CBS Evening News, 01/15/26
CBS Evening News
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🗓️ 16 January 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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President Trump on Thursday threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act, which would allow him to deploy troops to quell protests in Minnesota after two shootings, one fatal, by federal immigration enforcement agents there.
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| 0:00.0 | Good to be with you. I'm Tony DeCopo in Cincinnati. The breaking news right now. |
| 0:06.0 | President Trump threatens to send troops into Minneapolis after another tense night of protests. |
| 0:12.0 | Officers in riot gear the plea from Governor Walls what he wants from President Trump. |
| 0:17.0 | Matt Gutman is there live. |
| 0:19.0 | And the breaking news out of Iran tonight, Arab states asked the Trump administration not |
| 0:25.3 | to attack Iran, what the White House is warning tonight. |
| 0:29.1 | Outlet, get ready. |
| 0:31.6 | Poster! |
| 0:32.6 | Also developing 20 current and recent college basketball players charged with shaving points |
| 0:38.5 | so betters could win millions, what they were allegedly paid to underperform. |
| 0:45.1 | The memory of the business is alive and well here through their signs. |
| 0:49.7 | And the good stuff tonight, small business in America, what's behind the blinking, buzzing |
| 0:54.1 | history of neon |
| 0:56.1 | signs? |
| 0:56.7 | Live from America, this is the CBS News with Tony DeColny. Reporting tonight from Cincinnati. |
| 1:09.1 | Good evening. We are coming to you live from the American Sign Museum here in Cincinnati. |
| 1:13.6 | More on that in a moment, but we have to begin in Minneapolis. For the second time in a week, an ICE agent shot someone last night, deepening the public fear and anger there and once again sending protesters into the streets overnight. |
| 1:25.6 | Now, with thousands of federal agents already on the ground, |
| 1:29.0 | President Trump is threatening to send in U.S. troops to protect them if local politicians |
| 1:33.6 | don't obey the law, as he put it. Chief correspondent Matt Gutman is there and leads us off |
| 1:38.8 | tonight. Matt, good evening. Good evening, Tony. There has been essentially continuous tension here since that agent involved shooting last night. |
| 1:48.3 | A lot of folks in Minneapolis are wondering what a U.S. military presence would look like here, because after all, there are already about 3,000 federal agents here on the ground of force. |
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