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"A whole new type of bold and a Honda SUV, see your local Honda dealer. Former vice president Mike Pence is going to challenge a subpoena. We will fill you in on details 6 41. Well, let's go to CBS congressional correspondent Scott McFarland on that. According to reports confirmed by CBS News, the former vice president has been argued that as president of the Senate he was part of the legislative branch, which could block the Justice Department for making certain demands of him. This is part of special counsel Jack smith's growing and sweeping investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Again, that CBS correspondent Scott mcfarlane. Just one more day before a homeless encampment is cleared off federal land and McPherson square, but now D.C. lawmakers are pushing back. They're asking the city to make a plan for 70 plus people who live there. The plans to clear McPherson square of unhoused people is set to move forward. The National Park Service says it agreed with a request from D.C.'s Department of Health and Human Services to move the clearing up from April 15th after learning of three deadly overdoses in the camp. The park service says it gave 14 days notice to those who live there, but with more than 70 encampments, it says it's challenging to remove trash and keep the area sanitary and accessible for emergency responders. In a letter to the superintendent of the park service, D.C. council members Robert white and Brian nadot disagreed with the decision, asking for a plan for everyone to be safely housed before the campus closed. Meghan clover AWT op news. Ocean city is asking for offshore wind farm development to stop immediately. The city's mayor and the council say it's because of a series of whale deaths along the east coast. Noah says at least 14 whales have died on the east coast since December 1st. Some are more common humpback whales, some are sperm whales, which are endangered. Congressman Andy Harris of Maryland and Jeff van drew of New Jersey also called for the projects to stop. Noah says there's no evidence that indicates offshore wind projects are to blame for the whale deaths. One ungainly, yet graceful bird could be coming off the endangered species list. U.S. fish and wildlife says the wood stork population is recovering in Florida and other southern states. The service says restoration of the bird's habitat, especially in the Florida Everglades, is leading to the population bump. In the 80s, there were only 5000 breeding pairs of the birds left. Now there are more than 10,000. The wildlife service will take comment through April 17th before making the delisting final. Why Alex Ovechkin, why Alex Ovechkin will not be on the ice for the capitals when they take on Carolina in a few minutes
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"Watching that exchange on the floor. You never would have seen that from the standard government operated feed. Under new bipartisan legislation, the cameras would remain permanently, but in the meantime, we're back to the old rules fixed distant cameras operated by government employees. Scott McFarland, CBS News, the capital. Money news 25 N 55 here on WTO at 9 25 years Ed Corey. A Bloomberg money minute, business is owned by women of color represent one of the fastest growing sectors in the economy, but several barriers prevent many from getting started. The challenge is often related to access to the technical assistance they need the accounting support, the legal support, and of course access to capital. U.S. deputy secretary of commerce Don graves tells me finding capital is a big problem. In 2020, black and Hispanic female business business owners entrepreneurs accounted for less than half of a percent of all venture capital investment The commerce department has launched the capital readiness program grand competition, offering nearly $94 million to help minority business owners. To ensure that these entrepreneurs have the ability to start their businesses and then grow them to scale and create the types of jobs that are going to be family sustaining and help grow local economy. From the Bloomberg newsroom, I'm Ed Corey on WTO. Asian markets are mostly lower tonight, Australia is down a fraction, Tokyo stocks are rising up one and a half percent. But South Korea also Hong Kong and the Shanghai composite all down. And the interestingly an alert from CNBC that China's population has dropped for the first time since the 1960s. The story with implications for economics and geopolitics. Stay with us here on WTO. You may have heard a warning earlier or read something on your phone that they're going to be significant delays on metro this week, but it turns out that it won't be the case after all. Also coming up for you. A man barricades himself in southeast, the building on fire. This is Kyle Cooper. Stay with us tonight, 9 26. Eric was way behind on his taxes. How a lot of money to the IRS almost $15,000. I tried to make payments. The IRS wasn't satisfied with Eric's efforts, so they came after him full force. They're coming to put a lean and a hold on all my income. My home, my car. I was just overwhelmed at what to do. Then Eric called optimum tax relief. When
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"This week, the house January 6th committee, which will soon no longer exist, released thousands and thousands of pages of transcripts of interviews that conducted during its long investigation. I asked CBS News congressional correspondent Scott McFarland, what he thought were the biggest takeaways. Jenny Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice clarence Thomas, was deposed by this committee of the first time we're reading some of what she said, looking through this a few different times. I don't see any blockbuster nuggets, but it's a provocative thing to have a Supreme Court Justice's wife speak to a congressional committee in the deposition. She says there was an ironclad rule that she and the justice don't talk about legal cases and that they don't talk about politics because she told the panel Clara's Thomas is uninterested in politics. But I'll note a few things I hit with my highlighter in the deposition. Jenny Thomas acknowledges being at The White House ellipse rally January 6th that she didn't go through the magnetometers. She said she's just sat with the normal folks at the rally that she wanted to see and feel the atmosphere of the crowd that day and said she had no idea about efforts to bust or fund the travel of any of the rally participants. And remind us why the committee felt it was necessary to release all of the evidence in raw form now before the committee no longer is in existence. This committee does expire. Tuesday. It no longer exists. It is dissolved, it's possible its website is scrubbed and no longer exists on the house dot gov website. They want to have a formal record of their work so they're publicly releasing copies of their transcripts, including with the key witnesses to have a record that exists out there even after the committee is gone. Plus the committee has said it's wants to release all these records and the name of transparency. And they also don't want to have Republicans when they control the house next year. Cherry picking parts of these depositions and weaponizing them as a criticism of the January 6th committee. So they thought putting out the entirety of the depositions might immunize them to that extent. That is CBS News congressional correspondent Scott mcfarlane. Up ahead on WTO, we're checking sports, the wizards, wrapping up their game with Orlando, will let you know what is going on and where they are. It's 9 13. Hi, I'm Frank. Owner of a plumbing company and an expert in fixing the leaks in your house. However, I was also finding leaks in my marketing plan. New jobs weren't flowing in, and our outreach to
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"To recommend a referral for criminal charges against former president Trump. CBS Scott McFarland. The possible charges to be referred would be obstruction of an official proceeding, conspiracy and over the weekend, one committee member discussed the possibility of a charge up incitement of an insurrection, a criminal referral, though, is not binding on the Justice Department. It's just that a recommendation. There's been another confirmed death link to a faulty takata airbag. The death in a 2010 Chrysler 300. After two similar deaths last month, parent firms to let us ask people to stop driving O 5 to 2010, 300s, along with the Dodge Magnum charger and challenger. 1900 people responded. We need to increase that number dramatically. Spokesman Eric main says repairs are totally free. Jeff Gilbert CBS News, Detroit. After telling Twitter users major policy decisions would be put up for an online vote, Elon Musk put his own future on the line. When the 12 hour Twitter poll closed, more than half of the 17 and a half million users who responded voted yes, Elon Musk should step down as head of the company. I would prefer that Elon Musk focus on things of more planetary importance than worrying about Musk's ability to run Twitter. You know, he needs to start listening to some advisers or something because he's killing that business. Musk said he would abide by the results of the poll, even if he does step down as CEO, the multi billionaire will still be owner of the company. Matt bigler for CBS
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"Residents have now been selected to sit on the jury of a high profile trial. Of the January 6th rioters. The trial will examine members of the oath keepers and anti government right-wing organization that was key to the planning of the capital attack. Scott McFarland, CBS News, congressional correspondent, tells WTO the track record for these trials so far shows a conviction is likely. This is the one we've been waiting for more than others because this January 6th trial, which begins at the federal courthouse, involves 5 accused members of the oath keepers who are very much accused of plotting to block the peaceful transfer of power in America and attack the capitol of raising a plan raising money, raising arms and preparing to attack Stewart roads, the founder of the oath keepers is the top name defendant, but there are four others, this trial could take three to four weeks, jury selection itself took a couple of days. So far, about a couple dozen defendants in January 6th have gone on trial in front of D.C. juries every one of them has been convicted on every charge. The trial begins Monday, October 3rd will be tracking the trial for you as it gets underway next week. Russia has officially annexed four regions of Ukraine and has doubled down on its war against Ukraine and more people are leaving Russia because of it. WTO's national security correspondent JJ green joins us live with more on this exodus. The war has created a massive problem for Russia's neighbors like Georgia. 800,000 Russian citizens entered Georgia from March to August. A research associate at the Atlantic council's digital forensics research lab in Georgia says many of them are legitimate, others are not. And this is a horrific number in terms of national security perspective of Georgia. And here's what some of them are doing to threaten George's national security. They exporting corruption. More specifically. Some people were asking, how they can buy driving license in Georgia. And this is what is the biggest threat for Georgia's national security. Busy Asheville says Georgia is not doing anything to limit immigration, even though other countries have put limits on Russian immigration. National security correspondent JJ green. And this Sunday marks 20 years since the first shooting by the beltway snipers, it created three weeks of terror in the region with ten people killed and three wounded
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"A judge this afternoon unsealed the search warrant for president Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate. The unsealed property receipt indicates the Justice Department recovered a long list of classified documents removed from mister Trump's estate. Court papers indicate the former president is being investigated for three federal crimes, including possible violations of the espionage act. CBS News correspondent Scott McFarland joined us earlier with more details on what the FBI found. Well, there are about 28 to 30 items listed on the inventory of things seized during this search warrant, according to the records that were just unsealed. About 11 of them, maybe 12 have some version of secret or classified as a description to the items taken of boxes, envelopes, bags, whatever, full of materials that were deemed classified or secret. That said, this search warrant signed by a federal judge a week ago today, executed Monday all the way through 6 p.m. before the deadline the judge said of August 19th is laying down a marker. The feds went the president's property, executed a search warrant and unprecedented moment in American history, but we don't have that big piece of the puzzle. We don't have the affidavit that was filed with the judge to secure his approval. And that affidavit, if past is prologue, is pretty blunt and will have forthright language, as many federal affidavits do, explaining the rationale for this. For now, we're just guessing. So what do you think investigators are looking for? What is in those boxes? Because some of the violations could include violating the espionage axon. Affidavit would answer that question. The court sees fit to release that. We'll have a much better sense, but here's what we know, Anne. We know that in January, the national archives here in Maryland said that some records that were supposed to be in its possession were suspected of being at Mar-a-Lago. That in February, 6 months ago this week, they asked the Justice Department to launch an investigation, which culminates it seems on Monday with this search of the former president's property. This is, according to multiple sources speaking with CBS News, a search and an investigation about presidential records in the maintenance of those records. It's important to distinguish because there are multiple investigations across the country right now that have some nexus to Donald Trump. Such a big news day, we're going to have to pivot quickly. The house took a big vote today on the president's spending plan, any surprises there. Write down party lines, all Democrats in favor all Republicans against a nearly three quarters of a $1 trillion plan also considered the largest climate change bill in American history. They call it the inflation reduction act. I asked the House speaker if that happens soon. She says, well, we got to start somewhere, but most of the impacts of this bill don't kick in until after the new year. That was CBS News. Congressional correspondent Scott mcfarlane. 9 13 fans of Georgetown cupcake can have a sweet smile again. WTO has learned, it is indeed open again. Do you see how the inspectors had shut down the location earlier this week? The owners say they renewed their business license Thursday and passed a re inspection from D.C. health today. The M street bakery had been shut down due to what it called an administrative oversight, the business had failed to renew its business license when it expired in November, and according to D.C. health records, inspectors found several safety violations just last month. Coming up on double ETO, we're going to check in and see how the nationals are faring against the San Diego Padres. It's 9 13 Are you planning on selling your home? Why not work with a caps in a real estate agent? To cap the listing commission at only 1%. That's less than half the usual cost. The caps and her team of full service agents are local experts who scored in the top 1% of the market via transaction volume. Our real estate agent was fantastic. I've had other real estate agents, but none like her. Selling a house can be very emotional. And highs and lows, but she remained patient with my craziness. And basically held my hand for the entire process. We saved a significant amount of money on the commission, which allowed us to price
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"Thank you, Mike. It's two 41, with the holiday now in the rearview mirror before you know it, we'll be seeing more January 6th hearings, and a key question is whether former White House counsel pat cipollone will participate in some way after getting a subpoena. Let's take you live to CBS News congressional correspondent Scott McFarland, Scott, what are the decision cipollone must make and what are you hearing about them ahead of a big deadline? Well, the decisions will have to be made soon because the deadline, the committee has imposed is tomorrow. In their subpoena to pat cipollone, they requested an interview with him tomorrow. Now, interviews with this committee take on all different types of complexion. Some of them are virtual. Some of them are in person. Some of them have carve outs for certain topics or questions. So it's possible they can work around any executive privilege issues that the former White House counsel tries to invoke. But the committee has been pretty clear here Dimitri, they very much want to speak to pat cipollone. They carved out some of the valuable real estate from their public network hearings to say in so many words that they want to talk to pat cipollone. It appears this committee believes he has the keys to the kingdom and we'll find out if they get access to those keys as soon as tomorrow. Is some of the committee members have been teasing that they've got a lot of witnesses lined up who've been inspired by Cassidy Hutchinson. And they also talked about the next public hearing. So when might that be? And what do you think we're going to learn from it? It's committee's pretty good at raising expectations for itself. They have a thousand witnesses already, but they've also been saying, as you mentioned, that there have been new witnesses who've come forward since Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony last week. We know there are more public hearings coming, which means there are going to be more public witnesses. The next hearing will be led by local congressman Jamie Raskin. It will focus on the role of far right groups, the accused conspirators, plotters, and planners. What they were doing on the ground January 6th, and what they were doing in the run up to January 6th between planning, raising money allegedly, raising arms in some cases allegedly. There's a lot to get into with the far right groups. They've been mentioned several times already in previous hearings. The next hearing will be focused on them. That is CBS News, congressional correspondent Scott McFarland, joining us live and always keeping you updated on all things January 6th. It's two 44. Why
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"30 years now when I came out So this is a big change 30 years ago In downtown D.C. particularly on WTO news Now to the investigation on the January 6th attack on the U.S. capitol the next public hearing of the bipartisan House select committee investigating the insurrection is set for Monday morning CBS News correspondent Scott McFarland has more on what we can expect They're going to focus on the claims of voter fraud The committee is going to say it has through its investigation evidence that the Trump team knew those claims of voter fraud were bogus and that they told the former president that And that it lit the flame that led to all the other steps between November 3rd and January 6th The committee plans to shed additional light on the planning and execution of the deadly insurrection in the coming hearings A new poll finds the nation is still divided over what caused the January 6th riot The polls suggested more than half of Republicans still believe the deadly January 6th insurrection at the capitol was a conspiracy by the left a new Reuters ipsos poll finds that 55% of Republicans believe the debunked idea that left wing protesters led the riot to make former president Trump look bad This as a House select committee begins its hearings over the attack on the capitol and Democrats have accused the former president of an attempted coup the next hearing is Monday Allison keyes CBS News Washington The latest fallout from Russia's war on Ukraine the food supply locals must choose whether to risk shellings or risk not eating Russian forces are attacking Nikolai's food and water That's why you can see around the city places where people take water from tanks on the car tanks and trucks with water So this is the biggest problem for now for us for life Distraught locals face a brutal choice risk the shelling or risk not eating That's where world central kitchen comes in.
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"CBS News special report a vote coming today in the Senate on abortion rights Chuck Schumer the Senate majority leader says he wants senators on the record There'll be no more hiding There'll be no more distracting no more obfuscating Texas Republican John cornyn says the bill doesn't provide enough protection to medical providers who object to abortions Any healthcare provider who had a deeply held religious or moral objection to abortion would be required by federal law to provide them anyway Scott McFarland CBS News Capitol Hill A new CBS News poll finds almost two thirds of those asked say the potential overturning of roe V wade hasn't made them any more or less motivated to vote CBS News director of surveys and elections Jennifer de Pinto Right now people who support keeping row are a bit more motivated than those who want it overturned to take steps like posting on social media donating money or attending a protest or rally CBS News special report I'm Christopher Cruise And then late last night the House approved nearly 40 billion bucks in aid for Ukraine sending the bill to the Senate Mitchell Miller on Capitol Hill this morning The new package for Ukraine has widespread bipartisan support And Virginia Democrat Jerry Connolly says it's important to speak with one voice to Russia The brutal reckless unprovoked invasion and the terrible toll it has taken in the Ukrainian people is not acceptable The aid is expected to be approved as well by the Senate But the upper chamber is now focused on a procedural vote linked to abortion rights Amid concerns among Democrats that the Supreme Court may be preparing to overturn roe versus wade The Senate's top Republican Mitch McConnell says it's clear this vote won't break with a historic trend to overcome the filibuster Historically there have been abortion.
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"Our technical expertise We put lots of resources into joint task forces Scott McFarland CBS News Capitol Hill Contentious arguments at the Supreme Court as Texas attempts to block the Biden administration's attempt to stop enforcing the so called remain in Mexico program Arguing for the Justice Department lawyer Elizabeth pregola says the migrant protection protocols in French on the executive branch's powers to manage the border And I think that if Congress had intended to override the executives ordinary discretion that it enjoys with respect to that kind of foreign policy relationship then at the very least it should have made that intent express in the statute The Texas elicitor general jet stone argues that the Supreme Court should let a lower court ruling ordering the Biden administration to reinstate the Trump era policy stand This court agrees that need go no further Allison keyes CBS News Washington By the way we'll have more on this with CBS News legal analyst thane Rosenbaum at 5 ten Starting next summer you will not be able to buy those old fashioned incandescent lightbulbs The energy department is ordering manufacturers to stop the sale of those old lightbulbs by January 1st requiring them to sell more energy efficient bulbs retailers have an extra 7 months to comply so they can sell their existing inventory The Biden administration estimates the new rules will save Americans about 3 billion a year The policies also expand energy efficiency requirements to more types of lightbulbs Federal headlines is presented by periton doing the can't be done for national security I'm Eric white Here are your top headlines from federal news network The office of personnel management is giving formally incarcerated individuals and opportunity to join the federal workforce OPM is hosting webinars this week to help formally incarcerated job seekers understand the federal hiring process Candidates do not have to answer questions about their criminal history in the initial application for most federal jobs And the cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency is bringing on a long time cybersecurity leader sisa announced that bob lord will join the agency as a senior technical adviser lord was the first chief security officer at the Democratic National Committee For more on these stories go to federal news network dot com Hey the caps host the islanders and still no word on whether ovi will be playing Dave Preston's up next four.
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"Of last year This morning CBS News congressional correspondent Scott McFarland with this significant verdict to the latest one For starting to see a trend the third jury trial in the U.S. capitol riot has concluded here at D.C. federal court And for the third time the jury convicted the defendant on all charges This was an Ohio man And his case was distinctive in as much as he defended himself by saying he was following Donald Trump's orders that argument is striking but it didn't really land with the jury They still convicted him of committing a crime 6 crimes in fact on January 6th one other note for the first time in any capital riot case we saw a defendant convicted and then told by the judge go directly to jail no going home and awaiting the federal sentencing process Yeah anybody that knows this judge kind of solved this coming D.C.'s chief judge as you said strong words in the case of this we could this be a warning sign for all the other defendants to come And multiple judges have taken this platform of January 6th sentencings or trials to express their opinions about the severity of what happened that day D.C.'s chief federal judge really leaned into the defendant The defendant in this case a man by the name of Blake Reed from Tennessee used an argument We're hearing over and over again that he was in his words caught up in the moment or caught up in the mob on January 6th and didn't intend to do what he did And the judge slammed back as if she's heard enough of that saying you brought a gas mask and goggles You came to January 6th knowing you were here to challenge what the government was doing and she sentenced this defendant who wanted probation to a month and a half in jail The judges are hitting almost a boiling point with defendants claiming they were caught up in the moment or caught up in the crowd We've heard that argument now dozens of times What is the House committee that's investigating the capital attack been up to Speaking this week with Stephen Miller the high place Trump aide and a pair of members of the Trump office of council it looks like they're on a trajectory towards public hearings to reveal what they found but they're still doing intake They're still taking interviews and depositions and this clock keeps shifting And the goalposts keep moving It seems now the earliest we'll see those public hearings in a possible report from this committee is may if not chew That CBS News congressional correspondent has gotten mcfarlane sucking there with Dell and Michelle It's Saturday morning April 16th four 38 in the morning over to Ian Crawford in the WTO traffic.
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"23 Guilty is the verdict for a man charged in the January 6th attack on the capitol he has said he was following orders from president Trump Dustin Thompson of Ohio had a distinctive case He really didn't challenge the merits or the evidence in the case he argued that Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani authorized his action that day through their speeches at The White House ellipse the jury convicted him on all counts Now there are three defendants who faced a jury in all three have been convicted CBS congressional correspondent Scott McFarland the 38 year old man was the first such defendant to mount a defense blaming the former president and members of his inner circle for the insurrection It is a pet owner's nightmare and it happened twice yesterday around here Two dogs were stolen at gunpoint and now the owners have turned to social media with photos and hope their dogs will be returned A local humane organization is helping and has advice on recovering a lost or stolen pet Christian Schindler with the humane rescue alliance in D.C. says the owners of Bruno the French bulldog and Pablo described as an Australian shepherd mix have taken the first important step to getting their dogs back They posted the information on social media The more people that share this the higher likelihood that these two dogs get reunited with their families Schindler says make sure your patties microchipped and do extend your search beyond your neighborhood shelter We have shelters all surrounding Washington D.C. And so it's really critically important to contact the surrounding area of shelters as well Kate Ryan WTO news New tonight parents are being urged to talk to their kids about the dangers of accepting food from other people that may have drugs in it Guidance is coming from the Charles county sheriff's office after an incident today at St. Charles high school in Waldorf The sheriff's office says staff at the school were made aware that a student had three bags of crushed cake or brownies That's suspected of containing a dangerous controlled substance The food is being sent to the Maryland state police crime lab no reports of any injuries connected.
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Scott MacFarlane Is the Only One Covering Jan. 6 'Not Guilty' Verdict
"Again, in D.C., Scott McFarland, joining Tanya rivero and Meg Oliver with the reporting over this Matthew Martin defendant from New Mexico found not guilty yesterday on all January 6th charges. We have breaking news, Matthew Martin of New Mexico has been acquitted of all charges connected to the January 6th riot. That's right, Martin traveled to Washington, D.C. after reading then president Trump's tweets about the 2020 election being stolen. He came to the protest on January 6th and entered the capitol with a crowd of other people. Martin has stated that he only realized later that the protests were worse than he thought during his trial, he claimed officers waved him into the capitol building, a prosecutor called this quote nonsense. Joining us now is CBS News, congressional correspondent Scott mcfarlane, Scott, welcome. So tell us about the verdict for Matthew Martin and its significance for other cases. Hey Tonya and Meg, this is not the most significant case. It's a lower level case, a misdemeanor case, but this ruling, this verdict could be quite significant. It lays down a marker that not everybody here unlawfully in the capitol was deemed unlawful that day by all judges. The judge has found this defendant Matthew Martin not guilty of four charges, entering a restricted area, two charges of civil disorder and unlawful picketing and parading. The judge says the government didn't make its case sufficiently on any of those charges. What the judge cited is what Matthew Martin didn't do on January 6th. The judge says, according to the evidence shown at trial, Matthew Martin wasn't screaming or shouting, wasn't crowding people. He was here. He was amid the mob, but the judge says he was not an impactful member of the mob.
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Our American Justice System Was Upended by Jan. 6 Hysteria
"Now, there are reporters who do a pretty good job of covering all angles of a story like the January 6th Capitol Hill riots. Scott McFarland, out of D.C., is a great investigative journalist. He's been all over. That's kind of his beat. He's been given the beat of January 6th in the D.C. area. And he reported on something that I didn't see on ABC world news tonight anywhere else. I've been looking through The New York Times, The Washington Post, they're not covering the not guilty verdict of the 1st January 6th, 6th defendant who testified on his own behalf. First guy to do so was found not guilty. The judge said that he was led in by the capitol police. And the evidence shows that he wasn't violent. He didn't fight with any cops. He didn't damage any property. This guy, from New Mexico, Matthew Martin was charged with four counts. The reason this is so important is our entire American justice system in my view has been upended. By the hysteria over January 6th, and yes, it is hysteria. January 6th was terrible. So were riots over George Floyd. That was awful, too. People getting killed over George Floyd's death is awful. Cops getting assaulted. Killed. Remember, the guy in St. Louis murdered trying to help his buddies pawn shop from being burned to the ground?
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"Than 5% from last year That a CBS News correspondent Scott McFarland reporting from The White House It is four 18 Drive a good weather on the 8s and Carlos Ramirez in the WTO traffic center Thanks again good morning Of course we're dealing with plenty of work zones out there tonight I feel like Rihanna out here work work work work work eastbound side of 66 looks like they did stop traffic once again they've been doing it all night not to worry if you are in that closure shouldn't be longer than approximately 15 minutes at least that's the pattern they've had throughout the night They've stopped traffic approximately ten 15 minutes and then let folks go and they kind of recycle that over and over again So hang tight you should be just fine Now if you're trying to avoid it all together eastbound 66 you're gonna wanna bail out one 23 or not least street Those are gonna be your last points to get out of there before you get stuck in the closure Westbound side of 66 they also only have a single lane getting by right now doesn't seem like they've stopped traffic there at this time but they've also been in a bit of a cycle where they will stop traffic temporarily and then open it up again Northbound three 95 looking up to speed right now between eto road and the 14th street bridge No worries had its southbound either right now out a little bit the beltway in Maryland as you make way past river road looks like the right lane is blocked with the work zone Not to worry you got plenty of room along the left hand side there are also on the outer loop This is going to be closer to colesville road Looks like the same story They're setting up a work crew out there Far right lane is what's going to be blocked Northbound BW Parkway and that works out seems to be on the far right shoulder now so they're likely clearing things up It's going to be on your approach towards 100 No worries no slowdowns right now As you had eastbound on 50 up to speed from the beltway out towards Annapolis across the bay bridge all running up to speed but remember you only have a single lane getting buying either direction on the eastbound span.
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"It's four 46 the top stories we're following for you this afternoon on WTO P that truck protests that's camping out in Hagerstown Well they may not be coming to the D.C. area until tomorrow We've also got new information on what investigators believe may have caused that massive explosion that ripped through a Silver Spring complex and hurt over a dozen people Russia's president is stepping up his threats as the U.S. Secretary of State meets with top Ukrainian diplomats at Ukraine's border Stay with WTO for more on these stories in just minutes New developments this week in the trial of a high profile January 6th defendant guy ruffin a Texas militia member is the first capital riot defendant to go on trial He's accused of storming the capitol while armed His son Jackson was among several witnesses who testified against him this week ahead of the trial Jackson gave the FBI recordings of conversations with his father including this one obtained by NPR You carried a weapon onto federal grounds Okay Okay Which part of that is regular law CBS News congressional correspondent Scott McFarland says the outcome of this trial could set a precedent for future trials of January 6th defendants This is a trial that will go several more days but then the jury has it say This is pivotal for the prosecutors in so many ways But any weakness vulnerability or defeat for the prosecutors at trial here reduces their leverage with all the other defendants who are still to come More than 750 people have been charged with federal crimes related to the riot over 220 defendants have pleaded guilty more than a hundred have been sentenced at least 90 others have trial dates Coming up in money news Are you going to quit How much notice will you give I'm Jeff label It's four 48 And let's get another check of our traffic with Joe Conway in the traffic center We'll start off in Virginia on the 95 trip northbound disabled vehicle is between a quiet and Quantico We've got it in camera They've got the left lane blocked You're getting by to the right note that the easy pass lanes are northbound 95 south slows out of lorton toward woodbridge's volume for you I 66 eastbound the crash after one 23 before nutley street stayed to the right to get by in a notable delay Virginia beltway delays on the adult of through Alexandria leaving Eisenhower avenue toward the Wilson bridge and the through and local lanes in and out of those going north out of Tyson's corner toward the American legion bridge again should be volume for you Driving in Maryland looking for a crash I 95 southbound south of route 100 going out to investigate that one now On the beltway in Montgomery county out of the slows from the old Georgetown road toward the big curve for a reported crash just south of the curb that should be on the shoulder and it was so briefly near Georgia avenue You'll slow again on the end of the near central avenue should be volume there to 70 south flows near one O 9 its volume 15 Northampton the crash de Rosemont avenue can find to the left shoulder but jammed northbound to get there from at least I 70 and South Bend you're going to take a look Driving in the district on two 95 northbound sling from 6 95 to a Pennsylvania avenue SAP mountain 95 delays from eastern avenue to east capital street and Pennsylvania avenue to the roadwork near Pennsylvania avenue from Pennsylvania south capital street I should say the works on your south cap on sat down ten 85 you're getting by to the right Three 95 southbound slowing from before the third street tunnel towards the outbound case bridge going east on 6 95 you'll slow from south capitol street to get to two 95 We are brought to by Vita expect major overnight delays march 7th through tenth on I 95 southbound regular lanes near Fredericksburg exit one 36 reroute your travel visit express lanes dot com I'm Joe Conway WT tip traffic Thanks Joe Let's get a live weather report now with storm team four Samara Theodore Samara it's nice today but it sounds like it's going to get a little bit warmer in the next couple of days Yeah it's going to feel more and more like spring temperatures are going to drop into the 50s tonight That alone tells us it's going to be a mild night ahead by Sunday highs will be in the mid to upper 70s So tomorrow we are headed for the 70s We do have a rain chance though a few showers are possible during the first half of the day but not a washout Mostly cloudy and breezy on the back end Monday breezy to start and partly sunny by Monday afternoon That's when rain is likely to be heavy at times Highs on Monday 80° Tuesday back down into the 50s partly sunny moderating in the 50s and upper 40s during the remainder of the week Wednesday showers are likely high temperatures on Wednesday upper 40s low 50s.
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"scott mcfarland" Discussed on WTOP
"From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention changing the way we were wearing those masks now Another Maryland county said it is actually dropping its indoor mask mandate as well You're in prince Georgia's county though be dropping the indoor mask mandate as of Monday February 28th I have waited a very long time to say that it is safe for us to do this Tell me executive Angela also broke And now given our vaccination rates and the current low rates of community spread that we are seeing our health officials have advised us that this is a safe decision for us to make In schools for now masks will continue to be required in hyattsville Neal A high profile defendant in the January 6th assault on the U.S. capitol goes on trial Monday guy refit of Texas is one of only a few defendants actually accused of carrying a gun during the riot CBS News correspondent Scott McFarland this morning telling WTO several witnesses will testify for the prosecutors against rivet His son and daughter are set to testify for the prosecution the feds alleged that threatened his kids if they turned him in Also they alleged that refutes a member of this three percenters far right group and according to the witness list another member of that group will testify for the prosecutors against guy refit This all starts Monday at 9 a.m. It's three 37 Saturday morning The national conference center in Leesburg will be a new processing center for evacuees from Afghanistan It was announced by county leaders this week on Thursday This processing center is close to neighborhoods in schools unlike the previous one at the dulles expo center It was announced by loudoun county leaders at a meeting to many upset residents And I want to know why the citizens of the county had no say on this NBC four reports that loudoun county sheriff Mike Chapman complained that they had not been given enough information about the plan The Department of Homeland Security issued an apology and said they would up security but a DHS official at the meeting said the evacuees were family of U.S. Military interpreters These are people that we know who they are that we're identifying and putting them on a list DHS expects about one to 2000 evacuees per month They could start arriving next week It's Saturday February 22nd Welcome to the weekend everybody Three 38.
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"scott mcfarland" Discussed on WTOP
"I'll probably dance around it They're there in protest of pandemic restrictions I feel like we're a valuable asset to getting everything going and I just feel like they're just hindering the progress Those protesters were still occupying the ambassador bridge hours after a judge's order yesterday to end the blockade went into effect The House committee investigating the January 6th attack on Congress has discovered that some White House telephone logs from that day are incomplete and the national archives is asking the Justice Department to investigate former president Trump's handling of White House records that he took to Florida when he left office CBS News congressional correspondent Scott McFarland says three different investigations have come out of a review of those recovered records The house January 6th committee members tell me they want to know if any of the papers there have been seeking are part of that batch of papers from Mar-a-Lago that archives is asked the Justice Department to investigate whether there was any misconduct negligence or potentially criminal conduct And now the House oversight committee has announced it's going to investigate how those papers were out of the possession of the archives and somehow in Trump's possession CBS News congressional correspondent Scott McFarland coming up on WTO Some tax relief wins and some losses for Virginia's new governor I'm Nikki and Ellie the news continues in 60 seconds is four 34 A while back we at American Eagle dot com were asked to build the ecommerce side of a major candy distributor With the need for a website that could take into account everything from shipping times to local weather because you know candy melts the task was not like taking candy from a baby Fortunately we live for a good digital challenge And free Bon bons So we got to work on a slew of complex integrations including a shipping algorithm that factored in variables like distance speed and location The website even let the end customer personalize their candy for special events Like weddings or you know Major website launches When all was said and done our client enjoyed a significant increase in traffic which we were also well prepared for and an increase in average order.
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"scott mcfarland" Discussed on WTOP
"He actually lost This morning we turned to CBS News congressional correspondent Scott McFarland with the latest the house committee's investigation into the January 6th attack We spent the afternoon speaking with Jamie Raskin congressman from Montgomery county about where the committee has had at least one of the 9 members of mister Raskin said they are engaged in conversations with former vice president Mike Pence and so far those conversations have been productive We know they've had at least 300 interviews that they've secured tens of thousands of documents And where this is headed isn't clear but the timeline is clear They've got to get this done by summer the committee says there's a bit of a deadline they're facing and they are expecting prime time hearings to shine a brighter light on what they're finding likely in late or mid February We heard from the attorney general can you recap what's happening with the justice probe There are 700 plus federal defendants so far There's an expectation there could be hundreds more Of those 700 defendants only a few dozen have been sentenced their cases nearly closed And largely those are the lower level defendants Those accused of or who pleaded guilty to just misdemeanors for the larger level defended those conspiracy or assault their trial dates are a ways on Merrick Garland said their 17 defendants have their trials on the calendar but the calendar is a little slippery as you know all of our chords locally Maryland Virginia and D.C. have had COVID issues restrictions and shutdowns in fact the D.C. federal courthouse is closed through this month So trial dates might start getting delayed Give us an idea of the atmosphere there I saw a number of families of U.S. capital police officers who were here just to be close to their sons or daughters or brothers and sisters On a difficult day there was a symmetry temperature was almost exactly the same The same January 6 chill in the air And there was just this malaise the sadness one year after such a traumatic.
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"Motivation then for muller to say okay we're just going to ask you about a limited set of things not about everything we might be curious about i think muller would agree to some limits to save himself the time and effort of potential risk of of litigating against the president but i suspect that the limits would be modest any significant lots of this questioning with would probably ultimately in that's l litigation i discussed former federal prosecutor rinaldo mariotti some of the most prominent members of the us olympic movement are being hauled before congress today we're going to have to answer difficult questions about the sexual abuse of athletes representatives from the us olympic committee and top officials from taekwondo swimming gymnastics volleyball will testify about the growing numbers of athletes who say they have been abused as npr's alexandra starr reports in some instances cases that were closed years ago are now being reopened sarah e kirscher says that when she was seventeen her former coach who was thirty four at the time initiated what became a seven year long sexual relationship three decades later she still finds it deeply unsettling i actually get a little bit sick i feel like i was brainwashed or manipulated this allegedly happened in the late nineteen eighty s in twenty ten abc news aired a segment about coaches abusing swimmers the coaches secret is all too often been kept secret several women who had been raped by their coaches shared their stories e kirscher happened to be flipping channels when she caught the program i was like wow you know people are coming forward i'm not a crazy person it inspired her to report her coach scott mcfarland to usa swimming that's the organization that oversees the sport several months later usa swimming conducted a hearing ultimately the board decided not to suspend mcfarland e kirscher was bitterly disappointed i felt like revictimizes by united states swimming usa swimming did not respond to multiple requests for comment mcfarland's attorney at the time says his client was exonerated in past statements the coaches said his relationship with e kirscher started once she turned eighteen that would have been legal in colorado where they resided at the time usa swimming did not have a.