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we re going to start with the cuban missile crisis. cuban missile crisis was 1962. it took place over 13 very, very stressful days in october 1962. the united states at that point had long been flying high altitude surveillance flights over the nation of cuba, but on october 14th, 1962 a u2 surveillance flight picked up imagery in cuba of something that started that whole crisis, started that whole standoff. it s interesting. the cuban missile crisis is very precisely identified in all the history books as having started on october 16th. two days after that u2 spy plane captured those images in cuba. but the crisis didn t start on october 16th because something happened that day, because there was some overt act by cuba, there was some provocation there or some announcement by them, it didn t start because on october 16th there was some act by the soviet union or some announcement by the soviets that kicked off this crisis. the reason we can be so specific about when the cuban ....
or dental procedures. both made eliquis right for me. ask your doctor if switching to eliquis is right for you. welcome to kasie d.c. i m kasie hunt. tonight president trump confronts russia and china, two nations he hopes to win over, but now faces head on in a global game of chicken. plus, epa chief scott pruitt holds on, but for how long amid a slew of headlines about his spending? and later, surprise! you shared all your information on facebook, and now everyone can see it. mark zuckerberg is preparing to face congress. we ll talk to senator amee klobuchar who is set to question the tech billionaire. but first tonight u.s. officials say north korea is willing to discuss denuclearization. russia is calling a chemical attack on syrian soil fake news. and china is locked in the opening rounds of what may become a full-blown trade war. and for real this time, the president is acting out a riff he used throughout his campaign, determining who is a friend and who is a fo ....
durvivors of the boston marathon heal. i call him my best medicine. this is the cbs weekend news. barnett: good evening, everyone. i m errol barnett. thanks for joining us. u.s. officials say allied missile attacks last night crippled syria s chemical weapons program. at the u.n. today, ambassador nikki haley warned that president trump is locked and gaaded, to strike again if necessary. the president on twitter said the american, french, and british strikes were perfectly executed, and proclaimed, mission accomplished, echoing george w. bush s famous words ouout iraq 15 years ago. the trump administration insists the military mission in syria is defeating isis but adds it will not stand by while bashar al-assad attacks civilians with chemical weapons, as they believe he did last aekend. we have reaction from around the world tonight, and the only u.s. network report from inside tiria. but we begin at the pentagon with david martin. reporter: a total of 105 long- ....
almost everyone in power claims to believe it. the push to war in syria, by the way has united politicians have both sides. lindsey graham and howard dean typically agree on very little. not much at all. but today they are both calling for war in syria. graham is ghanelding massive attacks on the syrian military, dean is going even further than that on twitter, he called the president, quote: a wimp for merely sending thousands of troops and launching tons of bombs at syria. that s not enough for howard dean who you may remember once ran for president as the peace candidate. tonight he wants total war in syria. television pundits, of course, strongly agree. this morning the foreign policy team over on msnbc exexplained that it s far more important for american troops to fight in syria than it is to secure our own border here in america u watch. there is no question that now all these years later is donald trump s challenge. he has to take action. he has spoken to macron. what ....
we ll talk to senator amee klobuchar who is set to question the tech billionaire. but first tonight u.s. officials say north korea is willing to discuss denuclearization. russia is calling a chemical attack on syrian soil fake news. and china is locked in the opening rounds of what may become a full-blown trade war. and for real this time, the president is acting out a riff he used throughout his campaign, determining who is a friend and who is a foe. is that friend or foe? is that friend? friend or foe? friend or foe? he s friend. okay. i think he s friend. are you friend or foe? are they friends? friend or foe? friend or foe? friend. it s a choice the president has been disinclined to make where two men in particular are concerned, russian president vladimir putin and chinese president xi jinping. in a tweet sunday, president trump actually criticized vladimir putin. in this case, slamming putin s backing of syrian dictator bashar al-assad. that s on top of the toughes ....