NBC Nightly News Full Episode - June 27 – YouTube Dictation Transcript & Vocabulary

1.tonight the sudden explosion in the trade war president Trump drawing battle lines again with Canada the president abruptly ending all US trade talks with Canada furious over a new tax on American tech companies trump saying "We have all the cards." The president also sending a new message to the Ayatollah and threatening to bomb Iran again plus the landmark Supreme Court case limiting federal judges the impact on their ability to stop presidential executive orders what happens next with birthright citizenship and why one justice wrote no right is safe in the new regime the court creates we take you inside the battle over the big beautiful bill ryan Nobles on Capitol Hill getting answers on what's in what's out and why President Trump is now working the phones to get votes the jury set to get the case in the Shaun Diddy Combmes trial the rap mogul's defense team in their closing arguments admitting Combmes was abusive and a swinger but was not guilty of sex trafficking the Subway Inferno caught on surveillance how a casual commute rapidly turned into a fiery death trap danger at the beach a teenage lifeguard just impaled by a beach umbrella it happens more than you think tonight a survivor making it his life mission to make them safer record auction you won't believe how much this Michael Jordan rookie card just sold for and there's good news tonight the change of heart that turned three strangers into three amigos nightly News starts right now this is NBC Nightly News with Tom Yamz and good evening tonight a new tech twist in the president's trade war with Canada the president announcing he's ending trade talks with Canada effective immediately after Canada have moved to tax companies like Amazon Google Meta and Uber president Trump writing the move is a direct and blatant attack on our country all of it as the Supreme Court delivered a big win to the Trump administration reigning in federal judges power to stop presidential executive orders part of that battle over birthright citizenship our team is across it tonight and we start with Gabe Gutierrez at the White House tonight President Trump vowing to expand his trade war cutting off trade talks with Canada because of a new Canadian tax on American tech companies calling it a direct and blatant attack on our country it's not going to work out well for Canada they were foolish to do it so I said "We're going to stop all negotiations with Canada right now until they straighten out their act." The president says a new tariff on Canada would be announced within a week we have all the cards we will every single one we don't want to do anything bad but uh they have uh economically we have such power over Canada i'd rather not use it canada is the second largest US trading partner its prime minister responding to the president's latest move late today we'll continue to conduct these complex negotiations in the best interest of Canadians it's a negotiation the president today in a wide-ranging news conference also slammed Iran's supreme leader for his first public comment since the US air strikes on the country's nuclear program insisting the US achieved nothing you're a man of great faith man who's highly respected in his country you have to tell the truth he got beat to hell and Israel was beat up too while Iran's foreign minister today acknowledging US air strikes had inflicted significant and serious damage to its nuclear sites President Trump was also asked if Iran tried to enrich uranium again to a concerning level would you consider bombing the country again without question absolutely all right Gabe Gutierrez joins us now gabe let's go back to that clash with Canada the threat of new tariffs not stopping Wall Street and some 401ks from reaching record highs today yes Tom the S&P 500 closed at a new record high the tech heavy NASDAQ also just hit a new all-time high despite all that trade uncertainty and today the Treasury Secretary also signaled the administration could push past its self-imposed July 9th deadline for more trade deals tom okay Gabe Gutierrez thanks for that now to the big day the Supreme Court delivering a major victory to President Trump limiting the ability of individual federal judges to put the brakes on his executive orders laura Jared has this one tonight a sweeping victory for the president in his battle with federal judges who've blocked key portions of his agenda this was a big decision an amazing decision the justices in a six-3 ruling significantly limiting the power of individual lower court judges to issue decisions with nationwide effect those judges handing down more than two dozen injunctions blocking Trump executive actions as of May from military service to federal funding to the focus of the current case a nationwide injunction halting his executive order banning birthright citizenship we've seen a handful of radical left judges effectively try to overrule the rightful powers of the president to stop the American people from getting the policies that they voted for in record numbers justice Amy Con Barrett writing for the conservative majority today finding lower court judges have gone too far with their nationwide orders writing "When a court concludes that the executive branch has acted unlawfully the answer is not for the court to exceed its power too." The ruling sparking a pointed clash between the justices liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissenting saying today's decision is not just egregiously wrong it is also a travesty for the rule of law the high court not asked to rule on the merits of the president's effort to ban the birthright citizenship provided under the constitution to the babies of undocumented immigrants that was meant for the babies of slaves it wasn't meant for people trying to scam the system and come into the country on a vacation one of the undocumented pregnant women who originally sued the Trump administration with her baby now due in two weeks asking to remain anonymous today telling us she is very sad not knowing if her child will be granted citizenship but going to keep fighting meanwhile the high court also waiting into fresh clashes over the First Amendment the conservative majority finding Maryland parents are now allowed to withdraw their children from public school on days that books with gay and transgender themes are taught and upholding a Texas law requiring the users of websites with sexually explicit material provide identification verifying they are over 18 and with that Laura Jarrett joins us now in studio so Laura walk our viewers through what happens now with birthright citizenship yeah Tom we're already seeing some action in the lower courts tonight people scrambling to try to get judges to agree with them that they still need nationwide relief under this decision which means this is eventually going to end up right back at the Supreme Court tom all right Laura Jerus laura thank you also tonight President Trump tonight making an all-out push to pass his big beautiful bill cancelling his weekend travel to work the phones but can he convince enough Republican senators to get on board ryan Nobles has been tracking the fastmoving developments all day from the Hill tonight new battle lines over what President Trump calls his big beautiful bill it seems like there's a lot of thorny issues that you've got to work through is it This is called what what I think you guys have said making the sausage so we're we're making the sausage right now president Trump making a lastminute sales pitch for this massive bill that delivers on a slew of his campaign promises it's a great bill it's a massive tax cut from a $4.5 trillion extension of the Trump tax cuts to hundreds of billions of dollars in funding for his mass deportation plan plus eliminating taxes on tips and overtime it's a great bill it's a popular bill but we'll get no Democrats only because they don't want to vote for Trump they have Trump derangement syndrome at levels never seen before democrats slamming the Republican bill's cuts to social programs like food stamps and Medicaid including imposing work requirements for those benefits democrats say that hurts vulnerable people of course Americans hate this bill it steals their Medicaid it jacks up their premiums but tonight it's Republicans that cannot get on the same page north Carolina's Tom Tillis concerned about the impacts on rural hospitals as we're moving and trying to uh to make changes wisconsin's Ron Johnson telling us the bill does not cut enough spending is there any one particular thing that you're still fighting for at this point president Trump said he wanted the Senate to make the bill better i'd like to make it much better whatever the Senate passes must once again pass the House we press Speaker Mike Johnson could they be surprised by what the Senate sends them back well look I I I haven't slept maybe six hours this week because I'm on the phone all the time with members the vast majority of Republicans support this bill and President Trump said that he's open to moving the July 4th deadline the Senate could begin voting as soon as tomorrow tom Ryan Nobles for us tonight ryan we thank you the jury in the Shawn Diddy Combmes trial expected to start deliberating on Monday as the defense delivered closing arguments today combmes who was charged with sex trafficking and racketeering could face up to life in prison khloe Malas was inside the courtroom today tonight Shawn Combmes's defense team making their closing arguments in his criminal trial as six of Commes's children looked on his attorney Mark telling the jury that this is a tale of two trials and badly exaggerated combmes is charged with two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution two counts of sex trafficking and one count of racketeering agnif trying to discredit allegations of kidnapping bribery and arson but prosecutors painting a different picture over the last seven weeks calling 34 witnesses ranging from alleged victims and escorts to Combmes's former assistants and telling jurors in their closing argument that Combmes used power violence and fear to get what he wanted alleging he ran a criminal enterprise calling it Combmes's kingdom where everyone was there to serve him and that prosecutors say Combmes physically abused and sex-trafficked former girlfriends Cassie Ventura and another woman forcing them to take drugs and have sex with male escorts but Combmes's lawyer saying that there is no evidence to support this and that it was a swinger's lifestyle also playing this hotel security video of Combmes beating Ventur in 2016 saying if he was charged with domestic violence he would have pled guilty adding it's a state crime going on to call Ventur the real winner for walking away from her 2023 civil lawsuit against Cols with a $30 million settlement they basically said "My client did a lot of bad things but he's not charged with those bad things he's charged with these very specific federal crimes and the government can't prove those." Tom Monday morning the judge is going to charge the jury and then they're going to begin deliberations chloe Malos first khloe thank you and breaking tonight one of the escaped New Orleans inmates has been captured antoine Massie has been on the run for more than a month and is the ninth inmate taken back into custody you may remember these videos of him surfaced online in the days after his escape the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office says only one more inmate remains on the run now to our series the cost of denial and the dispute between a healthc care giant and a worldrenowned cancer hospital aaron McLaclin tonight on the patients now caught in the middle daddy from work diagnosed with a rare and curable stomach cancer two and a half years ago Lee Castler turned to New York-based Memorial Sloanketering Cancer Center do you feel like your life depends on being treated here yes yes no question about it known as MSK it's one of the top cancer centers in the country now mired in a contract dispute with one of the nation's largest health insurers United Healthcare one that Castler says has left him completely confused if this contract ends mhm do you know what that means for you not yet the current contract expires Monday msk will soon be out of network for thousands of MSK patients like Castler the two sides in a bitter and public feud over reimbursement rates quite frankly UHC is prioritizing profits over patients msk's chief medical officer saying United pays them at rates lower than other major insurers we're really just asking for sustainable rates that really cover the cost of that quality cancer care that we give united says its priorities are helping patients access the quality care they need while making health care as affordable as possible uhc's chief medical officer told us Lee Castler should not worry he will be able to keep his doctor as long as he needs to be treated for his active cancer care diagnosis new York State law requires continuity of care for patients like Castler in active treatment for 90 days but this is why communication is key look at this right here on United Healthc Care's own website it says if you are in the middle of treatment with an MSK provider at the time they go out of network you may qualify for continuity of care may qualify the answer is I should but until I see that in writing officially you know it's uncertain as recently as yesterday MSK also said there was no certainty for its patients right now there are approximately 19,000 patients who are at risk of having their cancer care disrupted united says MSK continues to share inaccurate information regarding continuity of care creating additional fear care is not being stopped for patients undergoing cancer treatment we do not deny continuity of care requests that uh are inactive treatment um and we will continue to pay claims throughout their course of treatment but this was news to Castler and MSK late today after repressed for clarification United Healthcare sent NBC News this new statement saying after the 90 days required by law for eligible individuals the continuity of care period could be longer depending on the individual's condition and if they remain in ongoing treatment with their provider the words could and depending leaving Castler uncertained and unsettled about his care continuing past the 90 days i have received no such assurance nothing nothing in writing absolutely not you're in the dark yes yes a and that's that's stressful you know Tom Lee says United told him it is sending letters to patients by the end of the month he's hoping that will be the assurance in writing he's been waiting for yeah so many patients confused tonight all right we thank you for that Aaron still ahead how umbrellas can quickly become missiles just ask this man his recovery and simple solution about how to keep people safe that's next we're back now with an urgent warning for beachgoers this summer after a freak accident left one New Jersey lifeguard hospitalized julie Circin reports on the new safety standard that could keep your umbrella in the sand and out of the air tonight this 18-year-old lifeguard is speaking out after a freak accident on a New Jersey beach alex who only wanted us to use her first name to protect her privacy describing the frightening moments when she was impaled by a beach umbrella this week it was a fever dream like it still doesn't feel real 361 the umbrella is moving in the left armpit first responders rushed to the scene they cut the umbrella on both ends so they could remove that part of it alex is now out of the hospital and beginning her road to recovery i'm just going to go back and keep living life as normal it's a story all too familiar for Ed Quigley an umbrella is a javelin with a sail attached ed nearly died after being struck in the eye by a rogue beach umbrella in 2015 since then he's made it his mission to improve beach umbrella safety now how difficult is it to pull this umbrella out without the anchor nothing at all pointing beachgoers to a new voluntary safety standard from the Consumer Product Safety Commission basically what it is is an anchor device that provides 75 lbs of resistance to lift this is actually the anchor the umbrella goes through the center it's a little more involved than what you might be used to we want to take this other loop up here and then we just finish it off a little bit on the sides the result shade that's much safer now if anybody tries to lift this umbrella it's about 120 lbs so it's not going anywhere julie Seren NBC News Wildwood New Jersey and when we return the nightmare on a subway terrifying security video showing a man lighting this subway car on fire plus why the University of Virginia's president says he's stepping down that's next back now with the University of Virginia's president announcing he's stepping down after pressure from the Trump administration james Ryan writing an open letter to the school saying he cannot fight the federal government to save his own job it comes after the New York Times reported the Trump Justice Department demanded he resign amid an investigation into the school's DEI programs according to three people that were briefed on the matter also tonight a truly terrifying moment on a subway look at this in the middle of the aisle a man pouring gasoline all over the subway car in Soul South Korea the people on board scrambling to get out some people slipping and falling before it goes up in flames officials in South Korea say six people were injured and that suspect was charged and guess how much this card is worth $2.5 million that's how much the winning bidder paid at Fel Williams auction house Jupiter to take home this autograph Michael Jordan rookie card from the 86 to87 season it's the most expensive Jordan rookie card ever sold and the third most expensive Jordan card sale that is known to the public okay when we come back heartto-heart the three men waiting for heart transplants gaining something else in the meantime a lifelong friendship the good news about this unlikely trio that's next finally tonight there's good news out of San Diego about three men who all needed heart transplants in their journey to live longer they found each other here's Priscilla Thompson we've got some news it was the news 41-year-old Martine Ortiz had been waiting months to hear we have a heart for you really martine shaking his head in disbelief before bursting into tears what went through your mind i couldn't believe it i just felt excited and he wasn't the only patient happy to hear it i ran straight ahead to his room congratulate him you see Martine Estabbon Gonzalez and Gabriel Casas had been at Sharp Memorial Hospital in San Diego since February all awaiting heart transplants the trio affectionately dubbed the three amigos with broken hearts when you all found each other did it change your mood at all yes of course you wake up depressed but now you have a like I want to go see Martin or I want to go see do you have something else to do besides wait then one by one each got their heart first Estabbon in March then Gabriel in April and finally Martin ringing the victory bell Thursday what has this brotherhood meant to you all it meant everything because we we needed each other when we're there just made me feel alive again brothers and heart no more broken hearts finding something perhaps even more rare than a new heart at their age new friendships to last a lifetime priscilla Thompson NBC News and that's Nightly News for this Friday i'm Tom Yamos thanks so much for watching make sure to catch Jose and Hie this weekend and remember tonight and always we're here for you good night [Music] we thank you for watching and remember stay updated on breaking news and top stories on the NBC News app or watch live on our YouTube channel