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CBS Evening News

CBS Evening News, 01/29/25

CBS Evening News

CBS News

News, Daily News

3.5650 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Some migrants crossing into the U.S. illegally aren’t doing it alone — Americans are helping them in. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services oversees 13 federal agencies with a budget of $1.8 trillion. CBS News’ Chief Medical Correspondent Dr LaPook explains what Robert F. Kennedy Jr, President Trump's pick for HHS secretary, could mean for the future of the department.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm CBS News, Chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett, and you're invited to the takeout

0:06.0

no reservations required. Every weeknight, our podcast serves up a balanced menu of politics, policy,

0:13.0

and pop culture. The day's happenings with curiosity, informality, and humor. Serious discussion,

0:19.9

but we don't take ourselves too seriously.

0:22.8

Follow and listen to The Takeout with me, Major Garrett, on the free Odyssey app or wherever

0:27.3

you get your podcasts.

0:32.3

From CBS News headquarters in New York, this is the CBS Evening News. Good evening. I'm Maurice Dubois.

0:41.9

I'm John Dickerson. President Trump's nominee for Health Secretary got roughed up at his confirmation hearing today. More about that coming up.

0:49.6

But we begin with the president's crackdown on illegal immigration. He signed the Lakin Riley Act today,

0:55.8

named for a Georgia woman murdered by an undocumented immigrant.

0:59.8

It says an immigrant who is in this country illegally

1:02.3

and commits a violent crime must be held in detention until trial.

1:07.1

Mr. Trump also said he will open a detention center

1:10.4

at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba,

1:11.6

for as many as 30,000 criminal immigrants whose home countries won't take them back.

1:16.6

Some of the immigrants who enter this country illegally are being helped in by U.S. citizens.

1:21.6

It's a business. And Adam Yamaguchi got a look at how it works.

1:26.6

We drove overnight to a safe house near the southern border in New Mexico

1:31.0

to meet a woman who just hours ago arrived on U.S. soil illegally.

1:36.3

Why are you here?

1:37.8

You want a better life.

1:41.7

This woman says she was desperate to escape the violence in Zakatakas, Mexico.

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