This is the cbs evening news with norah odonnell. Odonnell good evening. This is our western edition. It was an extraordinary day today with americans on edge and the former Vice President delivering a searing indictment of President Trumps moral leadership. Joe biden accused mr. Trump of fueling a literal carnage in america with his incendiary rhetoric, this just hours before the president arrived in el paso to pay his respects to the victims of the massacre. Leading our coverage tonight is ed okeefe. M we have a problem with this rising tide of supremacy, White Supremacy in america. And we have a president who encourages and emboldens it. Orteeporter former Vice President joe biden in iowa today accused prident trump of inspiring Mass Shootings in texas and pennsylvania. How far is it from trump saying this is an invasion to the shooter in el paso declaring this attack is a response to hispanic invasion of texas . How far is it from White Supremacists and neonazis in charlottesville,
Inaugural address, President Trump painted a dark bleak picture of our country in crisis when he declared this american carnage stops right here, it stops right now. But as a sitting president , trumps anger, hate and divisiveness pitted americans against one another, preying on our divisions and doing anything about the endemic and the epidemic of guns as fuelling a literal carnage in america. We now have more Mass Shootings in the year 2019 this january than days of past january 2019. As of monday, according to the data from the gun violence archives, theres been 255 Mass Shootings in the first 217 days of this year. Cant let this go on. Cant and i will not let this man be reelected president of the United States of america. Folks, this incompetence, his immorality, his carnage stops with us right here right now. Starting in the midwest. Limit to four years and i do believe this, that history will look back on this president as an abberant moment in american history. If donald trump
Longpromised border wall. President trump is celebrating anyway. The president writing, quote, big victory on the wall. The United States Supreme Court Overturns Lower Court injunction, allows border wall to proceed. Big win for Border Security and the rule of law. No question, this is a win for the white house. Albeit a temporary one because so far it hasnt been determined whether the president can use that money or not in the long term, fred. All right. And then, boris, there has been swift reaction to the president s twitter attack on Elijah Cummings. The president writing the district is a disgusting ratinfested mess. If he spent more time in baltimore, maybe he could ep clean up this disgusting place. That coming from the president s twitter. Talk to me about the reaction not just from cummings but from the House Speaker and other members of congress. Thats right. There are obviously questions about race baiting and a president speaking this way about a member of congress and abou
Should not comment outside the 448page report or his david at the just apartment two months ago after the report concluded no criminal charges for the present. You should testify. The department understands that testimony regarding the work of the special Counsel Office will be governed by the turns you outlined on may 29th. Pacifically, the information discussed in her testimony appears in and does not go beyond the public version of your march 22nd 29 tina report that means no classified information, nothing beyond the redacted or blacked out so i could more significantly, nothing more about uncharged third parties. Thats a broad exception which covers the president. Any testimony must remain within the boundaries of your public report, because matters Business Matters within the spoke of your discussion were covered by executive privilege. This would includes investigative steps or decision decisions. Otherwise not described in the public version of your report. Meantime, a Senior C
In this intolerance. So we must connect those dots. If we fail to do that, we are then complicit in the violence that we will continue to see across america. Melissa but the white house is pushing back, sink democrats are playing politics with the treasury. We will talk to White House Deputy secretary hogan gidley in a minute, but first we go to el paso where jeff paul has more on the active investigation. Jeff . Melissa, the police chief in el paso releasing some new details about what happened just prior to this mass shooting. He said the suspected shooter drove for more than ten hours from the dallas area before getting here to el paso. Thats when they believe he somehow got lost in a neighborhood and ended up at the walmart because he was hungry. We continue to learn more about this ongoing investigation. This community is now preparing for a visit from President Trump tomorrow. Some locals in el paso, as well as politicians, want the president to stay away. But the mayor saying it