BREAKING: President Biden calls to reinstate the assault weapons ban from 1994.
"We need to ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines, and if we can't ban assault weapons, then we should raise the age to purchase them from 18 to 21." -
@POTUS
NEW: According to a DOJ official, the FBI is NOT in possession of former President Trump's passports. Trump had accused the FBI of stealing his three passports during the search of his Mar-a-Lago home.
EXCLUSIVE:
@CBSNews
has learned the Commission on Presidential Debates plans to issue strict new rules in the coming days that include cutting off a candidate's microphone if they violate the rules, per an informed source.
More tonight on the
@CBSEveningNews
๐จEXCLUSIVE Hillary Clinton on leaked draft opinion: "This opinion is dark...And it is not just about a woman's right to choose, it is about much more than that...Once you allow this kind of extreme power to take hold, you have no idea who they will come for nextโ
@cbseveningnews
NEW: A senior Pentagon official tells
@CBSNews
David Martin that on Monday the president said he wanted 10k troops patrolling streets across the country. In a heated conversation in the Oval Office, Barr, Esper, & Milley advised him against it.
More tonight on
@CBSEveningNews
.
@ScottPelley
on what McCabe told
@60Minutes
: "There were meetings at the Justice Department at which it was discussed whether the vice president and a majority of the cabinet could be brought together to remove the president of the United States under the 25th Amendment."
Dr. Fauci on his Thanksgiving plans: "I would love to have it with my children, but my children are in three separate states throughout the country. โฆ They themselves, because of their concern for me and my age, have decided they are not going to come home for Thanksgiving."
.
@PaulaReidCBS
reports: โIโve spoken with many sources with knowledge of the Special Counsel investigation, and we do expect new indictments to be coming as soon as today.โ
CBS News has learned Mauiโs emergency operations chief had no background in disaster response. Itโs his department that is responsible for setting off warning sirens, which rang silent during the fires.
#maui
#wildfires
#Lahaina
#MauiFire
A moment of silence and a rendition of "Amazing Grace" to honor the 500,000 Americans who have now died from COVID-19.
President Biden says a small prayer to himself before going back into the White House.
NEW: President Biden has authorized additional movements of U.S. forces and equipment to strengthen Estonia and Latvia and Lithuania.
"These are totally defensive moves on our part" -
@POTUS
This is unseen footage of Congressional leadership, including Senators Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell, Speaker Pelosi and Rep. Steve Scalise, in a secure location as the riot was unfolding on Capitol Hill on January 6th.
The president surprises Amy Williams from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, with the early homecoming of her husband Sergeant First Class Townsend Williams from Afghanistan.
Their two children are also in attendance.
BREAKING: CBS News has learned that the number of unaccompanied migrant children in
@CBP
custody has nearly tripled in the last 2 weeks.
The current number of children in CBP custody is the highest in the agency's history, a former DHS official tells CBS.
@cbsmireya
reports
Rep. Ted Lieu argues that "lack of remorse is an important factor in impeachment because impeachment, conviction and disqualification is not just about the past it's about the future."
Walter Cronkite once said, "I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got."
I am going to give this everything I've got.
Canโt hold back the tears on this one. Todayโs Opinion page of
@capgaznews
left blank except for this, โToday, we are speechless. This page is intentionally left blank today to commemorate victims of Thursdayโs shootings at our office.โ
Eugene Goodman, the Capitol Police officer who led rioters away from the Senate chamber, will escort Kamala Harris at the inauguration as the new acting deputy House Sergeant at Arms
โAt the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, winning one more verdict, or not closing one more deal. You *will* regret time not spent with a husband, a child, a friend, or a parent.โ
@CBSThisMorning
BREAKING: CBS News has learned that there are now over 13,000 unaccompanied minors in U.S. custody.
@CBSMireya
is on the border tonight for the
@CBSEveningNews
.
"Local school officials are trying to keep children safe in a pandemic while their governor picks a fight with them and even threatens their jobs. Talk about bullying in schools,"
@POTUS
says, and promises to pay back the salaries of any teacher or staff for masking in schools.
Did you speak with any members of the Presidentโs Cabinet for this book? โI did not.โ Did you speak with the Vice President? โI did not.โ Michael Wolff on
@CBSThisMorning
CBS News has learned that FEMA, which is about to set up as many as 100 vaccination sites nationwide, has now approached the Defense Department to ask for up to 10,000 service membersโ help in administering doses of the critical vaccines.
@JonVigliotti
reports
FAUCI WARNING: โIf we skip over the checkpoints in the guidelines to โOpen America Again,โ then we risk the danger of multiple outbreaks... This will not only result in needless suffering and death, but would actually set us back on our quest to return to normal.โ
The January 6th committee plays video of pro-Trump supporters saying Trump was calling them to D.C. based on his Dec. 19 tweet.
One of them predicted a "red wedding," referencing the infamous Game of Thrones scene that depicted a "mass slaughter" according to Rep. Raskin
BREAKING: A senior defense official in Bahrain just told us that 10 minutes ago, the F-18 super hornets bombed 10 unmanned drones in western Yemen that were preparing to launch
@CBSNews
A historic photo. President Biden is joined by Vice President Harris, the first Black and first female vice president, to introduce Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, the likely first Black woman to be a Supreme Court Justice.
Where did the corroborating witness get the information from? -
@JDickerson
โHe remembers it fromโhe was in the same dorm .. and he remembers it clearlyโ -
@JaneMayerNYer
But did he see it? -
@JDickerson
โNo. As Iโve said, he heard it from someone who was there.โ -
@JaneMayerNYer
"The most combustible thing you can do in a democracy is convince people that an election doesn't count," Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) says as House impeachment managers deliver their opening arguments, "especially if what you're saying are lies."
O'Donnell: Did you order the murder of Jamal Khashoggi?
Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman: "Absolutely not. This was a heinous crime. But I take full responsibility as a leader in Saudi Arabia, especially since it was committed by individuals working for the Saudi government"
Judge Jackson, speaking to her daughters, says: "Girls, I know it has not been easy, as I've tried to navigate the challenges of juggling my career and motherhood.... But I hope that you've seen that with hard work, determination, andove, it can be done."
#SCOTUSnominee
NEW:
@SenDuckworth
tells us a senate staffer acted quickly to grab the electoral vote certificates from the Senate chamber and they have them at another location
.
@CBSNews
has learned corrections officers may have falsified reports that they checked in on Jeffrey Epstein in jail as required by protocol.
@MolaReports
has more
Cassidy Hutchinson on President Trump's tweet about Mike Pence during the January 6th riot: "As a staff member... I remember feeling frustrated. As an American, I was disgusted. It was unpatriotic. It was un-American."
CBS News has learned the Army Secretary today will fire or suspend a large number of officers and enlisted soldiers at Ft. Hood in what Pentagon officials call an unprecedented disciplinary action to address a pattern of sexual assault, harassment, suicides and even murder.
.
@CBSEveningNews
exclusive: Sen. Bernie Sanders responds to Sec. Clinton's charge that "nobody likes him."
"This is not the kind of rhetoric that we need right now when we are trying to bring the Dem. Party together to defeat the most dangerous president in American history"
Do you support defunding the police?
@JoeBiden
: "No, I don't support defunding the police. I support conditioning federal aid to police based on whether or not they meet certain basic standards of decency and honorableness."
โSaudi Arabia does not want to acquire any nuclear bomb, but without a doubt if Iran developed a nuclear bomb, we will follow suit as soon as possible.โ Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
@CBSThisMorning
@60Minutes
American Indian and Alaska Native women are killed at a rate ten times higher than the national average.
Deb Haaland, the
@Interior
โs first Native American Secretary, says that a new unit within the Bureau of Indian Affairs will focus on missing and murdered indigenous women.
QUESTION: The vice president suggested today that Americans will be able to get back to work in early June, if we follow the federal guidelines. Do you agree with that assessment?
DR. FAUCI: "The virus determines what the timetable is, not us."
More tonight on
@CBSEveningNews
Strong words from GOP
@SenatorIsakson
this evening: "Anybody who in any way tarnishes the reputation of
@SenJohnMcCain
deserves a whipping ... I would say to the president or anybody in the world, it's time to pause and say, 'this was a great man.'"
.
@CBSNews
has learned that on Monday the president said he wanted 10k troops patrolling streets across the country.
Milley, Barr, and Esper all recommended against it.
David Martin reports
All but a handful of states have lifted most COVID restrictions as cases continue to decline. But health officials are sounding the alarm for those who havenโt been vaccinated and are at risk for a highly-contagious new variant.
@NikkiBattiste
has more
Pres. Bush is speaking out about the immigration debate and what he says needs to be done for reform, including pressing his own party.
"There ought to be more asylum judges on the border...so parents don't have to separate from their kids," Bush says.
NEW:
@CBSNews
has learned the Red Cross is declaring a national blood crisis for the first time and tomorrow the organization will ask people to donate immediately.
Cohen: "I hope this committee and all members of Congress on both sides of the aisle will make it clear: That as a nation, we should not tolerate attempts to intimidate witnesses before Congress and attacks on family are out of bounds and not acceptable."
Charlotte Bennett, a former staff member for New York Governor Cuomo, details what she says was clear sexual harassment by the governor.
โI thought he's trying to sleep with me. The governor's trying to sleep with me," Bennett said.
Just an update:
I am feeling much better and hope to return to NYC later this week if I feel well enough to fly. Thank you for all the kind texts and emails.
Iโm down an organ, butโฆ
Award-winning journalist
@NorahODonnell
has just been named anchor and managing editor of the
@CBSEveningNews
. She will also serve as CBS Newsโ lead anchor for political coverage of the upcoming primaries and election nights
Chief Justice Roberts: "Our Nation has lost a jurist of historic stature. We at the [SCOTUS] have lost a cherished colleague. Today we mourn, but with confidence that future generations will remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg as we knew her -a tireless & resolute champion of justice.โ
The committee plays part of their interview with Donald Trump Jr.
He says he was making a "Godfather" reference when telling Mark Meadows that he needs to "go to the matresses" to get Trump to denounce the rioters.
#January6thCommitteeHearing
In his 1st interview since his removal as director of BARDA, Rick Bright says the US waited too long to acquire PPE & N95 masks.
He tells
@60Minutes
: "It's a horrible thought to think about the time that passed where we could've done something and we didn't."
More on May 17
In light of Michael Cohen's guilty plea this morning, re-posting this clip from our 2016 interview with Paul Manafort about then-candidate Trump's potential business ties to Russia
"Iran's supreme leader called the attack a "slap in the face." But are you worried a punch in the gut may be around the corner?" -O'Donnell
"Well, I think the American people can rest easier tonight" -
@VP
Pence
The president tried to walk back an apparent suggestion that injecting disinfectants could help fight COVID-19: to be clear, you should not do that.
Video showed Dr. Birx appearing to wince as the president made the comments in Thursday's briefing.
@PaulaReidCBS
reports
"In that moment, Ryan said he felt God speak to him "You will do it because you can." He took out a picture of his wife & their four kids. Then, he went home to tell his wife Rebecca. In an instant, she agreed to adopt. The Holets named their new daughter Hope." POTUS
#SOTU
CBS NEWS EXCLUSIVE: Ousted Navy Secretary Richard Spencer tells
@CBSNews
that Pres. Trump does not understand the "full definition of a war fighter" after the president stopped the Pentagon review of SEAL Eddie Gallagher & called him a "great fighter.โ
On September 2, 1963, โThe CBS Evening Newsโ with Walter Cronkite was lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes, becoming network televisionโs first half-hour nightly newscast.