CBS Evening News, 11/13/25
CBS Evening News
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🗓️ 14 November 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Newly-released documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein show President Trump's name appearing hundreds of times. Trump did not answer questions about it on Thursday. He has denied any wrongdoing and repeatedly called the Epstein scandal a “hoax.” Senior military officials on Wednesday presented President Trump with updated options for potential operations in Venezuela, including strikes on land, according to multiple sources familiar with the meetings at the White House. There may be a link between ultra-processed food and a higher risk of colon cancer, a new study says.
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| 0:00.0 | President Trump isn't talking about it, but Jeffrey Epstein is, in newly released emails that raise questions about the relationship between the president and the convicted sex offender. |
| 0:11.0 | Also tonight, CBS News has learned that Pentagon is preparing for military action inside Venezuela. |
| 0:18.0 | Is there a link between ultra-processed food and a high risk of colon cancer? |
| 0:23.3 | Dr. Selene Gounder has the results of a new study. |
| 0:26.1 | Nothing's impossible. |
| 0:27.1 | And a young man with a dream and the mentor who helped make it come true. |
| 0:31.6 | I noticed his passion. |
| 0:32.6 | I noticed his driver. |
| 0:33.6 | This kid was serious. |
| 0:35.6 | From CBS News headquarters in New York, this is the CBS Evening News. |
| 0:43.3 | Good evening. I'm Maurice Dubois. I'm John Dickerson. |
| 0:47.3 | What was the relationship between President Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, the financier and convicted sex offender? |
| 0:53.3 | What did the president know |
| 0:55.0 | about what Epstein was up to? And was Mr. Trump involved in any way? Those are just some of the |
| 1:01.2 | questions being asked as journalists read through thousands of pages of Epstein documents, |
| 1:06.5 | released yesterday by the House Oversight Committee. The president has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing and calls it all the hoax perpetrated |
| 1:13.4 | by Democrats. |
| 1:14.4 | Now in Epstein's emails and texts, we are getting his side of the story. |
| 1:19.9 | Here to tell both sides of the story is Justice Correspondent Scott McFarland. |
| 1:23.7 | Scott? |
| 1:24.7 | John, amid this tonnage of messages in records, Jeffrey Epstein is critical |
| 1:29.4 | of the president and says he knew |
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