Adviser could be acting as a Foreign Agent. Plus, its the first rule of politics. Dont compare anybody to hitler. I guess nobody told sean spicer. We didnt use chemical weapons in world war ii. You know . You had a you know, someone whens despicable as hitler who didnt sink to the to using chemical weapons. Weve got the latest on the attempts to clean that up and whether that will be enough for President Trump. We want do get started with the breaking news on the Trump Administration charges of improper surveillance by the Obama Administration. Cnn is learning now about the claims of chairman devin nunes that members requested the identities of americans appearing in intelligence reports. Now, just to refresh your memory, heres what congressman nunes has said previously. Theres some information in those documents that concern me and the reports that i read that i dont think belong there. It would make me uncomfortable. Some of it i think it bothered me enough i went over to the white h
The gift for a grandfather, you will see his reaction. Its america strong. Good evening, and its great to have you with us on a wednesday night. And we begin tonight with President Trump, russia and the highstakes meeting between secretary of state Rex Tillerson and Vladimir Putin. Late today, the president at the white house, after meeting with the head of nato, saying relations with russia, quote, may be at an alltime low. In moscow, a similar message from secretary tillerson after a closeddoor meeting with Vladimir Putin at the kremlin saying the two countries have reached, quote, a low point. And the president was asked today, did russia know that syria was about to unleash that chemical attack . Abcs chief Foreign Correspondent terry moran leads us off from moscow. Reporter at the white house, alongside nato secretarygeneral, the president offering a grim view of u. S. russia relations. Right now, were not getting along with russia at all, we may be at an alltime low in terms of r
And Wounded Warriors skating their way back. This is one thing that gets me out of bed on saturdays, gets me motivated. This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley this is our western edition. The job of the White House Press secretary is to articulate the positions of the president and to clean up the occasional president ial mess. They are not supposed to create messes for the president. But it happened again today when sean spicer made one colossal error. He was comparing syrias dictator to hitler, and suggested that hitler did not use poison gas on his own people. The holocaust was, apparently, not on spicers mind today, and to make matters more painful, this is the jewish holiday of passover. We didnt use chemical weapons in world war ii. Reporter it isnt often that hitler is compared favorably to anyone, but it happened today when the White House Press secretary was condemning syrias Bashar Alassad for gassing his own people. You had a, you know, someone as despicable
Are put on leave. And tonight, true colors. The gift for a grandfather, youll see his reaction. Its america strong. And good evening, its great to have you with us on a wednesday night. We begin with President Trump, russia and the highstakes meeting between secretary of state Rex Tillerson and Vladimir Putin. Late today the president at the white house after meeting with the head of nato, saying relations with russia, quote, may be at an alltime low. In moscow, a similar message from secretary tillerson after a closeddoor meeting with Vladimir Putin at the kremlin saying the two countries have reached, quote, a low point. The president was asked, did russia know that syria was about to unleash that chemical attack . Abcs terry moran leads us off from moscow. Reporter at the white house, alongside nato secretarygeneral, the president offer a grim view of u. S. russia relation and were not getting along with russia at all, at an alltime low. Reporter the missile strike on syria caused a
Outside the white house. Hans, if the administration is moving toward some sort of formal response here, using some sort of force in response to this, what are the sorts of options we would be talks about . Reporter well, there are a lot of assets, steve, the United States has in the entire region, the eastern mediterranean, the northern persian gulf, arabian gulf as sometimes they call it in the navy and the favnavy thee very focused on that. George w. Bush, Aircraft Carrier in the northern persian gulf and Cruise Missiles and ships in the eastern med. A lot of options. Now, you look at where both isis is in syria and think of a map and almost have a ribbon of isis running down the Euphrates River valley then you think of where to the west of that, you have, the south of that, you have a lot of regime and Russian Forces. When you get to the coast, you almost have russian territory with their base there at ladakia. Any response that could come from the United States would have to be ve