent the dramatic verdict capped a trial that had captivated the country.single day >> reporter: guyger had claimed she feared for her life when she killed her unarmed mistak apartment. it turns out she had accidentally barged in on his unlocked apartment on the wrong floor. >> it's a sad reality that this community waited on pins and needles to decide whether or not someone could be h

what did you have that nbc, did you have enough?>> that's no longer in dispute and producer on the story is a brave guy about protested. can we get some applause? [applause] he's a profile in courage and does whaitdoes with every journs at this as this should have been on air. we had a recorded admission of guilt from harvey weinstein had enough just to a sexual assault serial sexual assault. we have multiple named women and was inexpensive audio recording but that isn't even the point. it the tactics to pull the conversation of was it not at a point that given time i brought it across the street and the judgment of the body before they went back and within a few years it's the story that paul had seen. but the point wasn't that it was done at any of those moments in time that is to striking the smoking gun but it wasn't a journalistic decision happening. we were told to cancel interviews and stand down and not take a single call on the subject. i was threatened by this going to be exposed is terminated and let go if i ever disclose

nbc's miguel almaguer with trebek's new'sage. >> reporter: for 36 seasons of "jeopardy!" alex trebek has had the answers. >> virginia. >> reporter: but now as he continues his battle with stage four pancreatic cancer amid setbacks in his treatment, the television host is offering answers to someone else's questions. >> there are weaknesses that i feel in my body, but i can always suck it up when it come time to tape the show. >> reporter: trebek struggles with carrying the burden of being the face of pancreatic cancer. >> to be the inspiration for a lot of other peoplke feel good but it does place some responsibility on me that i feel i'm not deserving of. trebek wears a wig and struggled to annunciate words on the show. >> i will keep doing it as long as my skills do not diminish and they have started to diminish. >> reporter: insightful and reflective, trebek is facing his own mortality. >> i'm not afraid of dying i'm 79 years old so i've lived a good life, a full life and i'm nearing the end of that life. >> reporter: tonight, the answers aren't always easy to hear but

this is not just an nbc problem.e are seeing nbc right now -- it is truth seeking reporters who are dismayed that people are potentially getting hurt. >> my own personal experience here is a long with a massive makeover in leadership change, policies internally have changed, i'm a former sexual-harassment attorney, a great news, and there's all work to be done. it is good when we ask tough questions internally and externally. we had nextel probe that was very important and others, it is a way to quiet your critics when you take it outside and that there be an objective look at what is going on. >> a scene in the book were journalists event the news are very skeptical and general counsel comes down to damage control and says we are not going to do an independent investigation a journalist are asking why don't we do an independent investigation and medicine point the general counsel gets fed up and says if the press would just stop talking about is the problem would go away. journalists are the heroes of the story. we

. >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >>> good evening news tonight of someone reportedly offering first-hand knowledge of that phone call between president trump and ukraine's president is rocking the impeachment inquiry.s soone might fill in the blanks of that call and its aftermath president trump publicly reacting to the newest development a short me democrats paper washington with more subpoenas hallie jackson is at the white house. >> reporter: president trump tonight on offense. >> the impeachment inquiry is a scam it's a scam by the democrats to win an election they're not going to win in 2020 >> reporter: new fallout from the emerging of a second whistle blower, this one with first-hand knowledge of that controversial call in july between president trump and the leader of ukraine according to the attorney for the first whistle blower the person is also cooperating with the intelligence community inspector general and might be able to clarify lingering questions about the call in which president trump asked the ukrainian leader to investigate a political

>>> nbc news investigates one of the nation's largest student loan companies taking employees on a luxury hawaii getaway at a time millions of americans are being crushed by student debt. >> we'd love to talk to you about what you guys are doing here. >> what the ceo said when we confronted him. >>> the new warning, toxic metals that can damage babies' brains found in a staggering amount of baby food. what parents need to know. >>> the tributes pouring in for a long-time congressman and civil rights champion. >>> good evening an embattled president trump may have gotten no favors from his acting chief of staff today who appeared to contradict one of the president's main impeachment defenses, that there was no quid pro quo. mick mulvaney telling reporters the president did hold up military aid to ukraine, at least in part for personal political reasons. he addressed reporters at the very same time a witness directly involved in those ukraine dealings was telling his story in the impeachment inquiry. kristen welker has details >> reporter: tonight, undercutting the president's denials of a

. >>> my nbc news exclusive, the woman sentenced to life for murder when she was a teen her case becoming a rallying cry for criminal justice reform capturing celebrity attention. her first interview since her release from prison. >>> good evening, everyone the situation on the ground is spiraling out of control tonight as u.s. forces withdraw from syria. a bloody turkish assault on the kurds is escalating. the door was opened last week when president trump suddenly ordered u.s. forces to stand down the president late today announcing economic sanctions against turkey an effort to slow down the carnage, but the move may come too late. and there is also word of the apparent release of isis prisoners amid the chaos richard engel is in northern syria. >> reporter: tonight a historic land grab is under way, reshaping the middle east as the u.s. pulls out of syria. turkey is driving ahead with a full force of its military, grabbing kurdish territory, capturing 50 villages and towns in six days. and turkey is also using arab militias as shock troops today they tore down symbols of kurdish rule