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 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 any 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. Holocaust, apparently, was not on spicers mind today, and to make matters worse, this is the jewish holiday passover. Heres nancy cordes. 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 as hitler, who didnt even sink to the to using c
Maryland senator Chris Van Hollen said airlines and not passengers should not bare the over booking. If they over book they should have to put it on the airline and not the passenger, and who happens to draw the short straw temperature. The Transportation Department is still reviewing the United Airlines incident. And then Rex Tillerson has a laundry list of topics on the agenda, and including russias support of syrians government after the sarin attack. The u. S. Puts moscow on notice. This secretary Rex Tillerson in a tense facetoface with russias foreign minister. Over the past few months we heard a lot of Different Things from washington. Both men saying they are prepared to have an open and frank conversation. To further clarify areas of sharp difference so we can better understand why these differences list. The white house accusing the kremlin of a fullscale coverup of the deadly sarin attack on his own people. Frankly putin is backing a person that is truly an evil person and i
catherine you know its another bad day for united when even the white house isweighing in on what happened. While apparently ruling out any kind of federal investigation. Spokesman seanspicer still made it clear that he thought the video was troubling. Sean Spicer White House Press Secretary i think clearly, watching another human being dragged down an aisle, watching blood coming from their face after hitting an arm rest and whatever i dont think theres a circumstance that you can sit back and say this probably could have been handled a little bit better, when youre talking about another human being. But, again, i dont think it is my place to get in the middle of judging how a company dealt with this. I think theres clearly going to be enough review both on a corporate side and then on a Law Enforcement side on how this was handled. catherine quickly losing altitude today united stock. The cost of dragging that man off the overbooked flight is adding up for the company. There was a ne
Press secretary backtracking. And apologizing. After making comments about the holocaust. Thank you for joining us im pam moore. vicki and im vicki liviakis. The comparison to nazi germany now has some calling for sean spicer to be fired. pam kron4s alecia reid is tracking the story tonight. And what spicer is saying tonight after the backlash. The press secretary has apologizzed, but not many people are accepting of that apology right noe. Sean spicer was making a point about the syrian president using chemical gas on syrians, and compared him to adolf hitler. Saying hitler didnt sink to using chemical weapons during world war ii. Immediately there were gasps in the room, and backlash from all over the country. Then it got worse as sean spicer tried explaining himselfreferring to concentration camps as Holocaust Centers and saying while he realized hitler adida use gas chambers to exterminate millions of people at least he didnt drop chemicals from the air. Using the gas on his own pe
As despicable as hitler, who did not even sink to using chemical weapons. He was not using the gas on his own people the same way that a ssad is done. Amy we will get response from the Anne Frank Center. All of that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson has wrapped up a visit to moscow where met with russian president Vladimir Putin and Russian Foreign minister sergey lavrov. The meetings come at a time of increased tension between washington and moscow. On wednesday during a press conference with natos secretary general, President Trump said relations with russia had reached a new low point. Pres. Trump it would be wonderful as we were discussing just a little while ago if nato and our country could get along with russia. Right now were not getting along with russia at all. We may be at an alltime low in terms of relationship with russia. This has built for a long period of time. Am