NBC Nightly News Full Episode - June 1

TONIGHT WE'RE TRACKING TWO MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS OUT OF THE WHITE. HOUSE THE RARE AND SUDDEN REVERSAL FROM THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION. OVER WHAT CRITICS CALL A $1.8 BILLION SLUSH FUND. PLUS THE PRESIDENT SPEAKING TO OUR REPORTER AS IRAN WALKS AWAY FROM TALKS. THE SURPRISING REPUBLICAN REVOLT AGAINST THE ADMINISTRATION'S FUND. NOW THE WHITE HOUSE IS BACKING DOWN, APPEARING TO END THE PLAN THAT CRITICS SAY. COULD HAVE SENT TAXPAYER MONEY TO THE JANUARY 6TH RIOTERS.

OUR NEW REPORTING ON HOW IT FELL APART. PLUS WHAT THE PRESIDENT JUST TOLD OUR GARRETT HAKE ABOUT WHERE TALKS. WITH IRAN NOW STAND AFTER IRAN ANNOUNCED IT'S WALKING AWAY FROM NEGOTIATIONS, AND WE ARE FOLLOWING NEW STRIKES RIGHT NOW. ALSO TONIGHT, THE POLICE OFFICER CHARGED AFTER HE WAS CAUGHT ON CAMERA. REPEATEDLY PUNCHING A WOMAN, HOW HE WAS FIRED FROM THE FORCE AND NOW. ARRESTED. THE CHARGES HE FACES. THE RACE AGAINST THE CLOCK TO RESCUE TWO MEN STILL MISSING.

RESCUERS HEARING NOISES FROM DOWN BELOW, GIVING NEW HOPE THAT THEY COULD BE SAVED JUST LIKE THESE FOUR MEN. THE GAME CHANGER TREATMENT FOR PANCREATIC CANCER, THE NEW PILL. DOUBLING THE SURVIVAL RATE FOR THOSE BATTLING THE DISEASE, HOW THE BREAKTHROUGH DRUG WORKS. UNDERGROUND DISCOVERY INSIDE THE SPRAWLING. CROSS-BORDER TUNNEL CONNECTING THE US. TO MEXICO. WHAT ELSE WAS FOUND? THIS IS NBC NIGHTLY NEWS WITH TOM YAMAS.

AND GOOD EVENING. WE BEGIN TONIGHT WITH A DRAMATIC SHIFT FROM THE WHITE HOUSE, APPEARING TO BACK DOWN FROM THAT. $1.8 BILLION ANTI-WEAPON WEAPONIZATION FUND. WHICH CRITICS BASHED AS A SLUSH FUND FOR THE PRESIDENT'S ALLIES. THAT MAJOR REVERSAL IN RESPONSE TO A RARE BUT INTENSE REVOLT. FROM INSIDE THE PRESIDENT'S OWN PARTY. AS REPUBLICAN SENATORS PUSHED TO TORPEDO THE PLAN. A JUDGE HAD ALREADY PAUSED THE FUND, AND CRITICS. HAD WARNED THOSE CONVICTED OVER THE JANUARY.

6TH ATTACKS THEY COULD HAVE RECEIVEDMENTS. THAT SETBACK FOR THE PRESIDENT COMES AS TALKS WITH IRAN. SEEM TO HAVE STALLED, MAYBE EVEN ENDED. IRAN TODAY SAYING IT HAS WALKED AWAY FROM NEGOTIATIONS, BUT THE PRESIDENT TODAY TOLD OUR GARRETT HAKE HE'D BE. VERY HAPPY TO STOP TALKING WITH THE COUNTRY. AND WITH THE TALKS PAUSED, THERE WAS NEW FIGHTING, THESE NEW IMAGES SHOWING IRAN LAUNCHING MISSILES AT US BASES, THE US HITTING BACK WITH STRIKES OF ITS OWN. GARRETT HAKE IS FOLLOWING IT ALL FOR US TONIGHT.

TONIGHT THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION APPEARING TO ABANDON PLANS FOR. ITS $1.8 BILLION SO-CALLED ANTI-WEAPONIZATION. FUND AMID STIFF REPUBLICAN OPPOSITION. AND THE JUDGE'S ORDER TO HALT WORK ON IT. THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE SAYING IT DISAGREES STRONGLY. BUT WILL ABIDE BY THE COURT'S RULING. PEOPLE WERE DESTROYED. THEY WENT TO JAIL. PRESIDENT TRUMP HAD DEFENDED THE FUND CREATED TO COMPENSATE PEOPLE. HE SAYS WERE UNFAIRLY PROSECUTED BY THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION. BUT IT DREW BIPARTISAN CONDEMNATION, INCLUDING A CLOSED-DOOR CLASH BETWEEN ACTING.

ATTORNEY GENERAL TODD BLANCHE AND GOP SENATORS. AMID CONCERNS IT COULD BE USED TO PAY JANUARY 6TH RIOTERS. THIS IS JUST STUPID ON STILTS. ALL AS TONIGHT PRESIDENT TRUMP IS FACING THAT SHOWDOWN IN IRAN TALKS. PRESIDENT TRUMP TELLING ME IN A PHONE INTERVIEW THAT IF. THE IRANIAN REGIME WANTS TO SUSPEND NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE US, AS IRANIAN MEDIA HAS REPORTED, HE WOULD BE VERY HAPPY WITH THAT. IF THEY DON'T WANT TO TALK, THAT'S OK WITH ME, HE TOLD ME. I DON'T PARTICULARLY WANT TO TALK EITHER.

WE TALK TOO MUCH. THE PRESIDENT ADDING THAT THE US WOULD JUST GO SILENT. WE'LL KEEP THE BLOCKADE OF IRANIAN PORTS BUT NOT RESUME BOMBING, QUOTE, I THINK I CAN WAIT AS LONG AS THEY WANT, HE TOLD ME. THEY'RE LOSING A FORTUNE. THEIR COUNTRY IS FALLING APART. CENTCOM SAYS IT HAS DISABLED 5 COMMERCIAL VESSELS. AND REDIRECTED 121 OTHERS AS PART OF THE US BLOCKADE. AND THIS WEEKEND, THE US LAUNCHING SELF-DEFENSE STRIKES ON IRAN. AFTER IRANIAN FORCES SHOT DOWN A US DRONE.

IRAN ALSO ATTACKITS ARAB NEIGHBORS AGAIN, FIRING AT US FORCES IN KUWAIT. BUT THE PRESIDENT INSISTING TIME IS ON HIS SIDE. WE'RE GETTING WHAT WE WANT SLOWLY, VERY TOUGH NEGOTIATORS. IT TAKES A LONG TIME. I'M IN NO HURRY. I'D LIKE TO SAY I'M GARY JOINS US NOW LIVE FROM THE WHITE HOUSE, AND GARY, I KNOW YOU HAVE SOME NEW REPORTING ON THE. MIXED MESSAGING FROM THE WHITE HOUSE ABOUT IRAN. WELL, TOM, JUST A FEW HOURS AFTER OUR CONVERSATION, THE PRESIDENT POSTED THAT TALKS WITH IRAN ARE CONTINUING AT A RAPID PACE.

HE ALSO SAID HE SPOKE WITH ISRAELI. PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU AND REPRESENTATIVES OF HEZBOLLAH, WHO ALL AGREED TO END COMBAT IN LEBANON, BUT NETANYAHU SAID AFTER THE CALL, THE IDF WILL RESPOND TO ATTACKS AND OPERATE AS PLANNED, TOM. ALL RIGHT, GARRETT HAKE FOR US. GARRETT, THANK YOU. A NORTH CAROLINA POLICE OFFICER CAUGHT ON CAMERA PUNCHING A WOMAN OVER AND OVER. HAS BEEN FIRED, AND NOW HE'S THE ONE WHO'S BEEN ARRESTED, CHARGED WITH ASSAULT. WE DO WANT TO WARN YOU, SOME OF THE IMAGES YOU'RE ABOUT TO SEE ARE GRAPHIC. GEORGE SOLIS TONIGHT WITH THAT VIDEO AND THE INVESTIGATION.

TONIGHT. THE FORMER NORTH CAROLINA POLICE OFFICER CAUGHT ON CAMERA. REPEATEDLY PUNCHING A WOMAN HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH ASSAULT. THIS DOORBELL VIDEO SHOWS THE MOMENT THAT OFFICER, NOW IDENTIFIED AS 22-YEAR-OLD CARSON HEIDER, PUSHES 34-YEAR-OLD CHERIE MOORE TO THE GROUND. BEFORE UNLEASHING A BARRAGE OF PUNCHES IN THE HOUSE. WHAT ARE YOU DOING? AS HE STRIKES HER,

A SECOND OFFICER CAN BE SEEN RUNNING INTO THE FRAME TO INTERVENE. MOORE IS EVENTUALLY PLACED IN HANDCUFFS AND CAN BE HEARD ASKING FOR. MENTAL HEALTH CARE AND PLEADING FOR OFFICERS TO CALL HER FATHER. I'M NOT ON MY. IT'S UNCLEAR WHAT HAPPENED IN THE MOMENTS LEADING UP TO THE ENCOUNTER, WHICH HAPPENED JUST OUTSIDE CHARLOTTE. HER FAMILY TELLING US THIS PHOTO SHOWS MOORE'S BLOODIED FACE. ACCORDING TO COURT DOCUMENTS OBTAINED BY NBC NEWS, MOORE WAS ARRESTED FOR BREAKING OR ENTERING,

RESISTING ARREST, AND ASSAULTING A GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL ACCUSED. OF GRABBING AND RIPPING HAIDER'S UNIFORM. THE RESISTING ARREST AND ASSAULT CHARGES HAVE BEEN DROPPED. HEIDER WAS FIRED OVER THE WEEKEND AFTER VIDEO OF THE ARREST WENT VIRAL, THE POLICE CHIEF SAYING OFFICERS WERE CONDUCTING A CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION. IN THE AREA WHEN THEY ENCOUNTERED A SUSPICIOUS FEMALE. THE ACTIONS TAKEN BY ONE OF OUR OFFICERS. DURING THAT ENCOUNTER ARE DISTURBING AND INAPPROPRIATE. HEIDER TURNED HIMSELF IN THIS MORNING AND WAS LATER RELEASED ON BOND. RECORDS REVIEWED BY NBC NEWS SHOW MOORE AND HAIDER HAVE A HISTORY.

JUST LAST YEAR, MOORE PLED GUILTY TO RESISTING ARREST IN A SEPARATE CASE THAT ALSO INVOLVED HAIDER. THE FAMILY IS NOW BEING REPRESENTED BY CIVIL RIGHTS ATTORNEY BEN CRUMP, WHO IN A STATEMENT SAID NO PERSON IN CRISIS. SHOULD EVER BE SUBJECTED TO THIS KIND OF TREATMENT. IT'S UNCLEAR WHO'S REPRESENTING HAIDER, TOM. SOLIS, GEORGE, WE THANK YOU FOR THAT. WE WANT TO TURN TO THE MIDTERMS NOW BECAUSE IT MAY BE THE MOST IMPORTANT. SENATE RACE FOR BOTH PARTIES THIS YEAR, AND TONIGHT. THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE IN MAINE IS FACING A NEW SCANDAL WITH REVELATIONS. HE WAS SENDING SEXUALLY EXPLICIT TEXTS TO HALF A DOZEN WOMEN.

WHILE MARRIED. NOW THE CANDIDATE AND HIS WIFE ARE SPEAKING OUT. HERE'S RYAN NOBLES. TONIGHT, GRAHAM PLATTNER, THE OYSTER FARMER WHOSE INSURGENT SENATE CAMPAIGN. CAUGHT FIRE WITH DEMOCRATS IN MAINE, NOW ADDRESSING HIS LATEST SCANDAL. AMY AND I HAVE A VERY LOVING AND VERY HAPPY MARRIAGE. THEY WOULD VERY MUCH LIKE TO TRY TO RIP THAT APART. PLATTNER'S CAMPAIGN ADMITTING HE SENT SEXUALLY EXPLICIT TEXT MESSAGES. TO AT LEAST 6 WOMEN WHILE HE WAS MARRIED. HIS WIFE HAD BROUGHT THE TEXT TO THE CAMPAIGN'S ATTENTION.

THEIR EXISTENCE WAS LEAKED TO THE MEDIA BY A FORMER STAFFER. I FIND IT REALLY SHAMEFUL. THAT THERE'S A GROUP OF. MEDIA OUTLETS. AND PEOPLE WHO ARE WILLING TO SPREAD. GOSSIP. THE SEXTING SCANDAL, THE LATEST CONTROVERSY FOR PLATTNER, WHO'S RUNNING AGAINST LONGTIME GOP SENATOR SUSAN COLLINS. THERE'S A SERIES OF PLATTNER'S INFLAMMATORY PAST SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS, INCLUDING WHERE HE BLAMED VICTIMS FOR RAPE.

AND SAID A PURPLE HEART VETERAN WHO WAS SHOT BY THE TALI. DIDN'T DESERVE TO LIVE. I CAN'T TELL YOU THE NUMBER OF VETERANS. WHO HAVE CONTACTED US. TO SAY HOW DEEPLY. OFFENDED THEY WERE. BY PLATTNER'S COMMENTS. AND THEN THERE'S THE TATTOO PLATTNER ACQUIRED DURING HIS TIME IN THE MILITARY. THAT RESEMBLES A NAZI SS SYMBOL. PLATTNER SAID HE WAS UNAWARE OF THE MEANING OF THE TATTOO AND HAS SINCE COVERED IT UP. AND HAS APOLOGIZED FOR SOME OF HIS POSTS. PLATTNER FACING DEMOCRATIC CRITICISM.

YES, I HAVE CONCERNS. THAT GUY HAS QUESTIONS TO ANSWER, AND THAT'S WHAT CAMPAIGNS ARE FOR. BUT ALSO RENEWED SUPPORT. SO DO I THINK HE CAN WIN? ABSOLUTELY, AND WE DESPERATELY NEED SOMEBODY LIKE HIM. HERE IN THE US. THE LATEST POLLING SHOWS PLATTNER LEADING COLLINS. THE LAST TIME SHE RAN FOR REELECTION, COLLINS WAS TRAILING IN THE POLLS. BUT STILL WON COMFORTABLY, TOM. RYAN, THANK YOU. WE HEAD OVERSEAS NOW BECAUSE IT IS A RACE AGAINST TIME. TO FIND AND RESCUE THE TWO MEN STILL TRAPPED IN THAT CAVE IN LAOS. WE HAVE AMAZING NEW IMAGES TONIGHT OF THE OTHER FIVE AFTER THEY WERE RESCUED,

AND NOW. THERE ARE NEW SIGNS THAT THE 2 STILL MISSING. MAY BE ALIVE. JANICE MACKIE FRAYER HAS THE LATEST. TONIGHT THE RESCUE IS FOCUSING ON TWO MEN. STILL MISSING 12 DAYS AFTER ENTERING THE CAVE. DIVERS USING ROPES TO RAPPEL DOWN DEEP SHAFTS, WITH ANOTHER TEAM EXPLORING HOLES FOR NEW WAYS TO GET INTO THE CAVE, BUT FINDING EVEN BIGGER RISKS. JOSH RICHARDS WAS ONE OF THE DIVERS. THE TWO TUNNELS THAT WERE THERE ARE SO RAZOR SHARP THAT THEY COULDN'T DROP DOWN,

SO IT'S THOSE KIND OF RISKS, DROPPING INTO HOLES WHERE YOU KNOW LITERALLY NOTHING, UH, BECAUSE NO ONE HAS EVER DONE IT BEFORE. WHEN THEY WERE IN THERE, THEY ALSO HEARD NOISES, SCRAPING SOUNDS DEEP INSIDE THE CAVE, A KNOCK ON THE ROCK WITH A HAMMER RETURNING A NOISE THAT WASN'T AN ECHO. I JUST COULDN'T PIN DOWN WHAT THIS NOISE WAS THAT I COULD HEAR. IT WASN'T A CONSISTENT NOISE EITHER, UM, AND IT WASN'T AN ECHO. WEATHER REMAINS A PROBLEM. WITH TORRENTIAL RAIN SLOWING THE SEARCH.

THE PLAN, ACCORDING TO RESCUERS, TO DRAIN THE CAVE SYSTEM. SO THEY CAN REACH CHAMBERS BEYOND WHERE 5 MEN WERE ALREADY. FOUND. LOWER WATER LEVELS INSIDE OVER THE WEEKEND. ALLOWED 4 OF THEM TO CRAWL OUT OVER 800 FT ON THEIR OWN. A DAY AFTER THE FIRST SURVIVOR WAS FREED BY DIVERS. THE HEAD OF THE OPERATION, EMOTIONAL, TELLING NBC NEWS, WE HAVE ONLY THE EQUIPMENT WE BROUGHT WITH US, BUT I THINK WE DID IT, HE SAYS. AND FOR THE REST WE WILL TRY TO DO OUR BEST.

THE WORLD WATCHING THE EXPANDING SEARCH FOR TWO MEN. AND IDEALLY A NEW PATH TO FIND THEM. JANICE MAKE PRAYER, NBC NEWS, BEIJING. WE HAVE A MAJOR MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGH TO TELL YOU ABOUT TONIGHT, A NEW TREATMENT FOR PANCREATIC CANCER, ONE OF THE DEADLIEST CANCERS YOU CAN GET THAT COULD DOUBLE SURVIVAL RATES, AND THAT SAME PILL COULD POTENTIALLY BE USED AGAINST OTHER TYPES OF CANCERS AS WELL. ANN THOMPSON HAS THE LATEST. IT IS THE DRUG GIVING FORMER SENATOR BEN SASSE EXTRA.

TIME AS HE LIVES WITH PANCREATIC CANCER THAT SPREAD. TUMOR VOLUME IN MY TORSO IS DOWN 76%, DRIVEN DOWN, HE SAYS, BY THE EXPERIMENTAL DRUG DARAXINRAI. A NEW STUDY SHOWS THE PILL, TAKEN DAILY DOUBLED SURVIVAL TIME FOR PATIENTS WITH METASTATIC PANCREATIC CANCER. FROM 6.6 MONTHS WITH CHEMOTHERAPY. TO 13.2 MONTHS WITH DURAXIN RAI. RESULTS THAT EARNED A RARE STANDING OVATION.

AT THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY MEETING OVER THE WEEKEND. DOCTOR BRIAN WOLIN LED THE RESEARCH, TARGETING A GENE CALLED KRAS. WHEN MUTATED, IT CAUSES CANCER CELLS TO GROW OUT OF CONTROL. DARAXIN RAI TURNS IT OFF. IT STOPS IT, PUTS IT IN THE OFF POSITION, AND THEN THE CANCER CAN'T GROW ANYMORE, AND THAT'S WHY IT WORKS IN PATIENTS. AND MAYBE IN MORE CANCERS INCLUDING COLON, OVARIAN, AND NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER.

THERE ARE SIDE EFFECTS INCLUDING THE RASH ON SASS'S FACE, BUT IT'S THE BENEFITS THAT HAS THE DRUG ON THE FAST TRACK FOR APPROVAL. DEBBIE ORCUTT IS STILL ALIVE TWO YEARS AFTER HER. DIAGNOSIS OF PANCREATIC CANCER THAT SPREAD TO HER LIVER. THIS IS JUST A LITTLE BUMP ALONG THE WAY, AND I FULLY INTEND ON FIGHTING IT EVERY INCH. OF THE WAY. GOOD BOY, SAVORING EACH EXTRA DAY, LIVING WITH ONE OF THE MOST LETHAL CANCERS.

AND WITH THAT, ANNE JOINS US LIVE IN STUDIO. SO ANNE, YOU MENTIONED THE DRUG BEING FAST TRACKED, BUT WHAT ABOUT PEOPLE THAT DON'T HAVE TIME TO WAIT? WELL, TOM, IN FACT, THE FDA HAS ADDRESSED THAT, AND IT IS OKAYED MAKING DURAXIN RAIB AVAILABLE TO METASTATIC PANCREATIC CANCER. PATIENTS OUTSIDE OF THE CLINICAL TRIAL. A REQUEST MUST BE MADE. BY A DOCTOR TO. REVOLUTION MEDICINES, WHICH IS THE MAKER. OF THE DRUG, AND THIS IS TRULY A DRAMATIC IMPROVEMENT. YES, IT SOUNDS LIKE AN INCREDIBLE BREAKTHROUGH. ALL RIGHT, AND WE THANK YOU FOR THAT.

ALL RIGHT, WHEN WE RETURN IN A MOMENT, HOW LAW ENFORCEMENT DISCOVERED A MASSIVE UNDERGROUND TUNNEL CONNECTING THE US. TO MEXICO. WE'LL TELL YOU THE CRIMES POLICE SAY IT WAS USED FOR. WE'RE BACK NOW WITH A STUNNING UNDERGROUND DISCOVERY. FEDERAL AGENTS IN MEXICO UNCOVERING. AN 869 FT TUNNEL. NEARLY 3 FOOTBALL FIELDS LONG CONNECTING TIJUANA WITH THE SAN DIEGO BORDER. MEXICAN OFFICIALS SAY IT WAS DISCOVERED DURING A. SEARCH AND WAS LIKELY USED FOR TRAFFICKING WEAPONS, DRUGS, AND EXPLOSIVES.

ALSO TONIGHT. DENVER HIT BY AN INTENSE HAILSTORM, GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL POURING FROM THE SKY. YOU CAN SEE IT HITTING THE WATER OF THIS POOL BELOW A HIGH RISE. IT SENT A RIVER OF SLUSH JUST STREAMING DOWN THE STREET AS SEVERE STORMS. ROLLED THROUGH. THAT'S NIGHTLY NEWS FOR THIS MONDAY. I'M TOM YAMAS. THANKS SO MUCH FOR WATCHING. TONIGHT. AND ALWAYS, WE'RE HERE FOR YOU. GOOD NIGHT.