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Its mark down book. Cbs evening news starts now. Norah good evening, im norah odonnell, thank you for being with us after a pivotal day in the criminal trial of donald trump. The former president coming facetoface with his onetime personal attorney michael cohen, who gave six hours of detailed testimony under oath, Painting A Behind The Scenes picture of what was happening in the final weeks of the 2016 campaign. The former fixer and inside man detailed how trump personally approved the socalled...

Nervous and unsettled or left to his own devices he goes back to the relationship with the base. if you look at the last couple days almost everything he has done making headlines is bringing him back to campaign trail donald trump. you know, campaign trail donald trump said we wont meddle on foreign soil to the extent we were. thus saying get out of syria. he promised new trade relationships and now he is taking on china, puffing up his chest saying he is taking on china. campaign trail donald ...

I said i was. i can take on the things i villified during the campaign. he is trying to refined his muscle airty. >> sources close to the president saying he is increasingly turning to the midterm elections, frank. >> in a real sense, is he doing all this just to play to the base, all of it? >> well, it does seem that way. and it seems whenever he feels nervous and unsettled or left to his own devices he goes back to the relationship with the base. if you look at the last couple days almost ever...

African countries teeters on civil war this morning. violence erupted there after an parent coup on sunday. so far, 500 people have been killed and the fighting is spreading. the fighting has intensified this hour. president obama and the first family are heading west, way west for their christmas vacation, going to hawaii as they have in past years. the first family is expecting to stay in the same neighborhood where they housed in 2008 when he was president-elect. the president grew up in ha...