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Us by our founders that drew waves of immigrants to our shores, that drove waves of troops to storm beaches a world away to storm democracy. It was those ideals that led generations of americans to march for workers rights and womens rights and Voting Rights and civil rights and lgbt rights, to expand the reach of our democracy. Lets get right to the controversy over the niger raid. Thirtytwo officialed telling james mattis he still doesnt have all the facts and wants to know why the body of Ser...

One, two, three. Row this is the cbs evening news. Mason and this is our western edition. Good evening. Im anthony mason. They are four american heroes now at the center of the controversy over the president s treatment of Fallen Soldiers and their families. They were ambushed two weeks ago in niger where the u. S. Has hundreds of troops as part of the war on terror. The circumstances of their deaths have been something of a mystery, but tonight david martin has new details of how it all went do...

Cameras and on twitter calling me hateful, dumb, a lightweight. Some of your friends have suggested you expected better of me and im not sure why youd expect anything other than fairness and facts first. We know you get a lot of your news from tv. Several of your friends and supporters have told me you watch this show, so since i have this platform, id like to speak to you personally right now. I feel compelled to do that after this latest controversy with the widow of sergeant la David Johnson....

Of what he says is untrue. Certainly people here are. Because these things are provably untrue. I mean, just theyre just factually incorrect and people know the difference. So i dont know why he lowers himself to such a low, low standard and debases our country in the way he does but he does. I dont like responding. You know, you can let him go unanswered but and its just not me to we dont do tweets like that. Weve responded twice to, again, untruths, but its unfortunate our nation finds itself ...

Make something up. It shows what a completely moral bankrupt man is our commander in chief. Welcome to new day. Senator john mccain didnt mention the president by name but he didnt have to. Former republican nominee condemning, quote, halfbaked, spurious nationalism in a speech saying to abandon americas role as world leader is unpatriotic. President trump is also under fire for falsely claiming the president obama did not call families of troops killed in action. Several aides to president obam...

Adjustments to Jeff Sessions testimony to his story since his confirmation hearing. Yeah. And Jeff Sessions today insisting to senator franken as far as hes concerned no surrogates for the Trump Campaign met with the russians. When he himself now admitted that hes one of the trump surrogate that is meat with russians in the campaign. That shrug and response from the attorney general is going to end up being important and senator franken got that out of him today, too. One of the things thats stu...

This isnt that dissimilar. Its all getting sort of blurred by this fight that the president has decided that he wanted to pick. The aunt who raised johnson insisting the congresswomans account is accurate telling the Washington Post mr. Trump did disrespect him. I think to try to create something from that that the congresswoman is doing is frankly appalling and z disgusting. There were recordings of this phone call . No. But there were several people in the room from the administration that wer...

The attack of in niger that killed four american soldiers. When the compete was asked directly, quote, is the Trump Administration being up front about what happened, mccain answered in one word, no. Theres a lot that we dont know tonight. Why didnt anyone know there was a Massive Group of isis fighters in a village american soldiers were going to visit in an unarmored truck . Why did it take so long for support to arrive . And what happened to sergeants Ladavid Johnson . Two weeks after that de...

My conscience is clear. I can go to sleep at night very well knowing i never mistreated anyone. Good morning, everyone. Im Diane Gallagher in for christi paul today. Im Martin Savidge in for victor blackwell. We are begin this morning with the family of a u. S. Soldier killed in combat overseas saying goodbye. So painful to look at. This was the burial ceremony on saturday for Army Sergeant la david johnson. Just 25 years old. Killed earlier this month when his unit was ambushed by isis. Three o...

On the purchase of time warner, among other issues. In the face of all these new details about how cohen promised access to the president , the white house insists tonight that trump, quote, makes up his own mind about policy matters. So the agreement between Michael Cohen and at t was made public this week by Stormy Daniels lawyer Michael Avenatti who joins me now. Good evening to you, sir. So the at t spokesman confirmed to cnn, and i want to make sure i get all this legally correct here, that...