Good evening, and thank you for being with us. Im Maurice Dubois in for norah. We begin here tonight with the arrest and charges that have stunned the sports world and beyond. Scottie scheffler, the pro golfer and current masters champion, was arrested early today after driving around the scene of a fatal accident. It happened as he was heading to the golf course for the second round of the pga championship. He was later charged with four counts, including felony assault, seconddegree assault of an officer. According to the report, the police said scheffler refused to comply with directions and then accelerated, dragging an officer who had to be treated at the hospital for scrapes and swelling to his knee and wrist. Scheffler, who made it back to the course for his delayed tee time, calls it all a big misunderstanding. Cbss Mark Strassmann is following todays whirlwind developments. Guys. Dude. Stand back. Back up im back. Reporter before dawn, scottie scheffler, pro golfs top player,
A big misunderstanding. Maurice the Cbs Evening News starts now. Good evening, and thank you for being with us. Im Maurice Dubois in for norah. We begin tonight with the arrest and charges that have stunned the sports world and beyond. Scottie scheffler, the pro golfer and current masters champion, was arrested early today after driving around the scene of a fatal accident. It happened as he was heading to the golf course for the second round of the pga championship. He was later charged with four counts, including felony assault, seconddegree assault of an officer. According to the report, the police said scheffler refused to comply with directions and then accelerated, dragging an officer who had to be treated at the hospital for scrapes and swelling to his knee and wrist. Scheffler, who made it back to the course for his delayed teatime, called it all a big misunderstanding. Cbss Mark Strassmann is following todays whirlwind developments. Guys beer dude. Stand back. Im back. Reporte
the rachel maddow show starts right now. thank you very much, my friend. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. i m jumping the gun because this has just been a heck of a day in the news. the united states supreme court for the first time ever has issued an ethics code for supreme court justices, first time, first time in our history. and honestly, we have had some terrible supreme court justices in our history. it s not like everyone before this was good, so we didn t need rules. no, we had a justice resign ahead of being probably impeached for alleged bribery. we had a supreme court justice revealed to have been in the kkk just a few weeks after he got confirmed to the court. we had a justice who was so anti-semitic he reportedly would not speak to one of his colleagues. he would not speak to justice brandeis for years because justice brandeis was jewish. that guy was such a thorough going jerk that when he died, not a single one of the other supreme court ju
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thank you home for joining us this hour. i am jump into gun, because this has been a heck of a day in news. the united states supreme court for the first time ever has issued an ethics code for serving court justices, first time. first time in our history. and, honestly, we have had some terrible justices in our history. it s not like everyone before this was good, so we did not need rules. we had a justice resigned ahead of being probably impeached for alleged bribery. we had a supreme court justice reveal to have been in the kkk just a few weeks after he got referred to the court. we had a justice who was so antisemitic, he reportedly would not speak to one of his colleagues. you would not speak to justice brandeis for years, because justice brandeis was joyce. that guy was such a thorough jerk, when he died, not a single one of the other supreme court justices even bother to go to his funeral. we have had some bad ones, i tell you. but we have never before had a hole w