tonight. breaking news: federal hate crime charges against three georgia men in connection with the death of ahmaud arbery. covid shot surplus: daily vaccinations drop nearly 25% from earlier this month as cities scramble to use thousands of doses before they expire. in afghanistan, just days before the drawdown of forces begins, cbs news is on the ground. what happens when u.s. troops pull out? the high school cheerleader s free speech case: a public school suspended this teen for using profanity off school grounds on snapchat. now the supreme court weighs in. and remembering astronaut michael collins who played a vital role in the first moon mission. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o dllvening, and to our viewers in the west, thank you for joining us. we are going to begin tonight with president biden s first address to a joint session of congress and the ambitious plan he ll lay out this evening to move the country
i m sure sandra remembers it, too. sandra: fox news alert as we top the a new hour. leticia james campaigned on getting trump and now the clock is ticking. the former president needs to fork over nearly half a billion dollars by monday to even be able to appeal his civil fraud suit verdict. critics say her entire prosecution was personal and political. this is the faulkner focus. sandra smith in for harris. the president s team says he is unable to secure a bond of that size, enormous mag any tut calling it unprecedented. a practical impossibility and grossly disproportion nall. the former president has asked a court for a pause on monday s due date or accept a portion of the tab, $1 hundred million. constitutional law attorney jonathan turley with this. basically his position is in order to get a any other judge look at what i ve done to you you have to come up with a half billion dollars to appeal. a judge saying we ll take your house away. appeal my decision but sell
in that field just north of the airport and burst into flight flames. christina coleman is live in los angeles with the very latest. a tragedy early this morning here in southern california. eight cessna cfi 50 business jet crash killing six people on board. this jet took off from harry reid international airport in las vegas and crashed north of the french valley airport in marietta. that is about 85 miles southeast of los angeles. deputies responded to the seat around 4:15 a.m. this morning and found this plate in a field fully engulfed in flames. the crash sparked a small brush fire. fortunately crews were able to contain it to about an acre before it could spread in these hot dry conditions. the six victims in this incident were all pronounced dead at the scene. tragically, this marks the second deadly plane crash near the french valley airport just this week. on tuesday the fourth of july, southern california man was killed when the cessna 172 he was piloting crash jus
widespread doubt and uncertainty, the united states government seems to have assumed a role similar to an orwellian ministry of truth. white house from press secretary karine jean-pierre responded on wednesday. we certainly disagree with this decision. we re going to continue to promote responsible actions to protect public health, safety and security when confronted by challenges like a deadly pandemic. our view remains that social media platforms have a critical responsibility to take action or to take account of the effects of their platforms are having to the american people. paul: let s bring in our panel, wall street journal columnists dan henninger, kim strassel and iowaly shah finley. alicia, tell us who sued the government and what they re alleging. louisiana and missouri joined by scientists and conservative activists sued the government for infringing on their free speech rights. they claim that they put pressure and coerced the platforms such as youtubing
under the very same espionage act that trump is complaining about being charged under. and more than three years after the murder of george floyd under the knee of a minneapolis police officer, the doj finally releases the damning findings of their investigation into the minneapolis pd. but we begin tonight with the rantings of a twice indicted former president who seems to forget that history is well chronicled and easily searched. at his bedminster golf club earlier this week where it s cited in the special counsel s indictment that he on two occasions shared classified documents with people lacking security clearances, donald trump attacked the use of the espionage act under which he s being charged. charming a former president of the united states under the espionage act of 1917 wasn t meant for this. an act for a crime so heinous that only the death penalty would do. it s one of the most outrageous and vicious legal theories ever put forward in an american court of