His conversations with other administration officials, and there are signs tonight that the president s former National Security adviser, john bolton, who left in september, not on the best of terms, may be willing to cooperate with the investigation. Nancy cordes leads off our coverage tonight at the capito reporter the newest transcript paints a damning picture of actions taken by the president s personal lawyer, rudy giuliani, and u. S. Special envoy kurt volker. Deputy assistant secretary of state george kent told lawmakers that giuliani schemed with a series of corrupt ukrainians to wage a monthslong campaign of lies against thenu. S. Ambassador to ukraine marie yovanovitch. Kent says the smears created a crisis that threatened to consume the u. S. Ukraine relationship. Kent says that after yovanovitch was sent home, special envoy volker informed the ukrainians that he was now in charge of ukrainian policy along with two trump confidants, ambassador to the e. U. Gordon sondland and Energy Secretary rick perry. Volker, the special envoy, said there was no quid pro quo. Reporter volker had been the g. O. P. s favorite witness. The definitive account on all this is the one from ambassador volker. Reporter but kent claims that volker, who has since resigned, pulled ukraines president aside at a june meeting to explain that he needed to be cooperative on issues of interest to President Trump, including an investigation into mr. Trumps campaign rival joe biden. Kent would go on to file a memo in august warning of an effort to initiate politically motivated prosecutions that were both in ukraine and the u. S. Vice president mike pence. The American People have the transcript of the president s call, and they can see there was no quid pro quo. Reporter one person who witnesses say was very alarmed by all of this was the president s former National Security adviser john bolton. He did not show up to testify today, but sources told the Washington Post that he might be willing to talk if a federal judge clears the way first. Norah . Odonnell all right, nancy, thank you. There is breaking news in the 2020 campaign. Former new york city mayor Michael Bloomberg is opening the door to a president ial campaign. The billionaire media mogul is expected to get on the ballot in alabamas president ial primary, a state with one of the earliest deadlines. A spokesperson says bloomberg is worried the current crop of Democratic Candidates may not be able to defeat President Trump. More legal woes for the president tonight. New yorks Supreme Court ordered the president to pay 2 million in damages for improperly using Charity Money for political purposes. His foundation must also give away nearly 2 million more left in its accounts. Tonight the foundation says it will pay the money to eight charities. Now, this comes as an excerpt from an explosive new book written anonymously is prompting denials from current and former paula reid is at the white house with more on this. Reporter while campaigning in New Hampshire today, Vice President mike pence denied that he would have considered removing President Trump from office. Those rumors, i dismissed them several years ago and im happy to dismiss them without qualification today. Reporter cbs news has learned that in a soontobepublished book, an Anonymous Administration official claims Top White House staffers thought pence was prepared to sign a letter invoking the 25th amendment, which allows the president to be removed from office if hes deemed unable to perform his job. The anonymous official previously published an oped in the New York Times blasting President Trumps immorality and describing a resistance operating inside the administration. The very notion of this anonymous who wrote an editorial now, its reported they have written a book, is just appalling to me. Reporter former deputy f. B. I. Director andrew mccabe, who was fired last year for lying about a separate issue, previously told 60 minutes that former Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein raised the 25th amendment shortly after the president fired former f. B. I. Chief james comey. Rosenstein was actually openly talking about whether there was a majority of the cabinet who would vote to remove the president . Thats correct, counting votes or possible votes. Reporter in an interview to air on cbs sunday morning, Norah Odonnell asked former u. N. Ambassador nikki haley about efforts to oust the president from office. Were you ever part of any discussion invoking the 25th amendment against the president . The 25th amendment never came up in any discussion i had. Reporter even though this book doesnt come out until later this month, its already near the top of the bestseller list. White House Press SecretaryStephanie Grisham came out with a sarcastic statement on the books author, saying, it takes a lot of conviction and bravery to write a whole book anonymously. Norah . Odonnell paula, thank you. All right. It is time to bundle up fast. An icy blast of arctic air is invading a big part of the country tonight. Its already dusted the campus of Michigan Tech in snow. Beautiful. More than 70 of americans will face freezing temperatures in the next week. Lonnie quinn of wcbstv in new york has the forecast. Lonnie . This cold air will take place in two phases. The first phase is this cold front making its way through the east. Snow is falling in vermont and upstate new york. The bigger story, the cold air behind it. Tomorrow afternoon every number on the board here is a record cold high temperature, meaning the warmest reading you get in rockford, illinois, will be 30 degrees. Thats our record. The warmest reading in worcester, 31. Thats a record, as well. But stage two happens and its a bigger, stronger stage. By the time you get to say monday, a strong High Pressure comes in from canada, filled with arctic air. 150 cold record weekend temperatures could be set from the weekend into next week, as well. The numbers will look like this by monday morning, 7 00 a. M. , fargo feels like 1 below zero when you factor in the wind. Dallas feels like 50 and 24 hours later it feels like 16. Boston feels like 50 degrees. Tuesday at 7 00 a. M. By 8 00 a. M. On wednesday, it feels like, right there, 7 degrees. The takeaway, norah, twothirds of americans should break out the winter coats tomorrow and keep them close by. Odonnell i was just thinking about that. Time to gets the coats out. Thanks, lonnie. Now to this story. Under tight security, people gathered today for the nine the funeral of nine women ad children massacred this week in mexico. A mother and two sons were laid to rest. More will be buried in the coming days. Manuel bojorquez is across the border tonight in Ciudad Juarez with the latest update on the eight children who survived. Reporter the first victims of the ambush to be laid to rest were carried in coffins handmade by relatives, tailored to the small bodies of those who are gone. Twoyearold rogan, 11yearold trevor, and their mother Dawna Langford were buried. The six others will be laid to rest in their hometown. This should not have happened to three women and the children. Reporter a small army of heavily armed Mexican Security forces provided protection for the grieving family. The horror of mondays massacre is palpable. In voice messages Family MemberKendra Lee Miller sent to others first obtained by cnn. Dear god, pray. Dawnas suburban was blown up by the hill. Everyone, please pray. Dear god, pray for us all. Reporter Robert Lebaron traveled here for the funeral. My personal belief is if we cant protect our women and our children, youre no longer a country. Reporter while mexican officials believe the attack was a case of mistaken identity in a shootout between rival cartels, some Family Members who lieve th were targeted. For the eight children who survive the attack, the physical healing will come before the emotional. Family members released video of ninemonthold brixton, who was recovering from a shot to the chest and a grazed are wrist, and sevenmonthold baby faith, who lost her mother in the attack, is now back with her father. Rhonita miller and her four children, including eightmonthold twins, will be laid to rest in the town that bears the family name, colonia lebaron. One Family Member told me hes not confident those who did this will be brought to justice, but he holds out hope that they will. Norah . Odonnell all right, manny. Thank you. Word of a possible trade deal with china sent stock markets soaring to new record highs. The stock market shot up 180 points, breaking the alltime high set earlier in the week. The s p 500 also climbed to its highest level ever. Now turning to a fraud scheme that Authorities Say threatens National Security. Its quite a story. Today seven people at a new york tech company were charged with importing chinese surveillance equipment and then selling it as made in the u. S. A. Mola lenghi has the details. Reporter federal agents swarmed this long island, new york, facility this morning. The entire executive team of adventura technologies is charged with fraud. According to the criminal complaint, since 2006, adventura operated a scheme where nearly 1,000 ship. S of Network Security software and hardware from china were relabeled as american and then resold to the federal government, including Surveillance Systems bought by the army, air force, department of energy, and other u. S. Agencies. The Company Allegedly made nearly 90 million in the fraud scheme. U. S. Attorney Richard Donoghue called the scheme a National Security threat. Adventura not only defrauded its customers but also exposed them to serious known Cyber Security risks and created a channel by which foreign a r adversaries and actors could potentially access some or our governments most sensitive facilities and computer networks. Reporter hours after the raid, some of the sechemoyees cg the courthouse. They all face charges of wire and mail fraud. The arrests come at a time when the u. S. Government is concerned about electronics from china. This summer imports from two of the biggest chinese tech equip makers, huawei and zte, were banned. Reporter in reality the only thing made in the United States are the victims. Reporter adventura technologies owner jack cabasso and his wife frances face a different fraud charge. Prosecutors say they represented the company as a female 46 owned business in order to gain more favorable government contracts. Norah . Odonnell all right, mola, thank you. The pentagon revealed today the u. S. Will not be keeping any revenue from oil fields protected by u. S. Troops in syria. President trump insisted the u. S. Would keep the oil, estimated to be worth 45 million a month. The president also ordered most u. S. Troops out of syria, but as Charlie Dagata reports, some are moving back in. Reporter American Forces were once again on the move today in northeastern syria. But far from pulling out as President Trump ordered only a few weeks ago, we saw u. S. Soldiers reestablishing their presence here, not that they were willing to share any details. Just asking what the purpose of your visit this morning is . From what we could overhear, it was more of a meet and greet than a tactical deployment. U. S. Forces have been order by President Trump to secure the oil fields here, but with the russians, the syrian regime, and Turkish Forces trying to take a piece of this territory, no choice but to reconsider its drawdown, but he said the main reason is definitely not oil, not the oil itself, but a watch over the territory that encompasses it. Protecting the oil fields might sound pretty straightforward, but take a look at this. Securing the Oil Essentially means securing this entire region. Which helps justify the u. S. Presence here. Today a u. S. Military spokesman told us the repositioning of forces is to defeat the remnants of isis and to protect critical infrastructure. 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Better life. Odonnell the secret service is best known for its mission to protect the president , and now its using that knowledge to protect children, today releasing the most comprehensive study on School Shootings since columbine. Heres jeff pegues. I just ran as fast as i could. Reporter the exhaustive study examined 41 School Attacks across america, and in every single one, the assailant exhibited concerning behaviors and at least one social stressor like bullying. That really led to the formation of a grievance. Reporter dr. Lina alathari is the chief of the secret Service Threat Assessment center. They can hold a grudge for a long time before they lash out . I think its just they get to the point where they cant take it anymore. Reporter the report said many of the troubled students ho committed acts could have been identified before they acted out. The secret service uses a similar threat assessment to protect the president and other public officials. Director james murray. The goal of this process is to intervene before an attack can occur. Rep tt al found 94 of school attackers experienced a homelife factor that led to an incident. This could be related to family problems at home in terms of lets say Domestic Violence in a home, drug use in the home among Family Members, divorce and separation. Reporter tony montaltos daughter gina was killed at Parkland High School last year. Had the threat assessment been done properly, there is a chance my lovely daughter and the 16 other souls that were taken that day would still be here today. Reporter the report also says there was another concerning threat among the attackers, a fascination with the columbine attack and among so an interest in hitler and naziism. Norah . Odonnell so many warning signs. Jeff, thank you. Coming up, a story of survival after a deadly plane crash in california. And i didnt have to come get you. Because you didnt have another heart attack. Not today. 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