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This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley the soninlaw also rises. Today president elect trump named his only soninlaw, Jared Kushner, to be a senior white house adviser. Hell focus on trade negotiations and the middle east. Kushner does not need senate confirmation, but questions might be raised about whether a federal antinepotism law applies to him. We have more now from jan crawford. Jared is a very successful real estate person, but i actually think he likes politics more than he likes real estate. Ill tell you. And hes very good at politics. Reporter throughout the campaign,...

This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Mr. Trump sat down with president obama, kushner talked in the rose garden with white house chief of staff Dennis Mcdonough. His move to the west wing may be complicated by an antinepotism law Congress Passed in 19 67 after president john f. Kennedy appointed his Brother Robert to a cabinet position as attorney general. But when president clinton put his wife in charge of a task force, a d. C. Judge ruled the law did in the apply the white house staff jobs. Trump adviser kellyanne conway. This came about with family members serving on the cabinet...

Escorted into a federal courtroom. Feet shackled, hands cuffed, and shaking at times. He did not explain his motive and said he only had 5 to 10 in his bank account. This video obtained by tmz appears to show santiago firing randomly at Fort Lauderdale airport on friday. Santiago shot 11 people, killing five. When he ran out of ammunition, he dropped his weapon and surrendered. A Law Enforcement source tells cbs news santiago used this nine millimeter handgun in the shooting, it is the same gun the iraq war veteran had with him when he went to an fbi office in anchorage, alaska, last november ...

This muscle flexing is designed to reassure americas nervous allies, and its also a warning to russia not to try in europe the kind of land grab that it staged in crimea when Russian Forces invaded what had been part of ukraine and seized it for the kremlin. Americas response was to beef up both its own force in europe and its support of nato. Though president elect donald trump, who has called nato obsolete, says he now wants to pursue good relations with russia. Major general timothy mcguire. How quickly could the new president , as a gesture of goodwill to russia, turn this whole thing arou...

As president obama exits, he is delivering one last message to vladamir putin american soldiers and tanks are being sent to russias doorstep in numbers not seen since the cold war. Heres Elizabeth Palmer. Reporter vast container ships docked in germany with all the hardware for a full u. S. Combat brigade. Its now rolling further east to poland, where 4,000 american soldiers will be waiting. For almost three decades, the u. S. Has been steadily pulling military personnel and weapons out of europe, until now. But this month that process has gone into reverse. Its quite a turnaround. Last year t...