[cheers and applause] norah breaking news. The criminal indictment against donald trump just filed by special counsel jack smith as the former president is once again accused of trying to overturn his 2020 election loss. The narrow scope of the charges after they Landmark Supreme Court ruling on president ial immunity appeared plus our exclusive interview with the justice who wrote a stinging dissent in that case. Tonight, our new report and the new context. The Cbs Evening News starts now. Special counsel jack smith is not giving up, filing a new federal indictment in the Election Interference Case against donald trump be a good evening, im norah odonnell, and thank you for being with us. The former president is facing the same for charges for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. But the special counsel tailored the allegations to respect and implement the Supreme Courts new immunity standard. Now a big part of that came down to arguing what is an official act of the president v
Im sandra smith. Hi, trace. Trace good morning, everyone. Im trace gallagher. Loeffler hammered home her opponent is a radical liberal. Warnock side stepped questions about Defunding Police and court packing. Democrat jon ossoff appeared alone on the debate stage after senator david perdue opted not to take part. Sandra President Trump rallied for loeffler and perdue over the weekend urging his supporters to turn out in droves. President trump if you dont vote, the socialists and communists win. They win. Georgia patriots must show up and vote for these two incredible people. Sandra fox team coverage. Brandnew analysis from byron york. We begin with Jonathan Serrie live in decat you are, georgia, this morning. Last nights event drew a national audience. How did it influence the debates . Good morning. Good morning, sandra. Both candidates were keenly aware that much of their attention and much of their financial backing is coming from out of state and so this debate focused largely on
Good evening, everybody. Im jim acosta. And what happens next week will be, to use one word, historic. A string of former Government Officials, including the former president , his chief of staff, his lawyers, a Top Justice Department official, Campaign Lawyers all expected to surrender in what Fulton County georgia District Attorney fani willis alleges was a criminal conspiracy to overturn 2020 election. A senior Law Enforcement official tells cnn former President Donald Trump is expected to turn himself in at the Fulton County jail at the end of next week, on thursday or friday. Trumps surrender and arraignment in georgia are likely to look different from those in his previous three criminal cases. The Fulton County sheriff has suggested he wants to treat trump and the others named in the indictment similar tany other defendant. That could mean that they would have mug shots taken and be fingerprinted. And all of this will happen just a day or two after the first republican debate, w
were already very and mangeing them more virulent. dana: we are digging into the new covid report. this is a 300-page report. senator marshall tells me it involved 20 months of pretty extensive research using classified and unclassified information with dozens of experts. the report s conclusion is an accidental chinese lab leak back in november of 2019 is likely what started the covid-19 pandemic weeks before china ever even acknowledged the virus was out there publicly circulating. here is part of that conclusion. it reads the an unintentional research-related incident that resulted from failures of bio safety containment during cars covid two related research. it suggests covid-19 may have leaked twice at the wuhan institute. once in september or october of 2019, which was contained. then again on a much bigger scale in november 2019 when chinese researchers were conducting highly risky gain-of-function research in an effort to develop a covid vaccine. senator marshall
on the growing controversy and what the future holds for women s sports and the fight to keep it fair. sandra: and for most americans no greater measure of success than buying a home. only under president biden your success will now mean higher mortgage rates and you ll have to help folks who don t have good credit scores. larry kudlow does not like it one bit. defaulting i can ruin my own credit. did we forget about 2008? sandra: good question, larry. he had a lot to say on this controversy move as we were learning about it last night. so, he is here for round two on america reports. welcome back as we roll into a second hour. sandra smith in new york. john: john roberts in washington. as you can imagine, larry has a lot to say coming up. by the year 2000, we should succeed in seeing that every 8-year-old can read independently. today 40% of our nation s 8-year-olds are not reading as well as they should. and that is the main reason we have launched america rea