but first, we start in september of 2015. donald trump was three months removed from his famed escalator ride announcing his presidential bid. he had already risen to the top of the republican field, leading in all the polls, and he found himself showing off his trump tower office to the wall street journal. this is shaquille o neal s shoe. oh my god! is that a real issue? he took it off after he handed it to me. i carry like this. tom brady s super bowl helmet. wow. this is mike tyson s belt. shock shoe! tom brady s super bowl helmet, mike tyson s belt. we have known for a while that donald trump likes to collect memorabilia, if you will. and so when trump arrived at the white house, well, it was no different. here is the new york times today describing trump s time in office. quote, white house aides described how excited trump was to show of all the material he had access to, including letters from the north korean leader kim jong-un, which he routinely waved
white house is drowning donald trump s hope for happier days in the final chapter of his life. every day gets worse for donald trump. every day is worse than the day before. what happened to donald trump in a courtroom in manhattan today would have been the worst the thing that has ever happened in donald trump s life if donald trump had never been president. donald trump s accountant, allen weisselberg, the man who and all all of the money going into end going out of donald trump s accounts pled guilty for 15 felonies involving that money. 15 financial crimes. all of those crimes were committed to benefit donald trump in some way. some indirect ways. nothing as bad as that has happened in donald trump s business life, including donald trump s multiple business bankruptcies. it obviously brings donald trump much closer to facing criminal charges for many of the same financial crimes. but donald trump s legal life is so bad now that that is not our lead story tonight. we will
jon stewart goes to the hill and sounds off on the gop. they haven t met a veteran they won t screw over. o donnell: families of 9/11 victims blast donald trump as the former president hosts a saudi backed liv tour at his new jersey golf club just 50 miles from ground zero, his controversial comments. nobody has gotten to the bottom of 9/11, unfortunately. o donnell: monkeypox crisis: the major american city tonight declaring a state of emergency as cases explode. jetblue buying spirit: what the $3.8 billion deal could many for your next strip trip and how an nfl superstar is helping kansas city teenagers give back to their community. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. good evening, to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us on this busy thursday night. tonight, for the second time this week, catastrophic flooding has forced americans to flee their homes in the middle of the night, th
basking in a historic win with a landmark spending bill passing just hours ago. president biden is wasting no time applauding the passage. it may become the largest investment in climate change intervention the nation s ever seen. i m almost has every region of the nation has been baked by extreme heat. the summer many states terrorized by extreme weather disasters that caused billions of dollars and hundreds of lives. coast to coast we are bracing for more as fire season in the western states has opened with more record places well federal scientists warn of an above average and above normal hurricane season. still threatening the east coast. yet for all the unprecedented crime and action promised by the inflation reduction act it is still just a step towards a sustainable future. it is moving the country away from fossil fuels and substantially curving the nation s emissions over the next eight years. even with this legislative battle over climate action or is america rea
polarizing decisions, issued by the court on abortion, gun rights, and today s ruling limiting the epa s authority to fight climate change. we are going to have much more that ruling specifically, and on the future of the court, and its newest member just ahead. before we get to all of that, do you remember when the donald trump campaign was caught scam in its own donors. i just have to redo the lead from the new york times, the story that broke the scandal open. quote, stacey black was in hospice care and september 2020, listening to russia limbaugh s dire warnings about how badly donald trump s campaign needed money, when he went online and shipped in everything he could. $500. it was a big sum for a 63 year old battling cancer, and living in kansas city unless than $1,000 a month. but that single contribution, quickly multiplied, another $500 was withdrawn the next day, then $500 next week, and every week through mid october without his knowledge, until mr. blasts bank acc