[cheers and applause] norah breaking news. The criminal indictment against donald trump just filed by special counsel jack smith as the former president is once again accused of trying to overturn his 2020 election loss. The narrow scope of the charges after they Landmark Supreme Court ruling on president ial immunity appeared plus our exclusive interview with the justice who wrote a stinging dissent in that case. Tonight, our new report and the new context. The Cbs Evening News starts now. Special counsel jack smith is not giving up, filing a new federal indictment in the Election Interference Case against donald trump be a good evening, im norah odonnell, and thank you for being with us. The former president is facing the same for charges for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. But the special counsel tailored the allegations to respect and implement the Supreme Courts new immunity standard. Now a big part of that came down to arguing what is an official act of the president v
Money. He has a long history of allegedly not paying officials where trump holds he rallies. To quote wall street journal, hes left a trail of unpaid bills in his wake, but theres just some you cant weasel out, at least without posting a massive bond first. Thats a lesson donald trump is learning the hard way, when it comes to the 464 million judgment in the Civil Fraud Case brought by tish james. With a deadline looming, today trumps lawyers said its not going to happen. They claim are Feigneding Insurmount appear difficulties, calling it a, quote, practical impossibility to get a bond for that amount, says trump went to four brokers, and everybody turned him down. Its a scenario new York Attorney general tish james saw coming, and shes absolutely clear on what shes prepared to do if and when trump comes up empty. If he does not have funds to pay off the judgment, then we will seek, you know, a Judgment Enforcement mechanisms in court, and we will have the judge to seize his assets. W
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Trump cant quote, turn back the clock on climate progress. Also, things are getting weird in ohio. What voters are saying about the increasingly angry and now kind of strange gop Senate Primary. Let us get to the reporters starting in arizona. Vaughn hillyard is in maricopa county. Bring us up to speed on arizona. Reporter i just talked to kari lake, who is a u. S. Senate candidate, a close ally of donald trump. She just voted at this location behind me for donald trump. Of course that is the only thing on the ballot here in arizona. The next big primary is when she is on the ballot come this august. But you know, i was able to put the question to her about why donald trump and her would be able to pull off wins in november and she said she believes the choice will be stark between her and rubin gaego. I want to let you listen to some voters we talked to today who took part in the republican primary despite donald trump having the nomination wrapped up. Well, for one thing, i dont beli
Held a Press Conference. He announced at the Press Conference that the City Of Warsaw will be Setting Aside Tens Of Millions of dollars in its new budget to build Bomb Shelters for people in that city. Now poland is not currently at war. The capital city of poland is not getting bombed. For them and for us, thats a good thing and an important thing, because poland is a member of nato. So if somebody was bombing poland, if polish citizens, polish civilians needed to use Bomb Shelters in the capital city of that country, that would be very bad news, not just for poland, but for us as well. Because poland is our nato ally. And if somebody was attacking them, that would mean that we would soon be at war as well. If you attack one nato country,c you attack them all. It is a treaty of mutual defense. So our nato ally in poland scrambling right now to build o Bomb Shelters for civilians in their capital city, that is not great news. The reason theyre doing it is because poland borders ukraine