CBS Evening News with Norah O'Donnell, 04/22/24
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🗓️ 23 April 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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The first witness taken the stand in the historic criminal trial of a former president of the United States. In opening statements, prosecutors accuse trump of taking part of a criminal conspiracy to interfere with the 2016 election. But defense attorneys claim trump did nothing wrong and argued that some of the prosecution witnesses are liars and biased against the former president.
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| 0:00.0 | We need to be |
| 0:01.5 | Turmoyle at some of America's top universities. |
| 0:05.4 | Safety has to be for all students, all of us. |
| 0:08.1 | The people face genocide. |
| 0:10.6 | Pro-Palestinian protests spread to other college campuses |
| 0:13.7 | leading to arrests and safety concerns for Jewish students |
| 0:17.1 | on the first night of Passover. |
| 0:19.2 | Any kind of violence is not going to be tolerated. Any kind of |
| 0:21.6 | property damage is not going to be tolerated. The CBS evening news starts now. |
| 0:33.3 | Good evening and thank you for being with us. I'm Maurice Dubois. Nora is on assignment. |
| 0:37.4 | We'll get to those growing clashes and protests on college campuses in just a moment, but we begin here |
| 0:41.6 | tonight with the first witness taking the stand in the historic criminal trial of a former |
| 0:46.2 | president of the United States. Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, |
| 0:51.4 | is charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records |
| 0:55.4 | linked to so-called hush money payments to cover up an alleged affair with an adult |
| 0:59.6 | porn star. In opening statements, prosecutors accused Trump of taking part in a criminal conspiracy |
| 1:05.5 | to interfere with the 2016 election. But defense attorneys claim Trump did nothing wrong and argued that some of the |
| 1:12.1 | prosecution witnesses are liars and biased against the former president. CBS's Robert Costa was inside |
| 1:17.9 | the courthouse and starts us off here tonight. It's a very, very sad day of America. Former President |
| 1:23.9 | Trump today falsely claimed he was the target of election interference |
| 1:28.6 | that Democrats in Washington had orchestrated his indictment to keep him off the campaign trail. |
| 1:35.1 | I should be in Georgia now. I should be in Florida now. |
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