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official announcement. hagel and the president have been discussing his departure over the last several weeks. let s get to the pentagon and barbara starr. although the white house is saying it was a mutual decision, you say it s not? well, carol, good morning. the white house and officially here at the pentagon the sword it was a mutual decision between the president and secretary hagel for the secretary to go. but in reality, the political reality, several officials now tell us here at cnn is that hagel basically was forced out, pushed out, whatever you want to call it. the secretary and the president had been talking over the last several weeks about what the president wanted to see in the final two years of his administration in national security. they had been talking about it and, you know, once you start talking about the future, it opens the door to all of these issues of stay or go. there had been a lot of chatter about all of this, that the president wanted ....
what firefighters are doing to stop them. also the president ready toy crack down on greenhouse gas emissions. this major climate change plan has many seeing red. and is joe ready to go? talk biden might launch another presidential bid. how that can shake up the race. let s talk in the cnn news room. good monday morning! i m poppy harlow in for carol costello. thank you for being with me. we begin with the unnerving story. for the third time in three days airline pilots are reporting a close call with an unmanned drone. the latest incident from last night once again at jfk airport in new york city. one of the busyiest airports in the country. we talk with a veteran airline pilot who flew out and into jfk this weekend. a 777 pilot has logged more than 18,000 hours in the cockpit. he s a cnn aviation analyst. you flew out of jfk to london. i did. it didn t happen to you but it happened to three different planes reported. potentially more. when you look at th ....
and a plea from the mom of a bullied child. speak to your children and teach them acceptance for everybody. this is the cbs evening news with jeff glor. glor: and this is our western edition. good evening. president trump got what he wanted most for christmas. congress today approved a $1.5 trillion package of tax cuts, part of the biggest overhaul of the tack code in 31 years. it also cuts out a major part of obamacare, ending the requirement that most americans buy health insurance or pay a fine. this is the president s biggest legislative victory, achieved without a democratic vote, and ac called republicans to the white house to celebrate. major garrett was there. nt this will indeed be a very big day when people look back at our country. reporter: president trump and fellow republicans celebrated on the south lawn and promised the tax cuts will unleash economic growth. it means jobs. jobs, jobs, jobs. reporter: the president showered praise on g.o.p. leaders ....
of of gone refugees living in pakistan with their right to stay severely restricted the face of mass deportations back to their country we ll go live to islamabad for the latest. and the top brigs of negotiated today on views of dr treaty that s likely to new arguments with britain and time is running out the u.k. is set to leave the bloc in less than a year. i don t welcome i m. a temporary truce ordered by russia has taken effect for a second day in eastern huta a monitor group says a barrage of airstrikes preceded the ceasefire pushing for with the advance of syrian government troops on the outskirts of the rebel stronghold they have also been reports of ground battles in the hours since the truce began this still no sign meanwhile of civilians evacuating or aid getting through. the skies over eastern ghouta were supposed to fall silent but a five hour humanitarian pause brought little relief to be seized residents in the rebel held enclave strikes were reported duri ....
he pleaded guilty this aftern n afternoon. nbc s ari melber putting the development in context telling us, mueller is showing how tough he will be on anyone who lies or contributes to obstruction, including lawyers caught up in h or working on the matter. this is as donald trump blusters away on twitter about the significance of friday s 13 indictments of russian nationals for their role in meddling in the 2016 presidential election. the president tweeting this morning that it was all obama s fault and pointing to coverage on fox & friends to prove it. thank you to fox & friends on the great timeline on all the failures the obama administration had against russia including crimea, syria, and so much more. we are now starting to win again. and this, i ve been much tougher on russia than obama, just look at the facts. total fake news. the fake news is the part of that tweet where president trump claims to have been tougher on russia. a claim sarah huckabee sa ....