Disappointment i have left behind at home and at nbc. Lauer seen near his home in the hamptons today said some of the allegations are untrue or mischaracterized, but there is enough truth in these stories to make me feel embarrassed and ashamed. Nbc says two women in addition to the female employee whose complaint led to lauers firing have come forward. Also, one woman told the New York Times that she was sexually assaulted by lauer in his office in 2001. And some of lauers female colleagues told variety magazine that he summoned them to his hotel room at night during nbcs olympic coverage. Some told variety their complaints to management fell on deaf ears. Variety reporters Elizabeth Wagmeister and Ramin Setoodeh wrote the story. Matt lauers persona is a very squeaky Clean America dad is very different than his private persona where he focused on women at the today show. And there was a clear pattern of that. Reporter lauer is the latest in an expanding list of powerful men forced out of their jobs overcharges of Sexual Misconduct, including now former cbs this morning coanchor charlie rose. New to the left def jam founder russell simmons, who earlier today resigned from his Media Companies after a second woman alleged that he forced her to have sex against her will. Simmons doesnt deny the encounters, but says he remembers them differently. As for lauer, nbc said in a statement that current management was never made aware of any allegations prior to monday night when the first woman came forward. Anthony . Bianna golodryga, thanks. Pressure is growing on the longest serving member of the house of representatives to step down in the face of Sexual Misconduct accusations. More on that now from julianna goldman. Congressman conyers should resign. Reporter today the top democrat in the house of representatives called on john conyers to step down immediately. Zero tolerance needs consequences for everyone. No matter how great the legacy, its no license to harass or discriminate. Reporter conyers attorney arnold reed shot back, saying the 88yearold congressman is staying put. Nancy pelosi did not elect the congressman, and she sure as hell wont be the one to tell the congressman to leave. Reporter pelosi and other Democratic Leaders spoke out after marion brown, the staffer with whom conyers settled the Sexual Harassment complaint in 2015 came forward for the first time. Im here to say that im not a liar. Reporter offering disturbing details. He pointed to areas of genital areas of his body and asked me to, you know, touch it. Reporter since browns 27,000 settlement was first reported last week, several women have accused conyers of Sexual Misconduct. Conyers has denied the allegations. His attorney said he was hospitalized last night for stressrelated issues and also seemed to suggest that conyers is being treated unfairly due to his race. Nancy pelosi is going to have to explain what is the discernible difference between al franken and john conyers. I apologize. Reporter several women have accused senator al franken of groping both before and after he was elected. Unlike with conyers, Top Democrats in the senate are not calling on franken to resign. Simply today, republican congressman joe barton announced he would not seek reelection after a lewd selfie he had sent to another woman circulated online. Anthony . Julianna goldman. Thank you, julianna. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee sanders said today it is unlikely the president knew who Jayda Fransen was when he retweeted her videos yesterday. Fransen is the leader of an Extremist Group in britain, and the president s retweets set off a storm across the pond. Here is charlie dagata. Reporter the far right antimuslim Group Britain first is used to street fighting to drive home its extremist message. But now a day after President Trump retweeted the groups inflammatory videos, the fight has spread to parliament. He is either a racist, incompetent, or unthinking, or all three. Reporter opposition politicians piled on the pressure to cancel the official state visit that has been extended to the president. Action is needed now, not a slap on the wrist. Cancel the state visit. He should be treated as anyone else who breaks the law and charged with inciting racial hatred. Reporter even members of the conservative government agreed. So the president has endorsed the views of a vile, hatefilled racist organization that hates me and people like me. In jordan on government business, Prime Minister theresa may clung to the idea of a special relationship with washington, but she too condemned the president. When we think United States had got it wrong, reetweeting from britain first was the wrong thing to do. Reporter mr. Trump only fanned the flames when he rebuked the Prime Minister, warning her to focus on her own business. Even staunch trump supporter nigel farage admitted the president had made a mistake. I do think these videos are in very bad taste, and he has shown poor judgment. Reporter tonight we learn the u. S. Diplomatic post in some muslim countries have been put on a heightened security alert as a precaution. A u. S. Official told us the president s retweets of the antimuslim videos have added to those concerns. Anthony . Charlie dagata in london, thanks. The cbs overnight news will be right back. It says you apply the blue one ok, letto me. This. Here . No. Have a little fun together, or a lot. Ky yours and mine. Two sensations that work together, so you can play together. Im never gonna be able ill take a sick day tomorrow. On our daughters birthday . Moms dont take sick days. Moms take nyquil severe. The nighttime, sniffling, sneezing, coughing, aching, fever, best sleep with a cold, medicine. Shes had a tiny cough. See you at 5 seriously . Protection. Lysol kills over 100 illnesscausing germs and viruses, even those that may cause coughs. Lysol. What it takes to protect. Change is coming to a kingdom once stuck firmly in the past. Women are asserting themselves in ways that were unimaginable until recently. Holly williams reports from riyadh. Reporter its six months before saudi women will finally be allowed to drive, but Noura Al Otaibi isnt waiting. A 170,000 mercedesbenz takes her fancy. This after all is oil rich saudi arabia. Her brothers have already started giving her driving lessons in the desert, she told us. Women fought for the right to drive in saudi arabia, illegally taking to the road and shaming their government with these protest videos. In this ultra conservative country, the genders have traditionally been segregated. So the driving ban has never made much sense, because women are allowed to catch taxis or use ride apps to get a car with a male driver theyve never met. Most people weve spoken to here want to see women behind the wheel. And women are fighting for other freedoms too. Theyre not victims. We are not victims. Were strong. Reporter halah alhamrani, who has opened a boxing jim gymnasium called fight like a girl told us she wants an end to saudi arabias male guardianship system, which means all saudi women still need a male relatives permission to travel overseas or get married. You think that needs to change . I hope that it does, yes. Reporter and you think the government is going to do it . I think were going in that yeah, were going in that direction inshallah, god willing. Reporter by saudi standards, the countrys new crown prince, mohammad bin salman, is a reformer. He is allowing women into sport stadiums for the first time. And a stampede of saudi women is now joining the workforce. These girls could one day have very different lives from their mothers. But in saudi arabia, any change is jarring. A backlash always possible. Holly williams, cbs news, jeddah, saudi arabia. And when we come back, the battle of the brains. Cats versus dogs. Nothing smells greater than the great outdoors. Especially when youre in accounts receivable. Only one detergent can give you a sniff like this. The irresistable scent of new gain botanicals laundry detergent. Bring the smell of nature wherever you are. It says you apply the blue one ok, letto me. This. Here . No. Have a little fun together, or a lot. Ky yours and mine. Two sensations that work together, so you can play together. That was just aight for me. Yo, checi mean,t dawg. You got the walk. You got the stance. But i wasnt really feeling it. You know what, im not buying this. You gotta come a little harder dawg. You gotta figure it out. Eh, i dont know. Shaky on the walk, carriage was off. Randy jackson judging a dog show. I dont know dawg. Surprising. Whats not surprising . How much money lisa saved by switching to geico. Wow performance of the night. Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. Ialmost everything. You know, ke 1 i n 10 houses could get hit by an expensive septic disaster. But for only 7 a month, ridx helps break down waste. Avoid a septic disaster with ridx. Well, chalk one up for dog lovers. New Research Finds dogs are far brainier than cats, with more than twice as many neurons in their cerebral cortexes. That means dogs are capable of more complex tasks, which could explain why there are no bombsniffing cats. Full disclosure, the lead researcher from Vanderbilt University admits to being a 100 dog person. Actor and singer jim nabors died today at his home in hawaii. Nabors is best known as gomer pyle, the country bumpkin marine private, a spinoff of the role he created on the Andy Griffith show. Water and air is free. We dont make no charge for it. Now you take gas and oil, that is a different proposition. Amazingly, nabors singing voice was a beautiful baritone. To dream the impossible dream nabors sang back home again in indiana, most years at the indy 500. And he was the first guest each season on the Carol Burnett show. She called him her good luck charm. Jim nabors was 87. Spent a lot of hours with gomer pyle as a kid. Up next, she has been flying since ike was in the white house. This portion is sponsored by it says you apply the blue one ok, letto me. This. Here . No. Have a little fun together, or a lot. Ky yours and mine. Two sensations that work together, so you can play together. Oh, big old jet airliner, dont carry me too far away we end tonight with a woman who loves her job so much, she is walking on air. Here is kris van cleave. How you doing . It seems like everyone knows Flight Attendant bette nash on this Early Morning shuttle flight from d. C. To boston. Good morning congratulations. Thank you. They do. Flight crews call the route the nash dash. Happy anniversary. Well, thanks. Reporter and this month she is celebrating her 60th anniversary in the air. Frequent flier florence tate. She is magnificent. She is my mentor. The cup is always half filled. Reporter what is your secret to do this for so long . 60 years in one job is so long. Its the people. The people. I thrive on the people. You Say Something to them. They Say Something to you, and theyre happy. Of course, i like being paid too. Reporter nash started in november 1957. The names on the planes have sure changed. Eastern, trump shuttle, usair. And now american. So has the industry. In the 1950s, Flight Attendants were typically required to be single and couldnt work past their early 30s. Cant take another ten years. Reporter nash only planned to do this a couple of years. Instead she turns 82 next month with no plans to retire. What is the biggest thing that has changed in the Airline Business . Technology. There is nothing like technology. That has changed. The people are exactly the same. Everybody needs a little love. Are you happy . Reporter especially at 30,000 feet. Would you like some cookies to make you happier . Reporter at 6 30 in the morning. Kris van cleave, cbs news, washington. And thats the overnight news for this friday. For some of you, the news continues. For other, check back with us a little later for the morning news and cbs this morning. From the Broadcast Center in new york city, im anthony mason. Thanks for watching. This is the cbs overnight news. Welcome to the overnight news. Im david begnaud. Rex tillersons time as secretary of state is apparently coming to a close. The white house has been making plans to remove the former exxon chief and replace him with the current cia director, mike pompeo. Now tillerson has had a strained relationship with President Trump, and it did not get any better when he was quoted as calling the president a moron. Here is margaret brennan. He is here. Rex is here. Reporter today President Trump refused to answer questions about a white house plan to replace secretary of state Rex Tillerson after less than year on the job. Mr. Trump has been publicly frustrated with his top diplomat. We disagree on a couple of things. Sometimes id like him to be a little bit tougher. Reporter that comment came just three days after tillerson held an extraordinary News Conference last month to shoot down reports that he had called the president a moron. There has never been a consideration in my mind to leave. I serve at the appointment of the president , and i am here for as long as the president feels i can be useful to achieving his objectives. Reporter the two have clashed on policy issues, including north korea. Shortly after tillerson announced that the u. S. Was in diplomatic contact with pyongyang, trump tweeted that, quote, he is wasting his time. No, we dont agree on everything. Yes, sometimes he changes his mind. Reporter tillerson successfully convinced the president to keep the u. S. In the iran nuclear deal. But he now appears poised to lose an argument. Over tillersons objection, the president is leaning towards recognizing the disputed city of jerusalem as the capital of israel. One of tillersons closest ally, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee bob corker said mr. Trump has effectively neutered tillerson. He said the president has, quote, castrate youd before the world stage. I object. Im fully intact. Reporter tillersons aloof management style and cost saving plan to restructure the state department, including slashing around 2,000 positions has not helped his popularity. Today corker defended him. Its been evident to me that for some time, somebody is seeking to undermine his presence here. I dont know who that is. President trump is poised for the first major legislative victory of his administration. He calls it the biggest tax cut in american history. Here is nancy cordes. Reporter the dow surged 330 points today as wall street sensed an impending windfall after several gop holdouts said they were leaning towards voting yes. I think its likely to pass. Reporter the centerpiece of the senate plan is a huge cut to the Corporate Tax rate, which republicans say will be a boon for u. S. Workers. Well have more jobs, more companies, existing companies are expanding. Reporter democrats argued past tax cuts havent trickled down to workers. This is a fantasy. This bill greases the wheels to send more jobs overseas. Just a show of hands. Reporter a group of Business Leaders were asked recently if they would invest the tax savings in their workforce. White house economic adviser gary cohn was disappointed by the response. Why arent the other hands up . Reporter delaware democrat chris coons. Advisers ceos of pfizer, cocacola said thats not what were going to do. If we get a significant rate cut, were going to give it back to our shareholders and in dividends and buybacks. Reporter the joint committee on taxation projected today that the gop plan would boost job growth by an extra half a percent over the next ten years. The jct has also projected that the plans individual tax changes would initially benefit earners at all levels. But those savings would quickly evaporate for those making less than 75,000 a year. Tennessee republican bob corker says that part of the plan needs major work. I wish we could just take the individual side, put mitt the trash can and take it quickly to the incinerator. Reporter but many republicans are worried theyll miss the moment if they tinker with the bill any longer. I want us to pass tax reform. I think in its current structure, it would make things better than things are today. Not perfect, but better. Reporter if republicans do manage to pass their bill, which theyre hoping to do in the next 24 hours, they will have another opportunity to make some changes when they work to reconcile their plan with the very different plan that passed the house earlier this month. Matt lauer is now speaking about that Sexual Harassment scandal that cost him his job on the today show. Bianna golodryga has the latest. Our top story is once again about our former colleague matt lauer. Reporter the today show may be without its star anchor, but matt lauer still managed to lead his old broadcast, releasing a statement jus before air about the allegations that led to a stunning exit. There are no words to express my sorrow and regret for the pain i have caused others by my words and actions, he said. As i am writing this, i realize the depth of the damage and disappointment i have left behind at home and at nbc. Lauer seen near his home in the hamptons today said some of the allegations are untrue or mischaracterized, but there is enough truth in these stories to make me feel embarrassed and ashamed. Nbc says two women in addition to the female employee whose complaint led to lauers firing have come forward. Also, one woman told the New York Times that she was sexually assaulted by lauer in his office in 2001. And some of lauers female colleagues told variety magazine that he summoned them to his hotel room at night during nbcs olympic coverage. Some told variety their complaints to management fell on deaf ears. Variety reporters Elizabeth Wagmeister and Ramin Setoodeh wrote the story. Matt lauers public persona as a very squeaky Clean Americas dad is very different than his private persona where he focused on women that worked at the today show. And there was a clear pattern of that. Reporter lauer is the latest in an expanding list of powerful men forced out of their jobs over charges of Sexual Misconduct, including now former cbs this morning coanchor charlie rose. New to the left def jam founder russell simmons, who earlier today resigned from his Media Companies after a second woman alleged that he forced her to have sex against her will. An aide for michigan congressman john conyers says he will not resign, despite the sexual allegations swirling around him. Conyers is in the hospital this morning. He was checked in after apparently feeling lightheaded. This comes as another kwam has come forward with another sordid tale of what it was like to work for him. Here is julianna goldman. Reporter today the top democrat in the house of representatives called on john conyers to step down immediately. Zero tolerance means for everyone. No matter how great the legacy, its no license to harass or discriminate. Reporter conyers attorney shot back saying he is staying put. Nancy pelosi did not elect the congressman, and she sure as hell wont be the one to tell the congressman to leave. Reporter pelosi and other democrati leaders spoke out after marion brown, the staffer with whom conyers settled the Sexual Harassment complaint in 2015 came forward for the first time. Im here to say that im not a liar. Reporter offering disturbing details. He pointed to areas of genital areas of his body and asked me to, you know, touch it. Reporter unlike with conyers, Top Democrats in the senate are not calling on franken to resign. Simply separately today, republican congressman joe barton announced he would not seek reelection after a lewd selfie he sent to another woman circulated online. Cbs overnight news is coming right back. Seriously . Protection. Lysol kills over 100 illnesscausing germs and viruses, even those that may cause coughs. Lysol. What it takes to protect. 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An 11 Million People have been driven from their homes. The forces of Bashar Al Assad have womaned civilians, gassed neighborhoods, tortured prisoners, and destroyed hospitals. Some american volunteers are inside of syria right now, risking their lives to heal the wounds of war. Here is the story scott pelley did for 60 minutes. Reporter this is a hospital during the siege of aleppo. From the looks of it, maybe an exhausted father, a distraught mother, and a child at left, curled up on a gurney. That was an air strike. This hospital was hit 14 times in six months. This is aleppo again, last year. Al jazeera reporter was covering the aftermath of a chemical attack. Once the er filled up, the hospital was hit. Reporter the nursery was evacuated. Then the camera found the neonatal icu. Reporter targeting hospitals is the atrocity that started the geneva conventions 153 years ago and led to the creation of the red cross. It is the original war crime. Since 2011, there have been more than 450 attacks on syrian hospitals. Emergency medicine has been driven underground. Every neighborhood air strike delivers too many patients with too little time. Doctors improvise with scavenged drugs. And avenged equipment. So many doctors have been killed or fled that veterinarians and dentists are pressed to do surgery. You work with the understanding that you might find yourself dead or crippled or dismembered, on the floor next to the people youre trying to save. Reporter dr. Samer attar is a leading Orthopedic Surgeon from chicago, who volunteers in syrias makeshift hospitals. The bombs would land so close that they knock you off your feet. And at times they would directly hit the hospital. But all i did was look around and follow everyone elses lead. Because theyre like rocks. They dont lose their cool. They dont lose their composure. They just keep working. Reporter dr. Attar enlisted in the Syrian American medical society. Which began in the 1990s as a professional association. But since the revolution, these american doctors have raised nearly 100 million in aid and sent more than 100 members into rebelheld syria, including aleppo, where dr. Attar worked. We would find ourselves doing surgeries, sometimes without anesthesia on people lying on gurneys in the hallway because youre so overstretched. Say hi to everybody. Reporter these are dr. Attars pictures of aleppo. I remember another child brought in. She couldnt have been more than 5. Her whole body was pockmarked with shrapnel from her chest to her belly. One of the surgeons in aleppo, we rushed her to the operating room and opened up her belly and stopped the bleeding to her liver. But she had lost so much blood, we cant you cant give all of your blood to save one life if you save it to give a little bit of each to five who you know will make it. And i saw that all the time. Reporter did that little girl make it . No, she did not. Seeing little bodies wrapped in white shrouds with the cloth still bleeding because the bodies still bleed. They would be wrapped in white shrouds and placed outside to be taken to be buried. Reporter 6yearold mohammed kemet was destined for a burial shroud until a surgeon saved his life. Mohammeds house had been hit by a mortar, and he became unforgettable to samer attar. I remember him because he lost his mother and his siblings and both of his legs. The day before i left aleppo, he asked me to bring back robotic legs, prosthetic legs if i ever returned. And if only it were that simple. He thought i would deliver them like a pair of gym shoes and everything would be back to normal. He would go back to running around and playing soccer. Its the worst humanitarian crisis in our lifetimes. And because those are our own people. Reporter basel terminini is Vice President of the Syrian American medical society. He is a gastroenterologist in steubenville, ohio. He told us the society donated 120 ambulances, pays the salaries of nearly 2,000 syrian staff, equips 135 medical facilities, and is building more. There have been more than 500 attacks on health care facilities. And we have more than 800 casualties from the staff. So were trying to move all those facilities underground. Reporter did you say 800 medical professionals have been killed in attacks on hospitals . Yes. More than 800. I think now the latest is 850. There are attacks on hospitals. People are detained, tortured to death there are shelling also. Mostly air strikes and barrel bombs. This is number one killer for the health staff. Who are some of the men and women who work with you inside syria . Those are our heroes. They know theyre risking their lives every day, risking their familys life. But they know if they migrate and go out, nobody is willing to provide those services. We try to support them, whatever we need, we try to fulfill. Reporter what they need is to know that they are not alone. How many trips in does this make for you . This is number four. Reporter we travelled into syria with dr. Attar. The road to aleppo was in the hands of an islamist rebel group known as ahrar al sham. Our route was through idlib, the last whole province still at war. We found a hospital hit by an air strike, but somehow still running. On the darkened but functioning side of the hospital how are you . Okay. Reporter samer attar spotted abdurhim ghanem. They had worked in aleppo before its fall last september. A massacre. So much bodies. So much injuries. We did our bit. Reporter which is all you can do . Yes. It wasnt enough. But what we could do. If you would like to see scotts full report, its on our website, cbsnews. Com. The overnight news will be right back. Ayep, and my teeth are yellow. . Time for whitestrips. Crest glamorous White Whitestrips are the only adaaccepted whitening strips proven to be safe and effective. 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See if this sounds familiar. A reality tv star with a controversial past is making a long shot bid to be president. This time its happening in russia. Here is liz palmer. Reporter Ksenia Sobchak is already unofficially campaigning for russias top job. Today she is speaking at a student rally in st. Petersburg. She may be a new face in national politics, but she has been a russian celebrity for years. As a glamorous socialite, a playboy model, and scandalous reality tv star. Now shes morphed again as a challenger to president vladimir putin, but with no illusions. No way putin will let anyone take away his power, even if all the people of russia would vote for me. Reporter so youre literally a protest candidate . Yes. Reporter and here is her potential base. Russians fed up, censorship, rigged elections and corruption, who last got to protest en masse in 2011. I dont want people to vote personally for me. I want them to vote against the system. Reporter the systems official media is offlimits. So sobchak is campaigning online, inspired by modern american politics. Her strategist is washingtonbased vitaly shklyarov, who worked on Bernie Sanderss campaign. What did you learn from your time as an activist with the Sanders Campaign in the u. S. . Quite a lot. Quite a lot. In america you have software you can manage entirely the campaign. Remotely, you can build infrastructure and scale it. Reporter sobchaks team wants to mobilize millions of especially young voters to shake up russian politics and weaken the kremlin. But the challenge is huge. First she has to convince voters she is not just a party girl or a photogenic kremlin puppet brought in to spice up the race. The catch is if she succeeds too well and starts looking like a real threat, the kremlin may decide not to let her run at all. There are some big changes happening in saudi arabia. Here is holly williams. Reporter comiccon has arrived in saudi arabia. A celebration of comic book characters that is a sign of the times in this ultra conservative islamic kingdom. Just last year, it probably wouldnt have been allowed. So things are becoming more free . Yes. More cool, more normal. Reporter gender segregation used to be strictly enforced in saudi arabia, but at comiccon, the sexes mixed freely. Traditional islamic dress was optional. So who changed things . Who is making your country a more Mohammed Bin Salman . Yeah. Reporter crown prince Mohammed Bin Salman is the favorite son of saudi arabias ruler king salman, and he wants to modernize. The crown prince is only 32 years old, and he isnt just the kings anointed successor. He is already enormously powerful in his own right. Prince mohammed has used that power to round up more than 200 members of the saudi elite, all accused of corruption, now locked up in this luxury hotel. Critics say the prince is targeting his detractors. He has also reined in the countrys religious police. They still patrol the streets and even told me to cover my hair with a scarf. And he is saying i should cover my hair. Reporter but these days they i can only hand out advice, not punishment. It seems to be popular. But this is not a democratic revolution, and publicly criticizing the crown prince would be dangerous. This man is a traditional sword seller and a diplomat. All people is happy. I like him so much. Believe me. Reporter the saudi royal family has long depended on the support of conservative islamic clerics to rule this country. The city of baltimore is home to a literary giant, someone you probably never heard of. Steve hartman read the story on the road. We are ready. Reporter when the doors open on this unassuming warehouse in baltimore, folks flood in with buckets and boxes and baskets. Everyone eager for their weekly sustenance. Thank you very much. Reporter Russell Wattenberg is the man in charge. Over the past 17 years, he has catered to thousands of hungry minds. Everybody finding what theyre looking for . Reporter russell calls this the book thing, because its not a library, and its definitely not a store. You got a lot of books, but i dont see a Cash Register. Dont got one. Reporter no Cash Register . All free. It cuts down on robberies. We encourage shoplifters. Reporter youve been in the comedy section supplied by donation and run by volunteer, here you can take and keep whatever books you want, as many books as you want. And people do hoard, although often for very good reason. Everything is going back to my classroom. Reporter kim shibley is a regular. Im a teacher in a Baltimore City school. And i stock all the classrooms with these books. Reporter the place really is a gift to the city. And unlike any gift thats been around for a while, there was no way for the people of baltimore to fully appreciate it until it was gone. The number of people who came up to me with tears streaming down their face. I didnt realize people cared as much as they do. Reporter in march of 2016, fire destroyed the book bank. For many small nonprofits, there would be no climbing back from such a devastating loss. But in the days that followed, the people of baltimore responded with cash donations and fundraisers and more than a few books. There are 7,000 boxes of books here now, all just waiting to be freed from their cardboard confines. The book thing reopened last month, and no one is taking it for granted anymore. Especially not russell. I dont have the patience to teach somebody to read. I dont have the diligence to be a writer. The only way i see to contribute the written word is by doing this. Reporter russell wattenburg. That name may never grace a cover, but he is already one of americas literary greats. Steve hartman, on the road in baltimore. Captioning funded by cbs its friday, december 1st, 2017. This is the cbs morning news. The tax bill stalls in the senate. Now republican lawmakers are scrambling to save it. The end may be knew for the secretary of state. Cbs learns the white house has plan to force Rex Tillerson out. Not guilty. After nearly a week of deliberations, the judge calls the verdict disgraceful
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