colbert. good evening, reverend sharpton. always good to see. i ve been keeping abreast of your activities this week, and want to applaud you for your protest with respect to the pushback that we are facing around d.c. and i efforts across the country. but i do have a quick question for you. for a policy measure, what s it gonna take for us to actually move the needle and finally keep dni from having the attacks that it s currently facing? i think we must make cities, municipalities, states and others, say that the a.i. must be enacted if people are gonna get state city contracts are funds. these businessmen, when we picketed on thursday, i ll do business in the public space. they cannot do public space business with taxpayer dollars if they re not trying to make it an equal place for all. so we need to have politicians putting legislation and policy in place to protect dei. well, that protection doesn t start without any pressure. and so with that, reverend sharpton, t
bret: but, obviously, breaking tonight, an historic day. one that both republicans and democrats described as, quote: a sad day. the first former or current president of the united states to be arrested and booked in federal criminal court. former president donald trump pleaded not guilty to all 37 counts in the indictment alleging that the former president illegally kept hundreds of classified documents at his mar-a-lago home, even after a subpoena to return them. potentially risking the disclosure of top secret national defense secrets. the former president is defiant, proclaiming his innocence from what he describes as as another witch-hunt and he accuses president biden s administration of targeting him, the leading g.o.p. challenger. the former president is on his way to his golf club in bedminster, new jersey where he will hold a fundraiser tonight and is expected to deliver remarks about this day and the charges he faces. correspondent mark meredith is outside the mi
revelations. israel now saying hostages were waving a white cloth when they were mistakenly killed by soldiers. i m in tel aviv s hostage square. israelis are demanding action to bring the rest of the hostages home. unfinished business. house lawmakers head home for the holiday the while the senate is still battling for ukraine aid and border security. gas prices fall and inflation cools. the economy is strong. so why do things still feel expensive? in paris, a new rooster rises over notre dame. what it means for the landmark s restoration. and later, toy story. what s old is new again. why what s purchased here can t be plugged in or powere up. we prefer games that will cause kids to engage with others instead of sitting in the corner playing with their thumbs. this is the cbs weekend news from washington. with adriana diaz. good evening. on the ninth day before christmas, major storm systems threaten both coasts and could make a mess of holiday plans. to
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last hour as we got positive news about the two congressional staffers who were attacked in virginia today. members of congress of course have their main offices in the capitol in washington, d.c., but of course they also have offices in their districts back home. this attack today happened at the district office for democratic congressman from virginia gerry connolly who you see here. this is his district office in fairfax, virginia, northern virginia just outside d.c. the congressman, himself, was not in the office. he was out apparently at a ribbon cutting for a local food bank. a man showed up at the office wielding a metal bat. he asked to see the congressman who wasn t there. then he reportedly just started swinging. congressman connolly s chief of staff tells nbc news tonight that the man smashed computers in the office and smashed glass with the bat. he then attacked two staffers. one senior staffer to the congressman, the man reportedly hit in the head with this meta