Norah what does the revelation from the star witness mean for the states case . The Cbs Evening News starts right now. Tonight, a dramatic day in court. Good evening. Im norah odonnell. And thank you for joining us. The firstever criminal trial of a former american president is nearing an end. Late today the prosecution has rested and now Donald Trumps legal team has a case. Closing arguments could begin in about a week and then the former president s fate will be in the hands of a jury. Witnesses on the stand today made for what some experts are describing as a wild day. Michael cohen, trumps former fixer admitted under oath to stealing money from the Trump Organization during an intense crossexamination. And then fireworks during testimony of a Defense Witness that led to the judge clearing the court room. And reprimanding the witness for rolling his eyes and making comments under his breath. Well, there is still one big question tonight, will donald trump take the stand in his own d
Moving in tonight, several states. First tonight, the judge in Donald Trumps criminal trial furious with a witness put on the stand by drms lawyers. Why the judge cleared that courtroom. And it came after a dramatic moment with Michael Cohen. What he admitted to. Aaron katersky is there. Also tonight, the new images coming in. The hardline president of iran dead tonight, killed in that Helicopter Crash. What led to the crash . And tonight, we have learned iran reached out to the u. S. For help after the crash. Martha raddatz with late reporting. Tonight, President Biden now lashing out at the Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal court, who is now seeking an Arrest Warrant for israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and leaders of hamas. Here in the u. S. Tonight, the new severe storm threat were watching at this hour across several states. Terrifying tornadoes, and a very close call already. Youll see the video. Tonight, the major headline following the release of that gra
Government immediately calling an urgent meeting russias invasion, and America Struggle to defend the west. David good morning. Im very grateful to have you here this morning at big picture. Lets talk about who this man was, what he meant in the region, and what this turn of events means for all of the tensions that have been swirling in recent months well good morning casey obviously, a great tragedy that this helicopter went down and it was pretty clear by late yesterday, just from the silence of the iranian officials that they had very little hope that there would be any survivors raisi himself was a very conservative cleric who came in very close to the Supreme Leader of a country, the president of garan is the number two official. Obviously, the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khomeini is this the most important decisionmaker, but the two were very close and he came in to basically run the crackdowns that we have seen on dissent and human rights. He accelerated the support for Terror Gr
Delivered, right to your door, download the free Breaking News hello, everyone. Thank you so much for joining me this sunday. Im for greek a whitfield, and we begin with Breaking News that could have Global Implications irans president Ebrahim Raisi has been involved in a Helicopter Crash in a remote part of the country. Raisis condition is unknown and rescuers are having difficulty reaching the exact site of the crash because of fog and bad weather Iran Supreme Leader is calling for everyone in that country to pray for raisis health and vowing there will be no disruption in irans government. Weve got full coverage of this developing story lets begin with cnns Nic Robertson, nick, what are we learning about the crash and the search for the Site Conditions are tough. The fog, the rain, the temperatures. Its cold. But the search is going on into the night. We understand that army is being deployed. The irgc thats the elite military and iran, as well as the police. There already medics we
Are having a very difficult time reaching the site Nic Robertson is tracking this story closely and joins us now with the latest. Nick. Now some 12 hours later, what do we know . Confusing and conflicting information. Jessica, from the irans Elite Revolutionary Guard Corps in Eastern Azerbaijan province right up there are northwestern iran. They said just a couple of hours ago that they had a signal from the helicopter they go out and got a Cell Phone Signal picked up from the helicopter as well that they knew where it was. But now we understand from their head of irans red crescent their equivalent of the red cross they dont know Rescue Workers do not know at this time whereabouts that the helicopter is the government and the president of the country the calling on people to pray the Supreme Leader rather calling on people to pray for the president at this time irans government, asked people to pray for their president so they did for hours, faith and the hope he survived or mountaino