CBS Evening News, 01/13/26
CBS Evening News
CBS News
3.5 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
At a Ford factory in Dearborn, Michigan, President Trump exclusively spoke with Tony Dokoupil about the unrest in Iran, the economy and Fed Chair Jerome Powell. Trump brushed off a question about political retribution and said, "I can’t help what it looks like."
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| 0:00.0 | Your favorite true crime series, 48 Hours, is back for a new season, and so is the official |
| 0:05.5 | after show podcast, Postmortem. Every Monday, listen to a new episode of 48 hours, and then |
| 0:11.2 | join me, 48 Hours correspondent Anne-Marie Green on Tuesday for a new episode of Postmortem, |
| 0:17.2 | where we bring you a closer look at each case. This case was eye-opening on so many different levels. |
| 0:24.1 | Follow and listen to 48 hours on the free Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:30.3 | Good to be with you. I'm Tony DeCopo in Detroit. The breaking news right now. |
| 0:35.0 | Hi. Thank you very much, Mr. President. Our exclusive interview with President Trump, as Ford F-150s roll off the assembly line behind |
| 0:43.6 | us, we ask about everything, the economy. |
| 0:46.6 | We have now the hottest country in the world, and a year and a half ago, our country |
| 0:50.4 | is dead. |
| 0:51.4 | In Iran, the killing of protesters and reports of planned public executions. |
| 0:56.2 | We will take very strong action. |
| 0:57.8 | Day! |
| 0:59.0 | And our new reporting on the death of Renee Nicole Good. |
| 1:03.0 | There are a couple of versions of that tape that are very, very bad. |
| 1:05.7 | Also, the investigation into Fed Chair Jerome Powell. |
| 1:09.0 | He's either corrupt or incompetent. And what the president told me about the Constitution and his own morality. |
| 1:14.6 | And we're here in the heart of the Motor City with the history-making CEO of America's |
| 1:19.6 | largest automaker on tariffs, EVs, and what her factories are telling us about the American economy right now. |
| 1:27.9 | I think 26 will be an even better year than 25. |
| 1:32.0 | Live from America, this is the CBS Evening News with Tony DeCobo, reporting tonight from Detroit. |
| 1:43.0 | Good evening. We are just back from that exclusive conversation with the president coming to you live right now inside the newly built General Motors global headquarters not far from the Detroit Economic Club, where earlier today, President Trump gave that speech on the economy, declaring, quote, the Trump economic boom has officially begun. |
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