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the great jimmy fallon. thank you so much. that s it for us tonight. it s been an extraordinary year. thank you for watching. hello, i m debra feyerick in for don lennon, let s get you up to speed on the day s headlines. the secretary of state hillary clinton is returning to work tomorrow morning. it will be his first day back since she was sidelined by a stomach virus followed by a concussion and blood clot in her brain. she was released wednesday from a new york hospital. according to her schedule clinton will meet with her assistant secretary tomorrow morning. that meeting is her only public event of the day. president obama plans to nominate former nebraska senator chuck hagel as the next secretary of defense. reaction is already pouring in, some positive, some not. we ll have much more on the story in a moment. pakistani intelligence officials say a suspected u.s. drone strike killed 17 people today. today s attack follows two suspected u.s. drone strikes ....
empire actor jussie smollett is sticking to his story, claiming he was the victim of a racist and homophobic assault last month. but now, two nigerian brothers who police arrested and then released without charging them, are telling authorities a story that is different than what smollett reported to police. tony dokoupil has more. reporter: a celebrated young actor. reporter: a heinous crime. but was it staged? according to a chicago police source, authorities are now investigating that very question. just four weeks after empire star jussie smollett first described a racist homophobic attack that shocked the country. i seen the attacker masked and he said, this is maga country, ( bleep ), and punches me right in the face. reporter: and just days after smollett went public with new details. i noticed the rope around my neck and i started screaming. and i said, there s a ( bleep ) rope around my neck. reporter: saying he was pissed off that some peo ....
sent her home sliding down a hill. all of a sudden, i was tumbling, and i thought, i gotta get out of here. the n.f.l. has reached a settlement with former quarterback colin kaepernick. kaepernick sued the n.f.l., claiming the league plotted to keep him out. glor: and steve hartman on the road on a neighborhood coming together. i think your heart would melt, just as mine did. glor: good evening. i m jeff glor. and this is our western edition. we re going to begin tonight with the latest on a workplace shooting just outside chicago. after five police officers who responded have been hurt. it happened at a business that manufacturers industrial equipment in aurora, illinois, and adriana diaz is at the scene adriana. reporter: jeff, the shooter was 45-year-old gary martin, and he worked at the facility, but police haven t released a motive. cbs news has learned that during the confrontation, the swat team sent in a robot that showed the shooter dead. he h ....
it is disturbing. martha: alyssa milano said the new maga hat is a new white hood with white boys unable to empathize with other people. humanity will continue to destroy itself. it is expected that they will argue that sandmann made himself a public figure in this moment and cannot be liable. the president has long argued that libel laws in this country need to be changed. you can t say things that are false, knowingly false, and be able to smile as money pours into your bank account. we are going to take a very, very strong look at that. martha: he cheered on sandmann saying, go get them, nick. fake news. and it seems the president has clarence thomas in his corner on this. he wrote in a concurring statement that the ruling made in the mid- 60s which claimed that people in the public eye then had fewer rights and it came to libel laws may need some revisiting. here s what he said. we did not begin meddling in this area until 1964, nearly 175 years after the fi ....
team in action and to nominate someone you think should be a cnn hero, go to cnnheroes.com. thanks for watching. our coverage continues. good evening. there s breaking news tonight on the question of impeaching president trump. nancy pelosi, the speaker of the house, is opposed to it, because, in her words, the president just isn t worth it. we ll have that story coming up. first, something the president said that he isn t sticking to. a blanket statement and an inflammatory one, as well. the democratic party, the president says, is anti-jewish. and as you know end some in the party have been accused of precisely that. today, the white house at the first press conference in a month and a half, we should point out, defended the line the president took on friday after a house vote condemning many forms of bigotry. here s what the president said on friday. democrats have become an anti-israel party, they ve become an anti-jewish party, and i thought that vote was a dis ....