Monday, April 22, 2024

NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt

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🗓️ 23 April 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Prosecution, defense paint competing visions of Trump as trial begins; Dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters arrested at Yale; Senate poised to vote on new aid for Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan; and more on tonight’s broadcast.

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0:00.0	Tonight the opening statements and the first witness taking the stand in Donald
0:04.4	Trump's historic hush money trial the former president back in a New York court
0:08.6	as both sides laid out their cases prosecutors accusing Mr. Trump of a criminal conspiracy to cover up a payment
0:16.2	to adult film actress Stormy Daniels just before the 2016 election to keep quiet about an affair. The defense calling it merely a legal expense
0:25.8	saying it's not illegal to try to influence an election. And the first witness, the
0:30.6	former publisher of a National Inquirer, the key role prosecutors
0:34.8	said he plays in the case. Also tonight clashes on college campus is nearly
0:39.8	50 pro-Palestinian protesters arrested at Yale as another Ivy League University
0:45.6	Columbia moves classes online citing safety concerns after a campus
0:51.2	rabbi warned Jewish students to go home.
0:54.0	The Senate poised to pass a bill that could ban Tik-Tok nationwide,
0:59.0	what it means for Tik-Tok's 170 million users in the US.
1:03.3	That tick-talk bill, part of a $95 billion foreign aid package passed in the House
1:09.5	after the Speaker Mike Johnson put himself on the line. Will Democrats help him keep his job?
1:16.2	NBC News reports the surge at the southern border of migrants from China and the
1:21.2	legendary Barry Manilow. backstage at Radio City for his record-breaking night.
1:27.0	This is NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt.
1:34.1	Good evening and welcome.
1:35.2	The prosecution in Donald Trump's hush money trial
1:37.8	drew the sharp outlines of its case
1:39.9	against the former president today,
1:42.2	telling the Manhattan jury Mr. Trump orchestrated a criminal scheme to corrupt.
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