remaining court cases. and why the former president is considering this a victory. the chances of a trial before the election are zero at this point. major: plus the strong chilling words from the dissenting justices. the cbs evening news starts now. good evening, everyone. i am major garrett in for norah o donnell. the groundbreaking decision from our nation s highest court. presidents have absolute immunity for official acts while in office, but they do not have immunity for unofficial acts. that means donald trump can and most certainly will claim broad immunity in his pending federal election interference case. a case that is now unlikely to be resolved before election day. chief justice john roberts penned the opinion writing the president may not be prosecuted for exercising his core constitutional powers. as for the dissent, justice sonia sotomayor forcefully pushed back and deployed bleak hypotheticals orders the navy seal team six to assassinate a politi
in yemen is out of control, with over 300,000 people affected. the country has been racked by civil war and an intervention by saudi led forces for the past two years. as a result, government health services have collapsed. the white house press secretary, sean spicer, has resigned, reportedly because he was unhappy with president donald trump s appointment of a new communications director. the new appointee, anthony scaramucci, a former wall street financier, denied there had been tensions over his appointment. the palestinian president, mahmoud abbas, has suspended all official contact with israel, as the crisis grows over additional security measures in the old city ofjerusalem. three palestinians were killed in clashes with israeli security forces. three israelis have been stabbed to death in a west bank settlement. now on bbc news, time for the week in parliament. hello there and welcome to the week in parliament. on this programme, the last prime minister s questions be
to the week in parliament. on this programme, the last prime minister s questions before the summer recess seesjeremy corbyn and theresa may going to battle on some familiar themes. 3.8 million people in work are now living in poverty. we created the national living wage. that was the biggest pay increase for people on lowest incomes ever. with mps and peers heading off on their summer break, we ask three experts what we have learnt from this parliament so far and what we can expect in the future. also on this programme, the government announces it s bringing forward the date when the state pension age will rise to 68. there is a balance to be struck between funding of the state pension in years to come, whilst also ensuring fairness for future generations of taxpayers. but first, there was a rowdy end of term sort of feel to the last prime minister s questions before recess. the labour leaderjeremy corbyn focused on low pay, but began by highlighting splits at the top of the
saying some senior ministers were briefing against him because they didn t like his views on brexit. that had followed press stories featuring comments he d reportedly made during a cabinet meeting. remarksjeremy corbyn seized on. mr speaker, the chancellor said this week that some public services servants are overpaid. given the prime minister has had to administer a slap down to her squabbling cabinet, does she think the chancellor was actually talking about her own ministers? i recognise, as i said when i stood on the steps of downing street a year ago, that there are some people our country who are just about managing. they find life a struggle. that actually covers people who are working in the public sector and some people who are working in the private sector. and that s why it s important that the government is taking steps for example, to help those on lowest incomes through the national living wage. it s why we have taken millions of people out of paying income ta