tonight, as wall street panics, mortgage rates skyrocket. how much more will a new loan cost you? tonight, the massive flood and new video from yellowstone national park, and the questions why about why the governor is nowhere to be found. plus the major flight cancellations and delays due to severe weather nationwide. tonight s other top headlines: a third american reportedly missing in ukraine. revlon files for bankruptcy. and finally, ahead of father s day, how a father-daughter bond led to a possible life-saving discovery. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening, and thank you for joining us on this thursday night. today, we witnessed what some consider to be the most-important january 6 hearing to date. there was powerful testimony from one of the most respected conservative lawyers in the republican party warning ominously that the threat to democracy isn t over and that former president donal
bring out pence! bring him out! bring out pence! bring mike pence! bring mike pence! [ chanting ] much of today s testimony centered around john eastman, an attorney whose theory that the vice president had the authority to nullify the election outcome so laughable that donald trump s own aides, allies and closest advisers described dismissing it outright. here s that evidence. made clear with mr. meadows about you and the vice president having a different view about the authority on january 6. i believe i did. did he explit sy or tacetly agree with you or say that makes sense or okay? i believe that that mark did agree. what makes you say that? i believe that s what he told me. but as i mentioned i think mark told so many people so many different things that it was not something that i would necessarily accept. that s okay why that s resolved. i see. tell me what he told you on this topic. you know the vice president doesn t have a broader role.
Or high blood potassium. Ask your doctor about entresto. Tonight, President Trump, the only president in American History to be impeached twice, charged with incitement of insurrection. The first comments from the president today, just in moments ago. One week to the day after rioters stormed the u. S. Capitol after the president urged them to march to the capitol, to be strong, to fight like hell. Tonight, house lawmakers have impeached the president. Ten republicans breaking with the president to vote with the democrats. Speaker nancy pelosi calling the president A Clear And Present Danger. And the moment today the Top Republican leader in the house saying President Trump bears responsibility for the attack, though not supporting impeachment on this timetable. Other republicans saying, with so few days left in the administration, why impeach now . Saying its time to heal. Democrats arguing you cannot heal if theres no accountability for the deadly riot that horrified the nation
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i want people to remember, you re a democracy, judge luttig, you are republican, and you are working together on this. this is very bipartisan. judge luttig, we remember when you testified before the january 6th commission and you called donald trump, quote, a clear and present danger to american democracy. he is now three times indicted, potentially four. he is by far the republican frontrunner. do you think he is still a clear and present danger to american democracy? i do, poppy. more so today than he was last summer when he tifd before the congress of the united states for these obvious reasons. the former president has continued to insist and persist in his false claim that he had won the 2020 presidential election and that it was stolen from him. and his republican allies and the republican party have joined
you. right, totally independent. this anybody really believe that ? does and human being even believe that? no. that s the thing about so many of these lies. you don t believe them, but you re not special. nobody believes them. even the people repeating them. nowhere is that more true than on the question of the claimant emergency. that is what climate change is about, it is literally not figuratively to vliet, a clear and present danger. the latest climate report said code red for humanity. let me say it again, code red for humanity. you can buy that or not and by the way a lot of good people some smart people, people of good faith to believe that and that s okay. but do the people telling you that believe it? does joe biden actually think