whitaker: plea deal: a former m.m.a. fighter, known as wild man is the first to plead guilty to assaulting an officer in the capitol riot. airline meltdown, passengers in limbo as spirit cancels hundreds of more flights. we press the c.e.o. for answers. reporter: what do you say to those passengers? whitaker: olympic streak. allyson felix sets a record for medals on the track and the american women reign supreme on the sand. and on the road. cbs steve hartman on how a young intruder stole a homeowner s heart. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. whitaker: good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank norah is off tonight. i m bill whitaker. we begin tonight with the sobering news that for the first time in six months, the u.s. has topped 120,000 covid cases in a single day, a strong signal that the summer surge is only growing. but as we head into the weekend with the pace of shots picking up, today the
biden isn t a king. but don t take that from me. people think that the president of the united states has the power for debt forgiveness. he does not. he can postpone, he can delay. but he does not have that power. that has to be an act of congress. so catch this. the court citeded that exact line from pelosi when they slapped down biden s bailout. one of the very few times nancy and i agree on anything. but that hasn t stopped the media from losing it. if you think about all the grievances that are brought about the trump election, what you re seeing is severe backlash in the sense that people do not want to see black and brown people excel in this country. do you think it s a setback for gender equality? well, it s definitely a setback for social mobility through education. these decisions over the last 24 hours are essentially making it harder for a range of communities to go to college and seek a higher education. this represents an extremist minority who s
subway. somebody else slashed in the east village. this is day after day after day. there are a lot of parents, a lot of families dealing with this reality of rising crime. dana: alexandria hoff is live in washington with more. hi. hi, crime has become an issue where democrats have had to tread lightly on the campaign trail not wanting to highlight violence in cities they control or former calls to defund the police. pennsylvania s toss-up senate race dr. oz has moved into striking distance of democrat john fetterman with ads calling out homicide rates in philadelphia and pittsburgh. fetterman has had to play defense there. i m running on my record on crime. running on my record on crime. [cheers and applause] i ran to be mayor of braddock in a community that has significant gun violence. to be mayor, to fight that. moving the arizona immigration is at the center of the discussion and become one of nationwide. blake masters is vying to unseat democratic senator mark k
adam schiff and new york congressman sean patrick maloney were spotted sipping wine and eating hors d oeuvres on a balcony at any plant in paris, france. they stayed at a swanky hotel, of course, to fund-raising from democrats living abroad. mike waller the republican incumbent with maloney tweeted a picture of maloney with his quote jaunt to paris, switzerland and london. wallace has been speaking across the district instead of gallivanting around the globe. i mean, kennedy, we love wine and hors d oeuvres and paris, france, and switzerland, but america is suffering from crippling inflation, gas prices and armageddon. kennedy: and look at this and i look at these congressman and i think, read the room. what are your constituents thinking? and not everything is a cash grab in order to maintain power. think about the people in your district who are having a hard time buying groceries who are worried about what their kids are being taught in schools? look at the uncertainty
went to d.c. to get some answers, and what happened when i spoke to dems on the hill may surprise you. and jackie. the artist formerly known as kanye west has everyone talking about his interview with tucker. he s not holding back on his faith and the bullying happening in hollywood right now to silence him and conservatives. but first, backlash building tonight over president biden s end of the word world rhetoric about putin using nuclear weapons after he ran from reporters who asked about it. he made these comments off camera earlier this week. quote: think about it, we have not faced the prospect of armageddon since kennedy and the cuban missile crisis. he went on to say he is not joking when he talks about potential use of tactical and nuclear weapons. then yesterday he went after putin again, this time over high gas prices in an a awkward speech about the economy. let me start off with two words, made in america. [cheers and applause] made in america. that s n