CBS Evening News with Norah O'Donnell, 01/07
CBS Evening News
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3.5 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2021
⏱️ 23 minutes
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On tonight's CBS Evening News podcast -- what we're learning tonight about the security breach at the Capitol yesterday - how were pro-Trump rioters able to infiltrate the walls of Congress? Also -- new worries tonight about the possibility of rioters once again taking to the streets in Washington - and why authorities are concerned about the possibility of another incident during the inauguration of President-Elect Biden?
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| 0:30.6 | The breaking news tonight as top law enforcement officials tells CBS News, the threat to the nation's |
| 0:36.7 | capital is not over. |
| 0:38.7 | New warnings tonight after the assault on the U.S. Capitol, the manhunt for these men, |
| 0:44.2 | as the FBI asked the public for information. Why there's concern, some of them are still in |
| 0:49.2 | town, and the new intelligence that some may be planning new attacks. Plus, the new fencing around the nation's capital less than two weeks before Joe Biden's |
| 0:58.5 | inauguration. |
| 0:59.5 | They were a riotous mob, insurrectionist, domestic terrorists. |
| 1:05.9 | Removing the president from office. |
| 1:08.3 | The calls tonight from the top two Democrats in Congress, telling |
| 1:11.7 | Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment or they may impeach President Trump. |
| 1:17.5 | The double standard? Tonight, why the former's first lady is posing the question, |
| 1:22.7 | what if these rioters look different? As President-elect Biden points out, Black Lives Matter protesters were met |
| 1:28.8 | with extreme force this summer. And finally, the standard bearers of democracy, the heroes who were |
| 1:36.1 | a bright spot on a dark day in American history. This is a special edition of the CBS evening news News with Nora O'Donnell, reporting tonight from outside the U.S. Capitol. |
| 1:52.7 | Good evening and thank you for joining us. |
| 1:55.0 | We are here tonight, less than 24 hours after an angry mob attacked this building, the people's house, because there is breaking |
| 2:02.2 | news happening both in and outside of it. As we come on the air, a growing list of lawmakers |
| 2:07.1 | is demanding that President Trump's cabinet take the extraordinary step of invoking the 25th |
| 2:13.0 | Amendment to the Constitution, removing him from office, and making Vice President Mike Pence the acting president. |
| 2:19.9 | House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says if that doesn't happen, Congress may move to immediately impeach him. |
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