Cer you taught him how to hit a baseball. How to hit a receiver. You even taught him how to hit the open man. But how much time have you spent teaching him. What not to hit . Staffing decisions are the most important challenges the new president will face. That was the insight of president obama today in his first News Conference since his partys losses six days ago. Jan crawford is at the white house. The people have spoken. Donald trump will be the next president. Reporter setting aside the harsh rhetoric of the campaign, president obama struck a tone of conciliation. Let him make his decisions and i think the American People will judge over the course of the next couple of years, whether they like what they see. Reporter in other word, give him time. Do i have concerns, absolutely. Of course i have concerns. He and i differ on a whole bunch of issues. Reporter the president gave a nod to mr. Trumps victory and his strengths. I think that connectioning that he was able to make with h
Parade will be filled with giant balloons and police officers. What the nypd will do as isis calls the event, quote, calls the event, quote, excellent target. Captioning funded by cbs good morning, from the cbs news newsroom at studio 57 here in new york. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Today, president elect donald trump is scheduled to meet with Vice President elect mike pence. Pence is heading mr. Trumps transition team. Meanwhile, mr. Trumps choice of steve bannon the former head of the Breitbart News website as key adviser has growing criticism. With the movement until the top level of the white house. Hena daniels is here in new york with the details, good morning, hena. Good morning, annemarie. President elect trump is announcing his first choices for his administration, the secret service is now vetting residents and empoyees of trump tower as they work to provide the soon to be commander in chief with the same level of security as president obama. A Campaign Source te
This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley today president obama shared a piece of advice that he gave the president elect campaigning is different from governing. And mr. Obama added, i think he recognizes that. That was apparent in mr. Trumps first postelection interview with lesley stahl for 60 minutes as he began to roll back some of the promises that got him elected. She is as crooked as they come. Reporter on the strumpf, candidate trump was crystal clear. If i win, i am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation. Reporter but on 60 minutes, president elect trump backed off his threat when lesley stahl asked about a special prosecutor. She did some bad things. I mean, she did some bad things. But a special prosecutor . Theyre good people. Real change begins with immediately repealing and replacing obamacare. Its a disaster. Reporter his stance on obamacare also seemed to soften. Are you going to make sure that people
Im vinita nair. The monster blizzard that hit the east this weekend continues to claim lives. At least 26 people have died in eight states and washington, d. C. Some were in car accidents. Others suffered heart attacks while shoveling. A growing number have died from Carbon Monoxide poisoning in their homes and cars. Notable snow totals include 42 inches in glen garry, West Virginia and 26. 8 inches in new yorks central park, just a tenth of an inch short of the record. We have several reports on the cleanup, beginning in washington, d. C. With kris van cleave. Reporter the storm has stopped, and so has much of the nations capital. Theres no way a car could drive down side streets like this. Snowed in cars and feet of snow block the way. Pedestrians are still using main thoroughfares instead of icedover sidewalks. The airports are closed. So is d. C. s metro. Schools and the City Government will be closed tomorrow. Mayor muriel bowser. While we have made some progress, there is still a
Showing us making huge, huge gains. And i feel confident that if we can win here in iowa, if we can win in new hampshire, and those are going to be tough races, i think we stand an excellent chance to win in South Carolina and in nevada. But if you look at the polling because i have been to South Carolina. We have a lot of momentum on the ground. Support. Frankly, i think we can win you have a new ad out this week which is you and the Simon Garfunkel song america. What does that ad mean for you . What that ad is about is to talk about the fact that as we come together as a country, and we have so much strength, so many extraordinary people, that as we come together as a people there is nothing we cannot accomplish. We are the wealthiest country in the history of the world. We should not have massive levels of income and wealth childhood povertiy, the only country on earth that doesnt guarantee paid family and medical leave. And when we come together that is what it is. Its a beautiful