""We're two weeks now into the new year, and it feels like a decade has passed," CBS Evening News host Tony Dokoupil intoned to the camera, broadcasting from General Motors' Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly as he wrapped up Tuesday's episode with a rundown of the events that have characterized 2026 so far. The United States' kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro and occupation of Venezuela. The Iranian regime's brutal massacres of thousands of citizen protesters. Minneapolis' rallies against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents occupying the city after killing Renee Nicole Good."
""You may not agree with everything you hear on this broadcast, but we trust you to listen, and we trust you to decide for yourself," Dokoupil concluded, parroting a favorite line of his before previewing the next stop of his 10-cities-in-10-days editorial excursion: the great city of Chicago, which he would be flying to via a corporate-chartered private jet."
"Indeed, if this Detroit stop offered any clue as to how the rest of the tour will go, it's likely to live up to CBS' initial promise to grant the Evening News' upstart anchor an opportunity to 'meet Americans face to face.' Tuesday night's episode was dominated by Trump, who stood for his talk with Dokoupil amid the din of the GM factory, taking up nearly half of the half-hour broadcast."
Tony Dokoupil wrapped the Detroit broadcast with a reflection that two weeks into the new year felt like a decade and ran through major 2026 events. The rundown included the United States' kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro and occupation of Venezuela, brutal massacres of Iranian protesters, and Minneapolis rallies against ICE agents after the killing of Renee Nicole Good. Dokoupil invited viewers to listen and decide for themselves, then previewed a 10-cities-in-10-days tour and a flight to Chicago on a corporate-chartered private jet. The episode devoted nearly half its airtime to an on-site Donald Trump interview amid the GM factory noise.
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