The message is to stay in your place. That terrorist symbol. The use of that. Trying to keep us in our place. What i learned looking into history places like louie State University that a noose implies hate. It has to come with mutilation and torture and a be public display designed to terrorize an entire hunt. Kind of like isis does. That my friend is worth reporting on. Because that kind of hate still lurks. At louie State University scott broom wusa 9. Two 19yearolds have been charged after a nuisance incident and the search is still on for those incidents at american university. President trump shared with russian diplomats. The Trump Administration is president may have acted inappropriately when discussing a terror plot. Our partners at the Washington Post says the information is so sensitive it hadnt been shared with u. S. Allies. Some fear the president s disclosure may have damaged national security. The only thing i would tell the president , if you teal like you need to shar
In. It turns out to be a license to steal. This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pegues has more of the breaking news. Reporter President Trump and thenf. B. I. Director james comey met at the white house on february 14th, the day after National Security adviser Michael Flynn was fired. Flynn had lied to the Vice President about his contacts with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. Those contacts are now under investigation by the f. B. I. Comey wrote up a memo about the meeting with the president. In it he said that mr. Trump had asked him to drop the flynn investigation. I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, he wrote. He is a good guy. A senior white house official denied that account and said the president never asked mr. Comey or anyone else to end any investigation, including any investigation involving general flynn. Just last week acting f. B. I. Director Andrew Mccabe told congress there has been no interference in the russia investigation. She to imped
Sharing information with the u. S. Because of this incident. Scott, Homeland Security is weighing expanding a ban on carry on electronics on International Flights to the u. S. As result of the isis threat. Thanks again. Margaret brennan is covering the white house tonight. We had a very, very successful meeting with the foreign minister of russia. Our fight is against isis. Reporter standing alongside turkeys leader, President Trump defended sharing intelligence with russian officials. We want to get as many to help fight terrorism as possible. Reporter this morning the president tweeted it was his absolute right to share what he called facts pertaining to terrorism and Airline Flight safety. He said it was intended to get the russians to quote, greatly step up their fight against isis and terrorism. Yesterday his National Security adviser, general h. R. Mcmaster strenuously denied that any intelligence sources or methods were compromised. I was in the room. It didnt happen. Reporter t
Now this remarkable day began with the president confirming that he had disclosed top secret intelligence to Russian Diplomats at a white house meeting. In a series of Early Morning tweets he wrote, as president , i wanted to share with russia, which i have the absolute right to do, facts pertaining to terrorism and Airline Flight safety. The intelligence came from israel. The white house spent the day fighting back against accusations that the president may have compromised the Israeli Intelligence operation. Here again is jeff pegues. Reporter the meeting in the oval office lasted 25 minutes. President trump told russias foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov about a possible isis plot to down a plane using a bomb hidden in a laptop. That intelligence was classified. And the unexpected disclosure prompted the nsa and cia to be notified. Some of the information came from israel. Theres now concern russia could share that intelligence with some of its allies, like iran an enemy of israel. But
Eyewitness news, great scene of the skyline, again, a wonderful start to the day with blue skies here currently. Much cooler start to the day today than what we had yesterday at this time. Little warmer in the 60s yesterday morning, but right now, 50s, 40s, throughout the region. Get ago look at the hour by hour forecast, up to about 59 degrees by 9 00. Sixs around lunchtime or so, topping out just shy of 07 degrees later this afternoon high of 69, here in the city. Little cooler headed down toward the beach probably looking for more longer lines of mid 60s there, then rain showers in the forecast, few thunderstorms, too, jan, talk about that in just a bit. Matt, thank you. Following breaking news this morning, out of the citys wynnefield section. Three people are dead, after an Early Morning house fire there. Eyewitness News Reporter joe hole send live near the scene, on diamond street. Joe, whats the update . Fire crews out are out here, the fire marshall here, at this point the fire