This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley this is our western edition. Tonight the man wanted in a depraved Easter Sunday murder in cleveland has a 50,000 price on his head. The search area now includes five states, ohio, indiana, michigan, pennsylvania and new york. The elderly victim apparently was chosen at random and the killer put video of the crime online. Heres dean reynolds. Reporter in a cool unemotional voice 37 year old Steve Stephens tells a friend about a video he just posted on facebook. Look at him. Reporter hes referring to this. Im about to kill this guy right here. Reporter stephens then walks up to 74 year old Robert Godwin senior, father of nine and grandfather of 14. Can you do me a favor . Can you say joy lane. Reporter joy lane is stephens exgirlfriend. She is the reason why this is about to happen to you. How old are you . Man, look, i dont know i dont know nobody by that name. Reporter godwin is shot in the face allegedly by stephens, left for dead
Pelley this is our western edition. Late today a pennsylvania jury began deliberating bill cosbys fate. After his lawyers presented a defense consisting of one witness and six minutes of testimony. Once one of americas most beloved entertainers, cosby is accused of drugging and sexually assaulting a woman in his home in 2004. More than 50 other women have accused cosby, but this is the only criminal case. Jericka duncan is at the courthouse outside philadelphia. Reporter for the first time in the trial, bill cosbys wife m mille walked arm in arm with her husband as he entered court today. Cosby chose not to take the stand. Instead, his attorney brian mcmonogal told jurors, the Accuser Andrea Constand told a stone cold lie and cosby cheated d his wife but did not commit a yime. As his lawyer said, you aserve better. Prosecutor kevin steele countered by using cosbys 2005 byd 2006 deposition where cosby described giving quaaludes, a hypnotic drug, to women. Steele went on to say, drugging
We dont know how this is going to work out. Watch this space. That does it for us tonight. Now its time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening, lawrence. Good evening, rachel. I watched the beginning of your show tonight after that cliffhanger that you left last night. Theres so much to talk about in it, but the basic lesson seems to be that the people who are telling us that its all fake news might want to actually produce, deliver some fake news that they can therefore point to as proof that its all fake news. Yeah. I dont know who i mean i dont want to speak to the origin of this thing, this forgery that we were shopped. I think the bottom line is we all need to do Due Diligence all the time. But it is worth being aware that somewhere, for some reason and we dont know what that reason is somebody is shopping pretty good forgeries of what appear to be nsa documents about trump and russia. And so its just i felt like its kind of a weird thing to do a news story about,
Will like this. Nums are not dead. Living proof of that. Great to see you. Put down your phone. All right. Have a great afternoon. And a happy friday afternoon to you. This is everything. You remember that phrase. Its what donald trump jr. Told the world the day he released are the email exchange dealing with a meeting with that russian lawyer. That statement ended up being less than completely forthcoming. Just like his previous accounts of that day. There is a pattern of half truths developing here. Alice of today we now know there were two more people in that election season meeting than we first thought. Nbc news has learned one of them is a russian american lobbyist and former soviet counterintelligence officer who is suspected by some u. S. Officials of having ongoing ties to russian intelligence. That person denies any current ties to russian spy agencies. Lets take a step back, though, and retell this story as donald trump jr. Himself has told it. There are cure os tiz, parts t
News might want to actually produce, deliver some fake news that they can therefore point to as proof that its all fake news. Yeah. I dont know who i mean i dont want to speak to the origin of this thing, this forgery that we were shopped. I think the bottom line is we all need to do Due Diligence all the time. But it is worth being aware that somewhere, for some reason and we dont know what that reason is somebody is shopping pretty good forgeries of what appear to be nsa documents about trump and russia. And so its just i felt like its kind of a weird thing to do a news story about, but i sort of feel like i need to send a flag up the flagpole to just let everybody else know what we have figured out because i cant believe that its only going to happen to me. I imagine this may be happening to other news folks as well. Oh, no. Its a very relevant report, especially with what weve seen happen at cnn. This is what its like when youre on the receiving end of this. You ended up handling i