theater. capitol riot manhunt, the fbi releases new video showing assaults on police officers hoping the public will help pubh identify some of the most violent offenders. more than two dozen tornadoes reported in the south. some packing winds up to 130 miles per hour. angry putin. the russian leader lashes out after president biden calls him a killer and says their country will pay a price for election interference. attention pet owners: is a popular flea collar to blame for the death of nearly 1,700 dogs and cats? peloton safety warning after a child dies. the company s message tonight about keeping your kids safe. and the sweet story of a hugging machine, a five year old s invention that lets students hug their teacher during the pandemic. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell. o donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us, we will begin with new developments in the shooting rampage in the atlanta area that left eight pe
donald trump and try to control the narrative because trump himself always controlled the narrative. now if you talked to any of his senior advisers, they are making no plans for him to go to present his lawyers believe they have a good case for him not to go to prison. they think is age, the fact that he doesn t have any kind of criminal record, make that case and they are insisting that he will not go to prison. however, donald trump is making his own personal phone calls privately saying that he thinks he could very well be behind bars and that he is okay with it. i will note that almost anyone you talked to, who knows donald trump does not think you would actually be okay with going to prison, but that is what he is telling people. and you also have some reporting on this vetting process in the search for trump s running mate yeah, things are really starting to heat up and they have in the last several weeks, several of those potential vice president that i m sure can
president biden, chuck schumer, nancy pelosi, taking a victory lap after the nearly $2 trillion pandemic relief package officially became law. what you shepherded through the congress, not only meets the moment. it does even more. it is historical and they call it transformational. and it really is. all right. so in just a moment, we ll be speaking with andy, the white house senior adviser for covid response to talk about where things stand, what comes next, of course. the other major breaking news story that is developing this hour. we will be hearing from the family of george floyd, reacting to the minneapolis city council s approval of a $27 million settlement over his death as the client for floyd s murder continues. we want to begin this hour and this conversation with minnesota democratic senator tina smith. thank you. so for your time. we greatly appreciate you joining us on these two very important stories that we re dealing with. we ll start with what we just saw
Attorneys who need to seize the day and own this moment in history is this idea really feasible district attorneys around the country are going to have a harder time going after national political figures. they only have state law to work with. they need to have jurisdiction, which means the thing needs to have happened and then their space. you could see perhaps a red very republican, conservative prosecutor and a purple states like georgia that has us senators who are democrats trying to find some kind of state tax crime against those senators. but it s not like joe biden or hillary clinton or barak obama is running around rural alabama and doing things that then could be a source of a crime. so i think this may be more heat than substance unless and until trump is re-elected, in which case he gains control of the us justice department. and then all bets are off from what you ve learned in your
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