CBS Evening News with Norah O'Donnell, 09/05/24
CBS Evening News
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3.5 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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The president's son pleads guilty to charges of tax evasion and falsifying tax returns. The surprise twist as the trial was set to get underway. The horrific school shooting in Georgia that left two teachers and two students dead, CBS news has new information about the alleged teenage shooter, the gun he used, and prior warning signs, including his interests in school shootings.
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| 0:46.0 | Breaking news, the president's son |
| 0:48.3 | pleads guilty to charges of tax evasion |
| 0:51.0 | and falsifying tax returns. |
| 0:53.5 | The surprise twist as a trial was set to get underway. I think Hunter Biden's legal team reached the maybe non-controversial conclusion that there's no way he was going to win this case. Could Hunter Biden face time in prison? And what about a pardon from his father? The CBS evening news starts now. |
| 1:18.4 | Good evening. I'm Nora O'Donnell, and thank you for being with us. And we are going to begin tonight with that breaking news. After the president's only surviving son today pleaded |
| 1:23.1 | guilty to nine charges of tax evasion and falsifying tax returns. And tonight we are hearing from |
| 1:30.3 | Hunter Biden about why the sudden change in his legal strategy, as this move will avoid a lengthy |
| 1:36.2 | and embarrassing trial for the Biden family. But what we do know is this, that this development |
| 1:41.7 | was not part of a plea deal. And it does set up the |
| 1:44.7 | possibility that the President's son could spend decades behind bars and raises new questions |
| 1:50.3 | about the chance of a pardon from President Biden. CBS Scott McFarland reports the surprise move |
| 1:56.4 | came as jury selection was getting underway. Hunter Biden, who was convicted by a jury in Delaware in June of unlawfully possessing a gun, |
| 2:06.2 | is trying to avoid a second criminal trial this year. |
| 2:09.6 | He's charged in California with allegedly scheming to avoid paying at least $1.4 million in income taxes. |
| 2:16.0 | But in a surprise move ahead of jury selection today, Biden's |
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