CBS Evening News, 11/19/25
CBS Evening News
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🗓️ 20 November 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
The bill to release the Epstein Files moved faster than expected to President Trump's desk. Now, how another newly launched investigation could intervene.
Some prisoners leave lockup only to end back behind bars. On the CBS Evening News' "Eye on America", inside a prison working to rewrite that story by changing inmates' lives before release.
And, .the government's advice to those traveling for the holidays next week to keep fliers from fighting.
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| 0:00.0 | It brings comfort to the victims and the survivors. |
| 0:03.0 | Congress signs off on a measure forcing the Justice Department to release its files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein within 30 days. |
| 0:12.0 | What Attorney General Pam Bondi is promising tonight. |
| 0:15.0 | Get somebody out here, he is in the parking lot with a gun. |
| 0:17.0 | An Ohio police officer is under investigation after firing more than a dozen shots within seconds |
| 0:23.0 | of apprehending a man he thought had a gun. |
| 0:25.9 | Get out of your pockets. |
| 0:29.4 | Powerful storms sweep across the central plains prompting flood fears in Texas Hill Country. |
| 0:34.7 | Come fly with me, let's fly, let's fly away. |
| 0:39.4 | And just in time for the holiday travel season, a plea for a return to courtesy and class |
| 0:45.6 | in air travel. |
| 0:46.6 | Manors, don't stop at the gate. |
| 0:49.4 | From CBS News headquarters in New York, this is the CBS Evening News. |
| 0:59.2 | Good evening. I'm Maurice Dubois. |
| 1:01.2 | I'm John Dickerson. |
| 1:02.3 | A bill ordering the Justice Department to release what are known as the Epstein files within 30 days. |
| 1:07.9 | Now awaits President Trump's signature. |
| 1:09.9 | The president has said he will sign the measure after abruptly dropping his opposition |
| 1:15.0 | over the weekend and called on Republicans to support the release of all documents connected |
| 1:20.5 | to criminal investigations into the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. |
| 1:24.2 | But obstacles remain. |
| 1:25.8 | The bill gives Attorney General Pam Bondi the power to withhold information that would identify |
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