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NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt

Wednesday, May 28, 2025

NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt

NBC News

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

4.32K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Trump defends massive tax-cut and spending bill after Musk’s criticism; Israel: Hamas leader killed during military operation in Gaza; Convicted murderer and ex-police chief remains on the run three days after prison escape; and more on tonight’s broadcast.

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0:00.0

Tonight, from deep doge cuts to disappointment over the president's big beautiful bill.

0:05.0

Elon Musk pans the president's massive budget plan calling for deeper cuts, what the billionaire is calling for.

0:12.0

It comes as the president's pardons are drawing heavy scrutiny from the Chris Lease, the reality TV stars,

0:19.0

convicted of fraud to floating a reprieve for the men convicted

0:22.7

of a plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.

0:26.2

The backlash tonight.

0:27.8

Plus more than two inches of rain in two hours, the emergency rescues in San Antonio from

0:33.4

flash floods.

0:35.4

Israel's intense strikes on Gaza, now saying they killed a top Hamas leader,

0:39.8

Muhammad Sinwar. He took over for his brother, who the IDF also killed. He comes amid chaos

0:46.8

of distributing aid. What's next for SpaceX after the starship tumbled out of control

0:52.6

and broke up over the Indian Ocean.

0:55.4

How a car crashed through a roof of this veteran center, and believe it or not, it's not the

0:59.8

first time. The crypto controversy, the president pushing for less regulation of the markets.

1:05.9

It comes as the president's businesses go big on crypto. Is it a conflict of interest? Good evening and welcome.

1:13.4

Elon Musk, the other face of President Trump's full court effort to shrink government spending

1:19.0

by slashing jobs and closing programs, is tonight slamming the administration's new spending plan.

1:25.8

Musk has been one of the president's top lieutenants

1:28.3

named as the head of Doge, the Department of Government Efficiency. But he says in a new interview

1:33.7

that the president's spending bill adds to the budget deficit and questions whether the

1:38.7

administration's big, beautiful bill, as the president calls it, can be both big and beautiful. President Trump facing

1:45.9

backlash on multiple fronts tonight, including his latest use of the pardon power, granting a

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