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White house correspondent Wendell Goler looks at the numbers and whats behind them tonight. Reporter at a speech in which he complained about congress and warned americans not to get cynical president obama had some good Economic News to report. Construction is up. Manufacturing is back. Our energy, our technology, our Auto Industries are all booming. Reporter fueled by more Consumer Spending including on big ticket items like cars and by rising home prices and increased state and local spending...

Commander in chief will meet with key members of Congress Tomorrow before explaining his plan to the nation on wednesday. But some of the details are already beginning to emerge. President making it clear what his plan will not include. This is not going to be an announcement about u. S. Ground troops, this is not the equivalent of the iraq war. What this is, is similar to the kinds of counterterrorism campaigns weve again engaging in consistently over the last five, six, seven years. And part o...

The streets today marking the president s day with not my president s day demonstrations. We saw it from los angeles to chicago to new york. The president was silent, be speaki, not speaking or tweeting about it. Waving but saying nothing but b the perhaps. Perhaps uncharacteristically. He did speak about something so totally different. Before boarding air force one, you see him introducing his pick for National Security adviser. Alone general h. R. Mcmaster. General kellogg. He will remain as t...

Good morning, everyone. It is april 17. North korea paraded military might this weegsd. Failed to launch or get a rise out of trump administration. Hours after kim jongun unveiled a large number of new and advanced missiles. Fired from a submarine that barely got off the ground before exploding. At club in florida. President trump celebrated easter holiday. Let the pentagon do talking for him. Deferring to secretary gym mattis released a two second statement. Quote, president and military team a...

This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley this is our western edition. President trumps team got more than one warning about Michael Flynn. The president s First National security adviser who was fired for lying to the Vice President. We learned today that after the election, president obama, who had fired flynn himself from an intelligence job, let president elect trump know that he shouldnt hire flynn. And today former acting attorney general sally yates told congress that she war...

Justice correspondent, pamela, good evening, thank you for joining us. Former acting attorney general sally yates said she warned the white house that the former National Security adviser, Michael Flynn, could be blackmailed by the russians. Listen to this. The russians also knew about what general flynn had done, and the russians also knew that general flynn had misled the Vice President and others. Not only did we believe that the russians knew this, but that they likely had proof of this info...

Quickly firefighters can simply not get out in front of them. 1,000 homes, hotels, businesses reduced to ashes as wildfires devour californias wine country. Welcome to the lead. Im jim sciutto in for jake tapper today. We begin with the politics lead. A prominent republican senator sounding the alarm about the president s very fitness for the office. Senator bob corker, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said he fears that President Trump is setting the country, quote, on th...

Glor and this is our western edition. Good evening. We are going to begin here developing story at a military base in northern virginia. A number of people became ill after someone at the base opened a letter. We are at the base and following the story tonight. Chris. Jeff, this is being treated as a hazmat situation. The arlington county, Virginia Fire Department count eleven people feeling ill after a letter was opened here on base with an unknown substance late this afternoon. The building wa...

Escalating these new attacks on mueller and here tonight, we also are hearing from republican senators publicly warning that firing mueller could lead to impeachment. I will be joined by this special by a federal prosecutor who worked directly with comey, plus a law School Classmate and top obama doj official whos criticized comeys term at the fbi but says he remains a credible witness against trump. All of that is tonight as we devote most of this hour to what we think is this important special...

The attorney general has that power. But this may be even more important. Sarah sanders says the white house has been advised that the president has the power to fire mueller. So its not just something hes threatening to do, hes looking for guidance on whether he can actually do it. And a source tells cnn, the president and his aides have discussed firing mueller for months and discussed with members of congress who warned him it would be a disaster in the midterms. Listen to Chuck Grassley. I t...