voting them out once and for all. norah: the cbs evening news starts now. tonight, a new york, new york, just hours from getting the historic case of the state of new york versus donald trump. i am norah o donnell, thank you for being with us. lawyers are summarizing the six-week trial after more than 20 witnesses and hundreds of pieces of evidence. prosecutors trying to prove to things beyond a reasonable doubt, that triumphal supplied business records tied to payment of stormy daniels, and that those payments were made to cover up another crime, consider that conspiracy to violate state election law. they had their turn attacking the evidence and witnesses especially former trump fixer michael cohen telling the jury he is the mvp of lawyers. cbs s robert costa was inside the courthouse for all the day s highlights. reporter: allies say donald trump arrived confident at court this morning purred this is a very dangerous day for america. reporter: flanked by sev
it matters. our democracy is more than a system of government. it s the very soul of america. it s how we ve been able to constantly adapt through the centuries. it is why we ve always emerged from every challenge stronger than we went in. it s how we ve come together as one nation united. just as our fallen heros have kept the element of faith with our democracy, we must keep faith with them. because of them, all of them, we stand here today. we will never forget that. we will never, ever, ever stop working to make a more perfect union, in which they live and which they died for. that was their problem. that s our promise. that s our promise today to them and our promise always. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, may 28th. that was president biden marking memorial day at arlington national cemetery with a somber message about freedom, democracy, and honoring those who have made the ultimate sacrifice for our country. it certainly is a day for reflection
the jury, making their closing arguments. what both sides argued in these final hours. also tonight, this dangerous system sweeping through with speed and damaging winds as a tornado watch right now after deadly storms this holiday, the woman who survived holding on to a doorknob in her home. ginger zee is here tracking this new threat in the hours ahead. images coming in tonight with the massive building explosion in youngstown, ohio. they are trying to account for everyone. first responders racing to the scene. the urgent man hunt tonight for three suspects in the killing of a former actor on general hospital. authorities believe the actor interrupted them as they were stealing a key part from his car, a part authorities say has valuable metals being stolen and resold. also just in tonight a u.s. military jet has gone down, af-35 fighter jet crash. we have news on the pilot s condition and the other plane crash, seven people jumping out and surviving. tonight, isr
free text l0 to three-to-one, three-to-one today, i hanako montgomery in tokyo and this jensen: it s a time of enormous turmoil. shut up in here. the 60s are over dad. durham: here s michael at the foul line, a shot on ehlo. -good! -yeah! ha-ha! turner: we intend to cover all the news all the time. we won t be signing off until the world ends. isn t that special? any tool for human expression will bring out the best and the worst in us, and television has been that. they don t pay me enough to deal with animals like this. people are no longer embarrassed to admit they watch television. we have seen the news and it is us. clark: slowly but surely, the 1970s are disappearing. the 1980s will be upon us. what a decade it is coming up. happy new year! [ cheers and applause ] auletta: as you begin the 80s in the television world, the landscape was, on any given evening, 9 out of 10 people were watching only one of three networks. more than 30 million people are addicted to it.
- -(clock ticking) jon else: robert oppenheimer was the father of the atomic bomb. he was this complex ball of contradictions. oppenheimer: they are weapons of aggression, of surprise and of terror. richard rhodes: oppenheimer wanted the bomb to be used. how else would the world know what it was? eleanor roosevelt: dr. oppenheimer, are we creating something we may not be able to control? oppenheimer: in a world of atomic weapons, wars will cease. (ticking) newsreel narrator: it is d-minus one for the test of the world s first atomic device. else: this cultured, nonviolent man was responsible for birthing the most violent weapon in human history. and he devoted the rest of his life to trying to control the monster that he had unleashed. oppenheimer: if there is another world war. .this civilization may go under. kai bird: he became a political pariah. edward r. murrow: is it true that humans have already discovered a method of destroying humanity? (cameras clicking) else: and