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Something that we all fantasize about. Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. This is our western edition. A few words today from russian president putin seemed to ease world tensions over ukraine, at least temporarily, and at least enough for the Financial Markets to recover. After taking control of ukraines crimea region, putin said russia has no intention of fighting the ukrainian people or annexing crimea, but he reserved the right to use force to protect ethnic russians who live in eastern ukraine. In kiev today, the ukrainian capi...

Officials. Were keeping an eye on a busy day of events. At the bottom of the hour chuck hagel and joint chiefs chairman Martin Dempsey are due to testify on capitol hill. Secretary kerry meets with his russian counterpart in paris. Also at 11 00, they are due to meet with nato military alliance and president obama delivers remarks as comments originally suppose fobd cussed on minimum wage are likely to include some mention of the crisis in ukraine were told. Lets begin with our coverage of russian lawmakers drafting legislation that would allow moscow to confiscate assets of american and europ...

Will others bring their war back home . Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. We begin with new details with the growing scandal that led to resignation of Eric Shinseki. The final blow, an internal v. A. Audit showing misconduct at hospitals across the country. President obama says firings are under way, bonuses being canceled. There may even be a federal criminal investigation. Cnn was first to shine the spotlight on the v. A. Scandal and our correspondents are standing by to bring you the full coverage we can. We begin with jim acosta who takes us behind the scenes of todays stunnin...

Aeffect waited back then . I would say a couple things about that. The United States has been engaged in an effort to support them. We have been for some time. For more than a year, at least. Separately, the concern that was expressed by the administration at the time and has been its something thats been oft repeated is a concern that we didnt want to provide assistance to every individual who said that they were fighting bashar al assad. Had we done that without thoroughly vetting them and building the kind of relationship thats necessary to understand who were providing weapons to, we would...

I would say a couple things about that. The first is the United States has been engaged in an effort to support them and we have been for some time. For more than a year at least. Separately, the concern that was expressed by the administration at the time and has been its been repeated. Its a concern that we didnt want to provide assistance to every individual who said that they were fighting bashar al assad. Had we done that without thoroughly vetting them and building a relationship to understand who were providing weapons to, we would have provided weapons to the very people were now fight...