Was being finalized in Donald Trumps socalled hush money trial. We do not believe this was targeting any particular person or any particular group. Margaret the Cbs Evening News starts now. Good evening. Thank you for being with us. Im margaret brennan. Norah is on assignment. We begin tonight with that Breaking News from lower manhattan. Emergency crews rushed to a park just across the street from the courthouse, with Fire Extinguishers to douse the flames engulfing a 37yearold man. After burning for several minutes, he was carried away on a stretcher and taken to the hospital in critical condition. It does not appear the incident has anything to do with the trial of the former president , which continued on without interruption. Authorities say the man was carrying colorful pamphlets that were full of antigovernment conspiracies. They dont believe he was targeting any particular person or group. Cbss Jericka Duncan will start us off tonight with the latest details. Across the street,
That allows surveillance of individuals out of this country. This comes as 9 head of the fbi issues a dire warning about the consequences of such action and talks about the serious threats now facing the u. S. We have talks team conch chad pergram on capitol hill as multiple lawmakers tell fox there is a new plan in the house to get fisa reauthorization done as soon as tomorrow ahead of a meeting between the House Speaker and Presumptive Republican nominee former President Donald Trump. But we begin with Correspondent David Spunt live at the Justice Department tonight. Good evening, david. David bret, good evening to you. Fbi director Christopher Wray chooses his words carefully and hours ago he made it clear the threat level to the United States is the highest he has ever seen in his professional career. Now, increasingly concerning, is the potential for a coordinated attack here in the Homeland Akin to the isisk Attack We Saw at the Russia Concert Hall just a couple weeks ago. Wray i
Hammers states right abortion policy after a major ruling in arizona on that issue today well take a look at it. Parents of the Michigan School shooter sentenced to at least a decade in prison for Involuntary Manslaughter. A precedentsetting conviction and now sentencing. Veterans still working in the 45er89 of the Mainstream Media elite about what he calls his employers lef leftist lurch. Bret but, first, breaking tonight horrific terror plot thwarted. Fbi Officials Say a teenager in idaho planned what are described as horrific and violent plots against churches on behalf of the Isis Terror Group is now in custody. What was he planning . Were there others involved . Correspondent david spunt starts us off tonight with this Breaking News from the Justice Department. Good evening, david. Bret, good evening to you. A disturbing story. Fbi agents arrested this 18yearold student one day before they say he planned to attack more than 20 churches killing as many people as possible. The plan
it s easy to overlook, but donald trump is trying to run out the clock, the slow walk, the many cases against him, enough to win the republican primary before he can be convicted or maybe even tried of a crime. given a recent spate of legal losses for the twice impeached ex president, we re now entering a crucial time in this high stakes test of wills. last week, in appeals court, reinstated the gag order against him in new york. judges in d.c. also rejected his broad claims of presidenti immunity, which prompted tanya chutkan, the jue and jack smith s federal write, quote, defendants for your service as commander-in-chief did not bestow on him the divine right of kings to evade criminal accountability that governs his fellow citizens, and quote. those legal losses haven t curbed his legal team s efforts to escape or at least postpone his prosecutions. at a hearing on friday, his lawyers went as far as to argue a trial in the fulton county, georgia case this year, would const
we will bring you more from our correspondent outside a hospital in a moment. a leading think tank, the institute for fiscal studies, has accused the main political parties of a conspiracy of silence over the economic reality behind plans set out in their election manifestos. the ifs analysed how the policies could impact the public finances and what that could mean for household incomes, public services and taxation. in its scathing assessment it said the parties were ducking the issues, by relying on faster growth to deliver more tax, which it said was far from guaranteed. it also warned the next government faced having to find new ways to raise taxes, or leave some public services exposed to billions of pounds worth of cuts. this a flavour of what the director of the ifs, pauljohnson, had to say. low growth, high debt, high interest payments mean we need to do something quite rare over the next few years just to stop debt spiralling ever upwards we need to run primar