CBS Evening News, 02/27/26
CBS Evening News
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🗓️ 28 February 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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The oversight committee heard from Former President Bill Clinton today, undergoing questioning about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Trump says he's "not happy" with the ongoing negotiations with Iran. Will the presence of US troops force them to make a deal? Crucial testimony was made today in the trial of a father accused of enabling his son who carried out a school shooting. Skyler Henry reports.
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| 0:00.0 | Good to be with you. I'm Tony DeCopal. The breaking news right now. |
| 0:05.0 | For the first time of former president forced to testify under oath before Congress, |
| 0:11.0 | Bill Clinton answering questions about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. |
| 0:15.0 | What he said when asked if President Trump should testify as well, and reaction tonight from the White House. Also breaking late |
| 0:22.6 | tonight, President Trump calling AI giant Anthropic a, quote, radical left woke company, |
| 0:28.8 | saying they made a disastrous mistake trying to strong arm the Pentagon over the use of artificial |
| 0:34.6 | intelligence. What he's now telling every government agency tonight. |
| 0:40.0 | Also developing the growing threat of war with Iran. |
| 0:43.3 | We have the greatest military anywhere in the world. |
| 0:45.5 | There's nothing close. |
| 0:46.7 | I'd love not to use it, but sometimes you have to. |
| 0:49.6 | And the warm weekend ahead for much of the country |
| 0:52.4 | before another winter storm targets millions. |
| 0:55.6 | Rob Marciano with the timing and track. |
| 0:58.8 | Darling, I love you, though you treat me cruel. |
| 1:03.7 | Remembering songwriter Neil Sedaka. |
| 1:07.3 | Plus Steve Hartman on the road with a wave of change. |
| 1:11.6 | From CBS News headquarters in New York, this is the CBS Evening News with Tony DeCopold. |
| 1:20.6 | Good evening. We are closely watching the Middle East tonight ahead of a potential U.S. strike on Iran, but we're going to begin right here at home, where for the first time a former president has been forced to testify |
| 1:31.9 | before Congress. Bill Clinton's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein is laid out in the Epstein |
| 1:37.2 | files, including pictures of him in a pool and in a jacuzzi and aboard Epstein's plane, |
| 1:42.6 | appearing at ease alongside the late convicted sex offender |
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