And the Breaking News just released. Neverbeforeseen evidence in the 2020 Election Interference Case against Donald Trump. Whats inside the 165page Filing . [chanting stop the steal] the Cbs Evening News starts now. Good evening, and thank you for joining us on this wednesday. And we begin with Breaking News, a Bombshell Court Filing just unsealed in the 2020 Election Case against former president Donald Trump. In it, special Counsel Jack Smith argues that trump resorted to crimes after losing the election to joe biden. The case had been thrown into doubt when the Supreme Court ruled that a President Cant be prosecuted for official acts. Smith is claiming trumps actions were taken in a private capacity as a candidate. The filing, which runs 165 pages and has a lot of names reacted, also Details Trump actions on january 6th, when thousands of his Supporters Storm to capitol as congress was certifying the election. And it claims trump tried to advance his own Self Interests and perpetuat
Permission from Judge Chutkan Jack Smith released a filing with never before seen evidence he has compiled against Donald Trump in his investigation of the federal Election Interference Case. It begins with the defense of Jack Smiths entire case in light of the supreme courts immunity decision which divides official acts from private acts, giving president s immunity for official ones. It reads in part, quote, the defendant asserts that he is immune from prosecution for his criminal scheme to overturn the 2020 president ial election, because he claims it entailed official conduct. Not so. Although the defendant was the incumbent president during the charged conspiracies, his scheme was fundamentally a private one. This motion provides a comprehensive account of the defendants private criminal conduct. This quote comprehensive account of Donald Trumps criminal conduct is 165 pages long. Its here on our desk, we just got it a few minutes ago. Fortunately for us we have an entire team of
Defend ourselves not understand her determination to defend ourselves or not understand her determination to defend ourselves or retaliate defend ourselves or retaliate against defend ourselves or retaliate against her defend ourselves or retaliate against her enemies. The Israeli Military says its ordered residents to evacuate from areas near two buildings in beirut s Southern Suburbs. Our Correspondentjon Donnison has the latest from jerusalem. Sirens blare. Israel was warned it was coming. But this was irans revenge almost 200 ballistic missiles raining in. Across the country. Shouting. 0k, guys, weve got to get off the roof. I these are coming down right next to us here. L. As people ran for shelter. With the iranian missiles travelling 2,000 kilometres in only around 12 minutes, Israels Defence System was at full stretch. Shouting. Translation we are on high readiness for defence and offence. We will protect the citizens of israel. This attack will have consequences. We have plans
Morning. Youre live in the cnn newsroom. Im Jim Acosta in washington. We begin this hour with Breaking News. The White House is preparing for a chilling new threat that iran could be about to launch a Missile Attack on israel were covering all the angles at this hour, their correspondence around the world. Lets begin with the White House and what theyre saying in cnns are arlette saens. Arlette, were just getting this word within the last hour or so. What can you tell us yeah, jim, this is a pretty stunning warning coming from the u. S. Senior white House Official tells us that the u. S. Believes that iran is preparing to imminently launch a ballistic Missile Attack against israel. It comes at a time when the u. S. Has been watching with great concern to see what irans a posture might be and whether they might try to launch any type of retaliatory attack against israel amid the heightened tensions that have arisen over the course of the past two weeks. Now, in this statement from a sen
Your people back into their homes, you dont escalate to deescalate. And obviously now, with the iranian retaliation, israelis are in their shelters as they go into the new years holiday weekend. Ben . Yeah. I think, you know, since October 7th, the Biden Administration has had a number of goals, one was to provide support to israel as it aims to go after hamas, but then also one of the principle goals of u. S. Diplomacy since October 7th had been avoiding deescalation into lebanon, precisely because i think there was an understanding that lebanon could be kind of the Trip Wire to this broader regional war that essentially, you know, it is one thing if there is a conflict In Gaza, that alone is destabilizing enough and is obviously brought a tremendous Human Toll and has grinded on for a full year. But the concern has always been that if israel launched a Ground Operation and significantly escalated things in lebanon that could draw iran into a conflict in a direct way as were seeing to