Their way back. This is one thing that gets me out of bed on saturdays, gets me motivated. This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley the job of the White House Press secretary is to articulate the positions of the president and to clean up the occasional president ial mess. They are not supposed to create any messes for the president. But it happened again today when sean spicer made one colossal error. He was comparing syrias dictator to hitler, and suggested that hitler did not use poison gas on his own people. Holocaust, apparently, was not on spicers mind today, and to make matters worse, this is the jewish holiday passover. Heres nancy cordes. We didnt use chemical weapons in world war ii. Reporter it isnt often that hitler is compared favorably to anyone, but it happened today when the White House Press secretary was condemning syrias Bashar Alassad for gassing his own people. You had a, you know, someone as despicable as hitler, who didnt even sink to the to using c
Latest. Then we look at how Jeff Sessions speaking seeking to limit oversight over troubled police departmtment a and escsce the e war on drugsgs. In recent y years, Law Enforcement as a whole, i thihi, has been unfaiairly maligned and deeds of aacceptable few bad actors. Amy plus, as the Trump Administration an Aircraft Carrier in several warships for the korean peninsula, and issues new warnings to syria, we will look at who profits when the u. S. Goes to war. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson is heading to russia today, where hes meeting with foreign minister Sergey Lavrov amid increasing tensions between the u. S. And russia over the ongoing war in syria. Russian president Vladimir Putin will not meet with tillerson a move that points to increasing conflict between the two countries following the u. S. Decision to launch 59 mimissiles at a Syrian Government air base
Latest. Then we look at how Jeff Sessions speaking seeking to limit oversight over troubled police departmtment a and escsce the e war on drugsgs. In recent y years, Law Enforcement as a whole, i thihi, has been unfaiairly maligned and deeds of aacceptable few bad actors. Amy plus, as the Trump Administration an Aircraft Carrier in several warships for the korean peninsula, and issues new warnings to syria, we will look at who profits when the u. S. Goes to war. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson is heading to russia today, where hes meeting with foreign minister Sergey Lavrov amid increasing tensions between the u. S. And russia over the ongoing war in syria. Russian president Vladimir Putin will not meet with tillerson a move that points to increasing conflict between the two countries following the u. S. Decision to launch 59 mimissiles at a Syrian Government air base
catherine you know its another bad day for united when even the white house isweighing in on what happened. While apparently ruling out any kind of federal investigation. Spokesman seanspicer still made it clear that he thought the video was troubling. Sean Spicer White House Press Secretary i think clearly, watching another human being dragged down an aisle, watching blood coming from their face after hitting an arm rest and whatever i dont think theres a circumstance that you can sit back and say this probably could have been handled a little bit better, when youre talking about another human being. But, again, i dont think it is my place to get in the middle of judging how a company dealt with this. I think theres clearly going to be enough review both on a corporate side and then on a Law Enforcement side on how this was handled. catherine quickly losing altitude today united stock. The cost of dragging that man off the overbooked flight is adding up for the company. There was a ne
Brownies laced with pot at a school. One problem. Students didnt know it. First though a man in his 70s talking only to fox 29 tonight about what went down inside his West Philadelphia store and so often the case, camera caught whole thing. Im lucy noland. Im thomas drayton. Great to have you with us. Iain is off tonight. Sadly police and the Victim Police the suspects might be from the same neighborhood. Our Dave Schratwieser was the only reporter who spoke with the victim. Dave . Reporter thomas, the victim in this case was simply minding his sons store when these two guys burst in with a gun, put him in choke hold and demanded he open the cash register. He struggled with them and screamed. They left empty handed. I said speaking in native french creole 78yearold israel said he was surprised and scared when two suspects entered his sons store and attack the him. Two guys came in and choking. With his son translating he recalled how one suspect grabbed him around the neck demanding th