CBS Evening News with Norah O'Donnell, 10/13
CBS Evening News
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3.5 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2020
⏱️ 19 minutes
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On tonight's CBS Evening News podcast -- Day two of the confirmation hearing to nominate Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. Why Judge Barrett invoked the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg in explaining her decision not to comment on past legal precedents. Also -- the latest developments on the coronavirus pandemic - why two major drug companies have halted their clinical trials, and what impact will this have on the race to end the global health crisis?
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| 0:30.8 | Tonight, the battle over the Supreme Court, the president's choice to replace Justice Ruth |
| 0:36.0 | Bader Ginsburg asked how she'd rule on abortion, |
| 0:39.3 | guns, and health care. Judge Amy Coney-Barritt tonight faced a grilling on Capitol Hill. |
| 0:45.8 | She gave few specifics but said her Catholic faith would not influence her decisions. |
| 0:51.1 | Judges can't just wake up one day and say, I have an agenda, I like guns, |
| 0:54.9 | I hate guns, I like abortion, I hate abortion, and walk in like a royal queen and impose, |
| 1:00.4 | you know, their will on the world. |
| 1:02.5 | Coronavirus trials halted the largest vaccine trial paused for an unexplained illness, |
| 1:08.4 | and an antibody treatment similar to the one President Trump touted as a cure temporarily stopped. |
| 1:14.3 | Plus, how did one teenager infect 11 people across four states? |
| 1:19.8 | Three weeks to go. |
| 1:21.5 | President Trump plays defense tonight in Pennsylvania, where he won four years ago but now trails in the polls. |
| 1:27.8 | While Joe Biden puts the focus on Florida, the fight tonight for the senior vote. |
| 1:33.6 | Voter suppression? Long lines in the Lone Star State as early voting begins. |
| 1:38.7 | And we introduce you to one Texas couple who had to drive 35 miles to turn in their ballots, |
| 1:44.4 | why a county larger than Rhode Island only has one drop-off locks. |
| 1:49.1 | Only on CBS News, Brianna Taylor's boyfriend Kenneth Walker speaks to Gail King. |
| 1:55.2 | That was my best friend. |
| 1:57.2 | And after the curtain fell on in-person performances, |
| 2:00.4 | how one theater is proving all the world's a stage. |
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