Announcer this is the cbs overnight news. Welcome to the overnight news. Im elaine quijano. The impeachment inquiry of President Trump will pick up steam this week on capitol hill. Several current and former state Department Officials are expected to testify before congress, and that will only set the stage for the socalled whistleblower to come forward. Democrats are hoping to have a final vote on impeachment by thanksgiving. President trump calls it another witch hunt. Natalie brand reports from the white house. Whats going on now is the single greatest scam in the history of american politics. Reporter interviews with key figures could begin as early as this week in the impeachment inquiry centered around allegations President Trump pressured ukraines leader to investigate a political rival, joe biden and his son, hunter. According to the whistleblower complaint made public late last week, the president s personal attorney, rudy giuliani, was a central figure in relaying messages be
Theyre the real victims in the death of Otto Warmbier. And Dennis Rodman is just back from his visit is north creek. He says people dont see the good side of north korea. It involves karaoke. Lets get to it. Breaking news now on fox news channel. Another republican has just sent word that he will vote no on the new republican healthcare bill. The senator is dean heller of nevada. He says hes out. Unless compromises change things, the bill cannot pass without democratic support and its not coming. No comment from the white house or anybody else on capitol hill. This just happened. Reaction as we get it. Just before we learned that, the white house for a second day in a row banned live coverage of the daily briefings. Instead, another offcamera gaggle and embargoed the audio until the gaggle was complete, this is what we saw from the camera at the white house as sean spicer spoke to journalists. One reporter asked him, why does this have to be off camera . What is the reason for not answ
From trumps own words it is not to prepare for the north korean summit next week. I think im prepared. It is about attitude. It is about willingness to get things done. Lets talk about all this with greg valliere. Live in d. C. This morning. Im sure you have not had much sleep. I know you were watching the stanley cup final game. Lets talk about what happened one year before the Washington Capitals went to washington, the group of seven was formed. One year before. This is an unusual situation given the dynamics with the president and our allies. Lets start with tweets. Emmanuel macron, french president tweeting at 4 49 yesterday. The american president may not mind being isolated, but neither do we mind signing a sixcountry agreement if need be. The countries represent values and economic market which has the weight behind it and now a True International force. As you imagine, donald trump fired back on twitter. Please tell mr. Trudeau and Emmanuel Macron they are charging he charging
Beautiful canada. Great meetings and relationships with the six country leaders, especially since they know i cannot allow them to apply large tariffs and strong barriers to usa trade. They fully understand where im coming from. After many decades, fair and reciprocal trade will happen. President trump putting the focus on trade say, look, they understand where im coming from. Will that be reflected in the communikay . Well have to wait and see. The president before he left really had some of his toughest language yet when it came to the issue of tariffs saying, essentially, that he wanted these other countries to lower trade barriers. And if they didnt, there could be consequences. So issuing an ultimatum. It was significant that he signed on to the communique. It wasnt clear that he was going to given that there were such sharp differences. The optics, the president saying, look, im not prepared to break away from this group of what a lot of people were calling the six, yet, saying i
We investigate what it means for the signature event of Donald Trumps predecessor. Can a farmer be banned from selling his goods because he wont condone samesex weddings in his orchard. Tonight, james will, former director of security for the Senate Intelligence Committee Walks past cameras after his first day in court charged with lying to federal investigators about his contact with reporters some of whom were reporting heavily on the russia investigation one of whom was in a romantic relationship with him. Catherine herridge is here with the latest. Reporter the fbi arrested james will, senior staffer for the Senate Intelligence committee, securing classified information to include topsecret documents. He made it through his Court Appearance facing 3 counts of lying to federal investigators. A potential violation, donald trump said he is convinced the Justice Department has tracked down a major breach. Interesting they caught a leak or, very important week or so very interesting. Im