Well, just to bring you a little bit behind the scenes here, alicia. We know, all day yesterday, topwhite house aides were working the phones including the president , himself, for a portion of it. To try to ease some of these tensions and these feathers that were clearly ruffled. Republicans, upset by the president linking these two things together. But clearly, that didnt work. That wasnt enough. So they had to release this very lengthy statement. More than eight paragraphs in the president s own voice with a commitment saying, essentially, to the two parties, i understand, to the gop, why you might be a little bit upset by what i said in that press conference. But to democrats, rest assured, i am still going to pursue the traditional infrastructure bipartisan package. While also wanting reconciliation process, the one that doesnt require republicans, which democrats had already started down the road a couple of weeks ago. So, he is saying, to the two parties, this was not meant as a
All right. We begin tonight with this news bombshell. New developments with th, Jamess Investigation into the possible Biden Syndicate or enterprise. If you live in georgiaerpris, i. You prefer, very real allegations Ofallegati Briberyd and money laundering. Are a lot of new details tonighlaunderit. Anyone, any of you ever hear of a guy named Robert Petersguy ask yourself, anyone know that name . Anybody. Raise your hand if you kno anybody . W you do. Okay. According to documents weve now uncovered, the National Archives and emails retrieved from zero experience at huntercu bidens laptop. Robert peternt s appears to be a pseudonym for your president. Joe biden, when he was usings as Vice President to conduct official government business. Biden likely trying to hid busit these communications from prying eyes or public recordiosi requests. Now, the chairman of the House Oversight and accountability committermf the, james colmer, s now demanding that the National Archives turn over all do
keeps our democracy in place. and thanks to you at home for joining me this evening. in february of 2021 joe biden had been president for less than a month. the united states senate was still in the middle of impeaching the previous president for stoking insurrection. the house impeachment managers, all of them democrats, were making the case that even though trump was no longer president, he had to be impeached because otherwise future presidents would be free to commit any crime or misdemeanor as long as they did so right before leaving office. to rebut that trump s lawyers offered this counter argument. if my colleague on this side of the chamber actually think that president trump committed a criminal offense and let s understand a high crime is a felony and a misdemeanor is a misdemeanor. the words haven t changed that much over time. after he s out of office you go and arrest him. so there is no opportunity where the president of the united states can run rampant in
jim acosta. i ll see you again next weekend. good night. mar-a-lago. welcome to the whole story . i m anderson cooper. last week at tokyo s haneda airport, a plane collided with a smaller aircraft. five crewmembers on the coast guard plane died. but amazingly, all 379 people on the airbus survived. they were safely evacuated before the plane was engulfed in flames. investigation into what happened is still under way. it got us thinking about utah miraculous story of survival that happened 15 years ago this month. us airways flight 1549 took off from new york s la guardia airport heading to charlotte, north carolina. there were 150 passengers on board and 5 crew members, including the pilot, chap tain chesley sully sullenberger. it should have been a quick two-hour flight. but soon after takeoff 2 plane collided with a flock of geese. the plane went down. captain sully headed towards the hudson river for an emergency landing. his decisiveness saved the lives of all 158 peop
america s job market stays hot even as the economy faces headwinds. not so sweet. why a georgia peach could be hard to find this summer. and later, a yellowstone star s new mission, now asking to help the children of the fallen. that s my way of serving this country. announcer: this is the cbs evening news from new york with jericka duncan. good evening and thanks for joining us on this sunday. we begin tonight with new tensions between global rivals. today china s defense minister aggressively defended sailing a warship directly in front of an american missile destroyer. speaking at a summit in singapore, he warned the west to stay out of waters and air space near china s borders. the dangerous close encounter happened in the taiwan strait separating taiwan from china. cbs s elizabeth palmer leads us off tonight. reporter: addressing an audience of global security officials, china s defense minister general li shangfu had some blunt advice for the united st