Tonight the show now set Joe Biden and Donald Trump agreeing to meet face to face for two

debates before the election. After months of uncertainty the candidates agreeing to just two televised

debates in June and September.

Mr. Biden saying, make my day, pal.

Mr. Trump firing back, I am ready and willing.

And the comment by Senator Mitt Romney

making headlines that President Biden should have pardoned Mr. Trump.

Also tonight the attempted assassination a man walking up to

Slovakia's prime minister shooting him multiple times.

AIDS pushing the wounded politician into a car and a man

tackled on the ground the Prime Minister's condition tonight. The barge slamming

into a bridge in Galveston, Texas causing a partial collapse and unleashing an oil spill, one

community island cut off.

Opening statements on the bribery trial of Senator Bob Menendez, the defense suggesting those gold bars didn't belong to Menendez, but to his wife.

The heart-stopping new dash cam video from a semi truck as a crash sends it dangling off a bridge.

The record-breaking filibuster in Missouri as Democrats wage a battle over abortion rights,

and the athletes dominating the world of women's golf and swinging for a shot at gold in the Paris Olympics.

This is NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt.

Good evening and welcome not one but two presidential debates are on the books tonight

after an exchange of verbal taunts more akin to a prize fight promotion.

President Biden and former President Trump have agreed to televised one-on-one debates,

the first happening June 27th and notably without a live audience.

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