in a dispute over legal aid funding despite warnings of misconduct disciplinary proceedings if they don t turn up to work. major us companies including disney and jp morgan tell staff they ll cover employee travel expenses for abortions after a landmark ruling by the supreme court banned them. one woman has died and a man is in hospital with life threatening injuries following a gas explosion that destroyed a house in central england and damaged at least three others. obviously that is really sad and tragic. notjust for the individuals involved, notjust for the local community but especially the family and friends of the individuals who have been affected by this. and we ll be live at wimbledon as the first day of the tournament gets under way. big names on courts today include novak djokovic, andy murray and emma raducanu. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. ukraine s president volodymyr zelensky is addressing g7 leaders in bavaria by video li
The first night of passover. Any violence will not be tolerated, any Property Damage will not be tolerated. The Cbs Evening News starts now. Good evening, and thank you for being with us, i am maurice dubois, norah is on assignment, we will get to the protest on College Campuses in just a moment but we begin with the first witness taken the stand in the historic criminal trial of a former president of the united states. Donald trump, the Presumptive Republican nominee is charged with 34 Felony Counts of falsifying Business Records linked to socalled Hush Money Payments to cover up an alleged affair with an adult porn star. In opening statements, prosecutors accused trump of taking part in a criminal conspiracy to interfere with the 2016 election, but Defense Attorneys to claim that did nothing wrong and claimed that the prosecution are liars with bias against the former president. Robert costa was inside the courthouse and starts us off tonight. Its a very, very sad day in america. Rep
Violence against children. This is news live from berlin u. S. President donald trump gets out at the Impeachment Hearings in the but its crisis and an embarrassment to senior officials who are listening to a phone call between trump and his ukrainian counterpart to express their concerns the former Special Envoy to ukraine could focus also testifying in the probe also on the program the death toll in the iranian crackdown on protesters means growing
amnesty International Says more than 100. 00 people i did. And that was a case coming back as coaches finds National Soccer team the list post earlier this year but hes doing to protect terminally cute. Im anthony held welcome to the program we begin in washington where u. S. President donald trump has criticized the Impeachment Hearings calling them a disc rice and an embarrassment his comments came as 2 senior officials who listened on to trumps july phone call with his ukrainian counterpart for a lot of missile lengthy express their con
Gaetz, paul manafort. The circle goes on. He is surrounded by criminals. Then we hear, well, it cant be Obstruction Of Congress, you could have all just went to court. Well, we are in december. We have an ongoing crime. We have a crime in progress. That is what the 911 call would say from a police officer. We have a crime in progress. And they are saying with a crime in progress, why didnt you just schedule an appointment to call the police . We have an emergency to our National Election going on right now. Our oath to the constitution requires us to take this drastic, solemn, and regrettable step. But it is necessary because if we dont protect americas precious right to vote, it is clear that the other side wont. And so i talked about the courage of yesterday. Today i am reminded of judas. Because judas for 30 pieces of
silver betrayed jesus. For 30 positive tweets for easy reelection, the other side is willing to betray the American People, their precious right to vote and the future
Of law and our fierce constitutional patriotism. Now, it looked like President Trump might get away with his ukraine shakedown. After all most americans didnt know anything about it and the few who learned of it would be too afraid, too intimidated to cross the most powerful man on earth. President trump could rest easy. But if donald trump misjudged the american character, the framers of our constitution did not. I count 17 honorable Public Servants who came forward to testify over the intimidation and disparagement of the president. Is that right, mr. Goldman . Yes. There was 17. And i counted dozen Career State Department and National Security officials who served republican and democratic president s alike over decades who came to testify. In fact, four of President Trumps own National Security council staffers, hill, vindman, morrison and maguire came
forward to report trumps scheme to nsc lawyers as soon as they learned of it, didnt they mr. Goldman. Morrison and vindman went to