plus, covid s come back. holiday weekend travel snagged by staffing shortages while covid looms large. and later: today may be different but it is still not treating people like we want to be treated. an octogenarian confronting racism head on. this is the cbs weekend news from chicago with adriana diaz. tonight, no capturing of level of airchg he in uvalde, texas, gunman took 21 lives in the nation s 27th school shooting so far this year. today, in his commencement address at the university of delaware, president joe biden remembered the young lives lost. as i speak, those irnts pa are literally preparing to bury their children. in the united states of america. to bury their children it s too much violence, too much fear, too much grief. we cannot outlaw tragedy, i know. but we can make america safer. cbs s omar villafranca is in uvalde, texas for us. omar, good evening. reporter: good evening. thousands of people have streamed into this park in uvalde to cry t
world, i am jim acosta, wolf blitzer is off, you are in the situation room. the fallout is just beginning after the stunning admission by police in texas that a wrong decision was made in response of the school s massacre. governor abbott saying he was misled. our correspondent has our report from uvalde, texas. i was misled. i tonight, greg abbott aiming his anger at law enforcement. my expectation is that the law enforcement leaders that are leading the investigations which includes the texas rangers and the fbi, they get to the bottom of every fact with absolute certainty. reporter: after damming new admissions from texas authorities surrounding the commander who made the decision not to immediately enter the classroom the gunman was in. the decision was made this was a barricaded subject. there was time to retrieve the key to wait for a tactical team to breach the door to take on the subject at that point. that was a wrong decision. reporter: officials exp
Thank you for joining us. Cohen lies, biden lies, thats the focus of tonights angle. Laura now, consider what the jurors who have had to sit there in manhattan in that courtroom for four weeks had likely learned about the prosecutions star witness. Is he a convicted perjurer and a tax evaried. He secretly tapes and doesnt give get permission lied about the reason for trump security. Now on top of all of that he has admitted that he is a thief. Yeah. The fixer inflated a contractors invoice to the Trump Organization from 20 k to 50 k and pocketed the difference. Now, i was wondering when we were going to start Hearing Evidence of an actual crime at this trial and today was it. Now, any legal expert worth his or her salt would at this point know that the credibility of Michael Cohen is cooked. The fact that he was never charged with larceny is important because stealing 60,000 through fraud which would be larceny in New York State is more serious of a crime than falsifying business recor
Whatever happened to d. B. Cooper . Were going to talk with a sleuth about the piece of evidence from the 1971 hijacking. He is now suing to be able to see. Plus, another major legal blow for donald trump after losing an appeal. He is set to go on trial on monday in a civil case with the new York Attorney general asking for a 250 million penalty. And now were learning multiple trumps are on the witness list. And leading this hour, cue the music for the 2024 lead. Yes. The veritable Second Coming of the Lincoln Douglass debates last night in california. A political Algonquin Round Table in simi valley for the second republican debate. Just kidding. Theres a i cut i loaded up on you wanted a Gas Tax Increase we do not intend to go ahead like this. In fact, were about to take a did you catch that . Any of that . Okay. Me neither. So lets quickly catch up. While last nights debate was held in the Ronald Reagan president ial library, some conservatives lamented that todays 2024 republican p
cnn starts now. america holds up a mirror to itself and what we see is ugly. that s tonight. this week the united states gave itself a physical of sorts and found that extremism runs deep in its blood stream. it runs across both parties and it courses through our most esteamed institutions. the example that sparked the most headlines interesting most discussion and the most fear of a constitutional crisis was delivered by the former president. under no circumstances, you are promising america tonight, you would never abuse power as retribution against anybody. except for day one. except for except for day one. by now, this kind of rhetoric from trump isn t really surprising and neither are the mental gymnastics from republicans determined to dismiss it. are you okay with that kind of rhetoric? i mean, it s entertainment. we ve been around him long enough. it s entertaining. i think he is an executive that does make decisions and gets things done. now, all