florida governor ron desantis will soon make his presidential bid official and a you this cnn poll is giving us the latest snapshot of the republican race. one key takeaway, desantis is going to be facing some challenges. and a critical moment in the mar-a-lago documents case. the special counsel closing in on a decision on whether to charge former president trump. his lawyers are requesting a meeting with the attorney general. ahead, what this could signal. and target is taking some of its products celebrating pride month off store shelves. why? they cite confrontational behavior and threats toward store workers over its pride collection. we are following these developing stories and many more coming in right here to cnn news central. the race for the republican presidential nomination is about to get much more competitive. just a few hours from now florida governor ron desantis will officially launch his 2024 white house run in an unconventional way. he s announcing i
the most significant gun ruling in a decade the supreme court s major decision allowing more people to carry a firearm. tonight, new york officials calling it a blow to public safety. juul, banned. what does the f.d.a. s order mean for the vaping industry? our eye on america: how the chicago police department is handling staffing shortages. and, the heroic rescue. we hear from the coach who saved an american swimmer.. plus, 50 years of title ix. how the landmark law changed sports for women, and the world. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west and thank you for joining us on this thursday night. in the past few weeks, we have heard gripping new testimony from the january 6th hearings, but what we learned today was particularly egregious. three former high-levels justice department officials t testified that the president of the united states repeatedly d.o.j. to, in t
they too didn t have any indication that an indictment was imminent. they e-mailed doj and said hey, we d like the opportunity to get an update and explain to you why we think you shouldn t proceed. that was granted. they met with career officials at the justice department and the trump-appointed u.s. attorney who is overseeing that probe. now, this is a different kind of investigation. different matters. different oversight. but to the average american if hunter biden gets a meeting at doj to, quote unquote, speak to the manager and trump doesn t optically this puts the justice department in a tight spot. oftentimes the former president will make arguments about his various cases that are not necessarily legal in nature or not even intended for, say, the judges, more for public consumption. is this about public consumption or is there you say they have a right to make their case to someone investigating them subpoena that the aim here or is this more public messaging? is certain
you can come up with in your wild imagination. more reaction tonight to those stunning new details on just how the twice-impeached former president tried to overturn an election, including telling the doj to, quote, just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me. bill kristol put it bluntly. this was the closest we have ever come to a genuine presidential usurpation. that wasn t the only major development coming from the attorney general s justice department today. the doj reversed an earlier decision and now says the irs must release six years of trump s house returns to house investigators. just a few days ago the justice department said it won t move to block former trump officials from testifying to the january 6th select committee, so plenty to talk about tonight with victoria defrancesco soto, professor and assistant dean at the lbj school of public affairs at the university of texas in austin. and the aforementioned bill kristol, author, writer, thinker
much the most un-american thing you can come up with in your wild imagination. more reaction tonight to the stunning new details on just how the twice impeached former president tried to overturn an election. including telling the doj to, quote, just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me. bill kristol put it bluntly, this was the closest we ve ever come to a genuine presidential usurpation. but that wasn t the only major development coming from the attorney generals justice department today. the doj reversed an earlier decision and now says the irs must release six years of trump s tax returns to help investigation. just a few days ago the doj said it won t move to block former trump officials to testify in front of the january 6th committee. so plenty to talk about tonight with victoria defrancesco, a cyst and dean at the university of texas in austin. and the aid for mentioned bill kristol, author, writer,