Nightly News Full Broadcast - May 7

RIVETING TESTIMONY IN

DONALD TRUMP'S HUSH

MONEY TRIAL AS THE

JURY HEARS FROM A STAR

WITNESS AT THE CENTER

OF THE CASE, STORMY

DANIELS.

THE ADULT FILM ACTRESS

TAKING THE STAND JUST

TEN FEET FROM THE

FORMER PRESIDENT,

DESCRIBING IN EXPLICIT

DETAIL HER ALLEGED

SEXUAL ENCOUNTER WITH

HIM, WHICH PROSECUTORS

SAY HE TRIED TO HIDE

FROM VOTERS IN 2016.

DANIELS TESTIFYING

ABOUT AN IMBALANCE OF

POWER BETWEEN THEM

AND, QUOTE, BLACKING

OUT DURING THE

EXPERIENCE.

MR. TRUMP DENYING HER

CLAIMS.

HIS ATTORNEYS

DEMANDING A MISTRIAL.

BUT THE JUDGE

REJECTING IT.

THEN THE TENSE

SHOWDOWN DURING

DANIELS'

CROSS-EXAMINATION.

OUR TEAM AT THE

COURTHOUSE.

PLUS, THE BIG NEWS IN

MR. TRUMP'S CLASSIFIED

DOCUMENTS TRIAL.

THE MOVE THE JUDGE

MADE TODAY.

>>> ALSO TONIGHT, A

TORNADO WATCH UP FOR

SEVERAL STATES IN THE

MIDWEST, INCLUDING THE

ENTIRE CHICAGO METRO

AREA AFTER A DEADLY

TORNADO STRIKE IN

OKLAHOMA.

>>> ISRAELI FORCES

ENTERING RAFAH,

SEIZING A CRITICAL

BORDER CROSSING AS A

POSSIBLE CEASEFIRE

DEAL HANGS IN THE

BALANCE.

>>> NEW CRACKDOWNS ON

PRO-PALESTINIAN

PROTESTERS AS

PRESIDENT BIDEN

CONDEMNS WHAT HE CALLS

THE FEROCIOUS SURGE OF

ANTISEMITISM IN THE

U.S.

>>> TIKTOK FIRING

BACK.

THE LAWSUIT FILED

TODAY TO BLOCK A LAW

THAT COULD BAN THE

POPULAR APP

NATIONWIDE.

>>> AND OUR TRIP TO

THE NEW WONDERLAND,

WHERE CLASSIC

CHILDHOOD BOOKS COME

TO LIFE.

>> Announcer: THIS IS

"NBC NIGHTLY NEWS"

WITH LESTER HOLT.

>> GOOD EVENING AND

WELCOME.

A STAR PROSECUTION

WITNESS IN THE

CRIMINAL TRIAL OF

DONALD TRUMP APPEARED

ON THE WITNESS STAND

HERE IN NEW YORK

TODAY.

THE FORMER PRESIDENT

COMING FACE-TO-FACE

WITH ADULT FILM

ACTRESS STORMY DANIELS

AS SHE TESTIFIED, AT

TIMES GRAPHICALLY,

ABOUT A SEXUAL LIAISON

SHE SAYS SHE HAD WITH

MR. TRUMP IN 2006.

HE DENIES AN ENCOUNTER

AND WRONGDOING, BUT IS

NONETHELESS ACCUSED OF

ILLEGALLY ALTERING

BUSINESS RECORDS TO

DISGUISE HUSH MONEY

PAYMENTS TO MS.

DANIELS, MEANT TO BUY

HER SILENCE DURING HIS

2016 RUN FOR

PRESIDENT.

THE ACTRESS TESTIFYING

THAT SHE UNDERSTOOD IT

WAS DONALD TRUMP WHO

WOULD BENEFIT FROM THE

NONDISCLOSURE DEAL SHE

ULTIMATELY SIGNED.

LATER, DANIELS

SPARRING WITH DEFENSE

LAWYERS UNDER

AGGRESSIVE

CROSS-EXAMINATION, BUT

THERE IS MAJOR NEWS IN

ANOTHER TRUMP

PROSECUTION TONIGHT,

HIS FEDERAL DOCUMENTS

CASE IN FLORIDA NOW ON

INDEFINITE HOLD.

BUT FIRST, LAURA

JARRETT ON THE BIG DAY

IN COURT FOR STORMY

DANIELS.

>> Reporter: TONIGHT,

DONALD TRUMP SEATED

JUST TEN FEET AWAY AS

THE WOMAN AT THE

CENTER OF HIS HUSH

MONEY COVER-UP TRIAL,

STORMY DANIELS,

TESTIFIED IN VIVID

DETAIL ABOUT THEIR

ALLEGED SEXUAL

ENCOUNTER NEARLY TWO

DECADES AGO THAT

PROSECUTORS SAY HE WAS

DESPERATE TO HIDE FROM

VOTERS BEFORE THE 2016

ELECTION.

THE ADULT FILM ACTRESS

SPEAKING QUICKLY AT

TIMES, LOOKING

DIRECTLY AT THE JURY,

RECOUNTING HOW SHE

FIRST MET MR. TRUMP AT

A CELEBRITY GOLF

TOURNAMENT IN LAKE

TAHOE IN 2006 AND WENT

UP TO A HOTEL SUITE

WHERE THE PAIR

ULTIMATELY HAD SEX,

WHICH MR. TRUMP SAYS

NEVER HAPPENED.

>> MR. TRUMP, HOW'S IT

GOING IN THERE?

>> DID STORMY GET YOU?

>> Reporter: SHE TOLD

THE JURY SHE WAS NOT

THREATENED AND WASN'T

DRUGGED, BUT HER

TESTIMONY ABOUT AN

IMBALANCE OF POWER AND

BLACKING OUT DURING

THE ALLEGED ENCOUNTER

PROMPTING THE DEFENSE

TEAM TO ASK THE JUDGE

TO DECLARE A MISTRIAL,

ARGUING THE LURID

DETAILS WERE ONLY

MEANT TO EMBARRASS THE

PRESUMPTIVE GOP

NOMINEE, SAYING THE

TESTIMONY IS

IMPOSSIBLE TO COME

BACK FROM.

THE JUDGE REFUSING TO

DECLARE A MISTRIAL,

BUT AGREEING SOME OF

DANIELS' TESTIMONY

WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER

LEFT UNSAID.

ALL LEADING TO A

HEATED

CROSS-EXAMINATION.

THE DEFENSE ZEROING IN

ON TESTIMONY DANIELS

GAVE ABOUT AN UNKNOWN

MAN SHE SAYS

CONFRONTED HER IN A

PARKING LOT IN 2011, A

STORY SHE RECOUNTED TO

"60 MINUTES."

>> A GUY WALKED UP ON

ME AND SAID TO ME,

"LEAVE TRUMP ALONE,"

AND THEN HE LEANED

AROUND AND LOOKED AT

MY DAUGHTER, AND SAID

"A BEAUTIFUL LITTLE

GIRL.

IT WOULD BE A SHAME IF

SOMETHING HAPPENED TO

HER MOM."

>> Reporter: THE

DEFENSE PRESSING HER

ABOUT WHY SHE DIDN'T

CALL POLICE OR TELL

HER THEN BOYFRIEND AT

THE TIME.

THE TESTIMONY

STRETCHING FAR AFIELD

FROM THE CRIMINAL

CHARGES THE FORMER

PRESIDENT FACES FOR

ALLEGEDLY DISGUISING

HOW HE REIMBURSED

MICHAEL COHEN, HIS

FORMER FIXER AND

ATTORNEY, WHO PAID

DANIELS THE $130,000

TO STAY QUIET JUST

BEFORE THE 2016

ELECTION.

THE JUDGE CHIDING

DANIELS TO MOVE IT

ALONG AT TIMES.

>> THEIR CASE IS

TOTALLY FALLING APART.

THEY HAVE NOTHING ON

BOOKS AND RECORDS.

>> Reporter: DANIELS

TELLING THE JURY TODAY

SHE WAS FOCUSED ON

SELLING HER STORY, BUT

"MY MOTIVATION WASN'T

MONEY, IT WAS TO GET

THE STORY OUT."

ADDING SHE DIDN'T FEEL

SAFE AFTER THE PARKING

LOT THREAT.

MR. TRUMP'S DEFENSE

ATTORNEY TAKING DIRECT

AIM AT HER CREDIBILITY

AND PAST DENIALS OF

THEIR ALLEGED

ENCOUNTER, GRILLING

HER.

"YOU ARE LOOKING TO

EXTORT MONEY FROM

PRESIDENT TRUMP,

RIGHT?"

DANIELS RESPONDING

"FALSE."

>> AND LAURA, AT THE

TOP OF THE NEWSCAST, I

MENTIONED A BIG

DEVELOPMENT IN ANOTHER

TRUMP CASE, THIS THE

CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS

CASE IN FLORIDA.

WHAT HAPPENED?

>> Reporter: YES,

LESTER, THE JUDGE

TONIGHT MAKING

OFFICIAL WHAT WAS

ALREADY WIDELY

EXPECTED, PUTTING THAT

TRIAL DATE OFFICIALLY

ON HOLD, WIPING IT

AWAY, SAYING

ESSENTIALLY THERE ARE

TOO MANY UNRESOLVED

ISSUES AND COMPLEX

MOTIONS LEFT TO

RESOLVE HERE, LESTER.

>> AND ONE MORE

FEDERAL CASE, THE ONE

FOCUSING ON ELECTION

INTERFERENCE.

WHERE DOES THAT STAND?

>> Reporter: LESTER,

THAT ONE TOO ALSO IN

LIMBO, WITH NO TRIAL

DATE AS WE AWAIT A

RULING FROM THE U.S.

SUPREME COURT ABOUT

WHETHER THE FORMER

PRESIDENT IS IN FACT

IMMUNE FROM

PROSECUTION AT ALL,

MAKING THIS CASE IN

NEW YORK, LESTER,

PERHAPS THE ONLY CASE

THAT WILL BE COMPLETE

BEFORE THE NOVEMBER

ELECTION.

LESTER?

>> ALL RIGHT.

LAURA JARRETT, THANKS.

>>> TONIGHT THERE IS

MORE POTENTIALLY

DANGEROUS WEATHER

AHEAD AFTER A STRING

OF REPORTED TORNADOES

HIT THE PLAINS,

INCLUDING AN EF-4 IN

THE SAME CITY THAT WAS

HIT BY A TORNADO JUST

A MONTH AGO.

SAM BROCK IS THERE.

WITH THE UNFOLDING

DANGEROUS WEATHER

SITUATION.

>> Reporter: BARNSDALL

OKLAHOMA ISN'T A SIGHT

THAT WILL EASILY BE

FORGOTTEN.

HOMES TWIRLED IN

SPECKLES OF WOOD AND

MANGLED METAL AFTER A

VICIOUS TORNADO TORE

THROUGH THE CITY OF

1,400.

>> WE NEED A LOT OF

PRAYERS.

>> Reporter: CLAIMING

ONE LIFE AND PROMPTING

HOURS OF SEARCH FOR A

MISSING PERSON.

YET THE SHEER FORCE OF

MOTHER NATURE -- HOW

DID YOU SURVIVE?

>> I GUESS THE GOOD

LORD.

>> Reporter: COUNTERED

BY THE RESOLVE OF

RESIDENTS LIKE CARL

KILLEY, WHO USED HIS

BODY TO SHIELD HIS

80-YEAR-OLD MOTHER.

HOW LONG WERE YOU

COVERING YOUR MOTHER?

>> HOWEVER LONG IT

WAS, 5 SECONDS, 10

SECONDS, I DON'T KNOW.

>> Reporter: TIME

STOPS?

>> IT STOPPED FOR ME.

>> ARE YOU OKAY?

>> Reporter: BARNSDALL

AUTHORITIES SAY THEY

RESCUED AROUND 25

PEOPLE.

ONE OF THE STUNNING

ASPECTS OF THIS STORM

IS THAT THE TORNADO

COULD BE SO VIOLENT

THAT IT WOULD HERE IS

THE SIDE OFF OF A

HOME, SNAP A TREE IN

HALF, TAKE AN ENTIRE

HOME AND LIFE

POSSESSIONS AND STACK

THEM LIKE THIS ON TOP

OF PROPERTY, AND FLIP

OVER A CAR WHICH STILL

HAS A HEADLIGHT ON,

AND TO THIS POINT THE

CASUALTIES ARE ONLY A

HANDFUL.

MANY HERE KNOW THAT

COULD HAVE BEEN

DIFFERENT.

>> EVERYTHING

LITERALLY IS EXPLODING

AND BLOWING

EVERYWHERE.

>> Reporter: CHASE

SHORT NEARLY DROVE

INTO THE TORNADO TO

REACH HIS PANICKED

GIRLFRIEND.

>> THE ONLY THING THAT

COMPLETELY STOPPED ME

FROM GOING THROUGH THE

TORNADO ITSELF WAS

SOMEBODY COMING OUT OF

IT FLASHING THEIR

LIGHTS AT ME.

>> Reporter: WHILE

FEET AWAY AT

BARTLESVILLE'S HAMPTON

INN, THERE WAS

A PARTIAL ROOF

COLLAPSE.

>> WE ALL WENT RUNNING

AND THE WINDOWS POPPED

OUT OF THE HALLWAY.

THE SUDDENNESS OF THE

SEVERITY WAS SHOCK.

>> Reporter: TONIGHT

GRATITUDE TO BE ALIVE

FOR LOVED ONES,

DESPITE THE PHYSICAL

DESTRUCTION

SURROUNDING THEM.

SAM BROCK, NBC NEWS,

BARNSDALL, OKLAHOMA.

>> AND THE SEVERE

WEATHER THREAT IS FAR

FROM OVER TONIGHT.

THAT BRINGS IN DYLAN

DREYER, WHO IS

TRACKING IT.

WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING

AT?

>> LESTER, WE HAVE A

PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS

SITUATION ACROSS

SOUTHERN MICHIGAN.

WE'VE HAD REPORTED

TORNADOES IN PORTAGE,

MICHIGAN, ALSO MOVING

THROUGH SHERWOOD AND

UNION CITY, WHERE WE

HAVE SEEN TORNADOES ON

THE GROUND.

SO WE STILL DO HAVE

TORNADO WATCHES IN

EFFECT FOR THAT PART

OF THE COUNTRY, AND

NATURALLY, THAT'S ALSO

WHERE WE ARE EXPECTING

OUR MOST SEVERE STORMS

TONIGHT WITH THIS

ENHANCED RISK, NOT

JUST FOR TORNADOES,

BUT FOR HAIL,

EGG-SIZED IN DIAMETER.

ALSO WIND GUSTS UP TO

60 MILES PER HOUR.

THAT COULD CAUSE SOME

DAMAGE.

THIS WHOLE COLD FRONT

IS MOVING EAST.

SO THOSE STORMS WILL

MOVE EAST THROUGH THE

NIGHT.

WE'LL SEE ANOTHER

ROUND OF STORMS

REDEVELOP IN A MUCH

LARGER AREA TOMORROW.

AGAIN, WITH TORNADOES

AND HAIL, AND THEN

FINALLY ON THURSDAY,

IT WILL APPROACH THE

EAST COAST AND THE

GULF COAST BEFORE

EXITING FOR FRIDAY,

LESTER.

>> ALL RIGHT, DYLAN,

THANKS VERY MUCH.

>>> A FORCEFUL

CONDEMNATION OF

ANTISEMITISM TODAY

FROM PRESIDENT BIDEN,

WHO INVOKED THE

HOLOCAUST, THE HAMAS

TERROR ATTACK ON

ISRAEL, AND THE WAVE

OF PROTESTS ON

AMERICAN COLLEGE

CAMPUSES.

PETER ALEXANDER IS AT

THE WHITE HOUSE WITH

MORE.

>> Reporter: WITH AN

EXPLOSION OF VIOLENT

CLASHES AND HATEFUL

COMMENTS DIRECTED AT

JEWS ON CAMPUSES

NATIONWIDE, PRESIDENT

BIDEN TONIGHT IS

CONDEMNING WHAT HE

CALLS A FEROCIOUS

SURGE OF ANTISEMITISM.

>> THERE IS NO PLACE

ON ANY CAMPUS IN

AMERICA, ANY PLACE IN

AMERICA FOR

ANTISEMITISM OR HATE

SPEECH OR THREATS OF

VIOLENCE OF ANY KIND.

>> Reporter: WITH A

BIPARTISAN GROUP OF

LEADERS HOLDING PHOTOS

OF HOLOCAUST VICTIMS,

THE PRESIDENT DREW

PARALLELS BETWEEN THE

HORRORS OF THE

HOLOCAUST AND HAMAS'

TERROR ATTACK ON

ISRAEL ON OCTOBER 7th,

THE DEADLIEST DAY FOR

JEWS SINCE WORLD WAR

II.

>> PEOPLE ARE ALREADY

FORGETTING, ALREADY

FORGETTING THAT HAMAS

UNLEASHED THIS TERROR.

IT WAS HAMAS THAT

BRUTALIZED ISRAELIS.

IT WAS HAMAS THAT TOOK

AND CONTINUES TO HOLD

HOSTAGES.

I HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN,

NOR HAVE YOU.

>> Reporter: PRESIDENT

BIDEN'S BEEN FACING

INTENSIFYING PRESSURE

FROM PROGRESSIVE

DEMOCRATS, CALLING ON

HIM TO STOP SENDING

ARMS TO ISRAEL.

>> THERE ARE PROTESTS

ALL OVER THE COUNTRY.

WE HAVE A PRESIDENT

THAT JUST REFUSES TO

TALK.

>> Reporter: AND FROM

REPUBLICANS BLAMING

HIM FOR NOT

CRITICIZING THE

PROTESTS SOONER.

>> INSTEAD OF

PROTECTING JEWISH

STUDENTS, JOE BIDEN

HAS PANDERED TO THE

PRO-HAMAS WING OF THE

DEMOCRAT PARTY.

>> Reporter: THE

LATEST FLASH POINT THE

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO.

POLICE IN RIOT GEAR

THIS MORNING SWEEPING

IN TO CLEAR A

PRO-PALESTINIAN

ENCAMPMENT, SCUFFLING

WITH DEMONSTRATORS

PROTESTING ISRAEL

SENDING TANKS INTO

SOUTHERN GAZA.

THOSE PROTESTS

AMPLIFY A POLITICALLY

CHALLENGING ISSUE FOR

THE PRESIDENT, WHO

POLLS SHOW IS LOSING

SUPPORT AMONG YOUNG

VOTERS.

MEANWHILE, THE

ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE

SHOWED ANTISEMITIC

HARASSMENT AND

VANDALISM INCIDENTS

WERE UP 140% IN THE

LAST YEAR,

SURGING NEARLY 900% IN

THE LAST DECADE.

THIS FORCEFUL

CONDEMNATION OF

ANTISEMITISM COMES AS

PRESIDENT BIDEN HAS

BEEN HIGHLY CRITICAL

OF BENJAMIN

NETANYAHU'S HANDLING

OF THE WAR IN GAZA,

BUT TODAY VOWED HIS

COMMITMENT TO ISRAEL'S

SECURITY IS IRON GLAD,

EVEN WHEN WE DISAGREE.

LESTER?

>> ALL RIGHT, PETER

ALEXANDER AT THE WHITE

HOUSE, THANK YOU.

>>> TONIGHT, ISRAEL

CALLING A HAMAS

COUNTEROFFER A

NON-STARTER, BUT

SAYING IT WILL

NEGOTIATE TO TRY TO

REACH A CEASEFIRE, ALL

WHILE ISRAELI FORCES

TARGET HAMAS IN RAFAH,

TRYING TO PRESSURE THE

GROUP TO RELEASE ITS

HOSTAGES.

HERE IS RICHARD ENGEL.

>> Reporter: THE

ISRAELI MILITARY TODAY

SAID THE ONLY LANGUAGE

HAMAS UNDERSTANDS IS

FORCE.

AND ALL DAY ISRAEL

SHELLED THE SOUTHERN

CITY OF RAFAH.

ISRAELI TANKS RUMBLED

IN, TRAMPLING OVER

PALESTINIAN SIGNS,

TAKING OVER A BORDER

CROSSING WITH EGYPT IT

SAYS HAMAS USES FOR

TERRORIST PURPOSES,

BUT ALSO STOPPING THE

FLOW OF AID.

THE WHITE HOUSE SAYS

THE OPERATION IS

LIMITED, NOT ISRAEL'S

LONG ANTICIPATED MAJOR

OFFENSIVE, WHICH

PRESIDENT BIDEN

OPPOSES BECAUSE THE

CITY IS PACKED WITH

MORE THAN A MILLION

CIVILIANS ORDERED BY

ISRAEL TO COME HERE

FOR THEIR SAFETY.

ISRAEL'S DEFENSE

MINISTER SAYS THE

OPERATION IS DESIGNED

TO PRESSURE HAMAS TO

FREE ITS HOSTAGES, BUT

THAT ISRAEL IS ALSO

PREPARED TO MAKE

CONCESSIONS TO BRING