intelligence report tonight that blames russia s president for trying to malign joe biden and use former president trump s allies to influence the 2020 election. selling the plan: the president on the road to build support for his covid relief plan. gas prices skyrocket. why are you paying more to fill up your car? house explosion: the powerful fireworks that shook a neighborhood in california. and unifying america: a lunch counter that once kept people apart is now bringing everyone together. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us. we re going to begin with a humanitarian crisis on the southern border that is growing larger and more dire by the day. tonight, we have got the stunning new numbers. sources tell cbs news more than 13,000 migrant children who entered the country without their parents are now in u.s. custody. the government says eve
just took it out on her for whatever reason no. it s got to be one or the other reporter: according to lucio s attorneys, the interrogation lasted more than five hours. they say she denied killing her daughter more than 100 times before giving a coerced confession is there anything else you want to add reporter: in a documentary about her case, lucio blames her interrogators. they just kept pointing fingers at me and threatening me and telling me that i was going to spend the rest of my life in prison and that i wasn t going to be able to see the rest of my children grow up and get married. is the ultimate goal a brand-new trial here the ultimate goal is a new trial for melissa lucio. there s evidence of her innocence that the jury never heard and we believe if she had a trial today, she would be acquitted reporter: several jurors in lucio s case are now calling for clemency, as are a bipartisan group of texas lawmakers,
reporter at your newspaper to, watt i your paper puts it, to project an air of calm. some of the quote, i m not under investigation, as you know. i m actually not angry at anybody. i m in the office early and leave late. it s very smooth. honestly, i m really enjoying it. and so on one hand he s saying he s not distracted, but let me play what his chief of staff said. we re in great hopes that it wraps up. it is very distracting to the president as it would be to any citizen to be investigated for something, while at the same time, trying to carry the weight of what being president of the united states means on his shoulders. so is it very distracting or is he not distracted? i guess that s the real question, right? well, he certainly wants to proswrekt the atmosphere, project the atmosphere of the president who s above it all and is calm and unperturbed. you see that in any president going through a difficult
and nobody is going to care what michael cohen said they ll care about the issues illegal immigration, jox, what have you. what do you think, s.e? anyone that s run into trump has run into michael cohen and i have as well. i would not agree he s a nice guy. he s a goon and, frankly, if he were sophisticated and savvy as a political strategist and communication strategist and he s not he would have recognized that this daily beast story was a gift for all of the reasons that jeffrey was outlining. it s not true. it s reheated from a 1993 book that came out. it s already public knowledge and ivana herself as has said it s not true. but michael cohen, the goon he is didn t realize this was going to be a gift and threatened and intimidate add reporter said something that was patently false as an attorney he should have known