supreme court says, not so fast, to special counsel jack smith, giving the former president s go-slow legal strategy a big boost. the former president says he knows nothing about hitler, while repeating and defending his hitler-like language. plus a survivor of the october 7th massacre and her remarkable journey. good evening. anderson is off tonight. and we begin with the supreme court s decision not to decide, at least just yet, the central question that could invalidate many of the charges against the former president. namely, does donald trump enjoy immunity from prosecution for actions he took as president? the judge in his january 6th trial ruled he did not. special counsel jack smith asked the supreme court to bypass the d.c. circuit and take it now. and today the court said no. cnn s katelyn polantz joins us with more. kate lynne, we have a decision, not a clear understanding of an explanation of why the justices decided this. walk us through what we know, how man
we begin this hour with a slew of legal setbacks for former president trump including the new orders by the special master he requested. let s go right to our justice correspondent jessica schneider. the special master is call out the public claim that the fbi planted evidence at mar-a-lago. he is, wolf. now that special master wants trump s teams to back up those out of court claims that the fbi planted evidence at mar-a-lago and he wants it in a sworn declaration by the end of this month. it s an accusation that trump and his allies have repeatedly made and now the special master wants proof plus the special master is saying he may end up calling witnesses at some point to explain what certain documents are if there s a dispute. all of this as the justice department notched a big win in the ongoing court fight over classified documents. the justice department is once again digging into 100 classified documents that fbi agents seized from mar-a-lago. i think they want to
president biden is taking on a policy issue that republicans have been trying to turn into a dangerous political. weapon the president sending to the southern border this morning and then on to mexico city. we have a live report from el paso coming. a plus, what history tells us about what might be next in a bitterly divided u.s. congress, and why the speaker fight is not democracy at work. i somewhat have you. believe she received one of the highest civilian honor in the united states on friday, for her role in protecting democracy in the aftermath of the 2020 election. but today, the michigan secretary of state tell me about the bottles that still lie ahead. the book club creature has stories, a police brutality, and white allyship. which one suggests should be taught alongside the classic to kill a mockingbird. others wanted. band will talk about why this book is so, important in the incredible story of how it is two coauthors met. velshi begins now. good, morning it is
in britain it s good-bye boris. so who s next? i m ian lee in downing street where this time tomorrow britain will know who will be their next prime minister. and later, weekend journal. we visit willow creek, wisconsin where fishing is helping first responders and veterans with ptsd one cast at a time. it s exactly why we re doing this. so people don t have to feel so alone in their struggle. announcer: this is the cbs weekend news from new york with jericka duncan. good evening and thanks for joining us on this sunday. we begin tonight with weather extremes. from coast to coast. in georgia states of emergency have been declared in two counties. they were swamped by flash flooding, you see there, after more than a foot of rain fell in the last 24 hours. in indiana at least one person is dead tonight after rushing water caused widespread devastation. while in the west there are several cities enduring triple-digit temperatures and a severe september heat wave. c
in puerto rico, which was slammed by hurricane fiona nearly a week ago, there are still broken trees, roads damaged and widespread power outages. fiona continues to cause havoc. in canada, it made landfall in nova scotia at hurricane strength. homes on the coast just washed away. what can we expect? reporter: ian is expected to rapidly intensify over the upcoming days as it moves into the gulf of mexico where the environment is a little more conducive for development. we re losing that wind shear. it changes with height as it moves off to the west at 16 miles per hour. a lot more convection. a lot more organized as we are looking at satellite. as we notice a bit more of a center, we ll gain some clarity as to where this storm is expected to arrive on somewhere the coastline of florida. so currently sitting down in the caribbean, expected to take its track into the gulf of mexico by monday becoming a category 2 storm, with winds expected around 100 miles per hour. tuesday mo