This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Reporting tonight from washington. Mr. Trumps own Justice Department appointing a special counsel to investigate. Margaret brennan is at the white house. There was no collusion, and everybody, even my enemies, have said, there is no collusion. Reporter President Trump said the appointment of special Counsel Robert Mueller to probe Russian Election meddling is dividing the country. Well, i respect the move, but the entire thing has been a witchhunt, and there is no collusion between certainly myself and my campaign, but i can only speak for myself and the russians zero. Reporter the president strongly denied interfering with the f. B. I. s investigation. Did you at any time urge former f. B. I. Director james comey in any way, shape, or form to clez or to back down the investigation into Michael Flynn . And also no. No. Next question. Reporter and mr. Trump dismissed democrats claims that he may have obstructed justice. I think its everybo
Will not tolerate leaks from his team to the media. Dean reynolds has been talking to voters in trump country. Lee county, illinois. Reporter at bill and dicks barbershop in dixon, illinois, guy vol was getting a haircut and weighing the news of a special counsel investigating the Trump Campaign. Everybodys looking for something to dig at. Theyre looking its a witch hunt. Thats what he tweeted this morning. Reporter a lifelong republican, a trump supporter and an avid consumer of conservative media, vol blasted the president s critics. They keep saying the russians interferes in our election. How did they interfere . I mean, i never hear that talked about on tv. Reporter dixon sits astride the rock river, where Ronald Reagan was once a lifeguard. Its the seat of lee county, which donald trump won percentage points. I like the way he recognized that there is a country out here. It consists from coast to coast, not coast and coast. Reporter around the corner at books on first, trump supp
Guy . I said i dont know. Hes just like that. I mind my own. I dont know whats wrong with him. Kevin geda that neighbors tell us lives alone is charged with attempted abduction and indecent exposure. They are worried he victimized other children. Live in Silver Spring, kevin lewis, abc7 news. Jonathan thanks. A week after beating a double murder charge, exnfl star Aaron Hernandez was found dead in his prison cell overnight. Officials with the department of corrections say its an apparent suicide. As we report, hernandezs attorney is launching his own investigation. Guilty of murder in the fistdegree or guilt of murder in the seconddegree. Not guilty. Reporter days after he was found not guilty for the 2012 murder of two men, Aaron Hernandez used a bed sheet to hang himself in his jail cell. It happened here at a maximum security was serving a life sentence for murdering his friend odin lloyd, a semiprofessional Football Player dating his fiances sister. They say there was no sign he wo
Town during the great recession. Look at some of the events book tv will be covering this week. Many of these events are open to the public. Look for them to air in the near future on book tv on cspan2. Shame on you. [inaudible conversation] were going to get started. So if people could take their seats, that would be terrific. So welcome to hoover dc, my name is ben witness. Im sorry, okay. My name is ben witness, and the cochair of the working group on technology and National Security and law. My other life, im a fellow at the Brookings Institution and im run law fair with partners with hoover on these high events. For those of you who have been to these before, i just want to give you a little heads up. Were going to do this one a little differently which is that neither i nor jack smith will be conducting an interview and the reason for that isthat when i reached out to grant , to come talk about his book, the way of the stranger, he informed me that sam had already reached out to
Is over. Hillary clinton is calling out all of her surrogates as her campaign crisscrosses 7 Battle Ground states today. Donald trump and mike pence do things themselves in a six state blitz. Mike emanuel following the clinton camp in pittsburgh. John roberts is live in sarasota florida. A lot going on in florida. Good morning, john. Theres a lot going on. Good moumrning to you. We are down to the phenol day and donald trump going well after midnight. He didnt even start his rally. Final rally of the day until after midnight. The press plane just landed a few minutes ago. The early voting all over the state of florida lets look at how it wound up. 32,536 more democrats returned ballots are voted in first than republicans. Republicans were down by 110,000 votes. Now it is down to creating momentum t. Donald trump using the declaration by the fbi director that Hillary Clinton will not face charges. The system rigged you have to get out there and vote if you want to change it. Here he was