president biden seeks to strengthen economic ties with other asian nations. diaz: plus, battle for ukraine. imtiaz tyab in odesa where russia s war in ukraine is having an impact on foot supplies around the world. diaz: later, johnny cash s hometown springs an unfortunate leak. it s like he s peeing. this is the cbs weekend news. from chicago, here s adriana diaz. diaz: good evening, it is a weekend of weather extremes. more than 100 million americans are impacted in much of the lower 48 states. late today a suspected tornado ripped through arkansas. no word yet on damages or injuries. in colorado today, it feels and looks like winter. but across a swath of the country, it s more like summer. several cities are roasting and setting new heat records, and it s not even memorial day. cbs s michael george is in a muggy new york city. michael. reporter: adriana, good evening. it s near 90 degrees today in central park. add the humidity, feels more like 100. across th
just a year in a half into joe biden? it has been a rapid decline. if you get a moment this weekend , whole up the joe biden inaugural address. we can back it s remarkable. not because of what s in the speech, but because of what is missing from the speech. you want hear a single mention of the issues americans are mos concerned about. nothing on inflation, poverty, gas prices, the stock market, nothing on government spending coming energy independence, fentanyl overdoses, and nothing on border security. there isn t a single mention of policy in the entire address married instead he talked about himself. he compared himself to abraham lincoln issuing the emancipatio proclamation. he told us only joe biden could unite america, to save us from quote bitterness and fury. today on this january day, m postal is in this, bringing american together, and uniting our people, uniting our nation. i ask every american to join me in this cause. we could join forces. stop that the shouti
possible. laura: to make a bad situation worse, we may be facing a shortage of truckers soon. the owners are facing a crisis due to the sky rocketing cost of diesel fuel. and food prices? bloomberg headlines caught my eye. chicken wings for $34. consumer prices of food were up 9.4% in april compared to last april. it s the biggest gain since 1981. it s time to ask this question: both a global and national level, is the economic chaos unfolding before our eyes the result of incompetence or careful planning? ted cruz believes this is all purposesful. joe biden believes in gas is $6 or $10 a gallon, if he imposes enough pain that eventually everyone will have this epiphany and get rid of that truck or mini-van and everyone will buy an electric car. laura: the angle did not disagree. biden is ignorant and his cabinet is unqualified. but this can t be an accident. none of this was predestined. the biden team chose to cancel oil leases, to stop keystone and gren lit a proxy
join us he really, really just let it go on clarence thomas in the judiciary committee yesterday. we re going to show the video and get more from congressman jeffries about that. and at the end of the hour, there is another, there s someone else who let it go. and that is patty lupone, tony winner, patty lupone. tony nominee. who in a discussion with a audience at her broadway show the other day. had to enforce the mask policy. in her theater. in the video s gone viral, a lot of people have seen already. but it deserves, it absolutely deserves the national tv attention that we re going to give it at the end of the hour. and patty love that. i was on the subway they, thinking i could use patty lupone. no one s wearing mask any more. but i m looking forward to that. i m looking forward to it. once again, donald trump and trump republicans have brought us to a place tonight where we have never been before. in the trump era of our politics, which is still ongoing, when i
capital take the unprecedented step of subpoenaing fellow members of and, did the select committee even have the authority to do it. do you think you are going to have to subpoena a sitting member of congress? i think that there is some questions of whether we have authority to do it. we are looking at it. if the charges are there, there will be no reluctance on our part. with the authorities there, there will be no reelecting from our part. at the time, benny thompson was reluctant to issue subpoenas. i doubt it, he told the associated press, there is no precedent to force that compliance. with the months since, revelations have come to light, which would force the committee to grapple with a different question. how could the committee not subpoenaed these members? because after conducting nearly 1000 witness interviews on obtaining over 100,000 documents, one thing has become clear: efforts to contest joe biden s legitimate election victory were not limited to the t