eye on america. cbs carter evans looks at the life-and-death consequences of the nation s e.m.t. staffing shortages. and, the ultimate pep talk. we re all rooting for you, man. garrett: college athletes lifting the spirits of kids in the hospital. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. ing from the nation s capital. garrett: good evening to our viewers in the west. thank you for joining us. i m major garrett, in for norah. after a surprise trip to washington, ukraine s president zelenskyy is back home tonight, hoping more u.s. military aid will soon follow. .plus, f.t.x. founder sam bankman-fried is under house arrest tonight as he awaits trial after his first court appearance in new york. but, first, the biggest prechristmas storm in decades consumes much of the country. winter storm warnings, blizzard conditions, and dangerous cold forecast now in more than 40 states, from the pacific northwest to new england
Stormy daniels. The crime according to the new York District attorney is the falsifying a Business Records that were used to conceal the payments to keep Stormy Daniels from telling her story publicly in the days leading up to the 2016 election election but todays fermi daniels told her story under oath explaining how she met trump at a Golf Tournament in lake tahoe. Then got a Dinner Invite where the meeting location turned out to be toms hotel room. Mr. Trump allegedly greeted her at the door and sat and pyjamas and despair, you the details that youve revealed in court will just say one thing led to another another being the alleged Sexual Encounter, but the defense took major issue with much of the explicit content and moved for a miss trial. Saying that all those details that she had been told that the prosecution Ands Permitting have been cautioned not not to tell had nothing to do with the case itself. And the Defense Attorney said that her testimony he had gone over the guardrai
Were inside the courtroom today . Im sorry, inside the courtroom yesterday. And tracking donald trump behavior today, how did trump seem to be handling hearing this testimony from Stormy Daniels that had to have been quite embarrassing yeah. Today, he was as invested as weve seen him throughout the course of this trial yesterday, too long time Trump Organization employees testified to some potentially critical evidence. For the most part, trump has leaned back in his chair, eyes closed, but today, as for me, daniels was on the stand who is leaning it . He was watching hurt either directly or on his screen. Heres prompting his Defense Attorney to make objections. He was clearly actively involved in his defense, and jayyab think it paid off when they came back from lunch. I use clearly agitated as they left for the midday break, but when they came back, his lawyers move for mistrial they didnt win that, but the judge conceded that yeah, at times, some of the things Stormy Daniels said we
Thank you for being with us. We are going to begin with the crackdown on increasingly defiant and dangerous protests on College Campuses across the country over the war in gaza. Tonight, at Columbia University, the epicenter of the demonstrations, dozens of propalestinian students have barricaded themselves inside a campus building, and they now face expulsion from the ivy league school. A White House Spokesman today saying forcibly taking over buildings is not peaceful, it is wrong. At the university of North Carolina in chapel hill, police forcefully removed protesters this morning. More than half of those arrested were not even affiliated with the university. In recent weeks, protests have been staged at more than 60 campuses. More than a thousand people have been arrested. Many protesters are calling for the schools to taught ties with companies linked to israel and to be transparent about their investments. Cbss tom hanson leads us off tonight from Columbia University in manhattan
of ayman, dangerous words. donald trump s escalating attacks on the judges and prosecutors involve his criminal cases. plus, second term warning. and alarming new report about the no holds barred s legal minds trump once and his administration. and mac up max jansen s ties to the christian nationalist movement in this country. i m ayman mohyeldin, let s get started. anytime that you are alone bait looking over your shoulder. that was just one of the threats fbi investigators say an alabama man left on the voice mail of fulton county district attorney fani willis on august 6th. days before she brought charges against donald trump and 18 of his associates for seeking to overturn the 2020 election. and there were many more direct willis and fulton county sheriff patrick labonte both were not going to repeat them here. this week, federal prosecutors announced after right hansen, the second is now facing two counts of transmitting and estate threats to injure willis and labonte.