airborne near the ukrainian border. cbs charlie d agata reports, this is not a training deployment but a combat one. music superstar taylor swift, the most streamed female artist of all time, crashes spotify. and cbs steve hartman goes on the road. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us on this friday night. we want to begin with what is likely to become a historic legal battle unlike any other in american history, as congress today ordered former president donald trump to testify under oath. the january 6 committee followed through on its unanimous vote to subpoena the former president for documents and his testimony related to his false allegations about the 2020 presidential election. in a letter, chairman bennie thompson, and vice chair liz cheney write that the committee has gathered overwhelming evidence that trump personally
it is 4:00 new york. it is not every day that a former president of the united states is in a courthouse. much less as a defendant in the case that threatens to bring down the entire brand that he used to propel himself into office in the first place. today, donald trump was back in court in the $250 million civil fraud trial in new york. before walking in, trump lashed out as he so often does at the judge, the trial, at the new york attorney general who brought the lawsuit. he did not mention judge engoron s clerk, who has been a frequent target of his, he remains under a gag order that prohibits him from talking about court staff. inside the courtroom, accounting expert eli bartov took the stand and testified that in his expert opinion the attorney general s claims of a years long pattern of fraud, manipulating the values of trump s real estate assets were baseless. there is no evidence whatsoever for any accounting fraud, he said. dold trump was reportedly visibly pleased.
expecting more protests to get underway a few hours from now. that sets the scene for our second hour, welcome back as america reports rolls on. i m john roberts, good to be with you today. gillian: good to be with you, john. interestingly, john, i have to tell you, the protests have spread here, too. covering the state department, walked out, was greeted by 100 protestors who were very rowdy, yelling as officials as they came out of the building, shame on you, even at the nation s capital. and students walked out of classrooms to show solidarity for palestinians. and anti-israel is spreading to others, and calling for a national day of walkouts and the white house is facing criticism from the other side that he is not curtailing hate speech. john: hillary vaughn with more there, but first alexis mcadams kicks things off live in new york city, quite a protest yesterday. hi, john, that s what we have seen. starts with a few dozen and then expands to hundreds and move a
good evening, he i m bret baier, we have exclusive interview with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. that is coming up shortly on this show. first, the white house says israel has agreed to daily breaks in the fighting with hamas. they would be in four hour wind co-s announced three hours in advance. hamas would release some of its hostages in exchange, some of them israeli forces are pounding gaza city as ground trips battle in dense, urban neighborhoods and inside tunnels. senior correspondent mike tobin is in southern israel again tonight with the latest. good evening, mike. good evening, bret. the situation with the hostages fluid and from aville. with talks underway to potentially free others, israel maintains deadly pressure on gaza. [gunfire. a massive early evening series of air pulverizes in the northeast gaza strip. talks in qatar releasing hostages conditioned on a cease-fire. we are doing everything to win this war and we will win this war. pales
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