biden was even asked by ms. nbc if he had any red lines for the zionists who plan on invading rafah, which is a desperately overcrowded city that's filled with displaced over one 1.2 million displaced palestinian civilians and his answer perfect. demonstrates why benjamin netanyahu will not listen to anything administration has to say, whether it's real or whether it's electoral propaganda? so let's take a look, let's hear that. what is your red line with prime minister netanyahu? do you have a red line? for instance, would invasion of rafa, would you have urged him not to do, would that be a red line? it is a red line, but i'm never going to leave israel, the defense of israel is still critical. so there's no red line, i'm going to cut off all weapons so they don't have the iron dome to protect them, they don't have, but there's red lines that if he crosses in the cannot have 30,00 more palestinians dead as a consequence of going out, there's other ways to deal to get to, to deal with the with with the trauma cause

nbc news projects joe biden has won georgia where he has 95% of the vote. in mississippi, nbc news projects joe biden has won and where joe biden has 99% of the vote as of now in mississippi. and on the republican side, nbc news projects donald trump has won georgia where he currently has 84% of the vote. and, in mississippi, nbc news projects donald trump has won where he currently has 92% of the vote. we are still waiting for poll closings in the state of washington and hi h. joining our discussion now is simon rosenburg. democratic strategist and author of chronicles on sub stack. joe biden wins a higher percentage of democratic votes than donald trump wins republican votes. what is that to read in tonight's results? >> that we are in the general election. here we go. right? we have eight months to go. and it will be biden and trump. and, you know, in every way imaginable, i would much rather be us than them. joe biden has been a good president. the country is better off. the democratic party is strong and they have trump. who is the most unfit guy to run

. >> reporter: chloe melas, nbc news, new york >>> let's turn now to the race for the white house. president biden and former president trump easily dominating super tuesday unofficially setting up a november rematch. with nikki haley dropping out, there is a new battle for her supporters, all as mr. trump is calling on president biden to debate. garrett haake with the latest >> reporter: tonight the rematch though polls show most americans don't want it after their massive wins president biden and former president trump appear set for another face-off with nikki haley now dropping out of the race. >> in all likelihood donald trump will be the republican nominee when our party convention meets in july i congratulate him and wish him well. >> reporter: haley then challenging her former boss whom she pointedly did not endorse. >> it is now up to donald trump to earn the votes of those in our party and beyond it who did not support him, and i hope he does that. >> reporter: the battle now on for her backers. president biden urging haley supporters to join him in opposing mr. trump writing, i know the

a representative for hunter biden's legal team told nbc news they would respond to the committee was tation in writing. the announcement of the march 20th hearing comes after hunter biden testified last week in a closed door deposition on capitol hill. he repeatedly denied that his father, the president, had any involvement in with his business dealings. a source familiar with the younger biden's legal strategy told nbc news that republican committee chair james comer is, quote, desperate to keep alive an impeachment inquiry that died when hunter biden testified for almost 7 hours last week. we'll keep you posted. elsewhere on capitol hill, the house of representatives has passed a set of funding bills needed to avoid a partial government shutdown this friday. in total 83 republicans and two democrats voted against the package. the bills will now head to the senate where the upper chamber is trying to reach an agreement to fast track their consideration to pass the measures in time. both sides of the aisle are telling nbc news they do believe they will get the bills to president biden

unofficial start with nikki haley ending her campaign, president biden and former president trump are battling to win over her supporters. nbc's garrett haake has the latest >> reporter: the rematch, though polls show most americans don't want it, after their massive wins in nearly every super tuesday contest, president biden and former president trump appear set for another face-off, with nikki haley now dropping out of the republican race >> in all likelihood, donald trump will be the republican nominee when our party convention meets in july i congratulate him and wish him well >> reporter: haley then challenging her former boss whom she pointedly did not endorse. >> it now up to donald trump to earn the votes of those in our party and beyond it who did not support him. and i hope he does that. >> reporter: the battle now on for her backers. president biden urging haley's supporters to join him in opposing mr. trump, writing, i know there's a lot we won't agree on i hope and believe we can find common ground. mr. trump inviting haley's supporters to join, quote, the greatest movement in the history of our nation, while boye

biden. gentlemen, welcome, welcome. alex marlow nbc to hate conservatives is going to cost them 600 grand for 15 minute interview and she may sue for defamation for this could just be the beginning. they will be better off if they like conservatives, alex marlow you have a thought on this? >> quest >> we are having such elastic breitbart with the story it is so fun it exposed in the fascists for who they are at the totalitarian spirit look at the crybaby they cannot handle ronna mcdaniel they're so close minded. that is too much for them. it is too tall of an order per week talk to her a couple times a week for five minutes it is so pathetic and embarrassing. it just reveals who they are for this i the corporate status quo. nbc comcast universal if you are all a threat to the corporate line then you cannot even speak for a few minutes today unbelievable, so fun. larry: this is like your own jon carney who writes about the social media. this is wha why you need a trump media so you have a place for conservatives to go. this is yet anoth

officials tell nbc news, the biden administration has no plans of changing course. violence in port-au-prince is relentless. police and gangs battling it out in the streets of haiti's capital city as innocent people hide and run for cover. we traveled to the country's north. where we are, it's more than five hours away by car from port-au-prince. within the gates of mission life international's orphanage and birthing center, you don't hear gunfire. you hear children, napping, playing, dreaming. >> what do you want to be when you grow up? [ speaking in a global language ] >> reporter: she says she wants to be a doctor. outside of the birthing center, mothers are waiting to check in. this baby is just 3 months old. she's the fourth child, the first girl. >> do they like, the brothers like having a sister? >> a lot. a lot. >> reporter: she tells us she's a nurse, but she doesn't have a job right now. she has a pharmacy but these days doesn't sell much, and supplies are hard to come by. you can see they have stuff here, but it is a bit sparse. that is in part because mo

it's going to help them at all. >> sandra: apparently biden advisors are torn on how to make him not look as old. behind the scenes this is an nbcscenes biden has grown angry and anxious. they reporting about his reelection bid parts of advisors have told him they should walk faster that his gait speed the impression that he's old but the white house is worried about him tripping that he is taken to boarding air force one by a shorter staircase through the belly of the plane. in a private meeting according to this report come at the white house in january allies of the president told him that his poll numbers in michigan and georgia had dropped over his handling of the war between israel and hamas. apparently there is internal concern about the president and how he is handling these lower poll numbers. a final thoughts on that cha charlie. >> i was struck by that nbc story that you were just referencing their because obviously the white house was trying to present this idea that he is in charge but the problem is if you are presenting the idea that he is in charge because he is losing his mind and he's yelling at people and curs

president biden is stopping in nevada, arizona and texas. nbc news says the president has become angry and nervous about his reelection bid. madeleine rivera is with us. >> madeleine: part of the campaign strategy to meet voters where they are. the president will remind them of what they say the administration has done over the last four years. the campaign is bullish. priv privately tension within the team. biden has grown angry and anxious about the reelection effort and one telling him he is mad at himself for not being more forceful with the staff. one point of contention has to do with his age, he was known as retail politician. white house now have him boarding air force one through a shorter staircase. he is sporting new shoes, hokas for standing on your feet. former president trump saying over the weekend he thinks a lot of democrats are voting for him. >> you ride down the streets of florida, alabama and they have trump signs all over the place. they are looking for hope. there is no hope with biden. he's a dead head. >> that is not how

female voters are going to drive the coalition for biden. our nbc showed biden with a decent rang but also losing really badly among men. it goes both ways. there are polls that continually show trump leading or at least tied. so it will be on the biden campaign to press their advantage on this issue in a way that didn't exist four years ago, but they also have to figure out some of these other issues. that's where you get into issues like immigration and crime and even the economy where men voters are continually choosing trump over biden and those will probably be top tier issues for them and see how much that is outweighed by women who overwhelmingly say abortion and access is going to be what drives their vote. >> and whether women as they did in 2020 vote more than men did, more women voted in 2020 than men. fascinating conversation, brendan buck, monica alba, thank you both. >>> new details about those lost in the baltimore bridge collapse as officials reveal it's just too dangerous to recover all of the victims right now. we'll get a live rep

larry: nbc, nbc firing ronna mcdaniel after one interview because she is a republican and a conservative, what do you make of that? >> well look, biden'sry went from the white house to nbc in three weeks. nobody at nbc complained that having biden's press secretary in the news operation was inappropriate. what you have is the most vivid example of left-wing hostility to republicans and the republican party should adopt a position of not dealing with nbc, period, until they reform themselves. larry: yeah. well-said. newt gingrich, former speaker, great friend, the great newt gingrich. appreciate it very, very much. folks i will be back with my last word. tourists that turn into scientists. tourists photographing thousands of miles of remote coral reefs. that can be analyzed by ai in real time. ♪ so researchers can identify which areas are at risk. and help life underwater flourish. ♪ ♪ ♪ next. next. stop. we got it? no. keep going. aga... [ sigh ] next. next. if you don't pick one... oh, you have time. am i keeping you from your job. next. i don't even know where i am anymore. stop. do we finally have it? let's go back to the beginning.

biden's age and mental fitness for the job, some democrats have speculated that michelle obama could be a potential replacement. tonight, in a statement to nbc news, her office saying the former first lady, quote, will not be running for president, and that mrs. obama supports president joe biden and vice president kamala harris' re-election campaign >> and garrett, there is another major headline tonight that could impact the balance of power in the narrow democratic majority in the senate >> reporter: that's right, lester. the former democrat turned independent kyrsten sinema of arizona announcing today she will not seek re-election democrats have the narrowest path to maintain control of the upper chamber this year sinema's departure from this race makes that path all the more complicated in a marquee race >> all right, garrett, thank you. >>> and there's another senate seat we're keeping a close eye on tonight after the death of senator dianne feinstein, there's a high wattage campaign for her seat in california jacob soboroff is there tonight. what's at play in this race, jacob? >> reporter: it's high stakes, lester, good evening to you

sources are telling nbc news biden lashed out after he was told his poll numbers dropped over the israeli. peter doocy got a strange reply yesterday. >> is he shouting and swearing about netanyahu or about hamas or about his poll numbers? >> this is the when did you stop beating your spouse question because i don't think he ever did that. and you use that as the premise of your question which is when he does that. i've never seen him do that shout or swear in response to that. so from my perspective, that particular report is not correct. >> sandra: an interesting exchange, leslie. >> well, you know, there are rumors and then there are facts. it would seem at least with this press conference that was a rumor perhaps and not a fact. this is a very tight race and tempers are going to be high. there has been some infighting and some resigning among some of those on president biden's team. anybody left or right especially with a presidential election needs to be united and needs to remember the goal is to have their boss, their candidate win and that is what needs to be focused on. i would im

shift their support. >> there's no way i want trump in office. >> reporter: meanwhile, nbc news projecting president biden won nearly every democratic contest except for a surprising loss in the american samoa caucus. recent polls show mr. trump leading mr. biden in a head-to-head matchup within the margin of error. now the trump campaign will look to scale up and shift focus towards november. >> the people shouldn't expect a big change in tone or strategy from the campaign or the candidate. >> why? it's working. what we've currently done is working. >> all right, garrett joining me now. garrett, the former president now challenging president biden to debates. >> that's right, lester. after boycotting the republican primary debates, mr. trump says he's now willing to debate president biden, quote, any time, anywhere, any place. the biden campaign responding, not committing to debates yet saying they will consider it at the appropriate time. lester. >> all right, garrett haake tonight, thank you. >>> breaking news in alabama where a final bill to protect in vitro fertilization has passed, this after the st

nbc. president joe biden's team is increasingly taking extraordinary steps to minimize disruptions from pro-palestiniantests at his events by making them smaller withholding their precise locations from the media and the public until he arrives, avoiding college campuses and, in at least one instance, considering hiring a private company to vet attendees. okay, just because they are afraid biden will crumble and stumble if he is confronted at a real campaign event, it doesn't give them license to abuse the constitutional mandate to report on the state of the union. now, just for a moment imagine if donald trump had delivered that kind of state of the union address during his presidency. the press would have gone berserk. they would have said vicious, no decorum, no sense of proprietor. an abuse of the forum, polarizing. but it all played out as i predicted last night prediction, in a few hours, the media will be la vising praise on biden. you will hear people saying that it was amazing how biden knocked it out of the park. how he put to rest the doubts about his stamina. he nailed it. and then, like cl

. >> joe biden will never say laken riley's name, but we will say it and we'll remember it. we're not going forget her. >> reporter: an nbc news review of available crime data shows crime has dipped in cities that received the most migrants should president biden have gone to a different part of the border >> i believe so. i think it probably would have been best to go that's very busy, like arizona or california >> reporter: a record 8.6 million migrants have crossed into the u.s. since president biden took office. the border patrol union telling us mr. biden should not have reversed trump border policy. >> they were very effective for us as border patrol agents in securing the border. >> reporter: an nbc news poll shows 57% of americans say mr. trump can best secure the border just 22% say biden will beyond the political split screen, desperate migrants in mexico wait to cross here in brownsville, monica from el salvador waits for a bus with her 3-year-old son she tells us the journey was hard, and that she spent four months waiting in mexico for an appointment for an initial asylum screening through an app on her phone

former rudy giuliani associate lev parnas testifying in the gop's biden impeachment inquiry, and our nbc news exclusive, the allegation parnas made that republicans are acting as russia's accomplices. >>> the new drama for the royals were princess kate's medical records breached at the clinic where she underwent surgery? >>> and the l.a. dodgers' $700 million man making his debut as the new mlb season gets off to a historic start in south korea >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt >>> good evening, everyone, and welcome. things are back to square one at the texas/mexico border tonight at least for the moment with the federal government back to being the sole enforcer of immigration laws yesterday the u.s. supreme court gave texas the okay to proceed with its controversial new border enforcement law that grants local authorities the power to arrest and deport migrants they suspect of entering the country illegally, but just hours after the supreme court spoke, an appeals court panel quickly put another pause on implementing the law while it heard the case today the le

. >> in response to the former president's comments, a spokesperson told nbc news, biden's policies willate an economic blood bath for the auto industry and autoworkers. a spokesperson later said mr. trump was doubling down on his threats of political violence with that bloodbath comment. >>> in just a few hours, the polls will close in russia's presidential election with the outcome never in doubt for vladimir putin. nbc's chief international correspondent keir simmons in a small town near moscow. what's the latest there? >> reporter: well, willie, they're just getting started with an election night event as the electoral commission says that turnout has now reached 66%. so this is the official picture. and then alexei navalny before he died called for people to stand up and stand silently. and now navalny's team and the non-state are putting out these pictures of people standing outpolling stations, many look younger than the kinds of voters we have seen. we've seen images of an election worker detained for wearing an alexei navalny t-shirt. earlier today i caught up with boris. he is

nbc. in turn, the biden administration's key ally in the region, argentine president javier miley, calledo continue demonstrating. details from artyom krosulin. the situation is under control; another us attempt to intervene in the internal affairs of the island of freedom has failed, as president miguel diazcanel comments on the mass protests in cuba. official representatives of the us state department, american the governments of their embassy in cuba are rudely interfering in internal affairs and are disrespectful towards cubans and the cuban revolution. they are intoxicating the media regarding the rallies. two of the three protests were essentially peaceful, but in virtual reality the united states put forward such a scenario as if serious events were taking place here. the reason for the demonstration was the difficult economic situation of the state. protesters complain about... food shortages and power outages due to cost-saving measures. according to residents of the second the largest city of santiago de cuba, there is no light for 18 hours a day. similar demonstrations took pla

. >> reporter: the biden campaign rejecting it was about only cars. >> every single day donald trump is promoting and endorsing and encouraging political violence on the stump. >> nbc news has new reporting tonight about president biden showing some growing frustration about his re-election campaign. what do we know? >> reporter: that's right, lester. president biden shouted and swore about falling poll numbers in a january white house meeting and felt cocooned by staff eager to move more aggressively in campaigning against mr. trump, sources tell nbc news. >> garrett haake, thank you. >>> we're learning more about what brought on the spring break violence in florida that left one person dead and three others injured this weekend. our sam brock is there with the latest. sam? >> reporter: lester, good evening. now here in miami beach, ramped up security measures and even a midnight curfew this past weekend have kept things very safe. lester, other parts of florida right now are reeling from chaos. violence tonight, once again up-ending spring break celebrations in florida. this time in jacksonville beach. >> we are currently working three separate unrelated shooting

. >> lucas: entire nbc crew was against the hiring, including former president biden's press secretary. >> nbc made the decision, what does she bring nbc? >> truth and lies. ronna mcdaniel has been a major peddler of the big lie. >> election deniers can do that as one of us, paid contributors to our sacred airwaves. >> i find the decision to put her on the payroll inexplicable. >> lucas: jen psaki said nbc was -- ronna mcdaniel will sue for infliction of disstress. >> no organization can -- undermines that goal. i want to apologize to team members who felt we let them down. this was a collective recommendation by leaders of the membership team, i take full responsibility for it. network seemed aligned against ronna mcdaniel. unlike the warm welcome marie harf received when she started here. >> steve: are you thinking, if i go to msnbc or nbc, am i going to get the political viewpoint of people who are republican or supporters of trump? given what has happened over last 48 hours. >> carley: she said you can't be one of us with our badge and be on sacred airwaves, how p pretentuous. bide

. >>> just in this hour, two administration officials tell nbc news president biden is expected to speakoke. let's go to tel aviv and nbc's raf sanchez. raf, netanyahu sounding defiant there. he's been bucking the biden administration's warnings about going into rafah and all the people in harm's way there. what does this say about how he's responding to pressure from the u.s.? >> reporter: ana, i think defiance is the right word. the white house has been saying consistently that it opposes any attack on the city of rafah in southern gaza where more than a million palestinian civilians are sheltering without what it calls a credible plan to get those palestinian civilians out of harm's way. prip netanyahu approving a military assault on rafah. he says that assault will have two phases. the first being that evacuation of civilians from raf far, the second an attack on the city itself. netanyahu says the attack is necessary to carry out israel's objective of defeating hamas. president biden for his own part has given slightly mixed messages about this. he has described an attack on rafah a

mean, people are more worried about katie brits thing than some of the things joe biden said, including yesterday on nbc, is worried about snl's. i am worried about what biden told nbc, what apologized for calling the murderer of lake and riley illegal. he had it right in the speech and then he got bullied by his left flank into changing it well, it's undocumented and then even more outrageous. he said, i'm not going to insult people like that because they built the country. let's, let's play. i'll come to you in a second. let's, let's put up the video so people know what scott's talking about or we don't have the video. okay. i'm sorry. >> but >> yes, he did say he did correct himself i'll just say it did not apologize. i mean, that is just so that is ludicrous. freeman. he did not change as to why why does he insist on speaking? he did the white house. the white house is putting out press releases calling illegal aliens, newcomers. now he's saying, why shouldn't i said illegal. it's that he's really documented, you know why? because he is documented to have murdered son one to a broken our laws to hav

nbc bay area news . >>> we are minutes away from president biden's state of the union address. special nbc news coverage begins in a couple minutes. >>> a live look at the capital inside the rotunda as congressional lawmakers are there getting ready for this high-stakes night for resident biden. it is his third state of the union where he will lay out a second term agenda in his state of the union address. >> the white house is president biden will highlight post-covid economic recovery and layout plans to revamp the tax code. expand housing supplies and reduce the federal budget deficit he is also excited to use the address to announce new humanitarian assistance for gaza that includes plans to establish a temporary peer off the coast would serve as a u.s. military port for delivery of human entering aid to gaza. we are expecting to hear how the president has worked to get more money in american's pockets and how he is helped cancel student loan debt and lowered the cost for perception drugs such you can see supreme court just >>> tonight, president biden on the state of our un

much closer to locking up the nomination and president biden easily cruised to victory in most of the democratic races but there was one exception. nbc news projects jason palmer has won the american samoa democratic caucus. the venture capitalist won 51 votes to president biden's 40 votes. palmer is also on ballots in 16 states he says his goal is to make education a top priority in texas nbc news projects colin allred has won the democratic primary. he will take on senator ted cruz in november. >> the fund alamental reason th democracy works is that they fix things for others. >> adam schiff and republican steve garvey will face off in november in the race to fill the california senate seat once held by the late senator dianne feinstein. for more, here's nbc's alice barr >> reporter: as the votes are tallied this super tuesday, president biden and former president trump are barrelling toward what's expected to be a historic rematch the former president celebrating his latest primary wins from virginia to texas. >> they call it super tuesday for a reason [cheers and applause >> this is a big one >> reporter: president biden in a sta

families of the american hostages who attended last night's state of the union tell nbc news the biden those negotiations aren't totally dead, but there is no sign of an imminent deal to pause the violence. nbc's richard engel is reporting from jerusalem for us. so i know european officials say the first ship with aid could set out from cypress as soon as today. what do we know about how this might work and the potential impact, richard. >> more likely on sunday, and this would be really a trial run with a small shift, more like a barge, the kind of thing that you can just push right up against the shore in gaza without needing a pier, a floating pier or any kind of dock because the dock isn't built yet. the u.s. has promised to build this. that's what president biden announced last night. it's going to take weeks at least to get the materials there to lay even a floating dock, which is a relatively rapid construction, but this would be a trial run with an aid group taking a spanish ship leaving from cypress with several nations sort of involved in coordinating and deconflicting includ

destruction in gaza grows, and amid growing tension between israel's benjamin netanyahu and president biden. nbc'ssanchez is with us from tel aviv. also with us, nbc's white house correspondent allie raffa. blinken made this announcement in his sixth visit to the region. he'll be in israel tomorrow. how significant is the shift? >> reporter: so jose, this is significant. as you said, the u.s. has previously vetoed three u.n. security council resolutions calling for a cease fire in gaza. it's now putting forward its own resolution calling for a cease fire. this isn't a total 180 in the sense that those previous resolutions said cease fire with or without a hostage deal, whereas this american one links the cease fire to a deal on the hostages. now, secretary of state antony blinken also saying that he is increasingly optimistic that there could be a deal. he says the gaps between israel and hamas are narrowing. qatar, who is mediating those talks also saying that they are cautiously optimistic about a potential deal. the secretary is in egypt today. he was in saudi arabia yesterday, and he will be h

nbc news confirming that biden administration signed off on sending aliens of dollars in bonds and fighter jets to israel despite the administration's deep concerns over anticipated invasion in southern gaza that could threaten the lives of hundreds of thousands of palestinians this coming as the second ship carrying aid to gaza moves up from cyprus today. carrying 400 tons or so of food as famine is threatening the enclave. meghan fitzgerald has the latest. what are you hearing out of the white house? tragic president biden has been very clear that israel invading profit more than 1 million people are seeking shelter is a redline. israel has been clear that they will proceed as they wish. meanwhile, nbc news has been able to confirm that the united states continues to provide deadly and powerful weapons to israel, despite international condemnation of the war in gaza. all of this as the united states and allies continue to drop dozens and dozens of food into gaza as you monitoring a organizations say gaza is on the brink of famine. i want you to listen to what a u.s. air force member had

biden unveiled ways to lower costs for families and launch -- while the former president presta had to lock up the gop nomination. nbc's alice bar is tracking it all from washington, d.c. >> reporter: president biden on a battleground blitz today on the road to new hampshire fresh off unveiling his election-year budget proposal that includes tax breaks for families, new money for housing and lower healthcare costs. earlier telling local leaders and the national league of cities it's time for a new cycle of hope. >> pride in your hometown, pride in making a comeback, pride in america, pride in knowing we can get things done when we work together. >> reporter: that amid an already contentious re-election campaign with both the president and the president rallying in georgia this weekend ahead of tomorrow's primary with mr. trump mocking his successors lifelong stutter and slamming his record. >> everything joe biden touches turns to -- >> reporter: in a cnbc interview he said this about entitlements including social security and medicare. >> there is a lot you can do in terms of entitlements and in terms of cutting. >> t

biden won in 2020. is it better to play an important role in deciding the election this november. nbc biden's event in east atlanta where tonight the president will be continuing his post state of the union campaign blitz. welcome, who is president biden trying to reach there, and what is the message? >> reporter: is really the battleground voters here in the state. the moderates, the dependence, and of course the voters of color that the president views as being critical to the democratic space. at the event that he is expected to be endorsed by three groups revisiting the black community and the latino community. those groups donating $20 million to mobilize their members out of the election to try to boost president biden stances. the message selling here tonight is one we heard at the state of the union, establish a contrast between himself and the former president, saying that he will protect rights like access to abortion and ivf treatments, and comparing that to the former presidents touting his role in overturning roe v wade. you also have the president start to lean into his

>> president joe biden: stop at stop it stop it stop it send me a boarder built now we cut the deficit by $160 billion and we keep going that's america. >> jesse: to new report from nbcow furious biden is behind the scenes screaming at staffers wondering why he's losing but if anyone should be angry it's trump and they are calling him a bloodthirsty nazi trying to bankrupt and put him in pleasant petition james demanding trump fork over a half a billion dollars in cash or she will padlock trump tower trump responding today. >> we have a lot of cash and a great company but they want to take it away or at least take the cash element away billions of dollars in value billions of dollars in property but they want to take the cash away so i can't use it on the campaign speech stealing his money and building but they didn't yell or shout biden slamming state of the union pills howling bloody murder trump the happy warrior cracking everyone up with delicious memes every time i look at my phone someone text me something. >> upstairs careful careful how you are with stairs that podium yes say high to the general stop where you go not that all my god go back to the podium thes

>> announcer: from nbc news, president biden's state of the union, live from washington here are lester holt and savannah guthrie >> good evening and welcome, everyone, to our nbc news coverage of president biden's state of the union address. >> tonight is a pivotal night for the president as he prepares to deliver what could be the most important speech of his presidency. >> we are still eight months out from the general election, but with that rematch now set between him and former president trump tonight might be the president's best chance to get his message out there. >> members of congress already assembled on the house floor. the message expected to address the most critical issues the country is facing including immigration, the economy and, of course, two wars raging overseas. >> ryan nobles is inside the chamber what are you seeing as folks continue to file their way in. >> reporter: we're already seeing members of congress displaying messages that they want the world to see even though they're not going to have a voice in the room here tonight, they want to make sure the poli

. >> reporter: chloe melas nbc news, new york >>> president biden is getting ready to deliver what may be one of the most important speeches of his political career. >> mr. president, how's the state of the union >> state of the union is strong. >> tens of millions of people will tune in to the state of the union address tonight. it is one of the biggest audiences the president will have a chance to address as he runs for reelection. brie jackson joins us from d.c. with the preview what can we expect to see tonight? >> reporter: this is a big opportunity for the president to try and make his case to voters. we can expect to hear a hot ab lot about accomplishments on infrastructure and lowering health care costs. he says there is more work to be done including getting student debt relief and restoring a woman's right to choose. first lady jill biden has invited kate cox to be her guest. cox fought the abortion bill in texas when her health was in danger and she needed emergency care the audience will include 17 family members of americans captured or killed by hamas. they will be guests

biden's age, would she be ready to serve? >>> and one of the major topics of the president's address, the border crisis. our nbc news exclusive with republican texas governor greg abbott how he grades the president's speech and why he calls the surge at the border an invasion >>> the terrifying moments a united airlines plane sliding off the runway in houston just a day after a tire fell off another united plane on takeoff. >>> the deadly aid drop in gaza a parachute failing to open witnesses say at least five people on the ground were killed >>> tracking the severe storms on the move tonight. >>> former president trump posting a nearly $92 million bond as he appeals the e. jean carroll verdict. >>> the house set to vote on a bill that could ban tiktok would president biden sign it? what he said about that today >>> and the mythical mystery. who is leaving unicorns all around this american city >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt >>> good evening, and welcome. this has been a consequential week in american politics from the super tuesday primary landslide setting the stage for november to

president biden has -- >> i think you have to get back to the world of peace. >> reporter: two u.s. officials tell nbc news, the monday conversation between president biden and prime minister netanyahu was intense, constructive and very candid netanyahu brought up that criticism from senator schumer, and the president, who has publicly praised schumer's speech told netanyahu the white house is not looking to oust him from power >> garrett, thank you. >>> two former mississippi deputies be part of a group known as the goon squad are now headed to prison for the beating and torture of two black men last year. hunter elward and jeffrey middleton were sentenced to 20 years and 17 and half years respectively they were part of a group of six officers who broke into a home without a warrant, shouted slurs at the victims and physically and sexually assaulted them. the victims' lawyer saying tue tuesday's sentencing should serve as a warning that justice will be coming their way >>> the parents of riley strain has asked the cajun navy to help find their son kathy park is following the story. >> reporter: in na