NBC Nightly News Full Episode - June 27

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. Yeah. 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. Yeah. 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.