Good evening. Im abby phillip in new york. And tonight, how joe biden got his groove back and why youre about to hear what he said last night. More than a taylor swift single on the radio. 30 plus Million People tuned in last night to watch the president insist that the state of our union is strong, but also to see if biden could still look strong himself. Its something republicans told you over and over again that he simply could not do. President biden, on the other hand, im not even sure if he knows where he is. And i dont say that flippantly, neal. It actually hurts. He is our president , even if i disagree with him violently. But he clearly is not all there may be automatically that we laugh at it, because some of his ideas and all of his ideas are are laughable, arent they . But also, the longer we laugh, the less hell speak. Probably, or the longer hell have to be up there. Republicans. They bet on sleepy joe and a day later the spin is suddenly totally different. Biden wasnt sl
airports. the record number of firearms confiscated at security. wait until you hear just how many of those guns were loaded. the 12-year-old boy who caught a great white shark. i don t know if i want to go up against a shark. o donnell: and, making dreams come true for america s heroes. 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 on this tuesday night. tonight, there are alarming new details about what the mayor of albuquerque is calling politically-motivated shootings. a failed republican candidate is under arrest, accused of hiring men to shoot at the homes of democratic lawmakers. plus, cbs news tonight has new details on the timeline of the special counsel s investigation into president biden s handling of classified documents. but first, we want to start with those major storms that are pummeling the west coast, and the aftermath as califo
the national news. as luck would have it, we brought you the story for the first time a week ago at this time. it s a story out of new mexico. just tonight as we are getting on the air, there is a major development in that story tonight and it is a shocking one. i imagine given these new developments in the story, this will not be the only place you will be hearing about this over the next several days. all right, what we were able to tell you last week is news of a spate of recent shootings that had targeted the homes and offices of at least a half dozen elected officials in new mexico, all of them members of the democratic party. no one was injured in these shootings. these shootings hit buildings, not people. but they apparently had all been targeted at democratic politicians during december and january. so just over the last few weeks. we first learned of the shootings at five homes and offices belonging to some county commissioners and two state senators and new mexico s
targeted at democratic politicians during december and january. just over the last few weeks. we first learned of the shootings at five homes and offices belonging to county commissioners and two state senators and new mexico s newly elected democratic attorney general. then we learned that there is also been an additional shooting at the house of the incoming speaker of the new mexico state legislature. we have since learned some additional details about the shootings targeting individual democratic politicians. it is alarming, it is not an individual pot shot here in there. for example, on december 4th, it was a shots that were fired into a home of one democratic count county commissioner in new mexico. that was december 4th. then on december 11th, it was 12 bullets that were fired into the home of a county commissioner, again, this is all in new mexico, all democrats. december 4th at one politicians home, he s a county commissioner, a shots fired into his home. a week l
the chair will alternate rk nation between the recognition between the parties with time equally allocated between the parties and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes. but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11:50a.m. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from texas, ms. garcia, for five minutes. ms. garcia: thank you, madam speaker. i rise today to recognize president biden s and house democrats work in reducing the budget deficit, fighting inflation, and lowering the cost of goods in america. madam speaker, it s no secret russia s cruel war against ukraine is driving up prices not only here in america but all over the globe. putin s price hike has increased gas prices by $2 a gallon in many places since russian troops began to threaten ukraine and families are seeing higher prices at the grocery aisles also. but president biden and house democrats won t stand by and watch rising costs and inflation contin