Tonight, the Justice Department revolt over a corruption case involving New York's mayor.

Seven top prosecutors resign.

Their pointed words as the Trump Justice Department orders them to drop the case.

One lawyer saying they were set to bring new charges.

The dramatic promise Trump's Borders are made on live TV about what would happen to Mayor Eric Adams if he

didn't keep his word. Sweeping government layoffs hit thousands of federal workers, including

staff overseeing the nuclear stockpile. The president warning more cuts are coming. Trential

rains triggering mudslides in Southern California sweeping a car into the ocean with the driver still inside.

Plus the major winter storm threatening millions. New developments in that deadly mid-air collision, the Black Hawk helicopter was flying too high, but the pilots might not have known it.

The breaking news about the high-profile lawsuit against music mogul JZ.

Ukraine on edge after a dramatic drone strike at the Chernobyl nuclear plant.

And world leaders stunned by mixed messages from the U.S. over the war,

as President Zelensky tells us in an exclusive interview,

they have a low chance of surviving without U.S. support.

This is NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt.

Good evening and welcome.

We start with the internal revolt rocking the Trump Justice Department as the DOJ has just moved to dismiss the federal corruption case against New York

Mayor Eric Adams, after a string of federal prosecutors refused to do so, seven of them taking

part in a mass resignation, leaving their jobs, rather than follow orders to drop the case against

Adams on the justification, it distracted the mayor from devoting his full attention to the president's priorities on immigration and crime.

In his resignation later, the lead lead prosecutor calling it dismissal with leverage and meant to induce Adams to support the administration's policy objectives.

Meantime, the administration's borders are making it clear what's expected of Adams,

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