| By Dan Donahue, NBC Nightly News | |
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| Good Monday afternoon and happy Presidents Day from the Nightly Newsroom. | |
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| Watch us this evening at 6:30 p.m. ET / 5:30 p.m. CT on NBC, or check your local NBC station listing. After the broadcast, access Nightly News video on NBCNightlyNews.com or the NBC News app. | |
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Protests erupt over Trump's national emergency declaration
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| Protesters gathered in Washington, D.C. on this Presidents Day to voice their opposition to President Trump's decision to declare a national emergency to go around Congress to secure billions of dollars for his proposed border wall. Kristen Welker is following it all for us tonight. | |
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Trump accuses McCabe, Rosenstein of "treasonous" plot against him
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| President Trump lashed out at former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, after McCabe revealed private conversations were held at the Department of Justice about secretly recording the president and potentially removing him from office. Hallie Jackson has all the fallout tonight. | |
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| Calling McCabe's story "deranged," Trump tweeted that McCabe and Rosenstein "look like they were planning a very illegal act, and got caught," and added, "This was the illegal and treasonous 'insurance policy' in full action!" | |
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| In an interview, McCabe said Rosenstein was "absolutely serious" when he brought up the idea of wearing a wire to record Trump in the aftermath of the president's firing of FBI Director James Comey in 2017. | |
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| Justice Department officials have told NBC News under the condition of anonymity that Rosenstein was joking when he raised the idea. In a statement last week, Rosenstein's office said he "never authorized any recording that Mr. McCabe references." | |
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Brothers questioned in Jussie Smollett case break their silence
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| Ola and Abel Osundai, the two brothers who were questioned and later released by Chicago police in the alleged attack on "Empire" star Jussie Smollett, have now stepped forward publicly in a short statement to local media. Investigators are now looking into whether Smollett paid the two men to stage the attack, according to a police source familiar with the investigation. Miguel Almaguer has been following every twist and turn in this case, and will have the latest tonight. | |
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- Smollett not talking: The representative for Smollett said in a statement there are "no plans for Jussie to meet with Chicago police today" after authorities said Sunday they were eager to conduct a follow-up interview with the actor.
- Not suspects: The Osundais were taken into custody last week, but police released them without charges and stated that they were no longer considered suspects. One of the two men was Smollett's personal trainer and worked as an extra on "Empire."
- Smollett's denials: Smollett's attorneys have vehemently denied suggestions that he was complicit in the alleged attack. They maintain he was a victim of a hate crime and say he has cooperated with police.
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"I love you, I've been shot at work": Aurora shooting victim's final text to wife
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| The wife of one of the five victims killed in a workplace mass shooting in Aurora, Illinois on Friday is sharing his final text message to her. Ron Mott has been covering this story for us, and will have the heartbreaking new details tonight. | |
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| "I love you, I've been shot at work," Josh Pinkard texted to his wife Terra, after another employee who had just been fired at the Henry Pratt Co. manufacturing plant began shooting, and mortally wounded Pinkard. | |
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| "It took me several times reading it for it to hit me that it was for real," Terra wrote on Facebook. She tried calling, texting, and FaceTiming him back, but tragically received no response. "I called his plant and a lady answered and said she was barricaded in her room and police were everywhere. Of course my heart dropped." | |
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| Terra then had to break the news to her family. "I told my children their dad did not make it and is in heaven with Jesus," she wrote. "I've never had to do something that hard." | |
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Aurora mourns shooting victims with procession of white crosses |
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American and British ISIS brides plead to return home
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| Kelly Cobiella has the story tonight of the American woman who is making a desperate plea to be allowed to return home, four years after she fled the United States to become the bride of an ISIS fighter in Syria. Hoda Muthana, 24, told The Guardian she "deeply regrets" her decision, and said she was brainwashed. | |
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| "I look back now and I think I was very arrogant," said Muthana, who now lives in a refugee camp in Syria with her 18-month-old son. She has been married three times, and now says she is worried for her son's future. | |
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| In the same camp lives Shamima Begum, 19, who fled the U.K. when she was 15 to also become an ISIS bride. She too wants to travel back home. "I was hoping that maybe for the sake of me and my child they'd let me come back," she told Sky News. "Because I can't live in this camp forever." But Begum's request has been met with backlash, after she refused to denounce ISIS's brutality, and said in the Sky News interview she was "okay" with beheadings carried out by the terror group. | |
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British teen who joined ISIS in Syria asks to return to U.K. |
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Five best friends elected to Colorado's State Senate
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| Tonight, Kristen Dahlgren meets Colorado's Fab Five: a group of friends who are now state senators in the first female-led majority caucus in the country. | |
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| Kerry Donovan, Jessie Danielson, Faith Winter, Tammy Story, and Brittany Pettersen have been co-workers, mentors, and friends to one another for nearly a decade. In January, each of the five woman was sworn in as a state senator, flipping the state senate from red to blue for the first time in five years. | |
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| "The support is immeasurable," said Faith Winter. "This group, we all lifted each other up. We lifted other women up. And we all believe in lifting as we rise." | |
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Meet Colorado's history-making 'Fab Five' |
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Nightly Films: Meet the 96-year-old woman behind a New Orleans landmark
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| Leah Chase opened Dooky Chase's Restaurant more than 70 years ago, transforming a small sandwich shop into a New Orleans landmark. The renowned chef fed her famous gumbo to activists during the height of the civil rights movement and, more recently, to former President Obama. | |
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| "I had to slap him on the hand about my gumbo," Leah told NBC's Rehema Ellis in an extensive interview you can watch in the latest Nightly Film. It turns out he wanted to put hot sauce in the gumbo – a big no-no for Leah. | |
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| Watch below for more about that story, other famous visitors, and how the restaurant made it through Hurricane Katrina. | |
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96-year-old chef serves up classic Creole cuisine and New Orleans history (Part 1) |
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