Stockholm ah, just a quick look at the main stories were watching now and south koreas joint chiefs of staff and japans defense minister say that north koreas fide and another to short range Ballistic Missiles. The u. R. South korean japan had already been carrying out military drills in response to an earlier launch that took place. The u. S. Navys flagship Aircraft Carrier is heading for the sea of japan. Now, for training with the south koreans, the earlier Nuclear Capable Ballistic Missile 5 by north korea was the 1st to fly over japan in 5 years. Now the white house is accused and alliance of the worlds Top Oil Producers of aligning itself with russia after their gui to cut their output to boost prices. The opec plus group, which includes rusher in saudi arabia, says it will reduce production byte to 1000000 barrels a day. That the u. S. Is called the move shore, cited and misguided sang. Itll home the global economy. Kimberly how can as well the White House Press secretary corys
Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. This is our western edition. A few hours ago, eric cantor was one of the most powerful men in washington, but late today he announced he is stepping down as House Majority leader after a stunning defeat in a republican primary in virginia last night. He was up set by a candidate backed by the tea party, david brat, and it wasnt even close. Cantor, elected to the house in 2000 and majority leader since 2011 appeared to be on track to become speaker of the house. His defeat was the first of a majority leader since that post was created more than a century ago. No one saw it coming and it sent shock waves across the country. Our Political Team looks at why it happened and what happens next. First nancy cordes on capitol hill, nancy . Reporter scott, because this is washington, lawmakers began jockeying for cantors leadership post within a few hours of his surprise defeat. All day long they hav
Discuss unity and i like discussing unity, too. The frontrunner trying to wave off criticism over his comments on nukes, nato and abortion. Also Hillary Clinton lashing out. I am so sick of the Sanders Campaign lying about this. Sick of it. Now sanders supporters fight back. Plus president obama speaking soon about tamping down on nuclear materiels, and keeping them out of the hands of terrorists. Lets talk. Live in the cnn newsroom. And good morning. Im carol costello. Thank you so much for joining me. Donald trump on the defense, or on the attack . The republican frontrunner goes behind closed doors with Party Leaders just days after breaking his unity pledge, and then igniting a firestorm with his abortion comments. Trump has since reversed course over whether a woman should be punished for having an illegal abortion, certainly not apologizing saying its the medias fault. Forgive me if i misspoke but this was a long, convoluted subject. We talked about catholicism, his religion, chr
Daca victory by the way and democrats are nowhere to be found. They are nowhere to be found. Because im happy clap along if you feel like a room without a roof because im happy clap along if you feel that happiness is the truth. Steve im just happy i was able to get into work. Rachel im happy i made it out of wisconsin. Steve we wound up with 2 feet of snow at my house. Brian are you kidding . Steve 2 feet . Imagine this, 1, 2. That much snow in front of my house. Brian almost hit our cameraman chris chulo. Steve he was celebrating a birthday earlier this week. Rachel is here. We know had you trouble getting. Rachel 2 feet of snow is a tuesday in wisconsin. Brian they dont shut for anything. Rachel they shut it when it gets below like 20 or Something Like that. Then they go okay. Brian a little too cold. Rachel yeah, get a little too cold. Steve we dont each do that. Thank you very much for joining us. We have got busy stuff. Boy, speaking of busy. Jeff sessions was busy yesterday. He
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