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seriously tonight. a short time ago, the u.s. central command, the coalition, announced it is opening a formal assessment into whether on march 17th, in west mosul, it may have dropped bombs that killed a significant large number, perhaps, perhaps hundreds of civilians. so issue right now, nobody knows exactly what happened. all of this began to emerge over the last couple of days as social media activists in the area began to report large numbers of civilian casualties due to bombings in west mosul where there is very tough fighting against isis. the picture has been pretty murky because there s so many conflicting reports, and the u.s. doesn t have anybody on the ground there that can put eyeballs on the situation and really verify it. but the pentagon, the coalition today, a short time ago, said that they ve been able to determine that, yes, they did conduct the air strikes in one of these areas where the allegations have emerged from on march 17th. iraqi officials on the ....
carried political and potentially legal peril. the strategy, the advisers agreed, should be for donald trump jr. to release a statement to get ahead of the story. they wanted to be truthful, so their account couldn t be repudiated later if the full details emerged. but within hours, at the president s direction, the plan changed. flying home from germany on july 8th aboard air force one, trump personally dictated a statement in which trump jr. said he and the russian lawyer had primarily discussed a program about the adoption of russian children. when they met in june 2016, according to multiple people, with knowledge of the deliberations, the statement, issued to the new york times, as it prepared a story, emphasized that the subject of the meeting was, quote, not a campaign issue at the time. the claims were later shown to be misleading. further down in the washingt wa post story, quote, as special counsel robert mueller investigates potential obstruction as part of his broad ....
opposition to the threat of budget cuts to agencies that fund scientific work. the president tweeting a couple hours ago i am committed but always remember it enhances environmental protection. jobs matter. miguel marquez is in washington where demonstrators marched from the mall to capitol hill. miguel? reporter: ana, this is the end point for the march for science. thousands and thousands of scientists and their supporters clog the streets of washington. it was cold, it was windy. where they ended here at the capitol, what they were concerned about was the general tone from the trump administration on science and matters of science on funding. very enormous ly engaging in science in washington, d.c., said they didn t want their work to be sifted through. it certainly had a very political edge to it. ana? thank you, miguel. now to new york where the rain didn t keep away the crowds. here is rachel crane. reporter: i m in a crowded and rainy times square. lots of umbrell ....
commencements since becoming president. it comes after the white house fallout of the sudden dismissal of james comey during the fbi investigation into possible ties between the trump administration or rather trump campaign, i should say and russia. now this is as four candidates prepare to interview today for the fbi director job. we have a team of political reporters and analysts standing by here. let s begin with cnn washington correspondent ryan nobles who is at the commencement. you see him there on the left. what are you hearing from the crowd there? i understand there s about 7,000 students and families who will be watching. what are they saying? what do they expect? reporter: well, this is expected to be a pretty friendly crowd for the president. this is a group of people and voters in particular that generally supported him during the election and, of course, here at liberty university their president jerry falwell jr. a very influential evangelical leader that allowe ....
taking pictures with a bunch of people. if the warriors are feeling any stress at all, it certainly is not clear. now, they haven t played in a long time. nine days off and they ve only played 13 games in the last 46 days. you just saw a shot of steph curry there going through his warm ups. i think that s much more preferable than the situation last year when steph was hurt, hobbled through the okc series. the warriors were able to overcome a deficit in that series, but he struggled in the nba finals. one final thought to wrap it up. steve kerr talked about playing with joy. some of the assistant coaches in the warm ups were talking about that s great, but against the cavs we need grit and we need physicality. certainly when dealing with lebron jim cramer. in 15 minutes i ll talk with an old friend from espn. there is a huge international contingent of media here. i ll get you that and our own pregame show coming up at 5:00. that s a wrap. dan, alma, back to you. look forwar ....