happy halloween, i defy anyone to ever surpass my childless old white lesbian costume, i know it s my greatest contribution to our culture. if you ever want to buy one, i recommend anyway, happy halloween. his name is jair bolsonaro. and he just did something nobody has ever done before. jayapal snow is the very far-right president of brazil. in brazil, if you are lucky enough to get elected president and a run for reelection, you win reelection, no brazilian president running for reelection has ever lost. before jair bolsonaro. it was close, but he lost. the first brazilian president to ever lose a bid for reelection. now, i mentioned that he is like trump. one of the ways in which he is like trump s that he has had a hard core base of supporters that thought everything he did was great, and everyone else thought he was a terrible president. in fact, the polls were indicating, clearly for months, and months, and months, that the majority of the population of brazil conside
the alleged $300,000 murder-for- hire plan iranian targeting two top trump officials. cbs catherine herridge speaks to one of them. that it was potentially an effort either to kidnap me or assassinate me. brennan: how will the biden administration respond? and nationwide teacher shortage. cbs elise preston on what s behind the crisis in america s classrooms. teachers are burnt out. but at the same time, they want to make a difference in the lives of kids. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. brennan: good evening to our viewers in the west and thank you for joining us. i m margaret brennan, in for norah. we begin tonight with the latest news about former president donald trump s growing legal troubles. he was set to be questioned under oath today for a civil investigation by the state of new york into alleged fraud by themp president waved to the crowd on the way to his deposition. he invoked his constitutional r
Pick up coverage next in the Situation Room. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitz her in washington along with erin burnett in new york. Were following major Breaking News on the vote a short while ago to remove Kevin Mccarthy as speaker of the house of representatives, the first in the history of the u. S. Congress. An incredible day. Mccarthys ouster led by Congressman Matt Gaetz, joined by other gop hard liners. It was sealed by democrats who could have stepped up to save mccarthy, and they refused to do it. Extremely historic and dramatic, indeed. House business, for all practical purposes, is paralyzed as the chamber faces the very difficult and divisive challenge of choosing a new speaker of the house. Were standing by for a meeting of House Republicans this hour. This is a Special Edition of the Situation Room. We begin on capitol hill where our chief congressional correspondent, manu raju, is covering it all, speaking to everyone
Deescalation. That is the message from the us Secretary Of State, tony blinken just now, after israel launched the retaliatory strike against iran, overnight. Now blinken was just speaking from a g7 summit in italy, telling reporters pointedly that the United States was not involved in any Offensive Operations. As he also said, the focus for the United States and g7 remains deescalation you saw israel on the Receiving End of an unprecedented attack. But our focus has been on, of course, making sure that israel can effectively defend itself, but also so deescalating tensions avoiding conflict. And that remains our focus so israels strikes were in response to the missile and drone attack that iran launched last weekend. The early read this morning seems to be the israel in its response overnight was trying to avoid further escalation. A source in the region saying that the strikes are over around so far downplaying the hit coming at them. John. All right. Us officials confirm that israel