'This is not normal' — correspondent describes a chilling turn in the president's address to Congress

Also: Abbey Gate terror suspect makes first US court appearance
U.S. President Donald Trump arrives for his speech to a joint session of Congress as Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) holds a sign reading "This is not normal" at the U.S. Capitol on March 4.
U.S. President Donald Trump arrives for his speech to a joint session of Congress as Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) holds a sign reading "This is not normal" at the U.S. Capitol on March 4. Photo credit Win McNamee/Getty Images

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — A clearly divided joint session of Congress listened to the president's address Tuesday night. For the first time ever, a congressman was escorted from the chamber after rising to interrupt the president. And there was a hearing Wednesday for a terrorism suspect in connection with a suicide bombing at the Kabul airport that killed at least 182 people, including 169 Afghan civilians and 13 U.S. service members.

CBS News congressional correspondent Scott McFarlane joined KYW's Michelle Durham live to walk through it all.

Michelle Durham: Let's start with last night's speech before the joint session. The president addressed a deeply divided Congress.

Scott MacFarlane: Yeah, I've never seen anything like that inside the chamber. I've been to a bunch of these, Michelle. It was just this tension, this anger, and visceral nature to the way members of Congress were interacting with each other during the speech.

You mentioned the ejection of Houston Democrat Al Green, who stood up and protested and acknowledged that he was breaking the rules. He was escorted out after being warned to stand down, but during that whole exchange, Michelle, as he was protesting, as he was being shouted down by his colleagues, it really was the guttural screaming both sides were exchanging that was just so different than the conduct of previous State of the Union addresses.

What's more, there was another moment where a Democratic congresswoman from New Mexico held a small white sign next to Trump as he entered that said "This is not normal." A Republican colleague of hers grabbed the sign out of her hands and threw it across the room.

There were walkouts, protests, just was different in tone and tenor, and didn't have the feel of something our kids should all be watching for their best behavior.

Mohammad Sharifullah, also known as Jafar, an Islamic State operative accused of helping plan the 2021 suicide bombing outside Kabul's airport during the U.S. military's chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, appeared in a federal court in Virginia on on March 5.
Mohammad Sharifullah, also known as Jafar, an Islamic State operative accused of helping plan the 2021 suicide bombing outside Kabul's airport during the U.S. military's chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, appeared in a federal court in Virginia on on March 5. Photo credit ALEX WROBLEWSKI/AFP via Getty Images

I know that you also attended a court hearing today for that terror suspect in connection with the suicide bombing at the Kabul, Afghanistan, airport that killed over a dozen service members and many Afghanis.

A pretty historic moment, a suspected ISIS terrorist standing in a U.S. courtroom, accused of that historic attack on Abbey Gate in 2021, killed 13 U.S. service members, killed dozens of other people.

The announcement of the arrest came during Trump's address to the joint session of Congress, raising the profile of the arrest and potentially for the president, cementing it as an early victory.

But Mohammed Sharifullah said very little in court as the prosecutor and judge informed him he's facing a felony of providing material support for a foreign terror group, faces a prospect of life in prison.

And is accused of being the plotter of the route used by the bomber, finding the path the bomber should use.

We also learned Sharifulla had been sprung from prison in Afghanistan just two weeks before the alleged ISIS-K member was part of this bombing attack.

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