Hamas operations. Maurice and a stunning move, the u. S. Department of justice has filed criminal charges against hamas top leaders over a murdered americans including the October 7th attacks. The charges range from conspiracy to murder of u. S. Nationals to advancing terrorism. They murdered entire families. They murdered the elderly and they murdered young children. Maurice the Cbs Evening news starts now. Good evening. I am Maurice Dubois in tonight for norah. We begin with breaking news. Newly announced criminal charges against six senior leaders of the hamas and the deaths of dozens of americans in the October 7th terror attack. These charges come days after more hostages were executed including american Hersh Goldbergpolin adding new intense pressure to accelerate their ceasefire talks. One of the defendants now facing federal charges has a key decisionmaker in those negotiations. Cbss Scott Macfarlane has Details Tonight from the Justice Department. Reporter nearly 11 months aft
Indictment for the first time were being told that News Conference will take place in about 19 minutes. Meantime lets get you live outside the courthouse to matt finn. He is in atlanta with the breaking allegations on this matter. What do we know . Hydrates we are looking through the Indictment Documents right now, but they do read that donald trump and some of his associates, including Rudy Giuliani and mark meadows, have been listed and charged in this indictment. Theres a long list of various charges, including racketeering, false statements and solicitation of violation of an oath by a public officer. Were reading through this right now will be able to update you much more throughout the coming hour or two. Throughout the day. There was a lot of anticipation or questions. About who might be named in this indictment. If any of Donald Trumps associates would be listed, we now know that many of them are theres a long list, including some of his former attorneys, including jenna ellis.
Canvas, Cannon Office building balcony, its interesting spot over lucky its beautiful out here and i thought was really a lot colder. Thought was going to get code. It might be a little chilly at times in this hearing room. As we were pointing out in the beginning of this both democrats and republicans are a little upset about how all this played out. Obviously, republicans wanted to see the president indicted over this, but democrats initially thought her might not take these kinds of shots that they think he did and it appears he did in this report, but paul, i mean, you have a draft of some of these statements that her is going to make. What stands out to you. I just spoke with this source close to rob hur and its interesting, hes walking in. Im told a width the viewpoint that hes not looking to make anyone happy, which is probably pretty good because we know everyone is unhappy with the rubber for one reason or another. But he has prepared for this. Interestingly, he left the Justi
Hur and also a letter to Merrick Garland . Objection. And with that, mr. Chairman, i see my time has expired and i yield back gentlelady yields back the chair is recognized. Mr. Her, why do you do it . Why did joe biden your words willfully retained and disclosed, classified materials . I mean, he knew the law in an office like 50 years five decades in the United States senate, chairman of the Senate Foreign relations committee, eight years as Vice President , he got briefed every day as Vice President. Hes been in the situation room. In fact, you know, he knew the rules because you said so on page 226 President Biden was deeply familiar with the measures taken to safeguard Classified Documents and joe biden told us he knew the rules mr. Armstrong said this earlier. Joe biden was deeply familiar with it. Youre exactly right because he told us when jack smith goes after President Trump, joe biden says, how could this happen . What data was in those documents that could compromise source
Bad memory. Will testify publicly first time now and double down on that assessment. We have some clips of that, advance preview. We have a little idea what he will say. Im bill hemmer live in new york city. Back with my partner here. Dana great to have you back. Bill it is very, very good to be back. We went to the Top Of The World with the u. S. Navy and well air our story later this week. It was something else. Every moment of every day was something that weve never done before in our life. Dana amazing. Im dana perino. This is americas newsroom. Breaking moments ago fox news obtained the transcript of hurs interview with the president. He led the interview of the handling of classified documents and willfully retained them in his garage and office but cited the president s mental state. Bill he explains his decision in a 400 page report. He would present himself to an elderly man with a poor memory. That about a month ago didnt sit well with the president. President biden im wellme