CBS Evening News, 01/05/26
CBS Evening News
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3.5 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife pleaded not guilty Monday to federal drug trafficking and other charges. In court, Maduro was defiant, declaring through a translator that he is innocent, a “decent man” and is “still president of my country.” The CDC makes major changes to childhood vaccine recommendations, with guidelines suggesting fewer shots. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz announced that he won't seek reelection in a surprise exit from politics less than 18 months after the Democrat was chosen to be the party's nominee for vice president.
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| 0:00.0 | Good to be with you. I'm Tony DeCopo. The breaking news right now. |
| 0:04.0 | Venezuela, in a state of emergency tonight, the police launching a national manhunt for anyone who supported the U.S. capture of dictator Nicholas Maduro. |
| 0:15.0 | And the breaking news on that here in New York, Maduro and his wife in a federal courtroom |
| 0:21.4 | for the very first time wearing blue prison shirts, they pleaded not guilty to gun and drug |
| 0:26.3 | charges, Maduro telling the court, I'm a decent man, what the judge said about a fair trial. |
| 0:32.4 | And the big news on vaccines today, the CDC out with new guidance for parents cutting |
| 0:37.0 | the number of recommended |
| 0:38.4 | childhood vaccinations from 17 to 11. Also developing tonight, huge political news out of Minnesota. |
| 0:44.7 | I can't give a political campaign my all. Billions of dollars in alleged fraud and the fate |
| 0:50.3 | of Governor Tim Walls. What's the My Pillow guy have to do with all of us? |
| 0:58.6 | And finally tonight, only in America, what a small town in Oregon just did to avoid higher taxes. |
| 1:05.1 | Would you do the same? |
| 1:07.9 | From CBS News headquarters in New York, this is the CBS Evening News with Tony DeCopal. |
| 1:17.0 | Good evening, I'm Tony DeCopal, and we begin here in New York City, where the now deposed |
| 1:21.7 | president and former First Lady of Venezuela appeared today in federal court just two days |
| 1:26.6 | after U.S. commos snatched them from a |
| 1:28.8 | compound in Caracas. The historic pictures coming in all day, Nicholas Maduro and Siliya Flores |
| 1:34.7 | under heavy guard cladden those blue jail shirts. And then once inside the court, they pleaded not guilty |
| 1:40.5 | to all the charges against them. Maduro at one point tried to rise and address the court before the judge cut him off. |
| 1:47.1 | So let's go straight to Matt Gutman, our chief correspondent, our new chief correspondent, by the way. |
| 1:52.5 | Welcome. |
| 1:52.9 | He was there for all of it, and he joins us now from the federal detention center in Brooklyn, |
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