13th, it will make you smile. we love it. cbs evening news is next. we will be back with more local news at captioning sponsored by cbs . o donnell: tonight, the major news: another deadly shooting at a high school, killing three students and injuring at least eight people. ( sirens ). o donnell: a shooting rampage at a michigan high school. a 15-year-old fires a semiautomatic handgun more than a dozen times. we recovered multiple shell casings in the school. o donnell: the race against omicron. health officials scramble to find out if the new covid variant is here in the u.s. stocks tumble: the dow drops amid the new warning from the chair of the federal reserve. tonight, why former president pt trump s chief of staff says he ll cooperate with the democratic-led investigation into the january 6 assault. what it means for the 45th
good morning, ryan. that s absolutely right. in the pedestriast we ve seen pt trump make these calls political. he starts to slam judges. he has before bashed migrants heading to the southern border, essentially going off script from this holiday message and really talking to whatever is on his mind. and, ryan, this holiday season, it is very clear that impeachment is what is on president trump s mind. we haven t seen much of him, but we have heard quite a bit, especially on twitter. even this morning, bashing democrats, hitting nancy pelosi, the impeachment process. so that s what we re going to be watching very closely here to see if he really goes down this political rabbit hole while he is speaking to these men and women in uniform, serving their country away from their families this holiday. we also know he started that message right now. he s currently reading from his prepared remarks. however, he has said he s going to answer questions, and that, of course, in the past is whe
policy is going to help democrats.on the contrary, as pt trump noted tonight, our numbers go up when democrats proliferate across iowa. be out there, 2020 field, because you re helping us with your talking points that are radical socialism. jason: byron, there s a reason why donald trump went to new hampshire. it s only got four electoral votes. there s a reason he s here more than a year in advance of the general election.what is your ay he was there, and did he do what he was supposed to do tonight for his own good? obviously, democrats have to concentrate on primary states because they have primaries coming up. the president doesn t have those, and he s looking at general election states. he started his campaign in florida. he was recently in pennsylvania. we ve heard a lot about the states president trump barelywo. pennsylvania, michigan wisconsin. new hampshire is a state that he
we mentioned the judiciary committee. former acting attorney general matt whitaker met with the chair of your committee yesterday. there s a disagreement or what he said in that meeting over whether or not president trump reached out to whitaker to talk about the case against or not pt trump reached out to matthew whitaker to talk about it. unlike in the hearing room, mr. whitaker did not deny that the president called him to discuss michael cohen case. no, i didn t have that at all. he said he never talked about with the president about mr. cohen at all. the doj, i m actually as that sound bite was playing, getting into my e-mail, pushback from the department of justice. an official apparently in the room, according to our reporting, said we disagree with representative nadler s characterization of the conversation. mr. nadler said he couldn t discuss private can conversations with the president and didn t describe similar ones as reported.
president trump refusing to commit to the public release, i m sorry, of special counsel robert mueller s russia investigation report. here s the exchange. would you make the mueller report public, because you say there s nothing in there it s totally up to the attorney general. you would haven t a problem if it became public? excuse me. excuse me, that s up to the attorney general. i don t know. it depends. i have no idea what it s going to say. pamela brown is outfront at the white house. and pamela, of course, he does have an idea of what it s going to say, if you go with his public comments, where he has publicly said, there is no collusion, no wrongdoing, nothing whatsoever to see here, so why wouldn t he then commit to letting the american people see the report? well, with ererin, this is pt trump being president trump, being noncommittal, even though, as you said, he has said all along that there is nothing there, no collusion, and that the entire investigation is