time that we have been here discussing let s just start with george floyd. do you see a change? i think the consciousness level has been raised, but i think, like the experts said at the hearing today, people are being rewarded for advocating this race replacement theory, and they are using their cable news shows, they re using their political pulpits to make it popular, get more ratings off of spreading evil. and we have to call that out. we cannot put politics over people anymore. and we have to, like garnell said, deal with the issue of white supremacy. we need to pass the antiblack hate crime bill. it needs to be very straightforward to the black community that keep bailing out the democrats to say speak to this issue directly on our behalf. garnell, before we go, is there anything you want to say about your mother, ruth, that you didn t get to say today? i ve been wonderfully blessed to have an opportunity to share memories of my mother with a pretty large audien
do you see a change? i think the consciousness level has been raised, but i think, like the experts said at the hearing today, people are being rewarded for advocating this race replacement theory, and they are using their cable news shows, they re using their political pulpits to make it popular, get more ratings off of spreading evil. and we have to call that out. we cannot put politics over people anymore. and we have to, like garnell said, deal with the issue of white supremacy. we need to pass the antiblack hate crime bill. it needs to be very straightforward to the black community that keep bailing out the democrats to say speak to this issue directly on our behalf. garnell, before we go, is there anything you want to say about your mother, ruth, that you didn t get to say today? i ve been wonderfully blessed to have an opportunity to share memories of my mother with a pretty large audience. my mother was a great person, a great woman. she was my hero. she was our
where we re police in new york. what they re doing to seize illegal weapons. soaring gas prices. fuel hits more than $5 a gallon in more than a dozen states as we learn the pain at the pump might be here to stay. the battle against long-haul covid. the first in our two-part series about the 23 million americans, including kids, fighting to the battle against long-haul covid. recover after months of illness. and american kindness: a teenager using her birthday money to help her neighbors. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening, o donnell: good evening, to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us on this tuesday night. t, the presso something on gun reform came to washington today in moving testimony and star power. oscar award-winning actor and uvalde native matthew mcconaughey gave one of the most emotionally powerful speeches about gun laws that we ve ever seen at the whit
i am thinking about that drawer you just described. at home it s filled with those cords. oddly enough, they are never where i need them when i need them. there is that little problem. it s a common problem for us, my friend. you have a great show, i will be watching. thanks, ali. well, matthew mcconaughey did something at the white house press briefing room today that we have never seen before. we have seen visitors step up to the podium. we have occasionally seen actors do that. but what s matthew mcconaughey had to say in the white house briefing room today may turn out to be the most important speech that an actor has ever given. and i mean ever. because it might it just might save lives. it might it might stop a school shooting or more than one school shooting in the future, if it helps move washington. helps them and act new laws on washing gun safety. it was matthew mcconaughey as you ve never seen him before, standing there with no makeup, no help, no ligh
states capitol. that means pretty much every cable news channel and three major broadcast networks will be providing wall-to-wall coverage, everyone except fox news which will stick with its regularly scheduled programming of tucker carlson, sean hannity and laura ingraham rick they are demoting their coverage to the much watched business channel. the primetime hosts will cover the events as news warrants. the network s decision might help avoid some awkwardness more thanity an ingraham who were actively communicating with mark meadow, trump s chief of staff on that slept day. in the 17 months since the insurrection, fox news, particularly the knocks in primetime, has spent hours undermining the severity of the attack on the capitol and more hours painting the investigation of it as a partisan witch hunt against the former president despite there being two republicans on the committee including vice chair liz cheney. according to philip bump of the washington post the reap