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NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt

Friday, July 18, 2025

NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt

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Policy, War, Government, Politics, President, News, Information, Political, World, Campaign, Congress

4.32K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Trump sues for $10 billion over WSJ’s Epstein report; 3 sheriff’s deputies killed in explosion at Los Angeles training facility; Trump administration secures release of ten detained Americans; and more on tonight’s broadcast.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Breaking tonight, the president sues over a report.

0:03.6

He personally wrote a birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein.

0:07.4

This has the Justice Department moves to unseal grand jury testimony from the Epstein criminal case.

0:13.2

As scrutiny mounts over the president and Epstein's relationship, the Wall Street Journal reporting, he personally wrote the disgrace financier a vulgar message for his 50th

0:22.6

birthday. Now the president suing Dow Jones, the paper's publisher, as well as the reporters. It comes

0:28.4

after a rare reversal from Trump calling on his Justice Department tonight to release grand jury testimony

0:34.3

in the criminal case. Plus the deadly explosions at a Los Angeles sheriff's training facility, three deputies

0:40.5

killed after two military-type explosive devices were brought there overnight.

0:45.2

So what set them off and what happened?

0:48.3

Just in the deal to send 250 people deported from the U.S. to Venezuela, they're being exchanged

0:53.6

for the 10 people you see here,

0:55.6

Americans that were detained by the Maduro regime. She avoided being kidnapped while she was at work.

1:01.4

Now the teen who barely got away is speaking out. Her message to you if you find yourself in the

1:07.1

same situation. Current call for Stephen Colbert, the shock news at CBS is ending one of the most

1:12.6

storied shows on television, what's behind the late show cancellation, and what's the future

1:17.8

of the industry?

1:19.1

The chaotic scene after a Beyonce concert led out the stampede on an escalator that spilled

1:24.5

out onto a busy subway platform.

1:27.0

Driverless car fleets take off in cities across America.

1:30.3

Would you let your kid ride without a driver to their next soccer game, why some parents

1:35.2

are?

1:36.0

Nightly News starts right now.

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