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This is the CBS Evening

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News. Good

1:10

evening, I'm Maurice Dubois. I'm John Dickerson,

1:13

and good morning to China, where it

1:15

is already Wednesday, the day that Trump

1:17

104% tariff kicks in. The president wants

1:20

to talk to China's leaders about it.

1:22

He says he is waiting for their

1:24

call. Dozens of other countries hit by

1:26

the US tariffs have already called, and

1:29

the president says he believes China will

1:31

too. to make a deal. And if

1:33

the Chinese are not on the line,

1:35

a lot of money is in this

1:38

trade war, Wall Street lost more of

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it today as all three major indexes

1:42

were down. We begin our coverage with

1:44

Ed O'Keef at the White House. Ed.

1:46

Good evening, President Trump today claimed that

1:49

the new tariffs are generating about $2

1:51

billion in revenue each day, but with

1:53

growing concern about how they might cripple

1:55

the global economy in America's bottom line.

1:57

a new message for world leaders. Give

1:59

us a call and let's make a

2:02

deal. With tariffs now in place, President

2:04

Trump today signaled he's willing to explore

2:06

deals with affected countries on a case-by-case

2:08

basis. I call them Taylor deals, not

2:10

off the rack. The president claims more

2:13

than 70 countries have called to negotiate

2:15

ahead of tonight's midnight deadline, when reciprocal

2:17

tariff rates kick in for much of

2:19

the world, including China, which is set

2:21

to see them sore to 104 percent.

2:24

Americans bought about $440 billion worth of

2:26

goods from China last year, making it

2:28

the second largest import partner after Mexico.

2:30

And while other countries may be reaching

2:32

out, China, so far, isn't. on the

2:35

call sheet. Under what conditions at this

2:37

point would President Trump talk to President

2:39

Xi about tariffs? It was a mistake

2:41

for China to retaliate. The president, when

2:43

America is punched, he punches back harder.

2:45

And the president also wanted me to

2:48

tell all of you that if China

2:50

reaches out to make a deal, he'll

2:52

be incredibly gracious, but he's going to

2:54

do what's best for the American people.

2:56

China has to call first? The Chinese

2:59

want to make a deal, they just

3:01

don't know how to do it. That

3:03

rhetoric was echoed in Beijing in Beijing.

3:05

will fight to the end. That's a

3:07

lot of bark, not a lot of

3:10

bite. Evan Maderos served on President Obama's

3:12

national security council and is now an

3:14

Asia expert at Georgetown University. They don't

3:16

want the global trading system to unravel.

3:18

What they're trying to do is figure

3:21

out a way to get Trump to

3:23

back off not just his tariffs on

3:25

China, but his tariff strategy globally. So

3:27

then this war continues conceivably gets worse.

3:29

How does that ripple across the rest

3:31

of the rest of the world? It

3:34

means... higher prices, it means slower growth,

3:36

it means fewer choices at target and

3:38

Walmart, and it means that all of

3:40

our 401ks are going to shrink. It's

3:42

bad. And so Ed, what does the

3:45

White House want in exchange for providing

3:47

tariff relief to some of these countries?

3:49

Well, first of all, we don't know

3:51

how many countries have actually called. The

3:53

trade representative earlier today told Congress it

3:56

was... Nearly 50, the president later said

3:58

more than 70, we've been asking for

4:00

a list and haven't gotten one yet.

4:02

But they also signal today that the

4:04

talks may go beyond trade to include

4:07

things like the size and scope of

4:09

American foreign assistance, whether U.S. military presence

4:11

is maintained in some of these countries,

4:13

and how it would be paid for,

4:15

and even if some of these countries

4:17

would be willing to cut new deals

4:20

for American energy, like liquified natural gas.

4:22

Guys? All right, Ed Okeitho the White

4:24

House, thank you. Almost

4:27

every country on the planet

4:29

has been hit by the

4:31

Trump terrorists. Even imports from

4:33

the micro-state of Liechtenstein, population

4:36

40,000, sandwiched in between Switzerland

4:38

and Austria, will be taxed

4:40

37 percent. Liz Palmer is

4:43

there. Liechtenstein is tucked away

4:45

between the Swiss and Austrian

4:47

Alps. So tiny, you could

4:49

fit it four times over

4:52

into New York City and

4:54

have room to spare. But

4:56

this alpine paradise is home

4:59

to several world-class makers of

5:01

premium products that turned it

5:03

into a tariff target. Power

5:05

tools, for example, cables and

5:08

connectors, and high-quality fillings and

5:10

false teeth. So basically Liechtenstein

5:12

is being punished for making

5:14

things America wants to buy.

5:17

Exactly, yes. Dr. Gerald Hausp

5:19

is an economist with a

5:21

tukund think tank. Liechtenstein is

5:24

so tiny and this... doesn't

5:26

have any influence in the

5:28

world. So how to deal

5:30

with the Trump administration. No

5:33

one understands why, just because

5:35

they don't buy as much

5:37

from the US as they

5:40

sell to it, Liechtenstein got

5:42

clobbered. Peter Laukes is an

5:44

ex-banker. 37%. No one here

5:46

gets how President Trump can

5:49

think they're ripping off America.

5:51

Okay, now it's for laughing

5:53

because... Lichtenstein is nothing if

5:55

not peaceful. It doesn't even

5:58

have an army. What it

6:00

does have is a stable

6:02

and secure business environment. So

6:05

it's been blindsided by President

6:07

Trump's approach to world trade.

6:09

Patrick Shadler is editor of

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the Fatland Daily newspaper. This

6:14

is... bigger than the crisis

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that came with the pandemic?

6:18

Because you don't know what's

6:21

coming next. You wake up

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in the morning and you

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have to check the news

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what Mr. Trump has decided

6:30

the last night. And as

6:32

Palmer joins us now from

6:34

Liechtenstein, Liz, what are these

6:37

companies going to do there

6:39

that are now find themselves

6:41

in this condition? We

6:43

tried to ask them directly, they

6:46

wouldn't speak to us. The economist

6:48

says they just don't want to

6:50

draw any attention to themselves at

6:53

the moment. While they consider their

6:55

options, and that includes developing markets

6:57

outside the US, maybe finding ways

7:00

to circumvent the tariffs, and certainly

7:02

applying diplomatic pressure in Washington, hoping

7:04

that President Trump will change his

7:06

mind. And as we talked earlier

7:09

in the day about their bruised

7:11

feelings, but you say that those

7:13

feelings are backed up by data.

7:16

Indeed, they point out that they

7:18

not only make good things that

7:20

Americans want to buy, they buy

7:22

themselves plenty of American services that

7:25

weren't accounted for in the tariffs,

7:27

and they directly employ 7,000 Americans

7:29

inside America. They say they've lived

7:32

up to their side of the

7:34

bargain as good trading partners, and

7:36

they're frankly puzzled and very sad.

7:39

The CBS News is following the

7:41

rising cost of products affected by

7:43

American tariffs. You can check out

7:45

our price tracker at cbsnews.com/tariffs. Now

7:48

more of the top stories from

7:50

around the world in tonight's evening

7:52

news roundup, the U.S. envoy Steve

7:55

Whitcough will hold nuclear talks with

7:57

Iran this coming weekend in Oman.

7:59

The United States and Iran... have

8:02

not had direct talks since the

8:04

Obama administration. CBS News has confirmed

8:06

the FAA hired a new management

8:08

team at Washington's Reagan National Airport.

8:11

This follows the deadly midair collision

8:13

of a passenger jet and an

8:15

army helicopter in January. There have

8:18

also been a series of close

8:20

calls and a fist fight in

8:22

the control tower. And in Dominican

8:25

Republic, the search goes on for

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survivors after the roof of a

8:29

nightclub. caved in. It happened during

8:31

a meringa concert. At least 67

8:34

people were killed and dozens more

8:36

injured. Former Major League pitcher Octavio

8:38

Dottel is among the dead. A

8:41

sharply divided Supreme Court has given

8:43

President Trump to go ahead to

8:45

use the Alien Enemies Act to

8:48

deport Venezuelan migrants accused of being

8:50

gang members. The ruling was five

8:52

to four with Justice Barrett, a

8:54

Trump appointee joining the court's liberals

8:57

in dissenting. But all nine justices

8:59

agreed the migrants must get due

9:01

process before any deportation. And Justice

9:04

Correspondence Scott McFarland reports that is

9:06

likely to set off a new

9:08

battle. After a month-long legal battle

9:10

over these controversial surprise deportations of

9:13

200 plus Venezuelan nationals to a

9:15

prison in El Salvador, both sides

9:17

are declaring victory, including U.S. Attorney

9:20

General Pam Bondi. Americans are safer

9:22

and domestic terrorists, foreign terrorists, you

9:24

better look out because we're coming

9:27

after you. The Supreme Court's decision

9:29

Monday night has temporarily opened the

9:31

door to more deportations under the

9:33

rarely used 1798 Alien Enemies Act,

9:36

previously used during wartime, but the

9:38

court ruled those deportations must now

9:40

include due process, suspected foreign nationals

9:43

would have the ability to fight

9:45

their removal through the courts. If

9:47

everybody's given some due process, under

9:50

what the Supreme Court decided. Sounds

9:52

like a traditional deportation all of

9:54

a sudden. It's awfully close to

9:56

that, yes. That's what it would

9:59

look like. The Supreme Court's decision

10:01

also leaves open the door to

10:03

more challenges of the administration's use

10:06

of the Aldian enemies Act and

10:08

Tom Warwick a former official at

10:10

the Department of Homeland Security says

10:13

those challenges are imminent. It's highly

10:15

debatable right now whether what is

10:17

going on with drug cartels and

10:19

others qualifies as an invasion or

10:22

incursion. This is a wartime power

10:24

that's being used. In her scathing

10:26

dissent, Justice Sotomayor warned, due process

10:29

is critical because she wrote, citizens

10:31

could be taken off the streets,

10:33

forced onto planes, and confined to

10:36

foreign prisons with no opportunity for

10:38

redress if judicial review is denied

10:40

unlawfully before removal. Scott

10:42

McFerlin joins us now. Scott,

10:44

Judge Bozburg, who originally said

10:46

to the administration, wait a

10:49

minute, don't go so fast.

10:51

Wasn't his argument always about

10:53

due process? And in that

10:55

case, hasn't the Supreme Court

10:57

essentially agreed with him on

10:59

that? That's how this whole

11:02

legal odyssey began with a

11:04

judge here in Washington saying,

11:06

I want to make sure

11:08

there's due process is going

11:10

to mean. This may be

11:12

more... art right now than

11:14

science. So not over yet.

11:17

All right, Scott McFarland, thank

11:19

you. Still ahead on the

11:21

CBS evening news, Rob Marciano

11:23

on a very cold night

11:25

in the East. Also tonight,

11:27

a state attorney general may

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have saved the life of

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a death row inmates. Did

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you think maybe this guy's

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the question. Could ultraviolet light

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where researchers are using something

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viruses like the flu. In

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April of 2000, Janet Acosta was

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on her lunch break, sitting in

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her car in Miami, reading a

12:08

book. When a man carjacked her,

12:10

beat her, robbed her, and strangled

12:12

her. Late today, the state of

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Florida gave that man a lethal

12:16

injection. The 11th person executed in

12:18

the United States this year. Oklahoma's

12:20

chief law enforcement officer oversees executions

12:22

in his state. He may have

12:24

saved a life of a death

12:26

row inmate. I believe that my

12:28

duty to look at every person

12:30

on death row. As Attorney General

12:32

of Oklahoma, Gettner Drummond has personally

12:34

attended nine executions. Since taking office,

12:36

he's approved of every death row

12:38

case in the state, except one.

12:40

And when I stumbled across Richard

12:42

Glossa, it was different. This is

12:44

an individual who didn't murder the

12:46

victim. Richard Glossop was convicted in

12:48

the 1997 murder of a man

12:51

who had been beaten to death.

12:53

When Attorney General Drummond examined the

12:55

case, he learned the state knew

12:57

its key witness lied during Glossop's

12:59

trial. Did you think maybe this

13:01

guy's not guilty? I think by

13:03

Mr. Glossop's own testimony, he's guilty

13:05

of at least accessory after the

13:07

fact. So he's guilty, but is

13:09

he guilty of murder? That was

13:11

the question. Drummond discovered that the

13:13

state withheld evidence during the trial

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27 years ago, so he asked

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his state's criminal appeals court to

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intervene. What case did you make

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to the highest court here in

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the state? I confessed ever by

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the state and said we had

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information that we didn't disclose that

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could have had a material impact.

13:31

on the outcome and therefore we

13:33

would ask that Mr. Glossop be

13:35

afforded a new trial. But Drummond's

13:37

appeal was denied. So what are

13:39

you thinking at that point? I

13:41

anticipated that Mr. Glossop would seek

13:43

appeal to the United States Supreme

13:45

Court and we joined in that

13:47

effort. Joint in that effort. The

13:49

Attorney General of... of Oklahoma, red

13:52

state, pro-death penalty state, appealing this

13:54

case to the Supreme Court. Well,

13:56

no, it's not a very popular

13:58

position for a Republican Attorney General.

14:00

But the mission of my office

14:02

is not to protect the prosecutor.

14:04

My mission is to seek justice.

14:06

Now it's up to the district

14:08

attorney and Drummond to decide his

14:10

fate. And I do not want

14:12

to be culpable in executing somebody

14:14

who is innocent. But this can't

14:16

be the only case where there's

14:18

been a mistake. I think empirically

14:20

we know statistically that's correct but

14:22

not under my watch. So Maurice

14:24

where are things go next? Well

14:26

the attorney general and prosecutors say

14:28

they're going to make up their

14:30

mind in the next four or

14:32

five weeks either retry Richard Glossip

14:34

or come up with some kind

14:36

of plea deal in the case

14:38

so we'll see. You know I

14:40

was struck does does attorney general

14:42

drum and does he believe in

14:44

the death penalty himself personally? I

14:46

asked him several times and he

14:48

said doesn't matter. I didn't know

14:50

what that meant, but I asked

14:53

him several times. He kept saying,

14:55

it doesn't matter. I enforced the

14:57

laws of the state. He is,

14:59

by the way, running for governor,

15:01

Ruby Red, Oklahoma. We'll see where

15:03

it goes. So he, not a

15:05

yes, not a no. No, I'm

15:07

not a popular thing to be

15:09

against the death penalty at stake.

15:11

That's right. All right. Race, thanks.

15:13

Now to the weather. Rob, Rob.

15:15

Yeah, some of those freeze warnings

15:17

are right where they're still having

15:19

flood water. It's places like Cincinnati

15:21

and Louisville, Kentucky, which is what

15:23

you're looking at. This sort of

15:25

looked like today, the sunshine glistening

15:27

off those flood waters and some

15:29

of those buildings that are still

15:31

surrounded by the flood waters, the

15:33

river will be surrounded by the

15:35

flood waters, the river will be

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surrounded by the flood waters, the

15:39

river will be surrounded by the

15:41

river, the river, northwesterly pouring into

15:43

the northeast and that's what's bringing

15:45

in the cold there. So we

15:47

have the freeze warnings that are

15:49

up for parts of Indiana including

15:51

any for parts of northern parts

15:53

of Alabama, including Huntsville, could be

15:56

below freezing there. Places like Raleigh-Durham,

15:58

Islip, and Harrisburg, you'll be below

16:00

freezing, could be a record. Tonight's

16:02

gonna be the cold this night

16:04

of the week, but the rest

16:06

of the week will be below

16:08

average. Time is on our side,

16:10

guys. It will eventually get warmer,

16:12

but right now, this April feels

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