remaining court cases. and why the former president is considering this a victory. the chances of a trial before the election are zero at this point. major: plus the strong chilling words from the dissenting justices. the cbs evening news starts now. good evening, everyone. i am major garrett in for norah o donnell. the groundbreaking decision from our nation s highest court. presidents have absolute immunity for official acts while in office, but they do not have immunity for unofficial acts. that means donald trump can and most certainly will claim broad immunity in his pending federal election interference case. a case that is now unlikely to be resolved before election day. chief justice john roberts penned the opinion writing the president may not be prosecuted for exercising his core constitutional powers. as for the dissent, justice sonia sotomayor forcefully pushed back and deployed bleak hypotheticals orders the navy seal team six to assassinate a politi
that is what this entailed trial is about. nada tawfik has been following all the twists and turns. i think we can go to her now. just bring us up to date. absolutely, we have heard thejudge has announced he will call the jury in. we were called in for the jury reading out whether they have found donald trump guilty or not guilty on the 34 donald trump guilty or not guilty on the 3a counts of comp to falsifying it as is. then the otherjurors will have to agree. if donald trump is found guilty onjust have to agree. if donald trump is found guilty on just one of those. he will be a convicted felon. a lot at stake clearly for it on from here. he is clearly hoping that this swift decision not too swift, 11 hours, but that this decision coming on the second day of deliberations will be one that is favourable to him. but we are hearing a lot of tense atmosphere at the defence table right now. donald trump, who was just table right now. donald trump, who wasjustjoking table right
i mean, can you fathom that? where in the he like i said, he injected too much of that bleach. i think it affected his brain. president biden drawing yet another contrast on the campaign trail, this time in philadelphia. he and the vice president made a pitch to black voters. we re going to have much more from their campaign stop in just a moment. meanwhile, the former president was rage posting from the courthouse holding room while a jury deliberated his fate in the criminal hush money case against him. we ll bring you expert legal analysis ahead of the jury reconvening later this morning. plus, we ll go through a possible major shift in policy on the war in ukraine as the biden administration now appears open to allowing u.s.-made weapons to be used in strikes in russian territory. willie, i m just looking at this now. i mean, after all of this, they dropped the charges. breaking news. can you believe that? there was so much stuff. you d think after all thi
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tonight on the reidout right now at 11:28 eastern, i m asking you to step out to begin deliberations. the jury has been dismissed to begin deliberations. the jurors are now leaving the courtroom to deliberate. and we are told they are expeditiously to begin deliberations. for the first time in american history, a jury is deciding whether a former president of the united states committed felonies. and as the deliberations began, the jury made several requests to the judge. meanwhile, trump and his defenders are bracing for the verdict by attacking the judge, lying about the jury instructions, and increasingly portraying trump as a martyr. reporting on justice sam alito s insurrectionist flags. he s now throwing his wife even further under the bus. and refusing to recuse from trump cases, earning a pat on the head from trump himself. after 22 days in cord, following 22 witnesses, giving more than 80 hours of testimony, plus more than seven hours of closin