Come on, right . Why not . This is the cbs evening news. Mason good evening. Im Anthony Mason. Pennsylvania congressman tom marino withdrew under pressure today as President Trumps nominee to be drug czar. This follows a 60 minutes report that revealed marinos role in legislation that makes it easier for Drug Companies to distribute opioids in the midst of an epidemic thats claiming thousands of lives. Heres chief Congressional Correspondent nancy cordes. Im very happy thats done. Reporter democrats and republicans said congressman marino was right to withdraw his nomination, which President Trump announced in a tweet this morning. I think it was wise. Sounds like the First Amendment serves the country well. Reporter the investigation by 60 minutes and the Washington Post found that marino worked closely with the drug industry to craft a bill that whistleblowers say has weakened the deas ability to block smishes drug suspicious drug shipmentsful. Some of if criticism is just false, in fact, all of it is. Reporter utah republican orrin hatch defend marino and the law, but several of the laws coauthors say it may need to be revised. The senates republican leader was noncommittal. Whats the best approach now . Is it to repeal the bill, make changes to it . Youll have to ask the sponsors about it. Reporter this law sailed through Congress Last year. Most lawmakers didnt give it a second look, partly because the dea itself never raised any red flags. Whistleblowers say that might be because so many top dea officials who would have understood the bills impact left the dea, anthony, to go to the drug industry. Mason nancy cordes at the capitol. Thanks, nancy. The Opioid Epidemic took more than 33,000 lives in 2015 alone. Chip reid takes us tonight to one especially hard hit part of the country. Reporter sasha and kane wyatt are part of the Cherokee Nation in northeast oklahoma. They adopted luke. His birth moir was addictedded to opioids and so was he. I remember holding him and trying not to cry. It was so hard to see him go through Something Like that. Reporter and this was every night. Oklahoma has one of the most severe opioid problems in the nation, and its especially bad here in the 14 counties that make up the Cherokee Nation. Its devastating to our people. Reporter todd hembree is the Cherokee Nations attorney general. Earlier this year he sued americas three largest pharmacies and the three largest Prescription Drug distributors. They know what theyre doing is wrong, and they need to be held defendantable. Reporter the complaint accuses the companies of regularly fulfilling suspicious orders and ignoring red flags, which allowed massive amounts of opioid pills to be diverted from legitimate channels of distribution into the ill list celt black market. The lawsuit asks for billions in damages. My goal is to change the behavior of these corporations, and the way you do that is you hit them in the pocketbook. They begin to have withdrawal symptoms. Reporter nikki baker limore, says the recent increase in addicted babies is staggering. I can get emotional talking about it, but when you hear a baby give you a shrill and you cant do a thing about it, whether you swaddle them, you pat them, you love on them, its heartbreaking. Reporter there are so many addicted babies that there are not enough foster and adoptive homes to take them all in, so twothirds of those cherokee babies are being placed in noncherokee homes. The children are our future. Without our future, we cant go on. Reporter the companies willing to talk about pending litigation told us they believe the lawsuits claims are without merit, and they say they are dedicated to working together with the government to combat the illegal diversion of drugs. Limore says drug users do share the blame for the cray sis, but what the Cherokee Nation really needs is for the glad of drugs to stop. Its like a tornado that never ends. Its proved into our area. It is destroying our community. And until someone stops that from happening, the devastation continues. Glor reporter chip reid,s news, tahlequah, oklahoma. Mason federal investigators today said the pilot in the nations deadliest hot air balloon disaster had valium, oxycodone, and the antihistamine benadryl in his system. 16 people were killed in july of last year when the balloon hit power lines and crashed near austin, texas. N. T. S. B. Says the pilot, alfred nichols, should not have flown with clouds approaching and the drugs likely impaired his decisionmaking. The gloves are off and no one is holding back. It started with senator john mccain blasting President Trumps ideas with words like halfbaked and unpatriotic. The president today warned mccain to be careful. The vietnam war hero shot back, ive faced tougher adversaries. Then former Vice President joe biden jumped in. It was that kind of day in politics. Here again is nancy cordes. It is absolutely bizarre. Its bizarre conduct. Reporter after holding back for nine months, the former Vice President unloaded today for a scathing seven minutes. We have a president who does not understand governance. Forget his policies for a minute. He doesnt understand how the government functions. Reporter he said the president s behavior and language get that son of a bitch off the field right now. Reporter are rapidly and perhaps irreversibly shattering societal standards. Violating the norms of personal conduct generates more anxiety and fear than any policy prescription that this president has enunciated. Reporter still, he begged top officials not to abandon ship. All the people who are in our administration who are still there, they call me all the time. I say, please stay. Please stay. There has to be some competence and normalcy. Reporter his note of alarm echoed comments made by republican senator john mccain, who described mr. Trumps politics this way today its a reversion to the 1930s, the isolationism that breakthrough on world war ii. Reporter and this way last night. Some halfbaked, spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems. [cheering and applause] reporter President Trump was asked about that in a radio interview. You heard what he said yesterday, senator mccain . Well, i hear it. People have to be careful, because at some point i fight back. You know, im being very nice. Im being very, very nice, but at some point i fight back, and it wont be pretty. Reporter mccain insisted he wants the work with President Trump, but Vice President biden said he is done giving this president the benefit of the doubt. He told the audience today that he has heard from 14 different heads of state, anthony, all wanting to know what is going on in the united states. Mason nancy cordes again from the capitol where there has been a lot of news. Thanks, nancy. It is perhaps the most solemn duty of an american president to comfort the testimony list of fallen war heroes. When President Trump, without the facts, accused his predecessors of dereliction of that duty, the response was quick and angry. Heres White House CorrespondentMargaret Brennan. Reporter President Trumps claim yesterday that past commanders in chief did not call the families of the fallen created a firestorm. The traditional way, if you look at president obama and other president s, most of them didnt make calls. Reporter staffers for president s clinton, bush, and obama quickly refuted mr. Trumps claim, saying that theyd each called, written to, and met with gold star families. Today President Trump went further, invoking one of those families to make a political point. He put the spotlight on his chief of staff, john kelly, urging reporters to ask him whether hed received a call from president obama after his son robert, a u. S. Marine, was killed in 2010. I mean, you could ask general kelly, did he get a call from obama . You could ask other people. I dont know what obamas policy was. Reporter white house officials claim to be unaware of whether mr. Trump had spoken to kelly before making the remark. The retired marine corps general has actively avoided calling attention to his sons death, making it clear he does not want it to be exploited, but on a memorial day trip to arlington cemetery, President Trump called attention to the familys loss. Robert died fighting the enemies of all civilization in afghanistan. Reporter today, despite the president s prodding, kelly declined to comment. But a white house official, who requested anonymity, told cbs news, i can tell you obama did not call general kelly after the death of his son. But white house records show that kelly and his wife did attend a closeddoor breakfast with mr. And mrs. Obama to honor gold star families a year after their sons passing. Obama staff told cbs news that the kellys were seated alongside the first lady but could not confirm a prior call. You have sacrificed nothing and no one. Reporter it is not first time mr. Trump has stirred controversy over a gold star family. As a candidate, he sparred with the parents of captain humayun khan, killed in iraq in 2004. They had spoken at the Democratic National convention. If you look at his wife, she was standing there, she had nothing to say. Maybe she wouldnt allowed to have anything to say. Reporter late today the white house said President Trump did speak with all four families of the green berets killed in niger and thanked them for their sacrifice. Anthony . Mason Margaret Brennan at the white house, thanks. All of this happens as americans mourn the loss of those four Service Members killed in niger earlier this month. This evening the body of one of the green berets was flown to miami. Sergeant johnson was 25. He leaves a pregnant wife and two children. Our Holly Williams was one of the few western journalists to witness the celebration yesterday as u. S. Backed forces pushed the last isis fighters from raqqa. Today the militias declared victory in the city. Isis once considered its capital. Holly reports it came at a terrible price. Reporter we walked into the heart of raqqa today, once the pride of the socalled islamic state. Now reclaimed after a fourmonth battle by these u. S. Backed fighters, who took it to al naim circle. Its a place where isis showcased its brutality. This photo of a jihadis young son captures their depravity. What isis did here in al naim circle was designed to terrorize, not just the people here in raqqa who witnessed it in person, but anywhere where people saw the photos and the videos on the internet. To get rid of the extremist, theyve destroyed the city, leaving hardly a building unscathed. U. S. Coalition air strikes have flattened many of them and inadvertently killed civilian, according to survivors. Buried beneath the rubble, we may never know for sure how many died here. A commander of the Raqqa Offensive told us this city will be rebuilt. But the extremists did damage that can never be repaired. Ahmed hamdi escaped raqqa two months ago, he told us, but as he evacuated the city, an isis bomb tore off both his legs and killed his wife. I want the kill hundreds of them, he told us. At a gave yard north of raqqa, they come to pay their respects to the hundreds of u. S. Backed fighters who have died in battle, a war thats cost people here the lives of their sons and daughters. Three years after the u. S. Led coalition began its Bombing Campaign against isis, the group is coming close to losing all of its former territory in syria and iraq, but that doesnt mean the end of isis, and as far as we know, the strikes havent killed the groups leader, abu bakr albaghdadi. Anthony . Mason Holly Williams reporting on the devastated but nowliberated city of iraqa. Thanks. Coming up next on the cbs evening news, new pressure on ford to recall more than one million explorers. And later, High School Students try their hands at realworld politics. Hey, are you taking the tissue test . Yep, and my teeth are yellow. I mean i knew they werent perfect, but, ugh. Oh well, all hope is lost oh thanks clearly my whitening toothpaste is not cutting it. Time for whitestrips. Crest glamorous White Whitestrips are the only adaaccepted whitening strips proven to be safe and effective. They work below the enamel surface to whiten 25x better than a leading whitening toothpaste. 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Reporter since last summer, the national Highway Traffic Safety Administration has been investigating more than 2,700 come police of exhaust which contains Carbon Monoxide leaking into the cabin of ford explorers. Those reports include claims of three accidents and 41 injuries. So far it says its found no actual evidence of Carbon Monoxide poisoning, but hours after henderson, louisiana, Police Officer brandy sickie crashed her explorer, doctors diagnosed her with Carbon Monoxide poisoning. I think ford needs to take care of the problem and of course it. Reporter this california Police Officer says he passed out behind the wheel of an explorer due to Carbon Monoxide and crashed. Hes now suing ford. Texas resident aaron erin gaston says she gets fume in her 2013 explorer. Every time you were in that vehicle, you started it up, ac was on, blowing, that smell was there. Reporter ford insists the s. U. V. S are safe, but its known about the issue since at least 2012, and according to arbitration document, a Company Representative acknowledged it was likely a design issue. After austin, texas, police pulled more than 400 explorers in july, ford began a nationwide effort to fix police s. U. V. S, blaming those issues on afterpurchaseics thatlation of emergency equipment. Ford is responding to this recall request indirectly, saying its always looking for ways to improve but it is confident in its processes. What ford is not agreeing to, a recall. Anthony . Mason kris van cleave in atlanta, thanks. Still ahead, now harvard memes for horny bourgeios Harvey Weinsteins brother bob is accused of Sexual Harassment. But you can game plan for them. For 150 years, generations of families have chosen pacific life for retirement and Life Insurance solutions to help them reach their goals. Being ready for wherever life leads. Thats the power of pacific. Ask a Financial Advisor about pacific life. 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