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reporter: the carnage you re describing sounds like something out of world war ii. yeah. o donnell: in tonight s eye on america, cbs ben tracy on how parts of the mighty mississippi now look like a desert and why that could impact the price of things you buy. and, the new york city bus driver being hailed a hero after a hijacking. 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. tonight, we return to a community still in pain, still searching for answers, and still wondering why it took police more than an hour to enter the classroom where a gunman was murdering fourth graders. at a hearing today, families had their first face-to-face confrontation with the texas public safety chief. he s the one in charge of the dozens of state troopers who waited in the hallway during the deadliest elementary school shooting in a decade. today, colonel s
County, georgia. And it is a doozy. The first codefendant in Donald Trumps Election Interference case, that rico case that charged a Criminal Enterprise, has flipped. Scott hall is in atlanta an athletearea Bail Bondsman. Hes accused of being involved in the plan to steal sensitive Election Data in Coffey County. He faces seven charges in the fulton case. And now again we just learned hes taking a plea deal. Lets bring in Greg Blue Stein with the Atlanta Journal constitution and former Acting Assistants Attorney General for National Security mary mccord. The Reverend Al Sharpton joins our coverage, as well. Greg, i feel like this attempt to steal sensitive Election Data in Coffey County never garnered the National Attention that it deserved considering how essential it was to trumps plot to overturn his defeated georgia. But take us inside first the significance of a guilty plea, and second his role in that Criminal Enterprise charged by d. A. Fannie willis. Youre right, scott hall was
Forcing people to violate their conviction is just something that the constitution doesnt permit. [inaudible] whether or not [inaudible] i think were going live to hear from Senate Leaders as they return from their party lunches. Well, good amp, everyone. This week on the floor of the senate well be going through process of going to conference on tax reform. As you already know, pelosischumer, ryan and i have a meeting with the president on thursday to talk about the way forward on the Government Spending issue. What we anticipate is a two week c. R. And a december 22nd into december 22nd which ought to give us a little room to the talk about the larger understanding about how were going to, what the caps are are going to be and the other provisions that are going to be part of the yearenspending measure. Yearend spending measure. So thats the agenda for us for the week, and with that, ill turn to senator cornyn. Well, i know our democratic colleagues have been talking about their desi
Quorum call a senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from hawaii. Ms. Hirono are we in a quorum call . The presiding officer we are in a quorum call. Ms. Hirono i i ask unanimous consent to vitiate the quorum call. The presiding officer without objection. Ms. Hirono mr. President , when donald trump was a private citizen during the last Government Shutdown, he said, and i quote, problems start from the to be, and they have to get solved from the top. And the president is the leader and hes got to get everybody in a room and hes got to lead. Thats what donald trump said when he was citizen trump. He is now the president. Now that hes the president , he has those shoes to wear, he refuses to step into them and step up. The only person to have actually said maybe we need a good shut downis President Trump. Although i have to say recently, the office of management and budget director Mick Mulvaney also said it was cool to shut down the government. Unbelievable, definitel