Interference trial . Plus, the big developments in trumps socalled hush money trial. The Cbs Evening News starts now. Good evening. Im norah odonnell, and thank you for being with us. We want to begin tonight with the Supreme Court and the unprecedented case of president ial immunity before the justices. At issue is whether former President Donald Trump is immune from criminal prosecution for what he claims were official acts while in office. The decision will have major implications on the Special Counsels Election Interference case against trump, as well as this years president ial race. Trump wasnt at todays oral arguments at the Supreme Court. He was in a courtroom in Lower Manhattan, where he is mandated to appear for his trial for falsifying Business Records to hide an alleged affair. In addition, trump is facing criminal trials in georgia and florida, and in just the last 24 hours, trump was named as an Unindicted Coconspirator in arizona and michigan over fake elector schemes.
Interference trial . Plus, the big developments in trumps socalled hush money trial. The Cbs Evening News starts now. Good evening. Im norah odonnell, and thank you for being with us. We want to begin tonight with the Supreme Court and the unprecedented case of president ial immunity before the justices. At issue is whether former President Donald Trump is immune from criminal prosecution for what he claims were official acts while in office. The decision will have major implications on the Special Counsels Election Interference case against trump, as well as this years president ial race. Trump wasnt at todays oral arguments at the Supreme Court. He was in a courtroom in Lower Manhattan, where he has mandated to appear for his trial for falsifying Business Records to hide an alleged affair. In addition, trump is facing criminal trials in georgia and florida, and in just the last 24 hours, trump was named as an Unindicted Coconspirator in arizona and michigan over fake electric schemes
Hearts we werent going to kill them. That was training. That kind of training helped prepare them for the treatment that they got. John mccain was tortured. What they did to him in the hanoi hilton and other Prisoner Of War Sites in North Vietnam was torture. Weve never done that kind of thing. Never condoned it. Some of our allies may have done it but we department. The bottom line is, when congress made these things illegal, theyre going to stay illegal until Congress Changes it. Neil when i hear the president said as he did today in this Press Conference and that he would defer i hope i have the right wording there to his Defense Secretary, what did you make of that . Well, i make of it donald trump became famous for saying year youre fired. If he doesnt like that the
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Fox news alert. President trump moments ago wrapping up remarks at a boeing plant in South Carolina trying to refocus attention on jobs and the economy, and our workers. Hello everyone. Im sandra smith. Well, the president suggesting while standing in front of the latest boeing dream liner that hes getting closer to a deal on the new air force one. And im being very, very serious. The new air force one, that plane, as beautiful as it looks, is 30 years old. Can you believe it . What can look so beautiful at 30 . An airplane. I dont know. Which one do we like better, folks . Tell me. Sandra all right. Chief White House Correspondent john roberts traveling with the president , is in North Charleston. As we understand it, hes still behind you, john. There he is. Live pictures of the president , getting a tour of that dream liner. And in the cockpit right now. As your president , im going to do everything i can to unleash the power of the American Spirit and to put our great people back to
Authorities are treating this as a likely terrorist event. I want to have bring in to the discussion the information that you have just mentioned which goes to the idea that there was a level of coordination and likely a cell that was involved in this attack. We have the initial event, which was the plowing down of pedestrians, tourists, families On Las Rambla, which is pedestrianized. It does allow for some vehicle traffic. Now a followon event in a nearby street with the police, individuals apparently armed. Now, as you have been reporting for the last 90 minutes, shepard, they have also shut down the subway systems. Based on my experience, covering this area for more than a decade, they shut down Commuter Systems when they believe they have an ongoing operation. So they are trying to prevent followon attacks and they are trying to limit
movement in their effort to identify suspects on the rental vehicles. Renting a van tells you that they wanted to maximize casualties, whatever thei