transition team, and also with us international trade expert rebecca harding. i am sure they will both have a view, on the tensions in the middle east. jake sullivan the national security adviser was in riyadh today. on what basis? rumours that president biden might be considering a new peace iniative. and the emmys are postponed. the writers and actors are still on strike, the ad buyers withdrawing funds, how do the studios find a way out of this punishing hollywood strike. lets start with the trumpet news. trump news. the former us president donald trump has been charged with two further counts of retaining classified materials. these latest charges relates to a taped conversation the former president had at his bedminster golf club in newjersey, in which he talks about a pentagon plan of attack on a foreign country, thought to be iran. trump had always denied he had retained any of the classified documents that referred to these plans, until this recording of that con
officials. republican leaders in the house sending a letter to secretary blinken stating it is apparent the biden campaign played an active role in the origins of the public statement that had the effect of helping suppress the hunter biden story and preventing american citizens from making a fully informed decision during the 2020 presidential election. dana: all this coming as an i.r.s. whistleblower is claiming political interference in the hunter biden tax investigation. senator tom cotton saying sooner or later the truth will come out about hunter and the family business. very troubling reports that the i.r.s. and the f.b.i. have been thwarted from investigating hunter biden s dealings, as you say are not about hunter biden. a very troubled by private citizen. the truth will come out and why you start to see whistleblowers come out. dana: joining us now is nancy mace who sits on the house oversight committee. one of the things if you watch the five and gutfeld an
that state. the fed raises interest rates, plus our cbs s carter evans takes a closer look tonight at inflation and why those already struggling financially are being hit the hardest. and america s opioid crisis. cbs s jeff pegues shows us why drug cartels are now pushing fentanyl that looks like candy. they re deliberately doing this to kill our children. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. duncan: good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us tonight. i m jericka duncan in for norah. we begin tonight with the biggest escalation in the war in ukraine since the invasion itself. russia s vladimir putin is threatening nuclear war and warning the west he s not bluffing. it comes after humiliating defeats on the battlefield in ukraine and in a move not seen in russia since world war ii, putin is calling up hundreds of thousands of reservists. the announcement was met by intense anti-war protestors a
Leading up to january 6th, people look at that and say there must be legal ramifications for that but thatis legal ramifications for that but that is not the same as saying there is a legal theory that fits the case and charges that are appropriate for that case. there is a target letter that case. there is a target letter that has been issued which means in the eyes of the justice that has been issued which means in the eyes of thejustice department donald trump should face some charges but i remain sceptical that there is a clean prosecution to that case. the classified documents case is a different story, that it has always been a strong case because it has never been a question of whether he had these documents, he did. the law is clear that he should not have had them once his presidency ended. it got worse this week with a superseding indictment and the fact that such efforts were taken to hide those documents. if that such efforts were taken to hide those documents. that such e
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