Monday, December 2, 2024

NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt

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🗓️ 3 December 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

New fallout after Biden pardons son Hunter Biden; Millions in Northeast and Midwest dig out from huge snowstorm; Cost of childbirth leaves many families in debt, even if they have insurance; and more on tonight’s broadcast.

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0:00.0	Tonight, the growing fallout from President Joe Biden's surprise decision to pardon his son Hunter.
0:06.1	The president issuing a full pardon days before Hunter Biden was sent to be sentenced in two criminal
0:11.5	cases. Mr. Biden saying his son was unfairly prosecuted. The move prompting backlash on both
0:17.8	sides. Why the president change his mind after repeatedly saying a pardon
0:22.0	was off the table. Also, tonight President-elect Trump's pick to run the FBI, Cash Patel,
0:28.2	under scrutiny, his calls to purge the Bureau's ranks and go after Mr. Trump's adversaries
0:33.7	and the new allegations against Mr. Trump's pick for defense secretary.
0:38.1	The massive pile up in Michigan as lake effects snow slams millions, more than five feet
0:43.8	in some areas.
0:45.1	The race to reach people trapped in their homes.
0:47.9	The surprise in the courtroom, just as her trial was about to begin, the woman pleading
0:52.8	guilty to a DUI crash that killed a bride
0:56.0	on her wedding night in South Carolina. The emotional words from the groom and the victim's
1:01.4	mother. The news tonight on an Israeli-American soldier believed to have been taken hostage by Hamas,
1:07.5	Israel, today revealing his fate. The best deals we're tracking with Cyber Monday
1:12.5	expected to break records, and more than a year after the devastating Maui wildfires,
1:18.0	the homecoming just in time for the holidays.
1:22.6	This is NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt.
1:27.8	Good evening and welcome.
1:29.5	Sharp criticism of President Biden's turnabout and decision to grant a full unconditional
1:34.7	pardon to his son Hunter is reverberating on both sides of the political fault lines tonight.
1:40.3	The president's characterization of the criminal cases against his son as politicized
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