The Emanuel Ame Church he was shot and killed along with eight Church Members during bible study a week ago. Cnns Victor Blackwell is joining us from columbia with more. Victor, a somber day. Walk us throw what has happened first so far. Just at this moment schedule told begin at 1 00 eastern. Some of the hundreds of people who have lined up in tripledigit heat nearly, to see the body of Clementa Pinckney. They will start to do that to pay their respects. Somber is the right word for what we saw this afternoon as this horse drawn caisson came down main street about a mile from the funeral home here to the statehouse grounds and there was silence. Ive said it before that all i could hear was the hooves of these horses and the helicopter above. No one was speaking. As it passed it passed by the civil war memorial below the Confederate Flag and when you put that in the context, wolf of senator pinckneys views and the National Conversation over the past several days, there are many who wit
Courts opinions which revealed the agency was broadly collecting americans internet communication here in the United States, and misrepresenting the scope of that effort. Cnn justice reporter evan perez has the story, and he joins us with details. It has points inside the United States where it can look at and monitor emails and other internet traffic, and what it was doing was beyond doing the collecting of foreign intelligence, is what theyre supposed to be doing, trying to prevent terrorism, there were also incidentally, mistakenly they say, collecting domestic information. This is a big nono. This is not what theyre supposed to be doing. The court ruled that not only had they been violaten the law, but misrepresenting what they were supposed to be doing for three years. So the judge is very upset. They cant just say, oops, our bad. How do they explain why this was happening . Well, you know essentially what the nsa had come up with, in their own minds and in their own perhaps far a
Tonight, some of the places weve been from all these years on the road. This is the cbs evening news. Mason and this is our western edition. Good evening. Im Anthony Mason. The Trump Administration denied today that political connections had anything to do with restoring electrical connections to puerto rico. A huge contract was awarded to a tiny company in whitefish, montana, home town of interior secretary ryan zinke. Zinke today said he had nothing to do with the contract. Cbs news correspondent David Begnaud set out today to find the headquarters of the company somewhere in the middle of nowhere. Reporter nestled down this long driveway in whitefish, montana, is a onestory wooden house which is the home of Whitefish Energy, the tiny Energy Company with only two fulltime employees surprised many. doorbell theres mail for andy techmanski. When it received a 300 million nobid contract to help rebuild puerto ricos electrical grid. Whitefish has never worked on a project of this size. I
Fire. What he said that triggered a firestorm. This is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. And thank you for joining us on this friday. That Eleventh Hour release of secret Jfk Assassination documents is offering fascinating new perspective on the events just before and after the murder of president kennedy including what the cia knew about Lee Harvey Oswald and what the russians were fearing at the time. But even as historians, journalists and amateur historians sift through the trove of documents, it is whats not there thats causing the most intrigue tonight. The release of hundreds of additional pages blocked by President Trump in the name of national security. Pete williams has details. Reporter the documents offer more proof that the secret service was apparently never told Lee Harvey Oswald might be a danger to the president even though the cia and fbi had him under surveillance for months as a potential communist threat. Oswald was added to the list of threats to th
Attack, to chant the equivalent of the old racist meme send her back to africa. What donald trump was really doing was resetting the debate in some kind of three dimensional chess resetting the 2020 election to be about the four black and brown bad congresswomen being socialists. Boom. Check mate, trump wins. But what actually happened and what republicans know happened and what made them freak out is that that racist chant changed the entire terms of the 2020 debate. Because donald trump didnt call congresswoman omar and the others socialists or communists in his attack on them. He didnt attack the new deal or their support for medicare or all or any policy that the right is planning to label. He didnt say anything about policy. He attacked only one thing about them. Their racial ethnic backgrounds. Thats why republicans panicked this week. Let me do something i dont normally do here anymore and read trumps tweet. So interesting to see progressive democrat congresswomen who originally