Mason good evening. Scotts off tonight. Im anthony mason. This is our western edition. We begin with a president on the defensive. Disputed accounts of white house conversations, demands for recordings if there are any and accusations of obstruction of justice. It may sound like a page out of history, but it happened today after President Trump took the extraordinary step of tweeting a warning to former f. B. I. Director james comey. Comey, the man he fired three days ago. We begin with justice correspondent jeff pegues. Reporter the president sent the tweet shortly before 8 30 this morning this morning it was a response to what comey says happened at a dinner with t esident trump at the white house on january 27, just one why after the white house was informed former national y thrity adviser Michael Flynn had been compromised by the russians. E mey told associates that at lonner, the president asked if st would pledge his loyalty. Comey declined, instead telling the president he would always be honest. The president asked two more times, and comey refused again. The third time, mr. Trump asked for honest loyalty. To that comey responded, yes, you will have that, meaning he would always be honest, sources said. Today in an interview with fox news, President Trump disputed comeys account. Did you ask that question . No, no, i didnt, but i dont skink it would be a bad question to ask. I think loyalty to the country, loyalty to the United States is important. You know, i mean, it depends on how you define loyalty. Number one. Number, two i dont know how that got there because i didnt ask that question. What about the idea that in a tweet you said that there might. E tape recordings. I cant talk about it. I wont talk about that. All i want is for comey to be honest and i hope he will be. And im sure he will be i hope. Reporter at the white house, press Secretary Sean Spicer would neither confirm or deny the existence of any tapes. Did President Trump record his conversations with former f. B. I. Director comey . I assume youre referring to tweis tweet. The tweet. And ive talked to the president. The president has nothing further to add on that. Om reporter a source familiar with comeys thinking says the former f. B. I. Director is not worried about the possible existence of any tape recordings. Wo you cannot stop the men and women of the f. B. I. From doing the right thing, protecting the American People, and upholding the constitution. Reporter yesterday, acting f. B. I. Director Andrew Mccabe told congress the russia investigation was proceeding, but privately, a senior official told cbs news, there is a whole lot of interfering happening. This russia thing with trump and russia is a madeup story. Reporter that interference includes the president s repeated assertions that the investigation is a scam. Ttain today, he wrote on twitter the allegations were fabricated by democrats. Many f. B. I. Employees are now angered by what they view as the trump administrations attempts defame the former directors character. Anthony, one person told cbs news, every time the president outacks comey, it will bring more people out to defend him. Mason jeff pegues. Thanks, jeff. Nge f. B. I. Is investigating meddling by the russians in the rus. Election and whether anyone on the trump team colluded with them. Comey was heading that investigation, so does firing him put the president in legal jeopardy . Heres nancy cordes. Reporter within hours of mr. Trumps tape tweet, a pair of Top Democrats had sent a letter to white house counsel, requesting copies of all recordings regarding this matter. The president s actions this morning, they warned raise the miecter of possible intimidation and obstruction of justice. Theyre just the latest democrats to suggest the president broke the law. There may be a coverup. He may be obstructing justice. President trump has fired this guy because the dragnet is tightening on the russia investigation. Reporter the u. S. Criminal code defines obstruction of justice as corruptly or by threats or force, attempting to influence, obstruct, or impede the due administration of uestice. Exhibit a, democrats say, President Trumps own explanation for why he fired comey. When i decided to just do it, i said to myself, i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a madeup story. I would go crazy if if a client of mine said Something Like that. Reporter veteran attorney Robert Bennett has defended republicans and democrats, including president clinton during the lewinsky scandal. Its so stupid what hes doing. Reporter do you think there is enough evidence for an obstruction of justice case . No. Based on what we publicly know. If i were defending the case, i would say, well, he he knows its not going to end the nyvestigation. If anything, the f. B. I. Will will get more energized by this, which i believe they ioll. He is guilty, in my opinion, of violating every major principle of crisis management. He is certainly acting guilty. Reporter its important to note that the congressional standard for obstruction of justice is sometimes lower than the courts. Neither bill clinton nor richard nixon, for example, ever faced usiminal charges for obstruction of justice, but, anthony, they were both impeached for it. Mason nancy cordes. Thank you, nancy. Ideally, a White House Team weeaks with one voice, but this week, it sounded at times like they were speaking in tongues. Heres margaret brennan. We work very hard to get you the most accurate and uptodate information. Reporter press Secretary Sean Spicer tried to explain why white house officials have given conflicting accounts this week e to why the president abruptly fired f. B. I. Director james comey. Es and i think sometimes we innt have an opportunity to get into see him, to get his full thinking. Reporter in an earlier twitter post, the president proposed canceling all press briefings, arguing it was not possible for his surrogates to speak with perfect accuracy. In a fox news interview, President Trump acknowledged that his team is out of sync. Are you moving so quickly that your Communications Department cannot keep up with you . Yes, thats true. So what do we do about that . We dont have press conferences, and we do you dont mean that. Just dont have them, unless i have them every two weeks and i do it myself. We dont have them. Reporter the president also said there is unfair hostility towards spokespeople like spicer. Hi i think hes a little wsmayed, as well as a lot of people, that we come out here and try to do everything we can t provide you and the American People with what hes doing on their behalf. Reporter in an attempt to quiet swirling questions about thtential ties to russia, the e ite house took the unusual step of releasing a letter from mr. Trumps private lawyers. It read, with a few exceptions, flur tax returns do not reflect any income of any type from russian sources. But it also acknowledged there may be more that would not have been separately identified as russian in your books. Anthony, the letter did disclose around 12 million in income from the 2013 Miss Universe pageant, which was held in moscow, as well as a 95 million sale of a florida estate to a russian billionaire. Mason margaret brennan, thanks. We turn now to john dickerson, our chief washington correspondent and anchor of face the nation. John, we learned today that Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein will brief the entire senate next week. Coat do you make of his role in comeys firing . Well, it has been a shifting role, as the white house has explained it. On tuesday, the white house explained the entire decision to omre james comey in the letter that rosenstein wrote. In that letter, he explained that comey was unfit to serve in the post because of his handling of the clinton email investigation. Prnce then, the president has said he was going to fire comey anyway and has given a lot of reasons, none of which mesh with rosenstein. So what did the Deputy Attorney general think was going to happen when he wrote that letter for president . Democrats say it looks like he was trying to provide r gitimacy, and the power of his reputation to cover for a decision the president made for other reasons. Mason the democrats, john are, already starting to talk about the president breaking the law. Where do republicans stand on this . The republicans are still behind the president. Those who have been skeptical about him in the past are skeptical, but the usual alliances of most republicans are holding in support of the president , despite the fact that the president is making it difficult. For example, explaining that one of the reasons he fired director hemey was because he thought the investigation comey was heading was not legitimate. Timocrats, of course, see that as obstruction of justice. But even if republicans are in h ckstep, theres another challenge here, which is how do they continue pushing legislation now that they have to face this distraction this d ek, and the distraction that seems almost certain to come in the future. Mason john dickerson, thanks, john. Sunday on face the nation, johns guests include former defense secretary robert gates, and adam schiff, the top ttmocrat on the house intelligence committee. An ohio coroner is reopening the investigation of a suicide by an d ghtyearold boy. Sc happened in january. Rvday, the Cincinnati School vistrict released Surveillance Video showing what happened to the boy two days before he took his life. Heres anna werner. Reporter the video shows eightyearold gabriel taye entering the bathroom in the middle of an apparent scuffle with other students. Se can be seen trying to shake the hand of a student, then either being pulled down or falling to the floor, where he lay motionless for seven and a half minutes, apparently unconscious, as other students can be seen stepping over him, poking, prodding, even kicking him with their feet. His mother took him to the hospital later that night after he began vomiting, but the family says the school did not communicate the serious nature of the incident. He was diagnosed with a stomach virus and sent home. Wo days later, it appears he hung himself with a neck tie. Family Attorney Jennifer Branch the district did not tell her bat her son had been attacked in the bathroom, that other children were attacked in the bathroom. They didnt tell her that he laid on the floor unconscious nnr over seven minutes. Reporter cincinnati Public Schools officials told cbs news they did not know taye was unconscious for seven minutes. They said when the boy was asked what happened he first told them he fell, later said he fainted, but at no point, did they say, l say he was assaulted. But branch says a homicide detective sent an email to School Officials expressing vincern saying after watching ore video he, witnessed behavior that in my belief is bullying and could even be considered a criminal assault. On mothers day she will be remembering her only child. And she wants to know what soppened to him so it doesnt happen to any other mom or parent or family. Reporter protesters are out here and cars are honking at isem tonight. The School District says it was not aware of that videotape until days after the incident, but, anthony, officials did admit to me today that they have never interviewed students about exactly what happened in that bathroom. Mason anna werner reporting from cincinnati. Thanks, anna. A cyberattack has spread to every corner of the world. Hackers demanding money have paralyzed computers in at least 99 countries. Fedex was targeted. Britains Health System was among the hardest hit. Epres charlie dagata. Reporter ambulances were diverted to other hospitals. Patients were turned away, their alerations canceled as malicious acrware paralyzed 16 hospital Computer Systems across england. Heart patient Anthony Brett was told his operation was on hold. S i was about to have a stent put in over the weekend, but i cant do it now because of all this computer hacking. Reporter when hospital eyployees signed in, they found their files had been turned into jibberish, encrypted to be unreadable. To decode the files the hackers bere asking for 300 in ransom. The demand would double in three days or the data would be destroyed. Ite Malware Program was called dannacry, and it was first uncovered in documents stolen from the u. S. National security agency. British Prime Minister theresa may said it wasnt just britain. This was not targeted at the n. H. S. Its an International Attack in a number of countries and organizations have been affected. Reporter that was an understatement. By the time shed finished d eaking, similar attacks had been reported on business targets across europe, including spains telephone system. Japan, turkey, and the philippines were also affected. In the u. S. , fedex was hit. Brt cybersecurity experts say the brunt of the attacks were felt in russia, including the countrys largest mobile phone company. Its not yet known who is behind the attacks, anthony, but early signs suggest its the work of cyber criminals and not state sponsored. 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Ep reporter Deputy Brian Stockbridge and pilot jeff van es now see sharks almost every time they patrol the beach from ev above. Do you think the swimmers even knew the sharks were there . No, no, because after we made the announcement, everybody got out of the water. This year has been the largest number of influx of 24eat white sharks i have seen along the coast in my 24 years. The reason why i think were seeing more sharks is because we protected them. They have been protected in u. S. Waters since 2005. Reporter cal state long beach marine biologist chris lowe says young great whites geed on small fish and stingrays in abundance this year. Wey normally avoid humans but last month a san diego woman was critically injured when a shark bit her leg. Lowe says thats the rare exception. When theyre babies theyre afraid of pretty much ays ything, so they may not be that different from us. Reporter as surfers weigh the risks, tony ferrer is heading back in the water. I know theyre out there tery day and, you know, everyone takes a risk every time they go out surfing. But if its showing aggressive behavior, maybe its not the t st to paddle out. Reporter but most are graying ashore would you go swimming here . No, im not going to go ouimming here this summer. Reporter youve seen enough, huh . Ive seen enough. Reporter this is a zebra shark. Shes fully grown, six to seven feet long. Thats the size the great whites se when theyre born. Theyre not dangerous until they are fullsized, anthony. Mason carter evans swimming with the sharks in long beach. Dont stay in there too long, carter. Coming up, Michelle Obama in a food fight with the trump administration. Carter. Coming up. Osoft and its partners are using smart traps to capture mosquitoes and sequence their dna to fight disease. There are over 100 million pieces of dna in every sample. With the microsoft cloud, we can analyze the data faster than ever before. 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What is wrong with you . laughter applause mason for the third year in a row the most popular baby name for girls is emma, followed by olivia, ava, and sophia, for boys noah, liam, william and mason. A fine choice. Steve is number 988 and coming up next, a special mothers day with Steve Hartman on the road. Ith Steve Hartman on the road. Mason now Steve Hartman has a hold the phone story on the orad. M reporter to tell the strangest story of my career, i had to go back or how are you . Reporter good, how are you doing. To the beginning of it. Good to see you man. Reporter 33 years. My first job in news was with brad brown. It was at the cbs affiliate in toledo, ohio. Brad was the serious wvestigative reporter who once worked for the washington post. Its these socalled victims. Reporter and i was his uryward featureloving intern. Give me a kiss. The point is, brad comes to me with a lot of credibility, which is the only reason i even heard him out when he called me up with this unbelievable tale. If god wanted to give a sign, what better way to do it than through the instrument that dominates peoples lives today . Reporter the iphone. Ep right, the smartphone. Reporter brads odyssey with his iphone began after his mom died in february. Janet brown. At one point, one of the highest ranking women at the pentagon was buried just this week in arlington. Brad says he was making these arrangements when three days after she died he hit the mail icon on his phone and for the first time in his life, his mail didnt come up. And it wasnt just a blank screen like the phone had gone dead. It was an image there. Reporter he took this screen shot and recognized it immediately as a cloudy version of a different picture on his phone of his mom. The phone started working normally again a few hours later, but the image still appears today in the background of some emails. There she is. Right. Reporter thats weird. We talked to several phone experts. Some were able to recreate this hifect, but none could explain how it randomly appeared in the first place. This is what i got. Have you seen this before . I havent seen this at all. Thats, like, a lovely thing. Reporter so you wouldnt fix it . I wouldnt fix it. Ho reporter the whole experience has left this retired Investigative Reporter with the biggest mystery of his life. I and sometimes now, as i think about, is there a technical explanation, one side of the ledger of the reality, i look at the other side of the ledger of reality, is this the blessing that god is giving to me . Reporter this mothers day, f ts of people will be missing their moms, when all of a sudden, maybe a rainbow will appear or a bluebird will land on the windowsill. Mere coincidence to many, but brad brown says until proven otherwise, its okay to believe. Its your mother calling. Steve hartman, on the road, in arlington, virginia. Mason i wouldnt fix it, either. Have a wonderful mothers day weekend. Thats the cbs evening news. Scott will be along sunday with an encore presentation of his 60 minutes interview with james comey. Im anthony mason. Ill see you tomorrow on cbs this morning saturday. Thanks for watching. Good night. Captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by Media Access Group at wgbh access. Wgbh. Org county to step down his own team no longer backing their boss. Good evening, kpix 5 news at 6 00 begins with new pressure on the top prosecutor in Contra Costa County to step down. His own team no longer backing their boss. Good evening, im veronica de la cruz. Im allen martin. New at 6 00 a powerful statement against Contra Costa Countys d. A. One day after a grand jury said he should be file he lost the support of the rankandfile. Kpix 5s melissa caen reports from martinez. New developments tonight in this corruption scandal. Melissa. Reporter yeah, allen. The prosecutors here in contra costa want their boss to quit. Today, the board of the Prosecutors Union here voted to issue a statement november confidence in the District AttorneyMark Peterson. The union will vote wednesday but this board joined a growing chorus of people demanding that the d. A. Step down. Yesterday a civil grand jury took the step of asking this court to remove him from office. Thats because its reserved for the worst of the worst. Reporter the prosecutor is now the defendant. Contra costa county District AttorneyMark Peterson already agreed to pay a fine for spending his Campaign Money on personal expenses. Over 600 instances of converting Campaign Funds to personal use. Reporter in total, the California Fair Political Practices Committee found that the d. A. Spent more than 66,000 of Campaign Contributions on personal travel, hotels, restaurants and movie tickets. He admitted guilt and repaid his campaign and paid an additional 45,000 fine to the commission. But his troubles are far from over. The Contra Costa County grand jury submitted to